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**Game Title**: Iron Vanguard

**Playable Link**: https://www.crazygames.com/game/iron-vanguard-dlg

**Press Kit / Description**: Post-apocalyptic idle war game. Build an army of

ragtag scavengers and ironclad veterans, craft weapons from pipe pistols to

pre-war exotic relics, and reclaim 11 battlefields from wasteland raiders.

Active battles with animated combat, passive auto-deploys for offline progress.

**Free to Play**: Yes, completely free, no ads currently (CrazyGames Basic

Launch). No accounts needed — saves automatically.

**Involvement**: Solo developer (design + code + art). Built the whole thing

in vanilla JavaScript with custom SVG character/weapon rendering. Took ~3

months part-time.

**Platform**: Browser (HTML5), desktop and mobile (portrait + landscape)

**Engine**: Vanilla JS, no framework. CrazyGames HTML5 SDK v3 for save sync.

**Estimated Playtime**: 30-45 min for first session, scales to many hours for

endgame (Lvl 50 unlocks the final battlefield)

Hey idle fam,

Just launched my second idle/clicker on CrazyGames after spending the past few

months building it solo. Iron Vanguard is a post-apocalyptic war game where you

recruit troops, craft weapons, and reclaim wasteland battlefields one at a time.

**The loop:**

- Recruit soldiers (7 tiers, from rusty Scavengers to Power Armor Knights)

- Craft weapons (5 categories × 5 tiers each)

- Deploy to 11 battlefields, win 5 times to unlock passive auto-deploy

- Level up to unlock new units, fronts, and weapon tiers

**Some idle-specific design choices:**

- Passive deploys give 50% gold / 30% XP of an active battle (recently rebalanced

from 20%/10% based on early playtester feedback — felt useless before)

- Offline progress capped at 12 hours so you don't lose anything sleeping

- 6 passive slots max, unlocked every 5 levels

The whole thing is vanilla JavaScript, no frameworks. Saves to your CrazyGames

account so progress carries across devices.

**Play it here**: https://www.crazygames.com/game/iron-vanguard-dlg?bypassCache=z0f36

Open to feedback, especially on balance and the early-game pacing. Built this

mostly for the love of the genre — if you're into incremental, hopefully it

scratches the itch.