You are to do all it takes to prevail. And there's nothing much more you should concern yourself with, as you seek to dominate the battlefield in the ferocious Dogs of War Online, Cyanide's upcoming free-to-play online strategy game.
Dogs of War Online is a turn-based, tactical arena game with gameplay heavily influenced by the eponymous board game published by Rackham. Players are tasked with creating a squad of mercenaries made up of units of their choosing, and must send them to fight in fierce battles against other players. Movement and contact are based on a system of hexagonal boxes.
The player must also demonstrate leadership qualities and cope with frequent unexpected events related to the life of a mercenary company: desertion, tension between soldiers, and theft, among other problems.
To ensure that soldiers do not spend their free time ransacking the neighborhood, players will be able to send them on missions between battles and thus increase winnings.
Finally, each player will be able to customize existing mercenaries or grow armies by acquiring items and new units.
Set in a world where honor is an unknown concept, Dogs of War Online offers three armies at its launch: Ram, composed of undead minions, each one more sinister than the other; Lion, with its seemingly noble knights who are better known for their greed and deceit; and Wolfen, dangerous predators who consider every stranger their prey.
A handful of screenshots can be found here, showing Lion and Wolfen armies scowling and snarling at each other in fashionably ravenous poses.
The howling portends too the arrival of this multiplayer-only game to the online arena come Q2 2013.
