Commanding the Century
Lead your nation through a hundred years of war. Start with horse and cart and trenches in 1914, and finish with stealth fighters, satellites and kamikaze drones. Real-time strategy in the spirit of Age of Empires, played over your own network.
1914 - today
its own style
at sea and in the air
new every time
LAN
cycle on the field
From Pickelhaube to F-35
You start in the Great War and advance through the century at your headquarters. Every age replaces your entire army: your units are refitted on the spot to the latest model, and your buildings take on the architecture and weapons of the new era.
Every soldier, every shot, every sunset
Commanding the Century runs in full 3D, with an angled camera just like Age of Empires. You can rotate, tilt and zoom in until you see the shell casings fly from the breech.
- Day and night: the sun sets, lanterns and windows light up, tanks drive with their headlights on and soldiers grab their torches.
- Trenches and bunkers: dig in, order your men to go prone, occupy a village church.
- Real work crews: from a draught horse with a cart to a DAF tipper truck with an excavator.
- Buildings that burn: soot, fire, smoke and collapsing walls, with rubble that stays where it falls.
Choose your flag
Every army plays by the same rules, but each nation has its own face: its own uniforms for every age, its own architecture, its own motorcycles, jets and drones, and soldiers who answer in their own language. On top of that there is the fictional Desert Front, with very different rules.
Every weapon has its prey
Machine gunners mow down infantry, anti-tank teams crack armour, fighters clear the skies, and bombers and artillery level buildings. Mix your army well and you win.
Mark IV
The tank built to break through the trenches: slow, but strong against buildings.
Spitfire
Air superiority. Limited fuel and ammunition, so it has to return to the airfield to refuel.
AH-1 Cobra
A flying tank hunter, the nightmare of every armoured column.
Kamikaze drone
Circles above the battlefield and dives onto vehicles and ships.
Old-school LAN party
No account, no server, no subscription. One player hosts a game and everyone else sees it in the list automatically. Play with 2 to 8 players in teams, or alone against AI opponents with seven different strategies, from the Defender to the Admiral.
- Procedural maps: Plains, Ardennes, Desert, Lakes, Rivers, No Man's Land, Inland Sea and Islands, from 64 to 160 tiles.
- Choose your starting age: jump straight into 1939 or 2000 and lock the age if you like.
- Save and load: simply carry on a long evening's match next time.
