Spot & suppress
Recon shares spotted targets with your side. Direct-fire weapons still need clear line of sight and range. MGs and mortars pin defenders before a push.
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HOLD THE CROSSROADS
IRON DIVISION / OPERATIONS
Choose your battle
Recon finds the threat.
Combined arms takes the ground.
FIELD MANUAL / LEARN YOUR FORCE
See the threat. Shape the fight.
Scout before you advance, suppress before you assault, and protect your flanks. Your troops handle the firing; you choose where they fight.
Cover & morale
Rifles, scouts, MGs and AT teams can enter buildings. Woods hide troops; dense woods stop vehicles. Stress can break a team. Quiet cover helps it recover.
Choose your battle
Solo and co-op face AI; 1v1 faces another commander. Engagement uses a fixed force. Campaigns carry your surviving battlegroup between battles.
Equipment and uniforms differ. Tanks and AT guns carry their own gun and armour; other units share role stats.
EarlyMidLate
Compare the same role across periods. Your battle settings stay unchanged.
Orders & battlefield reference
Operational or Tactical?
Operational is the default: deliberate orders, half-speed battle time, aiming, emplacement and ammunition supply. Tactical fields the same battlegroup and reserves and, for now, plays exactly like Operational; it will become faster and more hands-on through later changes. Veterancy improves morale and fieldcraft. Older Arcade saves and replays still use their original rules.
First orders
Select a unit, then right-click to move or attack. Shift-click a visible enemy to add or remove it from the selected units’ engagement lists; this prefers a feasible target without interrupting movement or overriding orders, weapon suitability or credible danger. Clear preferences removes all marks, including lost contacts. Each unit remembers up to eight recently marked contacts. Shift queues ground orders: moves, attacks, boarding, entering buildings and U to unload. G enters a building; U then click chooses an exit direction; U unloads transports; Y uses a selected half-track or finds your nearest one with room. F sets facing; Shift+F sets coverage. Shift+H holds fire until discovery or a hit; Shift+R toggles strict hold until your release. Space stops and clears orders.
Deploy your force, then press Begin battle to face the AI.
Your next command
Choose the scale of your story. Your troops and their losses carry forward.
Continue
More saved commands
Operation
Move formations across connected areas. Scout, keep supply routes open and choose your battles.
Short campaign
Fight a three-battle chapter. Choose your teams, refit and carry the survivors into the next action.
Three battlesCareer
Train your detachment, take a posting and build a service record. Friends can join between battles.
Own officer setupBATTLEFIELDSelect map to expand ↗
MISSION BRIEFING
CROSSROADSMeeting engagement
- Command
- Battlefield
- Battle pace
- Battle clock
YOUR FORCE
OPPOSITION INTEL
1v1 supports meeting engagement or fixed-force Engagement.
Choose the fight. Know your orders.
Choose a card to update the briefing and starting force above. Open ranges directly for testing.
Historical battles
Authored forces and terrain · solo or 2–4 allied commanders. Choose either army; wider fronts and force scaling are available in setup. Balance under review.
Field exercises
Short missions and the dry training exercise, with your chosen army and pace.
Test ranges
Experiment with equipment, movement and weapons. Each range card opens its own exercise.
For a new operation or short campaign · late-war forces. Saved commands retain their settings. Career has its own officer setup.
Campaigns are fought in late war for now.
Appoint a CO and XO in deployment. Nearby leadership helps inexperienced crews; scouts need a radio path to direct distant mortars. Historical scenarios and campaigns use their existing rules.
Mixed starting armor in field battles and new campaigns. Turn off to use the earlier roster. Historical scenarios keep their authored forces.
One shared force pool, divided into exclusive commands. More players add no troops.
Have a room code? Join directly — no need to start a new battle.
COMMAND POST
ROOM CODE
YOUR SHARED FORCE
Roles are preferences from the scenario’s shared army. Changing a role rebuilds all detachments and clears readiness. Give your own teams to a friend, or request theirs for approval. Keep at least one team each. Ready confirms your current roster; everyone ready locks it for deployment.
AFTER THE BATTLE
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DEPLOYMENT Drag a unit (or a selected group) to a new spot, or right-click inside the highlighted zone to place the selected units in formation. Orders outside it are queued and start when the battle begins.
ACE RENDEZVOUS ZONE
PAUSED Orders can still be given. Press P or Resume to continue.
Sight field · LWeapon reach · K
Exercise umpire · Baker takes the hedgerow
Release Hold fire to commit weapons. Radios and an observer are needed for distant mortar support.
Select a squad to give orders.