Black Powder | Red Earth

Black Powder | Red Earth is a turn-based tactics game set in a proxy war between the dictatorship of a failing petro-state and a brutal jihadist insurgency. In a near-present setting following the invasion of Iraq, private military contractors have become the preferred instrument of foreign policy for petro-monarchies in failed Middle Eastern states. Staffed by US special operations combat veterans, these contractors select, train and lead local armies in conventional and unconventional warfare. Their combat actions are treated as foreign internal defense, not acts of war.

Urban operations

You lead an enhanced capability advisory and enabler unit through raids in war-torn urban sprawls. The unit conducts kinetic actions using full lethal surrogacy to accomplish its missions. Tactical decisions shape the outcomes of the raids; the game has no tech trees, base building or research-and-development mini-games.