Hello everyone!

Victory Banner is a strategy game inspired by real historical events and battle locations. That’s why it has space not only for fights and shootouts but also for an equally important part of any military action—the planning phase and building fortifications.

Before each mission, you will have the chance to study the map, your available inventory, vehicles, and squad composition, and use them as effectively as possible to win the battle.

To prepare positions in advance and organize an effective defense or a well-thought-out attack line, you will have machine gun nests, rifle pits, minefields, anti-tank hedgehogs, trenches, and other types of fortifications.

Mines and anti-tank hedgehogs can be placed with the help of an engineering truck. Load it with everything you need and drive it to the point where construction is planned. Building is possible within a small area around the truck.

Trenches are not ready-made templates. You create them yourself anywhere on the battlefield. Want a straight defensive line or a clever winding cover to confuse the enemy? It’s all in your hands. Draw a line on the map and mark the place for the future trench, turning your ideas into reality. This is a flexible system that lets you experiment and gives freedom for all kinds of tactical decisions on the battlefield.

You will be able to carry out various strategies:
– Build a classic defensive line, connecting trenches and machine gun nests;
– Create a branched network of trenches with shelters and communication paths;
– Use bends and corners to set up ambushes or hidden firing points;
– Bring real tactical schemes from military manuals and textbooks to life.

Use the landscape and local buildings to place machine gun nests and position your soldiers at key points. All maps are diverse and offer many options for organizing defense.

Every fortification becomes part of your strategy, and the outcome of the battle depends on how you use them. You can rely on minefields and machine guns or build a trench network and arrange hidden ambushes. Everything depends on your strategy—a well-planned defense not only protects from artillery and slows down the enemy but also opens up new tactical opportunities.

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Best regards,
Dmitry

Hello everyone!

This post opens a series of publications about the game and the development process. Today I will tell you a little about how the game was created, what served as inspiration, and what future plans are.

First, let’s get acquainted. My name is Dmitry, I am the developer of the game Victory Banner — a tactical strategy about the Second World War.

Victory Banner combines my two main passions: history and game development. I have always been fascinated by cause-and-effect relationships in history, how decisions made decades ago continue to influence the present.

For me, this is not just a game, but an attempt to convey an important part of the past through interactivity. Without moralizing or lecturing, but with respect for the subject. I want to show that heroism was manifested not only in large battles remembered by everyone, but also in events that never made it onto the pages of history textbooks.

The first part of the game is dedicated to the events of 1941 on the Eastern Front — from Brest to Moscow. This historical period changed the fate of an entire country, but still remains in the shadow of louder military events and is almost never talked about. In the future I want to create campaigns dedicated to other stages of the Second World War, involving more maps and historical locations.

Victory Banner combines two full-fledged modes: a strategic one, with squad management like in classic strategies, and a direct control mode, with the ability to take control of any soldier or vehicle, turning the game into a third-person shooter.

Who can be controlled:

• Infantry with various firearms.

• Special units such as snipers, medics, and others.

• Armored units, including tanks, trucks, and other mechanized forces.

• Portable weapons such as mortars and machine guns.

• Heavy artillery.

And this fundamentally changes the gameplay. You build fortifications, place soldiers in trenches, call in aviation. And just a few minutes later, you are already defending positions yourself, destroying enemy forces from the shelters you built, controlling any soldier or unit of equipment!

Briefly, what will be in the game:

• Construction system: dig trenches, build bunkers, machine-gun nests, anti-tank obstacles, minefields.

• Advanced inventory: equip fighters, change weapons and gear. And of course, keep track of your squad’s ammunition.

• Unit special abilities: commanders inspire, medics treat the severely wounded, snipers stealthily eliminate the enemy.

• Armor system: if you’ve played WoT, you’ll get flashbacks from the armor penetration system of different vehicles.

• Air support: request reconnaissance and pinpoint air strikes.

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Sincerely,

Dmitry