
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 62 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Неплохая стратегия про линейную тактику. Чтобы это не значило.
I enjoyed it very much, that's it I have nothing constructive to say... sorry.
very good game i like it but price is little to big
fun and deep gameplay
Very satisfying gameplay, decent enemy AI, runs well with large battles and very replayable. Amazing job.
I just enjoy leading the army I have built through the campaign. I don't mind that there are only a few maps right now, I don't see it as that important. The missions are the same, complete the 2 side quests which there are only a few different ones, and then go crush the command center. But like I said, I like carrying my army through multiple campaigns. It feels like I'm creating their story through the war. I also love all the statistics it gives you like how many kills and casualties every unit has and what every general has under your command. Seeing that one of my longer tenured generals has 15k kills and 5k casualties is really cool to me. It has other statistics but those are what stood out to me. Great game, and a fantastic rebound game from Fire and Maneuver.
This game is just fun. It is so hard to find a strategy game set during the 18th century where the AI will sit and engage in line infantry fights with you and let your infantry shoot each other to pieces with musketry. This game's AI will do just that. It will charge when it thinks it can break you, it will charge out of desperation. Its fun. I dont know how the AI will cope as I play more, I worry it could become a tad same-y but in the mean time its fun. The way the battles play out is enjoyable, the unit customization is fun, and graphics, while limited, are characterful in their own way. I recommend this game highly.
fun
great game, ill be honest i only downloaded this 7 years war game because customizing the regiments was pure class but over time its seriously easy and fun to play and great if you love history
One of the best gunpowder-era strategy games out there. It offers a lot of variety in play style, and they recently addressed the issue of the AI being the same: Theres now a system to give them different personalities so the encounters areant the same. The newest factions also offer completely unique mechanics, so its not just recolor and slightly different units. I haven't found a single bug in my time playing this, runs very smoothly, even at higher scale units (i.e. more soldiers rendered per unit). Tho tbf I have a fairly good PC. Overall 9/10.
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