Eight named heroes. Thousands of scenarios. One squad against the war — command them well, or lose them forever.
The frames below are concept mock-ups — not in-engine captures. They're here to communicate the visual direction we're considering: gritty dioramas, weighty turn-based combat, a digital-tabletop interface. None of this is built yet.
Combat Command is a turn-based strategy game set in the Second World War — fought across dioramas of bombed cathedrals and shattered hedgerows, with eight named heroes under your command. Move, shoot, suppress, heal: every action costs Action Points from a small pool, every decision matters. Three pillars define what makes it ours.
Death is permanent. Failure compounds. Each of your eight soldiers is named, leveled, and irreplaceable — lose one and a piece of your squad goes with them. Recruit again, and you might be welcoming a double agent through the door.
A tight, readable AP economy forces hard, intimate choices. No grand-strategy abstractions — just four soldiers, a shrinking pool of points, and a window of fire that won't stay open long.
The Veteran, the Nurse, the Bomb-maker, the Forger, the Shadow, the Sniper, the Radio-Operator, the Leader. Each carries their own deck — general cards plus specialist cards only they can play — and their own talent tree. No two squads, and no two campaigns, end up the same.
You command a small squad of soldiers. Each mission, you pick up to four for the job. The rest aren't idle — you send them on side details to bring back resources, intel, or trouble. You can't change the bigger picture, but you can save lives. Sometimes you have to sacrifice a soldier to win the war.
You start with a fixed roster of eight soldiers, each with their own deck — general cards (pistol shot, knife, radio call) plus specialist cards only they can play. They are not interchangeable. Losing one is losing a tool you may not get back.
Briefing arrives. You read the mission. You pick up to four soldiers to send. The rest get an off-the-map detail — scrounge fuel, run a courier route, surveil a depot. They might come back with resources. They might not come back at all.
If they die, they're gone. You can recruit replacements along the way — at a cost — but every new face is a small risk: there's always a chance you've taken in a double agent, who'll turn at the worst moment, or empty your cache when you most need it.
Each soldier levels up through experience. You — the player — also climb in rank: Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain. Fail too many missions and you fall back down. New recruits can join the squad along the way; some carry skills your roster doesn't yet have.
After every operation you return to Basecamp to plan the next move, equip the survivors, choose the next four, and read what came back from the off-map details. NPCs come and go: contacts, allies, sometimes informants. Then you go back out into it.
"You play to make the squad win, not the soldier. Sometimes you need to sacrifice a soldier to win the war."
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Combat Command is currently in discovery. That means we've built a vision, sketched out a world, and now we're asking the most honest question we can: does this resonate with you?
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