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When an army travels back in time to rule the world 1,000 years in advance, they get more than they bargained for from their primitive counterparts! Lead the resistance with hundreds of warriors from different cultures all over the world. Focus on one individual or step back to command an entire army at your fingertips. Combining world-dominating strategy with fully interactive battles, this game offers the best of both worlds! And just when you think it's over, history might just repeat itself...
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Games Free MDickie Limited iPhone, iPad, iPod

UPGRADES
The game is mostly free to play, but you can upgrade to take control of your experience - choosing which side and how much territory to start with. You can also blow off steam with fantasy battles between any 2 cultures - and as many warriors as your device can handle! For what it's worth, you can also edit every character in the world - but please note that this game uses up to 1,000 of them that are regularly replaced.

CONTROLS
When controlling a specific character, this game offers either the "Classic" 1-handed control system or "Dual Wield" where each hand is controlled separately. If you are not already familiar with these from previous games in the series, you can pause the action at any time by hitting the dateline and then study the "Controls" guide. Also look out for in-game hints from scrolls or books that you can read.

In this game, you can change which member of the team you are controlling at any time by either tapping the health meter or literally pointing to them on the battlefield. By tapping the arrows at the bottom of the screen, you can also activate "Commander" mode where you step back and direct any active member of your team by simply swiping from their location to another. Whether you intend them to relocate, fight an enemy, or pick up an object, they will try to make sense of your instructions. But please bear in mind that they can only do so at their convenience and may have other priorities!

Whatever device or control method you are using, you can always zoom in or out by pinching at the centre of the screen.

MAP
The main "Campaign" game mode requires you to increase your territory by moving units from one area to any connected one. You can either "fortify" an existing territory or attempt to seize a rival territory. Note that only 50% of the units in a territory will be available to travel - which necessarily makes it harder to invade than it is to defend.

The population of any inhabited territory may grow after each round, so it is important to control as many as possible. Notice that units will also gradually heal over time, so it is a good idea to work with different locations each turn.

PERFORMANCE
Please note that this is the largest scale game I have made yet, and may require a high-end device to run at 100%. Consider keeping the "Population" low to reduce the number of characters on screen, or tone down other features in the "Display" options.

I regret there is more to this game than I could ever explain here, so I hope you enjoy figuring some things out for yourself!

Reviews

Perfection.
SHOGO KAWADAAAAAA

Mat Dickie...you’ve outdone yourself. This is what one of the best,If not the best game you have produced. Hours of play ,Good concept,Amazing story...Just incredible,Cannot stop playing .


Horrible
thisgameissucks

I gave this app a one star because every time I get my item stolen and try to get someone’s else, the game will give me a animation causing me to not be able to move and being killed please fix this game it’s really bad


Mat plz make this into your last game
Schoolmbou

Mat I really love the work you put into your games, I have about all of them from Hard time to back wars, but if ur thinking about stop making games, then you should mix all ur games into one and make a life simulator where you can go to college and end up in jail and have a kid who goes to school, I hope you read this, gotta blast


It’s fun but then totally unfair
danny???

First when you have to defeat the present it is really good and I like it but then when you have to defeat the future it’s really hard because they have bigger weapons and there is more people like 10 people and 20 people it’s not fair at all


Simply Amazing
BManSam

When I saw this I thought it was another game like “Super City” but I got it anyways. It is amazing, I like the way you pick your battle location and the ending.


Broken game but good when it wasn’t
eater of world owl

I tried tapping territory but it wasn’t letting start a game and in battle mode player characters are broken it won’t attack or it would look like you were about to attack but it will just be stuck like that


Suggestion
solotvhead99

Please make like a world war 2 game it would be awesome really could you please


Good but not great
Xxgamergawdxx

So when I started this game I was in the past team,3 battles later the present offered me to join them,thus I had the future come and they were really hard,even with other guns,the same for zombies,I managed to defeat every one though but the difficulty is like an exponential curve to the point it becomes annoying. I would think zombies would have less health and be easy to defeat,they weren’t,the future shouldn’t have every single Lazer gun or op weapon.


This is so good
fricken frick frick

Matt I really love your games and if you see this I have an idea for a game. It’s called work days where you can Choose to work at an office work as a criminal you can get in fights sign contracts and get fired this is just an idea so if you want you can use it


Fix please
Terd 45

I literally sat there for 15 minutes waiting for the team to plan an attack


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