These cheats and tricks have been compiled from various sources. However, there are no guarantees that they will work. Please save your game before attempting the cheats (especially the built-in cheat mode) and use them at your own risk.

Tricks to Increase Honor

There are several tricks that one can use to quickly raise Honor in Wages of War. Not that tricking the game to raise Honor is the most honorable thing to do.

• Seek the Kalb's meat stand in south end of Tarna's bazaar. Bargain down the price of meat to 1 common and buy lots of it. After Harami asks you to help him, meet him in the bazaar at night and give him all the meat. This can also done with fruit or fish but may cost you more.
• Alternatively, offer Harami money repeatedly. He will refuse it, but your Honor will rise nonetheless.
• At the south end bazaar, click your money pouch on the drummer's bowl. It will cost you 10 commons each time you do this, but your Honor will increase steadily.
• After completing the Simbani Initiation and getting the Magic Drum, visit the Laibon. Say Thank You many, many times and watch you honor slowly climb.

Raising Communication

This trick can be used with almost any NPC that you can converse with, in the game. Simply greet the character over and over, and watch you Communication skill (and to some extent Honor) rise. However, two situations, are particularly amenable to employ this trick with, due to the coincident on-screen location of your character and the "Greet" option on the talk menu, which eliminate the need to move the cursor at all. Hence you can even hold the ENTER key down (using a paper weight or such) to perform the greet action repeatedly.

These two situations are (you will need to experiment a little with the exact cursor position that works):

• At the Open Air Bazaar, this trick can be used with the fisherman. Move into position in front of him and click the MOUTH cursor on yourself (at about the belt level). Greet should be highlighted, but not covered. Now hold down the ENTER key and watch your hero greet the fisherman repeatedly.
• In your hut in the Simbani village, move your hero either on top of the right skin, just in front of the storage chest, or sitting on the right skin. Now click the MOUTH cursor on yourself and talk to the hut. Depending on the mouse positioning, you should be able to either repeatedly greet the hut, or tell it about your day. Again hold the ENTER key down and watch your Communication rise.
• There may be other similar situations in the game as well.

Bargaining Cheat

Caused due to a bug in the game, this cheat allows you to buy stuff from the merchants in the Mid-Level Tarnan Bazaar (first screen of bazaar) for 1 Royal or 1 Common each, depending on the original price of the item. Thus this works for purchases made from the Junk Dealers, the Weapon Seller, the Honey Seller and the Oil Merchant.

Basically the cheat works because the game neglects to disable the Bargain button the second time around, on this screen of the bazaar only, thereby allowing you to bargain over and over, bringing the price down eventually to 1. It is recommended that you have a reasonable level of Communication skill (at least 150) in order to reduce the number of repetitions needed to bargain down to 1. Then

• Go up to one of the merchants in the Mid-Level Bazaar that you want to buy something from. Bargain him down a small amount for the item. He should accept your offer (if not, try again with a different amount).
• Don't buy the item. Instead, go to another merchant and do the same thing over with him.
• When he accepts, again don't buy the item and return to the former merchant. At this point you will be able to bargain with him again starting with the price you reached last time. Bargain down a bit more, again don't buy, and return to the second merchant.
• Repeat this until they refuse to go any lower. If you do it right, you should never have to pay more than 1 Royal or 1 Common for anything.
• Remember not to leave the screen until you've bought what you intended as the bargained prices are all reset as soon as you exit this part of the bazaar.

Regaining Stamina in Combat

Although regaining stamina is easy enough in this episode with the liberal use of Pool of Peace water (carried in waterskins), this cheat lets you regain stamina while in combat, without taking any damage.

During combat, click over an unused portion of the attack panel (for instance, the two triangular regions adjacent to the sword in the Fighter's panel) to turn on the "invincibility" mode. Subsequent monster attacks will be duds while you slowly regain stamina. If your stamina doesn't rise, hold down the left mouse button or the ENTER key while the cursor is in this unused portion. Only when you click again on one of the combat / spellcasting icons on the panel will this "invincibility" mode turn off making you prone to damage from monster attacks. This can be done as many times as you like during combat. Note, however, that health or mana points are not replenished.

When you turn off this "invincibility" mode, it is possible to accidently hit the Run Away icon and exit the combat. Don't let this bother you - simply go back into combat and kick the monster's butt!

This cheat can also serve to pause action while in combat.

Improving Throwing & Strength using rocks

Not really a cheat, this is a quick and sneaky way to easily raise your Hero's Strength and Throwing skill.

• Buy a bunch of waterskins from the Leather merchant in the North End Bazaar in Tarna. Visit the Pool of Peace and fill your waterskins. These provide instant Stamina.
• Set the game speed to Maximum.
• Stop somewhere in the savanna. Position the HAND cursor on the ground and hold down the ENTER key to pick up a LOT of rocks.
• Select the rocks from your inventory and start throwing. For hands free throwing, simply position the rocks on screen and hold down the ENTER key.
• If you run out of rocks, pick up some more and continue. When you get tired, drink from the waterskins to replenish your Stamina. Or use the Stamina cheat above.

The longer you practice, the more improvement you will see in your Throwing skill and your overall Strength. You can use daggers instead of rocks also, but they are harder to replace if lost.