Hello everyone,

IronTactics is a game I have been working on since august. It is a multi-player turn based strategy game (in a medieval fantastic universe).

Here is a little screenshot :



You can download the game DOWNLOAD. (server in the zip too)
You can use the WEBSTART.
Otherwise, there is an APPLET.

There is no applet version yet. But it will come.

To play :
-left mouse click to select and move units
-right mouse click on target to show actions possible against that target
-if a unit moves and does an action in the same turn, the damage is reduced proportionally to the distance covered
-a unit cannot use ranged attack or blind shot if in melee with an enemy.
-a unit cannot use blind shot if he moved during the same turn
-a purple highlight means you can do an action against that unit

Have fun !

ps : no registration required at the moment

Yes, there is no preloader, but 20-30s seems a bit long. The preloading only lasts ~5s for me :/

I'll try to add a preloader as soon as possible.

And yes, it's tough to play against someone else if no one else is connected. What you can do though is ask a friend to play against you at the same time, or launch 2 clients and play against yoursefl (just to try out the game)


Thanks for giving it a try

Thanks for trying it out

Yeah, I'm planning to add a "challenge" feature and some stats too.
And that's a good idea, having just one button "play" and it automatically sets you against an opponent.

No, there isn't only one map. The map is randomly generated.

In the future I might add an option to chose between different standard maps (and also a map editor to create your own maps)

Yay, an applet!

It worked fine, didn't find anyone to play against though. I typed things in the chat but I didn't see it pop up in the screen, is that normal?

Mike

It worked now

Mike

Funny enough, I think that humans are more powerful than orcs :p


Yes, blind shots do kind of rip apart the healers. I was thinking of making blind shot's accuracy proportionate to the distance of the target, but lowering damage would probably be better indeed.


This backs up your last suggestion of having only one button :p. I'll try to implement it, and see if it feels better.


Yes, this is planned. However, it's not at the top of the todo list straight away. (working on a solo/campaign mode first)


Do you mean add an option to turn off the timer ?


Tutorial coming soon !

And I'll try to put in a basic AI. However, it seems very complicated to do a "good" AI when agents depend on so many other agents. But it'll be fun trying that out.

And creating you own army, I will put that in too eventually (same as for the deployment).


Thanks for trying it out again
Zlandorf

I will add that as soon as I can