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Petroglyph / Aug 14, 2018 / Indie, Simulation, Strategy
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CompareCustomize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles. You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.
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Forged Battalion - Fixed numeric display issues in various languages - Resolved incompatibility with some virus checkers and other tools - Fix for a rare issue that could cause disconnects during multiplayer games
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53% positive, 693 reviews
the concept of making custom units is a superb and one that is unexplored. the customisation in this feels pointless, no aesthetic choices, and the units all blend together. I grinded for all the late game weapons and my units felt inadequate for the campaign the difficulty is all over the place some missions you can just slaughter the ai and other times its impossible, also the units have no shooting sounds so your...
0 found this helpful, 2026-07-17
Might change it later but for now ai is unbalanced to hell and back, and the ai seems to constantly choose upgrades based on your build, I can't prove this, but seemed odd my acid throwers were countered so quickly with flame tanks on second try for a mission, also very grindy, recommend beating it on easy all the way then run through on the higher difficulties
0 found this helpful, 2026-08-07
2 things: 1:fine idea but very limted compared to games over 20 years old like warzone 2100 or impossible creatures which is fine cause most newer games are. 2: what i cant come over is that multiplayer does not work it keeps popping up "host Launched the match connecting to game servers" and wont start ever, solo play works instantly but MP simply does not work, also i send a steam invite to my mate, 2 hours later...
2 found this helpful, 2026-06-19
This game scratches that old school RTS itch I have had for a long time. Customizing vehicles is a huge plus also. Lots of fun.
0 found this helpful, 2026-06-24
To the devs, should you ever read this I feel like you have a rock solid idea for a game and it is definitely executed with polish but I also feel like the central idea to your game is a little bit too tame. The combinatorics to customization in this game give rise to a substantial amout of customization but that is because I have played a lot of RTS and know the importance of tweaky stats like movement speed,...
74 found this helpful, 2018-02-25
Great Impression so far! Pros: + Unique mechanics where you create your own faction (I think that it is a good choice by developers that you can only modify faction outside of real game, so you need to think about everything in advance when creating a faction) + Solid RTS gameplay and feeling which of course resembles CnC very much (well it's Petroglyph) + Music by Frank Klepacki!!!!! Yay! + Runs very smoothly and...
127 found this helpful, 2018-01-16
The game works, but has been abandoned. Petroglyph has a habit of dropping games entirely like with the 3 previous games they developed. All of them are just reskins (including this one,) of 8 bit armies. This game got one update but isn't supported anymore. I LOVE rts games and the concept of building my own faction sounded really, really cool. I want to give this game a recommendation so badly, but Petroglyph isn't...
79 found this helpful, 2018-12-23
Likes: --Classic RTS feel, very Red Alert. --Customizable faction concept is very interesting --Charming Graphics Dislikes: --Unfinished and possibly abandoned (this is why we must love the modding community) --Damage counts are too low, at least in the context of what's available in the campaign (to start, anyhow), it can take forever for two squads to actually finish fighting on the first several missions. --...
52 found this helpful, 2018-08-08
Forged Battalion is a game that I really, really wanted to like. It's another RTS from Petroglyph, the company behind Star Wars: Empire at War and the somewhat obscure, but still fantastic, Universe at War: Earth Assault. I had high hopes for an RTS that involved extensive unit customization, something that I've always found enjoyable in strategy games. Forged Battalion delivers this, but it comes saddled with a...
26 found this helpful, 2020-06-26
I made the mistake of getting a little excited seeing this game back when it first showed up. A RTS game with custimizable units is a rare type but lots of fun in the past. But that's the thing.... in the past. This game some how figured out how to take such a consept and.... make it all feel the same largely. Maybe at teir 1 you either went rockets, or wanted to nerf your self. Otherwise teir 2 and on everything...
67 found this helpful, 2018-08-14