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Here’s A Look At ‘Diesel Tactics,’ A Steampunk Turn-Based Strategy Game

If you’re a Powerman 5000 fan or just dig robots with clockwork parts, Diesel Tactics seems like a game to throw onto your Watch List. At the top-level, it’s an asynchronous turn-based strategy game that tasks you with banging diverse groups of unit types into each other until someone wins. Basically it’s Hero Academy, except with a steampunk-y twist. The art for this in particular is radical, distorting World War I and World War II imagery through its stylistic lens as it does.

Here’s a few shots, actually, if you haven’t been following the game’s thread on our message board. There’s a lot more available on the game’s web site:

Interestingly, Diesel Tactics will be incorporating a mission system into battle. These missions will “determine the victory conditions of a game," which makes us think that T-Go Co Games is maybe eschewing the traditional “kill everything" objective as the only route to a win in favor of stuff that, maybe, requires a bit more finesse. We’re eager to hear some more about this.

Diesel Tactics doesn’t have a firm release date, but it is slated to hit Android as well as iOS. Follow in it the TouchArcade app (Free), if you’d like.