INDIE WAR GAMES - Updates & Polls

Campaign Update!

6/14/2022

Armchair Commander: new WW2 campaign! Lots of new levels in the Pacific and more allied missions, ranging from Dunkirk to Midway to the Normandy landings.

Music: new menu music by Lucas Kneipp. Website: www.lucaskneipp.com. If you'd like to see more music by him, comment here or on Discord!

Battle of Midway

Operation Sealion

Server update

6/7/2022

Retro Combat: although no visual changes were made, new server code has been written for online rooms in Asia and North America. Improvements to stability were made and a new server is now used in the US.

Tech tree, commander abilities, map changes, and more

4/10/2022

Armchair Commander: The biggest update this year - an entirely new tech system has been added to the game! Technology of countries now vary from 1936 to 1980, meaning the same units can have vastly different stats. This value can be set individually for each country in the map editor, and the player gets to unlock tech from the shop. An option to override the player's tech for your own maps is also available in the editor.

Generals now also have up to three unique abilities: they range from healing to terrain bonuses and critical hit chances, making them much more powerful for free! All abilities come with the hired generals for free. With the right conditions, you can get up to 1000 damage from a single attack!

Example of all the right conditions: 1980 modern tank with max veterency and Guderian, which gives 40% bonus damage to armored vehicles, +20% damage on plains, and and chance to deal a critical hit that doubles damage versus 1936 light infantry.

You can't just buy your way through the tech tree, because lots of tech require you to complete certain missions.

Ability example: a level 5 mechanic heals 5% of the unit's max health every round for free

More maps, more levels, more upgrades

4/4/2022

Map Wars: In light of what's currently going on, I thought it would be great to add more European countries including UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Ukraine as playable maps to honor those fighting for their country. With these new map templates comes twenty new levels and more upgradable levels. Also, the reward for watching ads now scales with the number of levels you unlock: at level 1 you only get 100 coins per video, but at level 30 you get 250.

Nukes, radiation, and Cold War campaigns

2/19/2022

Armchair Commander: A new update has dropped! The most important features are the new Cold War campaign that comes complete with options to produce and use nukes. Produce atomic and hydrogen bombs at cities with nuclear facilities (can be set in map editor), and use them through strategic bombers or missile launchers. Be careful, though: once you use a nuke, AI's with nukes stockpiled will also use them! Each bomb does several hundred damage to the attacked tile and 20% to nearby tiles, along with a one-tile-radius radiation that lasts for three rounds, causing 10% health reduction to all units and cities on radiated tiles each turn.

Custom maps for multiplayer!

1/16/2022

Armchair Commander: if you play multiplayer, this is a HUGE update because you can now play with any map you want to upload! This means multiplayer is no longer limited to the five or so maps that were randomly selected upon matching.

NEW GAME!

12/20/2021

Map Wars: A new game is coming! This is a quick 2d rts I made in response to the game I kept getting spammed by on YouTube and Instagram. It's very different (and I think better), because players and AI can only move troops to nearby locations, so wars based on territories can actually be fought (I had to add pathfinding for the AI). There is also a map editor and community maps section if you want to create your own maps.

City health & campaign changes

8/19/2021

Although I've previously refused to add city health (citing that this is not a medieval game), I've realized that not having city health means key cities could be easily taken. I'm therefore adding optional city health that's available in the map editor, meaning cities need to have their health go to 0 before an enemy can occupy them. Attacking a garrisoned unit distributes part of the damage to the city health (and goes straight to the city health if there's no garrison). To reflect this update, some maps in the campaign (Siege of Leningrad, Stalingrad, Battle of Berlin, etc etc) now have fortified cities.

Data transfer & custom flags and country names

7/23/2021

In light what happened on Google Play (Armchair Commander got suspended because of swastikas and swastikas have since been replaced by the German cross), a way to transfer your data over to another device through the clipboard has been added. For android users, links for the apk with data transfer can be found in Discord announcements to help transfer data over to the "new" application (since the old one got suspended).

Content-wise, countries can now be configured to show custom flags and names. This means, for example, that you can set the USA to use a Civil War union flag and be renamed "Unionist Army" for a custom scenario. Custom flags will be added per request.

WW1 map by community member

Railways, villages, and factories

5/7/2021

Three types of new terrain: railway, village, and industrial complex! Railways have a movement cost of 1 (3 is for plains), meaning your slowest artillery tiles can move across entire maps with railways in just a few turns. Villages generate passive manpower income and industrial complexes (factories) generate passive industry income, and both heal occupying units with 5 health per turn.

Events, diplomacy, war declarations, and more

4/16/2021

Events are here! You can create them in the editor, and can range from a country changing allegiance to gaining or losing troop experience. Events can be triggered by either a certain round being passed or a city being captured.

Diplomacy: you can now declare war on neutral countries or your allies (you will be penalized for that), and also aid your allies with resources.

Declarations of war trigger an alliance change event