
Take command in Europe's greatest 18th-century war. Equip & customize regiments, manage supplies, and engage in brutal real-time battles across procedural campaigns. Resources and replacements are scarce, and keeping your best men alive may matter more than any single victory.
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Master of Command is a real-time tactical strategy game set during the Seven Years' War. You take control of an army, manage its supplies, engage enemy forces, and shape your campaign through difficult choices and decisive battles. Every encounter, every piece of equipment, and every soldier lost matters.
Key Features:
Real-Time Tactical Battles: Engage in historical combat where morale, stamina, terrain, and timing determine the outcome.
Fully Customizable Regiments: Equip your troops with historical equipment and weapons that affect accuracy, stamina, morale, and more.
Real-Time Campaign: Choose a region and enter a fully real-time map with fog of war, branching encounters, and a mobile enemy presence.
Persistent Army Management: Every loss matters. Units gain experience, officers level up, and your choices carry across each region of the campaign.
200 Historical Units: Recruit from an extensive roster of 18th-century European forces, each with unique stats, roles, and visuals.
At its core, Master of Command is about the relationship between your army and the world around it. March too far and your men will starve. Rest too long and the enemy will reinforce. Your troops rely on you not just to lead them into battle, but to keep them fed, equipped, and alive long enough to reach the final objective.

Battles in Master of Command are immersive, tactical, and unforgiving.
Combat is designed to feel grounded and brutal. Troops respond to pressure, breaking when outflanked, faltering when exhausted, and rallying when supported. Morale, stamina, and formation matter as much as numbers. A well-timed charge or tactical retreat can change the course of a fight. Victory often goes not to the larger force, but to the commander who managed their troops with discipline and resolve.

Equip your regiments with historical equipment and weapons to shape their strengths and weaknesses.
Regiments aren’t expendable; they are comprised of a living group of men relying on what you’ve given them. Outfit your line infantry with rifles for long-range precision, cylindrical ramrods for faster reloads, or field musicians to steady their morale under fire. Customize their flags and uniforms to reflect your unit's identity or design something entirely unique. Supplies wear down, resources are limited, and every army ends up looking different by the time the campaign is through.

Start with a handful of worn recruits and grow into a force worth fearing.
Every army in Master of Command tells a different story. You choose which units to recruit, which officers to promote, and which regiments are worth keeping alive. Some armies are lean and elite, built around veteran grenadiers and cavalry. Others are ragged but massive, relying on sheer numbers and momentum. Officers gain experience over time, and their traits influence how your divisions fight.

Every region is different, and every march is unpredictable.
After marching your army into a region, you’ll enter a procedurally generated landscape, obscured by the fog of war and navigated in real-time. Your goal is to locate and destroy the enemy’s main encampment. What lies between you and that objective is different every time: villages, ambushes, battlefield wreckage, wounded survivors, or roaming enemy forces. Terrain affects how fast your army moves, how quickly provisions are consumed, and what kind of battlefield you'll face if attacked. Enemy armies react to your presence, sometimes pursuing, other times reinforcing, or lying in wait. No two campaigns unfold the same way, and no two armies you've led end up alike.

Every army brings its own doctrine and its own identity.
With over 150 hand-crafted units from five major European powers, Master of Command lets you build armies that feel distinct and historically grounded. Each unit has its own stats, role, and personality on the battlefield. Some reload quickly, others hit hard in melee, and a few simply refuse to break. Your roster is shaped by the army you choose and the decisions you make along the way.
Notable units include:
Prussian Grenadier Guards
Austrian Deutschmeister Fusiliers
Russian Don Cossacks
British Highland Grenadiers
French Royal Scots Fusiliers
Prussian Death's Heads Hussars
Austrian Kaiser Franz Hussars
Russian Preobrazhenskiy Life Guards
British Campbell's Highlanders
French Swiss Guards

Your army is only as strong as the men and resources you can find.
Throughout the campaign, you’ll pass through towns and villages offering a chance to recruit fresh troops, trade for supplies, or offload captured equipment. Some locations specialize in certain goods: artillery, munitions, horses, or officers, while others are picked clean or too wary to help. Prices shift based on your actions and reputation. Raiding a settlement might keep your army alive a little longer, but it’ll close doors elsewhere. Managing your resources is just as important as winning battles, and a poorly timed shortage can grind a campaign to a halt.
Strategize, survive, and lead your men to glory. Become the Master of Command.

