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About the game

Iron Front is a classic real-time strategy game, the kind we played after school in the early 2000s. Deploy your mobile HQ, build power plants, send harvesters for ore, put up barracks and a war factory, then lead your army against the enemy base. You win when every enemy building is destroyed.

If you played Red Alert 2, you will feel at home: two sides, the Coalition and the Red Bloc, prism and tesla towers, armoured harvesters, engineers that capture buildings, a lightning storm and a nuclear missile. Prices, hit points, speed and build times were checked against the rules of the classic game, so the old tricks still work.

The graphics are our own: 3D, but with the same camera angle and spirit, and you can rotate and zoom. Play solo against the computer on three difficulty levels or online with friends, 1v1 and 2v2, on two maps: Valley and Islands.

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How to play

1. Press Play, then choose a map, an opponent and a side: the Coalition or the Red Bloc.
2. Select the mobile HQ and press Deploy: it turns into a construction yard.
3. Build a power plant, then an ore refinery: it comes with a free harvester that starts hauling ore.
4. Build barracks and a war factory and order infantry and tanks from the sidebar.
5. Select units with a left click or a box; right-click to move or attack.
6. Camera: WASD or arrow keys, Q and E rotate, the mouse wheel zooms. On a Mac without a mouse, right-click is Ctrl+click.
7. To play with a friend, log in, create a room in the lobby and invite them.

Mechanics and rules

Economy

• Start: 10,000 credits, a mobile HQ, two tanks and four infantry.
• Money is spent while building; if you run out, construction waits.
• Build time: 1,000 credits take 20 seconds, tanks 1.5 times longer. A second factory of the same type speeds up production.
• Ore: one load is worth 25 credits, up to 12 loads per cell, and ore slowly grows back. A refinery comes with a free harvester.
• Low power halves production speed and shuts down the radar. Selling a building returns half its price.

The Coalition

• Strong in technology: prism tower, prism tank and a teleporting harvester that jumps back to the refinery.
• Riflemen can dig in, the commando kills infantry with one shot and plants charges on buildings.
• Superweapons: Weather Control (lightning storm) and the Teleporter.

The Red Bloc

• Strong in armour: heavy and super-heavy tanks, an armoured harvester with a machine gun, tesla towers.
• A tesla trooper charges a tesla tower: it hits harder and further and works even without power.
• Superweapons: the Missile Silo (nuclear missile with radiation) and the Invulnerability Generator.

Combat and victory

• Fog of war: you only see what is near your units and buildings.
• Units gain experience: veterans and elite units hit harder, elite units also heal themselves.
• An engineer captures an enemy building or repairs your own for free.
• Superweapons charge for 5 to 10 minutes, and every player sees their timers.
• You win when the enemy has no buildings left. In 2v2 the team wins together.

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