▶ IMPORTANT: Hex of Steel is a graphically intensive game. For the best experience, especially in the largest scenarios, we recommend using a device with a strong GPU/CPU. Devices from 2017 onward, like the iPhone X, should handle these scenarios smoothly. However, all devices can access the extensive campaign mode and engage in thrilling multiplayer battles. ◀
▶ Command the War. Forge History ◀
Immerse yourself in Hex of Steel, a fresh and innovative WWII wargame that spans all major fronts. Command your forces across Europe, Africa, and the Pacific in a game that marries deep strategic gameplay with cutting-edge mechanics.
▶ Born from Passion ◀
What started as a Kickstarter dream with just €53 has evolved into a deeply engaging strategy game, a testament to the determination and passion of its creator. Hex of Steel is more than just another war game—it's a labor of love crafted with the input of a dedicated community.
▶ Why Hex of Steel Stands Out ◀
• Constant Evolution: Over 400 updates and counting. Hex of Steel is continuously refined and improved, ensuring a fresh and balanced experience with every playthrough.
• Dynamic AI: Engage with an AI that reacts to your every move, providing a challenging and fair experience without resorting to cheats.
• Expansive Scenarios: Command your units across massive, meticulously crafted maps that cover Europe, North Africa, the Pacific, and beyond.
• Endless Customization: Tailor your experience with over 50 policies and doctrines, from military tactics to occupation strategies. Toggle optional settings like zone of control, realistic supplies, and fog of war to suit your style.
• Epic Campaigns: Lead your core units through branching, dynamic campaigns that allow you to rewrite military history.
• Cross-Platform Play: Seamlessly battle friends across PC and mobile platforms with cross-platform multiplayer.
• Limitless Creativity: Design your own scenarios, units, and maps using a suite of editors, or dive into infinite replayability with the random scenario generator.
• Strategic Depth: Employ diplomacy, forge alliances, declare wars, and negotiate truces. Your strategic choices will shape the course of the game.
• Vast Replayability: With 45 playable nations—from Germany to Mongolia to Iraq—Hex of Steel offers an unprecedented variety of strategies and challenges.
• Immersive Environment: Experience dynamic weather and seasonal transitions, complete with stunning visual and sound effects that bring the battlefield to life.
• No Hidden Costs: Enjoy the full game with no in-app purchases or paid content—what you see is what you get.
▶ Join a Thriving Community ◀
With an active and growing Discord community of 1600+ members, you'll find plenty of support, tips, and camaraderie as you dive into the rich world of Hex of Steel.
Whether you're a seasoned strategist or new to the genre, Hex of Steel offers a deeply immersive and customizable wargaming experience that will challenge your tactical prowess.
The battlefield awaits—are you ready to command?
ADDED
• Dynamic filtering for the Units Editor search bar, you can now type in your own filters. You can use operators and units properties directly to filter at will. For example, typing in: 'name contains light infantry and productionyear >= 1943' would return all units where their name contains the 'light infantry' words and where the production year is superior or equal to 1943. I will be releasing the list of properties available on the Forums for you to dig. Spaces don't matter, caps don't matter, so doing LIGHT INFANTRY will work just like light infantry, and doing productionyear>1943 will work fine just as PRODUCTIONyear > 1943.
• Game will now look in an additional (optional) 'Shared' folder in the Units/Graphics path of your mod when it cannot find certain graphics. Useful when you have the same graphics shared across several countries, this way you don't have to duplicate the same image for all, but you keep only one in that Shared folder.
CHANGED
• Multiplayer compatibility version.
• Updated the Manual.
• Horse-towed units now get 2 movement points as a bonus, not 3 anymore. This brings horse-towed artillery up to 3 MPs max instead of 4.
• Light artillery guns can now move/attack during their turn.
• Heavy artillery guns can now only move OR attack during their turn.
• AT and AA guns can now move and attack during their turn.
• Rebalanced Operation Weserubung campaign scenario.
• Rebalanced Sea Lion campaign scenarios.
• Rebalanced Low Countries campaign scenario.
• Reworked in game soundtracks UI menu.
• When editing an official campaign scenario through the editor, the game will no longer create a copy of the original file, you will be directly editing the scenario itself (allowing you more freedom with the scenarios the game has to offer).
FIXED
• Multiplayer being inaccessible.
• Vichy not properly transferred to Germany upon its capitulation following Op. Torch on the Europe scenarios.
• Production time was not reset when moving from one campaign scenario to the next.
• Lessons of War policy was not applied to artillery/ships (+1 bonus XP).
• Supplies bug when no available tiles were found around a unit.
