COMBAT WARS

COMBAT WARS is a pixel-art real-time strategy game about taking ground.

If you grew up on Advance Wars, you will feel at home — but this one plays

in real time, on your phone, in about four minutes a stage.

Capture bases to heal and gain lives, then push for the enemy HQ before the

timer runs out. The enemy starts out roaming, almost careless. Then the board

tips, a warning cuts across the screen, and they come at you all at once.

— WHAT YOU GET —

7 unit types. Cheap Bazookas you can field in numbers. Hawkeye, who outranges

almost everything. Shinobi, fast enough to be somewhere else by the time they

aim. Kongo, who simply does not die. You bring a squad within a cost limit, and

your next unit deploys when the current one falls.

5 commanders. Each has a passive that is always on, plus two specials on a

shared gauge. Elina heals while she holds ground. Kilfy hits harder and moves

faster. Yozakura throws shuriken at two enemies at once and summons shadow

clones. Who you bring changes how you play.

16 stages across 4 worlds. Hand-designed, not generated. They start gentle and

stop being gentle.

Serious Mode. The moment the enemy stops roaming and commits. You will know.

Online leaderboards. Clear all 4 stages of a world in one run and your total

time is recorded. There is a score board too.

— HOW TO PLAY —

Move with the pad at the bottom of the screen. You fire automatically when an

enemy enters your range. Stand on a building to capture it — but you cannot

attack while capturing, so pick your moment. Take the two cities beside the

enemy HQ before you go for the HQ itself.

When it goes badly, that is what the special button is for.

Free. Plays in the browser. Only the leaderboard needs a connection.