Five ages
Your headquarters is the clock of your civilisation. Gather enough resources, click advance and watch your whole army and city leap forward an age. Horses become tractors, biplanes become jet fighters, and your flag and form of government change along with them.
Refitted on the spot
Your existing units are not thrown away. After advancing, they are refitted one by one, with a golden shimmer, to the newest model in their line.
Cities that grow with you
Buildings gain new details in every age: power poles, radio masts, a Würzburg radar, a radar dome, solar panels and cameras. From the Cold War onwards the bank gets an office tower.
History in the flag
The German Empire becomes the Weimar Republic, Russia becomes the Soviet Union and the Haganah becomes Israel. Name, flag, central bank and intelligence service change along with it.
The Great War
Europe marches into war with horses, bayonets and the conviction that it will all be over by Christmas. It becomes a war of trenches, barbed wire and artillery. Your work crews ride horse and cart and clear the forest with axes.
Build trenches and bunkers, deploy MG teams and marksmen, and break through with the Mark IV, the very first tanks. Sopwith Camels fight above the front and HMS Dreadnought rules the sea. Anti-aircraft defence is a Thornycroft lorry with a 13-pounder on its flatbed.
New in 1914
Steam drifter
Medic
Interwar Years
The world licks its wounds and motorises. The Fendt Dieselross appears in the fields, and the motorcycle and the light tank in the army. Factories, laboratories and field hospitals now become available.
Stormtroopers replace the riflemen, the Vickers Medium is the newest tank and the Junkers Ju 52 drops the first bombs. With the Intelligence & development centre you start researching firepower, protection, strategy and economy.
New in 1925
Second World War
The largest war in history is fought with tanks, aircraft and submarines. Your work crew gets an excavator, your factory builds Shermans and Willys jeeps, and Spitfires and B-17 Flying Fortresses take off from your airfield.
At sea, Iowa-class battleships sail, Fletcher destroyers hunt Type VIIC U-boats with depth charges, and landing craft put tanks on the beach. The anti-aircraft emplacement becomes an 8.8 cm Flak 36.
New in 1939
Iowa-class battleship
Bazooka
Work crew (crane and bulldozer)
Supermarine Spitfire
Sd.Kfz. 7/1 Flakvierling
Essex-class aircraft carrier
Fletcher-class destroyer
B-17 Flying Fortress
Heavy MG
M101 howitzer
Infantryman
LCT tank landing craft
M4 Sherman
Motorcycle (WWII)
Willys MB jeep
Sniper
Motor torpedo boat (S-100)
Type VIIC U-boat
Cold War
Two blocs face each other with their fingers on the button. The jet fighter and the helicopter change the battlefield, and with the radar station you can, for the first time, see what the enemy is doing without sending a scout.
The M60 Patton, the M113 and the BM-21 Grad roll off the production line, the AH-1 Cobra hunts tanks and the B-52 bombs from high altitude. Your air defence becomes an S-75 Dvina with missiles and your harbour builds nuclear submarines. Research the spy satellite to briefly reveal an entire area.
New in 1960
M113 APC
AH-1 Cobra
Work crew (truck and crawler crane)
Kirov-class battlecruiser
Leander-class frigate
B-52 Stratofortress
F-4 Phantom II
LCU landing craft
M60 Patton
Osa-class missile boat
Motorcycle (Cold War)
Skipjack-class attack submarine
Rifle squad
BM-21 Grad
RPG squad
MIM-23 Hawk
Sniper team
Forrestal-class supercarrier
Stern trawler
Ural-375 with ZU-23-2Modern Age
Precision, stealth and drones. The M1 Abrams, the F-35 and the B-2 Spirit are the strongest units in the game, but a drone operator who spots them in advance or a cheap kamikaze drone diving onto them can take them out.
Your work crew drives a DAF XF tipper truck with an Atlas excavator. HIMARS and the Iskander fire from enormous distances, the Pantsir-S1 and Patriot with Goalkeeper protect the skies, and Javelin gunners hit tanks from afar.
New in 2000
Ticonderoga-class Aegis cruiser
Anti-materiel sniper
AN/TWQ-1 Avenger
Visby-class stealth corvette
Modern work crew
Drone operator
Gatling squad
AH-64 Apache
M2 Bradley
Javelin squad
LCAC hovercraft
Kamikaze drone
Iskander missile launcher
HIMARS
M1 Abrams
Recon motorcycle
Nimitz-class supercarrier
Pantsir-S1
Special forces
B-2 Spirit
F-35 Lightning II
De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate
Virginia-class attack submarineEvery line through the century
For each type of unit, this shows which model you get in which age. A faded box means the previous model carries on. Click a unit in the encyclopedia for all the numbers.
| 1914 Great War | 1925 Interwar Years | 1939 Second World War | 1960 Cold War | 2000 Modern Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Work crew |  Work crew (horse and cart) |  Work crew (bulldozer) | Work crew (crane and bulldozer) | Work crew (truck and crawler crane) | Modern work crew |
| Infantry |  Rifleman |  Assault trooper | Infantryman | Rifle squad | Special forces |
| Machine gun |  MG team | MG team | Heavy MG | Heavy MG | Gatling squad |
| Anti-tank |  Anti-tank rifle | Bazooka | RPG squad | Javelin squad | |
| Sniper |  Marksman | Marksman | Sniper | Sniper team | Anti-materiel sniper |
| Motorcycle |  Motorcycle (interwar) | Motorcycle (WWII) | Motorcycle (Cold War) | Recon motorcycle | |
| Armoured car |  Rolls-Royce armoured car | Rolls-Royce armoured car | Willys MB jeep | M113 APC | M2 Bradley |
| Tank |  Mark IV tank |  Vickers Medium Mk II | M4 Sherman | M60 Patton | M1 Abrams |
| Artillery |  Canon de 75 field gun | Canon de 75 field gun | M101 howitzer | BM-21 Grad | HIMARS |
| Anti-aircraft |  Thornycroft 13-pdr AA lorry |  Bofors 40 mm | Sd.Kfz. 7/1 Flakvierling | Ural-375 with ZU-23-2 | AN/TWQ-1 Avenger |
| Surface-to-air missile | MIM-23 Hawk | Pantsir-S1 | |||
| Fighter |  Sopwith Camel | Sopwith Camel | Supermarine Spitfire | F-4 Phantom II | F-35 Lightning II |
| Bomber |  Junkers Ju 52 bomber | B-17 Flying Fortress | B-52 Stratofortress | B-2 Spirit | |
| Helicopter | AH-1 Cobra | AH-64 Apache | |||
| Patrol boat |  Coastal Motor Boat (CMB) | Coastal Motor Boat (CMB) | Motor torpedo boat (S-100) | Osa-class missile boat | Visby-class stealth corvette |
| Destroyer |  V/W-class destroyer | V/W-class destroyer | Fletcher-class destroyer | Leander-class frigate | De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate |
| Battleship |  HMS Dreadnought | HMS Dreadnought | Iowa-class battleship | Kirov-class battlecruiser | Ticonderoga-class Aegis cruiser |
| Submarine |  U-9 (U-boat) | U-9 (U-boat) | Type VIIC U-boat | Skipjack-class attack submarine | Virginia-class attack submarine |
| Aircraft carrier |  HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) | Essex-class aircraft carrier | Forrestal-class supercarrier | Nimitz-class supercarrier | |
| Landing craft |  X-Lighter landing craft | X-Lighter landing craft | LCT tank landing craft | LCU landing craft | LCAC hovercraft |