Press kit
Ash & Aegis
From broken lines, legends rise.
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Fact sheet
- Title
- Ash & Aegis
- Developer
- Gladrex Interactive (solo developer: Alexander Kreitner, Germany)
- Release status
- In development (current version 0.5.0)
- Platform
- Windows (PC)
- Price
- Free, donations enabled
- Engine
- Godot 4
- Genre
- Real-time strategy / tactical PvP
- Players
- Server-based multiplayer, 2–6 players; solo vs. AI
- Average session
- About half an hour (best-of-three)
- Press contact
- hello@gladrex.com
Description
Ash & Aegis is a real-time PvP battle game in the spirit of Total War: Arena. You command regiments, not individual soldiers. Build your army from a points budget, deploy it, and win by holding formation, taking ground, and breaking the enemy's morale before they break yours.
Battles are decided by morale, not hit points: regiments that stand shoulder to shoulder hold steady, regiments that get flanked or charged start to waver, and once a line breaks, it breaks all at once. Field objectives, public and private field orders, and terrain that changes movement, charges and concealment keep every match different. Short one-liner: Real-time PvP battles fought regiment by regiment. Hold the line, break theirs. Skill over click speed.
History
Ash & Aegis is built by a single developer in Godot 4. It started as an experiment in making Total War-style line battles work in a fast, session-based PvP format, and has been shaped in weekly playtests ever since: balance feedback from matches goes straight into the next build. The game is free while it grows, and its community lives on Discord.
Features
- Formation lines with live preview: regiments switch to wide or deep depending on the frontage you give them
- Morale, cohesion and line breaks as the core mechanic, not a stat on a sheet
- Fallen standards stay on the field as a contested object
- Named commanders with two active abilities each
- Three factions (Roman Empire, Greek City-States, Parthian Empire) with 18 units
- Three maps: Via Triumphalis, Colles Latini, Nemus Dianae
- Ranked 1v1 with automatic matchmaking, Elo, four rating tracks and global leaderboards
- 2v2 and 3v3 online team battles, best-of-three
- Cinematic recap and battle report after every match
- Full RTS control set in the Total War tradition, every key rebindable
Media
Click any image for the full-resolution version. The trailer is on YouTube.
Contact
E-mail: hello@gladrex.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/DUC4EQT4uz