Warband

A snappy real-time strategy skirmish in the classic mould.

Gather gold and lumber, raise a base, train an army and raze the rival settlement. Matches take ten to twenty minutes against an AI that plays a recognisable strategy, or against a friend over the internet.

Early access Version 0.2.280 Released 2026-10-16 Source c9d74d8ac74d

Install

Play online: two-to-four-player ranked or casual matches

Choose a ranked or casual room with two to four seats. Send the code or invitation link to your friends. The server runs the simulation and keeps ranked ratings; spectators can watch without taking a seat. A dropped connection reconnects automatically.

Disconnected rooms are retained for 15 minutes; a ranked player absent for 60 seconds forfeits their seat. Invite links look like https://games.tachyon-ai.eu/join/warband-v2/abc123 and contain only the game and room code, never your private seat.

Warband multiplayer rankings & server activity ↗

Your first match

1. Let your peasants gather. Gold and lumber totals are at the top of the screen.
2. In the Settlement row choose Build → Farm and click clear ground near your base.
3. Build a Barracks, then Train → Footman. Requests wait until they can be paid.
4. Select your soldiers, press A and click towards the enemy to attack-move.
5. Eliminate every enemy unit and building to win.

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What is in the game

• Four races: humans, orcs, elves and dwarves share seven unit roles and nine buildings, each with its own numbers, a passive trait, two race-only upgrades, look and voice.
• Painted sprites for every unit and building; units stride, wind up and swing, and arrows and stones fly and land where they were aimed.
• Settlement planning: queue buildings, units and upgrades without selecting a worker, with a production overview when nothing is selected.
• Idle peasants find safe work on their own; construction plans borrow gatherers after delivery.
• Five map layouts in three sizes and three lands, generated fresh for every match with meadows, groves, ponds and stone.
• Four AI difficulties with measured ratings for offline games with two to four factions; autosave every two minutes.
• Original art and audio made for the game: sprites painted from its own low-poly renders, generated impacts, cries and collapses, and synthesised music.