Forged Battalion (v0.133)

A climate-ravaged late-21st-century battlefield provides the backdrop for a real-time strategy game that puts as much emphasis on engineering as command. As a resistance leader fighting the expansionist Collective, you build bases, gather resources, produce armies, and push across maps in a familiar RTS framework. The defining twist is that your faction is not a fixed roster: you design it yourself, deciding what kinds of vehicles, aircraft, defenses, and devastating endgame weapons it brings to war. Forged Battalion feels tactical and methodical rather than frantic, rewarding players who enjoy preparing a force as carefully as they deploy it.

Matches revolve around establishing an economy, expanding production, scouting enemy positions, and countering opposing unit compositions in real time. Between battles, earned resources feed into a broad technology progression system that unlocks chassis types, armor, movement systems, weapons, and specialized upgrades such as stealth or regeneration. Those parts are assembled into custom blueprints, allowing odd but useful combinations—like airborne anti-armor platforms or durable light vehicles built to harass resource lines. Your headquarters, factories, and superweapons are also configurable, while solo missions, skirmishes, and multiplayer matches all contribute toward further technological growth.

The unit workshop is the main attraction, turning every unlocked component into another strategic question instead of simply handing out a predetermined upgrade. It captures some of the base-building and battlefield readability of Command & Conquer-style RTS games, but adds a light faction-building layer closer to creating a personal army in a tabletop wargame. Designing several saved faction loadouts encourages experimentation, since a setup built to crush armored vehicles may need major adjustments against stealthy aircraft or fast raiders. RTS veterans who miss classic economy-driven warfare will appreciate its customisation depth, while newcomers can learn the genre’s fundamentals through skirmishes before tackling the more demanding design decisions.