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Iron Harvest getting new World Map campaign in next free updateBorrowing from yet more Relic RTS games

Borrowing from yet more Relic RTS games

Iron Harvest’s world map update, showing arrows and icons representing armies invading different territories across a grey world map.

OurIron Harvest reviewreferred to the real-time strategy game as “Company Of Heroes with mechs”, which is a strong pitch. A future update is planning on borrowing yet more ideas from mid-00s strategy games, with the addition of a campaign world map.

Iron Harvest – Skirmish Gameplay TrailerWatch on YouTube

Iron Harvest – Skirmish Gameplay Trailer

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It sounds to me like the campaign map in another classic Relic Software RTS, the Dawn Of War standalone expansion Dark Crusade. I’m a big fan of modes like this because I mostly play strategy games for their skirmishes, not their stories, and hanging those skirmishes in a larger context can be extremely compelling.