[7] A separate project, Wargus, was started to get Warcraft II data files running in the Stratagus engine.

This mod requires a legal copy of Warcraft II and allows for cross-platform support such as Linux and other operating systems.

Basing on Lua as their primary scripting language, virtually all the abilities in the engine have been made available to the users of Stratagus for easy modding, removing the need to change the original C/C++ source.

Animations are created from a set of .png pictures; this technique was commonly used in the time that Warcraft and other RTS had come out.

Stratagus and Wargus have been ported to run on Pocket PC,[25] Symbian and Android[26] devices.