Mud & Steel

Flanders, 1916. A stretch of line, a bank account in pounds sterling, and whatever is about to come across the wire. Buy your company man by man, put them on the fire-step, and hold.

What you actually do

• Muster a company. Riflemen at £30, Lewis gunners, a Vickers MG, snipers, bombers, Stokes mortars, an 18-pounder, stretcher bearers, officers, sappers and a Livens projector — every man a line item.
• Dig in. Barbed wire, buried mines, sandbag parapets, tank traps, searchlights and flare posts, placed where you think the push will come.
• Fight the fight. Take cover, rapid fire, fix bayonets, gas masks up, call a creeping barrage, send the Mark IV over. Every order has a key and a cost.
• Two ways to fight. Wave Defence is you against escalating assaults. Trench vs Trench is the headline mode: a symmetric push against a human over a room code, or against a German AI commander with three personas — methodical, stosstrupp, opportunist.

Runs in the browser on a real-time simulation with a deterministic lockstep core, so a multiplayer battle replays identically on every peer — and the war diary lets you watch your last battle back.

How it was made

Built with Claude Code. The whole thing — the trench renderer, the ballistics and targeting model, the lockstep multiplayer protocol, the period typography and the despatches changelog you can read on the title screen — was designed and shipped in conversation with an AI coding agent. The in-game DESPATCHES panel is the honest version history, enforced by the build: no release lands without its entry.