Any War: WW2 squad tactics on the real ground
Real-time squad tactics on any place on Earth, in any era from knights to the far future. Take the guns at Brécourt, hold the bridge at Arnhem, cross the snow to Foy. Every house, hedge, wood and road is built from the real place.
Six historic battles free. Mission 1 of every campaign is free. Also on Windows.
Any place on Earth. Any war in history.
Type the name of any town or street, frame 380 metres of real ground, and fight over it. Its real buildings, woods, roads and hedges become the battlefield.
Pick the place
Your street, your town square, the park you grew up next to, or a landmark across the world.
Pick the era
Knights, muskets, trenches, 1944, today or the far future.
Take command
The same streets play completely differently in every century.
Musket lines on Main Street. Knights at the bus station. Panzers down the road you take to work.
Rivers, harbours and coastlines are where they really are, and famous landmarks look like themselves. Anywhere on Earth is a one-time $4.99 unlock with a 7-day free trial. No subscription.
Seven eras, each with its own war
Every era brings its own soldiers, weapons and way of fighting. Pick one for any place on Earth, or start with a free battle from its history.
Medieval
Knights, archers and catapults, steel on steel.
Château Gaillard → 1860sCivil War
Musket lines and batteries trading volleys across open fields.
Gettysburg → 1918World War I
Trenches, wire, Lewis guns and the first tanks.
Pick a place → 1944World War II
Riflemen, machine guns, tanks, field guns, mortars and planes.
Normandy → 1968-71Vietnam
Recon teams, slicks and gunships, in a campaign of its own.
The campaign → TodayModern
Optics, guided missiles, drones and called-in guns.
Pick a place → Far futureFuture
Strike teams with blasters, energy cannons and jump troops.
Kestrel Ridge →Want two eras at once? Clash of Eras puts knights against a Sherman. See below.
What's new
Any War keeps growing. This is what has been added lately, and what lands with the next update.
- Coming soonArnhem, 1944A new campaign with the British airborne, from the march to the bridge to the night crossing back over the Rhine. The missions.
- Coming soonMedalsBronze, silver and gold for what you do in battle, in the campaigns and in Onslaught, and a merit board to climb. The medals.
- Coming soonOnslaughtHold a Norman village against German waves that grow stronger and come from new directions. How it plays.
- Coming soonTanks and planesWorld War II tanks move and fight like the real thing, and P-51s and Stukas fly in to strafe.
- Coming soonHouses take damageShellfire blows roofs open, brings them down and breaks through walls.
- Out nowWorld War IThe Western Front in 1918: trenches and wire, Lewis guns, the first tanks and planes.
- Out nowThe modern eraToday's armies: optics, guided missiles, drones and guns you call in by radio.
- Coming soonJump troopsIn the future era, squads with jetpacks bound over walls and rooftops.
- Coming soonYour own coloursPick the colour your men wear, and set which way they face when they wait in defence or ambush.
Three campaigns, fought where it happened
Historical missions in the order they happened, on maps of the real ground. The men you lose stay lost, and every debrief sets your result beside what really happened. Each full campaign is one purchase, $4.99. No subscription.
Currahee: Easy Company
One airborne rifle company from the night drop over Normandy through Carentan, Holland and Bastogne to a winter raid at Haguenau.
Arnhem: Nine Days
The British airborne on the river road, in the houses by the bridge, at Oosterbeek, and the night crossing back over the Rhine.
Vietnam: MACV-SOG
Small recon teams across the border in Laos, with slicks to put them in and gunships to get them out.
More campaigns coming soon...
Inside the campaigns: Holland 1944 · Foy and the Bois Jacques · Operation Tailwind
Carentan, 12 June 1944
Mission 3 of Currahee: Easy Company comes down the road into Carentan at first light, on a map of the real town. Then the debrief sets your result beside what really happened. Real gameplay from the game.
Onslaught
Hold a Norman village against German waves that grow stronger and come from new directions. How long can you last?
The waves. Each one is called a few seconds ahead, with the direction it comes from. From wave 6, the tanks come too.
The score. Points for every objective you still hold when a wave ends, for waves beaten and for enemies stopped.
Today's Onslaught. One map and one set of waves a day, the same for everyone, with a Game Center leaderboard on iPhone and iPad.
Onslaught is part of the game. There is nothing to buy.
Tanks, planes and falling houses
World War II fights harder now. Tanks move and fire like the real thing, fighters come in low to strafe, and a house that takes shellfire does not stay a house.
P-51s and Stukas
Planes fly in on a strafing run, guns going, and are gone again.
Houses take damage
Roofs are blown open and fall in. Walls are breached, with the bricks heaped where they fell.
Medals and merit
Forty medals for what you do in the field, in bronze, silver and gold. They are the game's own: none copies a real decoration.
Ladders. Battles won, tanks knocked out, wars fought in, waves survived, days you turned out.
Feats. Win without losing a man. Win in under three minutes. Win with a quarter of your force left.
Campaigns. A medal for finishing each one, and another for doing it on the hardest setting.
Merit. Every medal adds to your merit, and merit puts you on a Game Center board.
Clash of Eras
Pick your army and your enemy from different wars. Knights against a Sherman. Muskets against blasters. Same field, different centuries.
The older army brings more men. Medieval troops carry fire pots and can burn a tank that stops near them, and Civil War infantry have powder charges. The newer army has the guns, the armour and the range. Close the distance, or stay out of it. Clash of Eras is a one-time $3.99 unlock.
