Smoke and Steel Announcement - New Gameplay Trailer Reveal

When the battlefields of early 18th-century Europe fill with musket smoke, victory belongs to the sharpest mind in warfare.

Smoke and Steel is an upcoming turn-based wargame developed by Generalship Games combining grand strategy with tactical battles. Inspired by classic tabletop wargames and strategy hits like Empire: Total War and Europa Universalis, Smoke and Steel gives players full control over the major European powers of the era, from France to Russia.

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• 18th-Century Warfare: Step onto the smoke-filled battlefields of early 18th-century Europe. Be prepared to experience the pressure of commanding a massive army where positioning, army morale, line-of-sight, and movement directly dictate who emerges victorious.

• Grand Strategy With Turn-Based Battles: Take full strategic control of Europe in a sandbox campaign map while managing drafting detailed diplomatic agreements, trade, and unit production, then transition to turn-based tactical battlefields to lead your armies in person.

• Story Campaign: Immerse yourself in a narrative-driven campaign based on the Great Northern War, featuring a series of linked battles and pivotal historical moments, with persistent progression

• An Army Marches on Its Stomach: That's an old saying in warfare logistics, but it's timeless for a reason. In Smoke and Steel, supplies exist in the game world, so protecting supply routes and intercepting enemy shipments can decide the outcome of a battle even before the muskets start firing. Besides, it's hard to fire a musket without ammunition and gunpowder.

• Seven Nations To Lead: Choose your faction and master unique unit rosters across seven major historic powers: the Kingdom of Sweden, Tsardom of Russia, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of France, Kingdom of Prussia, and Kingdom of Denmark–Norway.

• Beautiful Graphics: Enjoy striking visuals featuring the colorful historical uniforms, expansive battlefields, smoke effects, and lovely designed hexes that bring 18th-century combat to life with extreme clarity.

Generalship Games is the independent studio of develop01c, a solo developer from Sweden and the creator of Smoke and Steel. Starting with Warcraft III modding, they went on to work on smaller titles and has kept game development as a hobby ever since. A career teaching game development was followed by work in software development.

Work on Smoke and Steel began in late 2023.