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Steel Empire

A Korean hybrid strategy game where the player moves around a map and manages units like in a RTS game while combat, when units on the map meet, is turn based. Units are made of a 3 by 3 grid with each section…

1 September 1999

Steel Empire is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Sonnori, released 1 September 1999 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Steel Empire is

Steel Empire is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Sonnori and released in 1999. It was published by Wizard Soft. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A Korean hybrid strategy game where the player moves around a map and manages units like in a RTS game while combat, when units on the map meet, is turn based. Units are made of a 3 by 3 grid with each section containing people or vehicles in various formations. The available formations for each unit is decided by the commander used for that unit. In combat each section can be given a target to aim at on the opposing side.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Steel Empire launched on 1 September 1999, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear and Shadow Man.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, Shadow Man.

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When did Steel Empire come out?
Steel Empire was released on 1 September 1999 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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