Six historic battles
Each one is fought on the real ground, with the era, the sides and the kind of forces of the real fight.
Brécourt Manor
Easy Company takes the guns firing on Utah Beach.
Carentan
Storm the crossroads town that joins the beachheads.
Bastogne
Hold against the panzers in the snow.
Gettysburg
Hold The Angle against Pickett's Charge.
Château Gaillard
Storm the castle of Richard the Lionheart.
Kestrel Ridge
A strike team takes the relay station.
Command, not click-spam
- Realistic combatSoldiers spread their fire, take cover and get pinned. Most shots miss, just like the real thing.
- Combined armsTanks, field guns, mortars, smoke and, in 1944, planes shape every fight.
- Weapons on the fieldOn realistic rules, soldiers pick up fallen weapons on their own: a machine gun nobody is carrying, a launcher when the tanks come.
- Real groundBuildings, woods, roads and hedges from OpenStreetMap. Cover is where it really is.
- Guided trainingA short training battle teaches you every order before your first real fight.
- Quick and custom battlesOne tap for a quick battle, or set up your own fight and its size.
- 2-player onlinePlay a friend head to head through Game Center.
- After-action reportSee how the battle was won or lost when the shooting stops.
- Inspired by the classicsTop-down, real-time squad tactics in the spirit of the classic PC wargames.
What it costs
The game is free. Everything else is bought once and kept.
In the field
Questions
Is Any War free?
Yes. Any War is free to download on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and the six historic battles are free to play: Brécourt Manor, Carentan, Bastogne, Gettysburg, Château Gaillard and Kestrel Ridge. The first mission of each campaign is free too. The paid unlocks are one-time purchases: Anywhere on Earth, Clash of Eras, and the full Currahee and Vietnam: MACV-SOG campaigns.
What is Clash of Eras?
An optional unlock that lets two armies from different wars meet on one field: medieval knights against a WW2 tank, a Civil War musket line against a strike team from the future. The older army arrives in greater numbers and carries fire pots and powder charges, so a tank that stops near them can be burned out. Your first clash battle is free. The unlock is a one-time $3.99, or $6.99 together with Anywhere on Earth. No subscription.
What is Currahee?
A campaign that follows Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne, through nine missions from the Normandy drop in June 1944 to Haguenau in early 1945, plus a bonus mission at Noville. Mission 1 is free; the full campaign is a one-time $4.99 purchase. The men you lose stay lost, and each mission ends with your result beside what really happened. See the Currahee campaign.
What is Vietnam: MACV-SOG?
A campaign of eight historical missions from 1968 to 1971: small recon teams across the border in Laos, and the Huey and Cobra crews who flew them in and brought them out. You call in gunship runs, set claymores and get every man onto the helicopters. Mission 1 is free; the full campaign is a one-time $4.99 purchase. Gerald R. Baron is the historical advisor. See Vietnam: MACV-SOG.
What is Arnhem: Nine Days?
A campaign with the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem and Oosterbeek, September 1944: eight missions and a bonus with the Polish brigade at Driel, on the real ground. Mission 1 is free; the full campaign is a one-time $4.99 purchase. It arrives with the next update. See Arnhem.
What is Onslaught?
A wave mode set in Normandy: you hold a village against German attacks that grow stronger and come from new directions, with tanks from wave 6. Today's Onslaught gives every player the same map for the day, with a Game Center leaderboard on iPhone and iPad. It is part of the game, with nothing to buy. It arrives with the next update. See Onslaught.
Are there medals or achievements?
Yes: forty medals in bronze, silver and gold for battles won, feats of arms, campaigns finished and Onslaught runs, and a merit board on Game Center. They are the game's own designs, not real decorations. It arrives with the next update. See Medals.
Which eras can I fight in?
Six: medieval, the American Civil War, World War I (1918), World War II, the modern day and the far future. Vietnam is its own campaign. Any battlefield can be fought in any of the six.
What is Any War Complete?
One purchase, $12.99, that unlocks every pack: the campaigns, Anywhere on Earth and Clash of Eras. It is offered in the game to players who do not own most of them already.
Is Any War on Windows?
Yes. Any War is on the Microsoft Store for Windows PCs, as well as on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Get it for Windows.
How much is Anywhere on Earth?
It is a one-time purchase of $4.99, with a 7-day free trial so you can try it first. There is no subscription.
What kind of game is it?
Real-time squad tactics, seen from above. You command squads of soldiers, tanks and guns, not single heroes. It is inspired by the classic PC squad-tactics games: men take cover, get pinned under fire and break, and most shots miss.
Where do the maps come from?
From OpenStreetMap, the free map of the world built by volunteers. Every battlefield is a real place, and its buildings, woods, roads and hedges are drawn from the map data for that spot.
Can I play against a friend?
Yes. Any War has 2-player online multiplayer through Game Center.
Do I need an internet connection?
The historic battles and the campaigns play offline. Anywhere on Earth fetches real terrain from OpenStreetMap, so it needs a connection, as does online multiplayer.
Is there a tutorial?
Yes. A short guided training battle walks you through selecting squads, moving to cover, sneaking, firing and taking the flag. See How to play for the basics.
Take command
Six historic battles are free, and so is Mission 1 of every campaign. Fight on any street on Earth with a 7-day free trial.