GladiatorManager

Gladiator Manager

Welcome to Gladiator Manager, a gladiator career simulator inside Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.

v0.2.0 — Team battles and throwing spears. You are the merchant who owns a gladiator school. Walk your own town, hire fighters at the market, arm them at the forge, heal them at the church, put them to bed at the school house, and send them into the arena. There they fight real TABS battles under the game's AI while a cinematic camera films every blow.

Alpha v0.2.0: expect rough edges and balance changes.

Features

• Walk a living town. The town is a brand-new map built by the mod: a floating island with streets, a cobbled square with a well, timber-framed houses, trees, fields, fences and lamps, and townsfolk walking the streets. You control the merchant directly (see Controls).
• Arena. A stone amphitheatre with an arena master at the gate. Endless mode is a numbered series of battles that get harder every time. Pick your fighter, check the opponent, the threat and the purse, and confirm. Every 5th battle is a champion with a title, a style and special gear. Campaign: Chapter I — Tribal: Wrath of the Chieftain, ten fights with an ambush in fight 9 and the Great Chieftain in fight 10, where your whole school fights together (the other chapters are coming).
• Stories. Several independent careers: continue, start a new one (500 gold, day 1), load, delete (restorable).
• Fair weapons. Prices and damage come from real arena trials (weapon_balance.json). Tribal gear at the forge.
• Church. Walk into the nave and talk to the priest. The first healing each day is free and every further one costs 100 gold. Restoring a lost arm or leg costs 250 gold. You watch the healing at the altar: the priest's golden healing beam, wounds closing and lost limbs growing back from the stump. The dead cannot be raised.
• Gladiator market. Five randomly generated fighters stand on the platform every morning, each with a name, a look, a personality, stats and a price. Inspect any of them and buy. The offer stays until the next day.
• Forge. Buy weapons and armour (swords, spears, a trident, axes, maces, shields, helmets, cuirasses, arm and leg guards). Have the smith forge fine versions, and equip your fighters. The gear shows on the fighters' 3D models.
• School house. Your fighters live here. Inspect them to see their level, record, injuries, gear and whether they can fight. Sleep in your bed to start a new day.
• Cemetery, Hall of Fame and training yard. Bury your fallen with a ceremony and read their stones. See your legends' portraits and read their stories. Train your fighters in seven kinds of work you can watch.
• Fighters who learn. Strength, speed, endurance, max HP and nine skills grow with training and with what they really do in fights. Veterans parry with real blade contact, step out of blows and counter-attack.
• Blood that stays on the sand and on the weapons until the fight is over.
• Watch AI-controlled arena battles. Every fight is closed: no sandbox and no manual placement, and only the gladiators in the fight count for the result (duels, groups of up to 4 a side, and the campaign). The stands hold a decorative crowd that cheers and gasps.
• Experience cinematic combat. Intro and crowd shots, slow motion on big hits, an X-ray replay of bone-breaking blows, a finisher shot and a victory shot.
• Deal with injuries and permanent death. Location-based cuts, deep wounds, fractures, bleeding, severed limbs and organ damage. Injuries carry over between battles. A fallen gladiator joins the hall of memory for good.
• Earn gold, improve your fighters and avoid bankruptcy. Purses grow with every battle, fighters gain levels, and optional training turns gold into strength. Losing one battle never ends the career; only bankruptcy does.

Controls (town)

Key — Action

W A S D — walk

Shift — hurry

Mouse — turn the camera around the merchant (the cursor is freed in dialogues, in the pause menu and when you switch windows)

Mouse wheel — camera distance

E — talk / inspect / use (the hint appears in the middle of the screen)

Esc — close a dialogue, or pause (mouse settings, Discord, main menu)

TAB — in a battle: finish a fight that is over / return to the town from the result screen

How to Play

1. Start TABS and click GLADIATOR MANAGER in the main menu. You arrive in the town with 500 gold.
2. Walk east to the Gladiator market, step up to a fighter, press E, and buy one.
3. Visit the Forge next to it: buy a weapon (for example a gladius), then choose Equip a fighter.
4. Walk north along the main street to the Arena. Talk to the arena master and choose Endless mode. Pick your fighter and confirm.
5. Watch the battle. Afterwards you are back at the arena gate.
6. Injured? Take him to the Church on the west street. Tired of the day? Go to the School house and sleep: the market restocks and the free healing is back.

Installation

Thunderstore Mod Manager / r2modman (recommended)

1. Select Totally Accurate Battle Simulator in the mod manager.
2. Install GladiatorManager. The BepInEx pack for TABS is installed automatically.
3. Start the game with the mod manager's Start modded button.

Manual installation

1. Install BepInEx 5 for TABS (for example BepInExPack_TABS from Thunderstore) and start the game once.
2. Copy GladiatorManager.dll from this package's plugins folder to \BepInEx\plugins\GladiatorManager\.
3. Start the game.

Settings are created next to the plugin on the first start (economy.json, endless.json, injury.json, items.json, weapon_balance.json, support.json). Saves live in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Landfall Games\Totally Accurate Battle Simulator\GladiatorManager\. Saves from 0.1.x load and co