Forged Battalion

Overall the game is pretty good, but they made some really bad design decisions. For example, your military production buildings cap at 3, and provide no benefit after that. Imagine if Age of Empries or Starcraft II did this. No one would play, as it would kill the most prolific strategies in those games. Reaper spam? Not on my watch! Mass hussar? I don't think so, says Petroglyph! Super disappointing to have done this, and easily patchable. I wanted to make an air-focused army and drown the enemy in airframes. Unfortunately they just hard-lock the game in order to force you to build the same compositions as the enemy, turning fights into proportionally-similar armies fighting proportionally-similar armies. It's boring and bad game design. The economy side of the game is really fun actually, and takes some of the best elements from the Red Alert series but genuinely has super interesting units with a create-your-own faction which is the centre of this RTS. It's a shame to have done so well on the accessorial yet to mess up the fundamentals so decisively.

I really wish it were good, but it's a subpar RTS with a good design idea, and shallow gameplay, with poor QoL features and a tech tree with no suitable grinding methods, save a custom workshop map that forces you to do boring gameplay of destroying neutral structures. Most of the tech in the unit designer is downgrades, there are only like 5 weapons worth using, they're not even cool and you can't manage the aesthetics of your units, it's just based on their equipment. Only got these hours in this game because I want a modern RTS with customisable units, don't know of any others.

Pros: + Unique mechanics where you create your own faction (I think that it is a good choice by developers that you can only modify faction outside of real game, so you need to think about everything in advance when creating a faction) + Solid RTS gameplay and feeling which of course resembles CnC very much (well it's Petroglyph) + Music by Frank Klepacki!!!!! Yay! + Runs very smoothly and is quite polished already + Very reasonable price for content that is offered + 8 player support from a get go Some remarks: - Progression mechanics in multiplayer mode are questionable - AI feels very similar to 8-bit armies one (and also borrowed same issues) - maybe you should look back into "Grey Goo" AI, because that one felt better - In my opinion they should drop mechanics that only 1 barracks or only 1 ligh factory can make units (second and third just increases production speed) - Base expansion should be handled differently - you should be able to build mobile outpost or something similar and decide where to expand yourself (pre-build outposts could be replaced by some other valuable structures - unique turrets or some constant money generators - banks or something other) - I hope to see observer mode and to be able to choose AI factions as enemies (from those that I created) - I think that faction skins (just looks) would benefit this game very much - I would be willing to pay for them to make my faction look distinctive

This is game is the most unjustifiable RTS game in history cause it ain't no Strategy here game is about brute force a game about expanding fast enough to get more resources and beat the hell out of enemies by slapping them with HUGE amounts of units, I bought this game discounted thinking I would have a good time oh but I did but it wasn't the type of good time when you played an RTS game cause I was bored to hell why? Cause there is no strategy to be found no counters, no abilities its just an RTS game where you can adjust a units to your own liking like looks and guns but all of that doesn't matter when you SPAM THE SH*T OUTTA them cause then they would still beat up every unit and structures this game has no Strategy experience its just a modern war game where you can edit your own units and play that's it. I give this game a 3/10 the graphics and designs are good but damn the gameplay is just plain and unfun.

RTS where all combat units are customizable. Now, that idea might sound neat on paper, but the actual implementation leaves a lot to be desired: it’s basically just “pick gun, pick armour type, pick mobility option” and that’s about it. This means the main gameplay hook the entire game is relying on to keep interest rapidly falls flat, which is compounded by the campaign boiling down to amassing a ball of units and razing the enemy bases every single map. The devs seem to have tried to compensate for this simplicity, though: they made the game extremely hard, and they did it by making the AI cheat and outnumber you every time. This is just as annoying as it sounds, and it quickly deflated any interest the main concept may have generated. Just go play CnC or Starcraft 2 instead.

It's okish. The Campaign seems totally unfair in my opinion, even on the easiest difficulty. I love the art style though! Really awesome.

Forged Battalion isn't the best RTS game ever, but the customizeable factions is super cool, and it has great music. I really enjoy playing this game.

RTS fever dream of a game WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥ IS UNIT BALANCING EVEN????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't even start it. Garbage.

2 things: 1:fine idea but very limted compared to games over 20 years old like warzone 2100 or impossible creatures which is fine cause most newer games are. 2: what i cant come over is that multiplayer does not work it keeps popping up "host Launched the match connecting to game servers" and wont start ever, solo play works instantly but MP simply does not work, also i send a steam invite to my mate, 2 hours later he got it from the game (now noted the player i wanted to play with have slow/buggy internet so might try with another one and see if its better) TLDR: If you want to play this game as a solo player then fine, if you want multiplayer find another game