You build your army on a board and place every unit where you want it. Every 20 seconds, the whole army marches out as a wave and fights on its own. Your job is everything around the fight: deciding what to buy, where to stand, which gold mines to build, who to counter, and when to spend on the next tier of units. Destroy the enemy Citadel to win.
Matches are short and one good counter-pick can swing them. You can play 1v1 or team up in 2v2 and 3v3. There is nothing to download.
There are 7 factions, and each one plays differently:
- Humans: Cavalry and heavy armor, with healers behind the line. The generalist faction.
- Orcs: The most hit points for your gold. They win by being hard to kill.
- Elves: They shoot first and from farther away than anyone. Fragile, so they rely on roots and slows to keep enemies off.
- Undead: Cheap packs that feed on the fallen. No healers, so they win by outlasting you.
- Hell: Chaos damage ignores armor and cuts through magic-proof armies. Lots of flyers and summoned imps.
- Wizards: Frost, cyclones and polymorph. Powerful but slow and fragile, so you have to protect them.
- Shadows: Cloaked assassins and burrowing wurms. Bring a detector or lose before the fight starts.
Try it here: https://warlandmarch.itch.io/warlandmarch
If you have friends who like strategy games, grab them for a team match. I'd like to hear which faction people end up main-ing and if you see any balance issues as factions are quite different.