Phalanx: Wars of Alexander
Mass battles, real tactics
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Alexander crossed into Asia outnumbered in every battle he fought. He won anyway — with a
wall of pikes nothing could walk into, and a wedge of cavalry that hit the seam where the
enemy line stopped being a line.
Phalanx is that army, on your phone.
THOUSANDS OF MEN, NOT SPRITES
Every soldier is a body with real animation: the front five ranks lower their sarissas into a
hedge of points, archers reach for the quiver and loose on a high arc, horses break into a
gallop and go down in a tangle of legs. Up to ~3,800 of them on one field, at 60fps.
YOU PLAN. THE FIELD DECIDES.
Before the first blow, set every regiment's formation — Line, Deep, Wedge — its order, and
the minute it moves. Then press FIGHT and watch it unfold. Keep a few Command points back
so you can change your mind when the enemy changes his.
TACTICS BEAT NUMBERS
A hit in the flank does 1.6× damage. A charge into the rear does 2.3× and ignores armour.
Cavalry that rides head-on into a Macedonian pike wall is impaled and stops dead. Battles
are decided by broken morale, not by body count — and one regiment routing will drag its
neighbours with it. A smaller army that manoeuvres will beat a bigger one that doesn't.
THE BATTLES HE ACTUALLY FOUGHT
Granicus, Gaugamela and more, laid out from the historical deployments — the river you have
to choose a crossing for, the wide plain where you have to find the gap and reach Darius.
Stuck? "Alexander's Plan" shows how he really did it, then offers you his orders to take or
to ignore.
ALEXANDER'S MARCH
A campaign from Pella to the Indus over a map that is different every run. Casualties carry
from battle to battle. Recruit in the cities you take, watch your supply, keep your veterans
alive — and win the great battles, or the March ends there.
THE ROYAL CAMP
Every battle earns Glory, won or lost. Spend it on a camp that unlocks formations, orders,
officers and better odds. Every bonus together is capped at +15%, deliberately: the camp
gives you options, never raw power. Tactics still have to do the work.
BUILT FROM NOTHING BUT CODE
There are no art files in this game. Every soldier, helmet, horse, hill, cloud and note of
music is generated on your device when you press play. Nothing to download after install.
Plays entirely offline.
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Information
- Seller
- ARA, YGPJ
- Size
- 7.6 MB
- Category
- Strategy
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Frequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Contests
Guns or Other Weapons
- Copyright
- © ARA, YGPJ