Ash of the Front

For forty years the war has ground down the Valley of Sorrow, the last pass to Calder, the city where the lights still burn. The Ash Corps holds the valley. The Rust Legion is coming through.

A grim real-time strategy in a fictional dieselpunk world. Command companies of gas-masked soldiers, tanks and artillery while Marshal Weyland briefs you before every mission.

• A 12-mission campaign: breakthroughs, last stands, tank battles, a raid with no reinforcements, a citadel siege.
• Hundreds of soldiers at once: infantry goes prone, rushes, occupies houses and fires from windows.
• Destructible world: shells crumble walls, houses collapse, fire spreads through grass.
• 5 theatres of war: mud, dead winter, mire, ash waste, fog.
• Tanks, mortars, gas, air strikes and heavy artillery.
• HQ Arsenal: army upgrades for tokens earned in battle.
• Skirmish on a random map.
• English and Russian.

On a phone: tap a squad to select it, then tap the ground and it runs there, firing on the move. Tap a building and the company occupies it and fires from the windows. One finger pans the map, two fingers zoom. Buttons on the right: All selects the whole army, Line lets you draw a firing line with your finger, Halt stops, Clear drops the selection. Swipe the reinforcement and strike cards at the bottom: tap a card, and for a strike tap the target on the map. Long press and drag to box-select.
On a PC: LMB selects a squad (drag a box for several), RMB gives an order, RMB drag deploys a firing line, RMB on a building occupies it. 1–0 call reinforcements, Z/X/C/V call strikes, WASD or screen edge move the camera, wheel zooms, Esc pauses.
Goal: follow the marshal's orders (top left) — take and hold points, destroy batteries and tanks, keep the enemy away from your HQ. Win to earn tokens and upgrade your army in the HQ Arsenal.