The mission progress isn’t like with most RTS’s where you start with building a base, looking for resources, and having units spawn like hell. Here you begin just a little bit different; there’s certain runes at your disposal (in fact there are two of them, worker- and hero-runes) which you can activate in the correct monuments. In the worker monuments you can train units going from normal workers to huge armies of swordsmen and archers, just as long as you’ve got the right buildings and resources. From the moment you’ve got such a worker monument you’re playing an ordinary RTS. Hero monuments give you an extra hero with whom you can clean up the map.