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Languages: English*, French, German*, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Spanish - Latin America, Italian*languages with full audio support
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Hours played at review time, across 55 reviews with recorded playtime.
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perfect redemption arc for the armchair historian
I like the historical accuracy in this game.
tickles my autism 👍
Fridericus Rex, unser König und Herr, Der rief seine Soldaten allesamt ins Gewehr; Zweihundert Batallions und an die tausend Schwadronen, Und jeder Grenadier kriegt sechzig Patronen. "Ihr verfluchten Kerls," sprach Seine Majestät, "Daß ein jeder in der Bataille seinen Mann mir steht! Sie gönnen mir nicht Schlesien und die Grafschaft Glatz Und die hundert Millionen in meinem Schatz." "Die Kais'rin hat sich mit den Franzosen alliiert Und das römische Reich gegen mich revoltiert; Die Russen seind gefallen in Preußen ein; Auf, laßt uns zeigen, daß wir brave Landeskinder sein!" "Meine Generale Schwerin und der Feldmarschall von Keith Und der Generalmajor von Ziethen seind allemal bereit, Potz, Mohren, Blitz und Kreuzelement, Wer den Fritz und seine Soldaten noch nicht kennt!" Nun adjö, Luise, wisch ab das Gesicht! Eine jede Kugel, die trifft ja nicht! Denn träfe jede Kugel apart ihren Mann, Wo kriegten die Könige ihre Soldaten dann? Die Musketenkugel macht ein kleines Loch; Die Kanonenkugel macht ein viel größres noch; Die Kugeln sind alle von Eisen und Blei, Und manche Kugel geht manchem vorbei. Unsre Artillerie hat ein vortrefflich Kaliber, Und von den Preußen geht keiner zum Feind über; Die Schweden, die haben verflucht schlechtes Geld; Wer weiß, ob der Österreicher besseres hält. Mit Pomade bezahlt die Franzosen ihr König; Wir kriegen's alle Wochen bei Heller und Pfennig. Potz, Mohren, Blitz und Kreuzsakrament, Wer kriegt so prompt wie der Preuße sein Traktament! Friedricus, mein König, den der Lorbeerkranz ziert, Ach hättest du nur öfters zu plündern permittiert. Friedericus Rex, mein König und Held, Wir schlügen den Teufel für dich aus der Welt!
He jugado Napoleón Total War por miles de horas y ya me sentía agotado de jugarlo sabiendo que nunca habría alguna actualización que me hiciera sentir la frescura de las primeras horas de juego. Llegó este juego y pude sentir aquello que necesitaba, algo nuevo, fresco, novedoso y sin duda, adictivo. Confío en el buen criterio de los desarrolladores por el buen trabajo realizado y por el buen por venir del juego.
Good idea for an interesting time period, but gameplay is very much a game and not realistic in the composition of the forces - no one fought campaigns with single brigades and no artillery (at least in the first campaigns). This one gets old very fast - it is not much more than Age of Empires style game dressed in 18th century uniforms and with persistant units. Brigades and small armies wander the map randomly bumping together and fighting for no apparent reason other than swag. It quickly becomes boring, repetative, and too simplistic. There are no geographical or political objectives. Warfare at the time was considered an art consisting of the management of cooperation between the three arms: Infantry, cavalry, and artillery. The game designer's approach to art and animation is refreshing and exciting, but they could do much more with the strategic and operational 'world' than they have done so far. I regret buying it in its' current manifestation, and hope they will expand and continue to improve the game. We just have to wait for Grand Tactitian: Napoleon.
Master of command est un mélange de l'excellent Battle Brother pour ce qui est du déplacement sur la carte de campagne et de Ultimate General Civil War pour la gestion tactique des batailles. Sans être un mauvais jeu, cela reste un "petit jeu", faisant bien que les deux références ci dessus chacune dans leur domaine. Testé en mode normal, les batailles s'avèrent un peu trop facile, arrivé à l'acte III, je n'en ai pas perdu une seule même en infériorité numérique. On déplace ses régiments, on choisit éventuellement les munitions et la formation. On envoi sa cavalerie ratisser par les arrières (et l'IA gère mal les contournement, laissant souvent son artillerie seule sans arrière garde), rien de bien noeuf mais l'IA manque cruellement d'imagination et tombe dans tous les pièges qu'on lui tend, ça mériterait quelques ajustement pour relever le challenge (j'ai qu'à jouer en difficile vous allez me dire...). Côté carte stratégique des points d'intérêts sur lesquels on se rend pour déclencher des évènements, c'est sympa mais il y en a trop peu de différents (Convois, Champs de bataille, Taudis, Animaux, Fort, Avant poste et Villes) et les évènements finissent par se ressembler, Le tout donne un jeu sympathique mais répétitif, les batailles se ressemblent toutes, les évènements se ressemblent et les choix dans les villes sont redondants également. Ca manque cruellement de diversité, de missions secondaires, d'objectifs tactiques précis pendant les batailles... Un jeu sympathique donc mais que je ne poncerai par autant qu'un BB ou un UGCW.
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Story? In the 18th century there is only war. You command a nearly faceless but close group. Battles are awaiting you. Towns are safe - but expensive. You are the hunter - you are the prey and the BOSS comes after some time. Interested? Then enjoy Master of Command. The difficulty can be adjusted and you are commanding a group of soldiers from different nations while Europe is in turmoil. Imagine Total War style battles - the scale is close but you need to invest in your brigade with the coin you receive after battles and after selling stuff (clothes, weapons, gems and the people - also called ransom). So battles give you the money. You can simply upgrade your troops, even militia recruits can reach top levels. But it is just a better army like militia to musketeers. Loosing men just means you need more reserves so you can lose troops without being crippled. Officers give bonuses and you can control in a similar fashion as in other tactic games your army and use positions. Pretty straight forward. The levels are basic and not complicated and the gear you can equip helps too. The style is nice and simple. The battles are not as detailed as in the TW-series. As a battle game it is good and easy... but do not expect a story besides some random encounters Frost Punk style.
能玩,但后续重复太多,反反复复几乎都是一样的。
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