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, Tactical or Arcade?
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. Arcade keeps the older game: requisition points, income and purchases. Veterancy improves morale and fieldcraft.
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.
Choose your next command.
Carry your troops and losses between battles. Open a saved command or start a new one; saved campaigns keep their own settings.
For operations and three-battle campaigns. You manage the campaign, then take one tank into battle. Requires Operational or Tactical pace.
Operation map
Plot formation movements, execute simultaneous turns and fight the contacts. Hold roads to keep supply flowing.
Three-battle campaign
Choose platoons and reserves. Surviving teams carry forward; refit and replace losses between battles.
Officer career
Train, deploy and build your service record. Attach up to two friends between battles. Career has its own officer setup.
BATTLEFIELDSelect 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.
New operations and three-battle campaigns use these army, pace, difficulty and armor choices with late-war forces. Saved commands keep their settings; officer career has its own 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.
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.
PAUSED Orders can still be given. Press P or Resume to continue.
Sight field · LWeapon range · 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.