Like in any other game you have a set of skills at your disposal. In the beginning of the game these are only two: luring enemy and throwing stone. Both do a bit of the same: one lures an enemy to your position (lure) and the other to a different position away from you (throw stone). As you progress through game many skills become available to you through gathering SP. The skill tree is divided into 4 categories: warrior, scout, chief and hunter.
- Warrior skills will increase your health, stamina, damage or accuracy. Or you can upgrade existing skills: such as improved stone throw which allows you to knock someone out by throwing a stone to their head. (knocking out = not killing, more on this later) Or unlock new skills such as the tomahawk which basically is the same as the upgraded stone throw but does kill a man instead of knocking him out. But instead of the stone you do have to retrieve the tomahawk before you can use it again.
- Scout skills will increase your sneak ability or increase when you can “grab” someone (more on this in grabbing). You can also unlock new skills here such as enemy detect or spyglass. Most of these skills will help you identify enemies before you attempt an attack.
- Chief skills will allow you to reset your karma, increase warrior join or improve warrior’s gathering and hunting abilities. In the beginning you will want to focus on the latter: before you can upgrade to a level x camp you need chief skill hunting so your warriors can gather what you need for the upgrade for you. Or you can just unlock the hunterskills and go gather them yourself… (I would not recommend this if you want to have a good time playing this game)
- Hunter skills will increase damage with your knife or allow you to gather/hunt new ingredients. Interesting here is that you never achieve 100% chance of finding an ingredient. So even if you max out your skinning skill you will still have 50% chance to get a pelt or part you want. This is why it is very recommended to let your warriors do the gathering/hunting for you. If you need 10 pelts, you could get them yourself after you killed 10 beasts… Or you could slay 100 beast and still not have 10 pelts…