Gameplay in Dragon Throne is very similar to current RTS titles, with players building up their initial town with farms, mines, lumber yards, barracks and other structures. One innovation Dragon Throne has over other RTS titles is the training program used to create your armies. Instead of building your forces directly from the barracks like most titles, Dragon Throne makes you first recruit a villager then send them to the training center of choice to shape them into the soldier you need. For example: let's say you need a swordsman. After your initial recruitment of the villager, he is sent to the sword-training center, where he enters the program and--after a brief training period--is released as a new swordsman for your empire.