Ground Pounders

473

Kerberos Productions Strategy

Unrated

Offers in-app purchases

Ground Pounders is a hex-based, turn-based strategy wargame. Inspired by classic strategy games like Panzer General, and steeped in the lore of the Sword of the Stars universe, Ground Pounders offers a new generation of gamers an updated taste of turn-based strategic warfare. Best of all, you can play it cross platform between desktop machine and mobile devices.

Ground Pounders lets players control an army from one of two factions. Each army is comprised of dozens of different unit types. You will lead your ground pounders across a variety of worlds, increase their experience levels and abilities over the course of two campaigns, and use them to unlock special action cards that can add special effects to single-player games, or to up the stakes in your cross-platform multi-player battles.

FEATURES

-Control one of 2 armies – Human and Hivers
-80+ units covering land, sea, and air
-Battle across alien worlds on exotic battlefields, including airless moons, lava plains, and meteor-blasted wastelands
-Seize orbital superiority and call down bombardment on your foes
-Build airfields, fortify areas, and repair or destroy bridges
-Improve your unit’s experience and abilities over 2 campaigns
-Unlock and collect combat cards, including faction-unique cards!
-Build unique combat card decks and even tune them for specific battles
-Ten scenarios to play in skirmish mode or cross-platform multi-player
-Enjoy a SotSdex filled with Lore details on famous units, personalities, battles and weapon systems

Reviews

3.4

473 total

5 196

4 63

3 60

2 42

1 112

Mark Singleton

Can't create a profile name Keyboard doesn't work properly on stock Android 5.0.1 on Google Nexus 7. Judging by the other comments and the dates they were posted I'm not holding out much hope of this being resolved. Has the dev abandoned the game...? UPDATE - got around it by installing SwiftKey keyboard - but I shouldn't have to. It SHOULD work with the default keyboard.

Ian Strachan

Unplayable LG G3, June 2015; if I try to play a mission it locks up and spams errors about missing a graphic for rolling dice. A pity too because I really like the SOTS franchise. Please fix this so I can remove this 1-star review!

Paul Diederich

Unable to play On my Nexus 9, I cannot get past creating a profile name. There is no next button or similar to proceed with.

Paul Switzer

Could be okay, but... ...keyboard input via Android tablet fails as the carriage return is changed to a space, so the text entry can't be finalised. So can't create a profile name or deck name. so can't play the tutorial, or anything else.

Mark Nienhaus

I cannot get the campaign to work I can play the scenarios fine. Purchased the human campaign, but cannot get it to work, stops running when opening campaign on a galaxy 4. Love the rest though.

A. Nonymous

Not for phones. Appears to be designed to be played on a tablet or laptop. Much of the text is less than 1 mm tall on the screen of my Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

User reviews

Mark Singleton December 27, 2014

Ian Strachan June 13, 2015

Paul Diederich December 7, 2014

Unable to play On my Nexus 9, I cannot get past creating a profile name. There is no next button or similar to proceed with.

Paul Switzer June 16, 2015

Mark Nienhaus January 21, 2015

I cannot get the campaign to work I can play the scenarios fine. Purchased the human campaign, but cannot get it to work, stops running when opening campaign on a galaxy 4. Love the rest though.

A. Nonymous January 16, 2015

Not for phones. Appears to be designed to be played on a tablet or laptop. Much of the text is less than 1 mm tall on the screen of my Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

CN. ST. December 4, 2014

broken on galaxy 10 2 it basically doesnt work on my samsung galaxy tab 10 2. cant create a profile, cant name decks, virtual keynoard doesnt work, youname it. unplayable currently

Copper Scales April 10, 2016

Just plain broken Text on Android doesn't work. Can't make a profile and therefore can't play the game

Zato Ni April 15, 2015

Good game, bad user interface Should be played on a bigger screen.

lyle brandon October 19, 2014

Would give higher but it won't let me make a profile or name a deck. I can put a name in but it won't let me accept it.

Steve Duncan November 2, 2015

Awful Awful UI, laughably bad tutorial (step 1: defeat the enemy, step 2: thats all there is to it...) and minimal content without paying extra. It is a poor port of a bad PC game. Avoid this game.

David Alexander January 19, 2015

Can't create profile, or deck Kerberos has always been so good about having decent game design. What happened? Please fix text entry!

Gregor Gradišar September 30, 2014

Complex and rewarding The tutorials are very informative, I don't know what Russ was looking at. I've been looking for a game of this depth to play on the phone. The cards you are given are not some magic abilities, more like technical opportunities. Added value if you ever played Sword of the Stars (SotS) on the PC as it gives you a glimpse into the ground based battles to complement the space opera of SotS.

Russ Warren September 21, 2014

Garbage No tutorial = stop wasting my time. Dear dev, don't worry, never gonna d/l anymore of your garbage. Every one else, good luck. Gotta pay for everything except the app logo, they give that for free. Hate misleading, p.o.s. games!

Rodney Lee September 6, 2014

Excellent Game Now heres a strategy game I like a turn based deck builder military game and its free unless you want scenarios or campaigns in which case for 6 bucks you can get a bundle deal and get all of them, the game is easy to learn hard to master and is a bit over whelming to noobs but well worth the time it takes to learn.

Balázs Egri September 15, 2014

Impressive Excellent unique type strategy game.

Kevin Sharp September 7, 2014

Ctd Won't load. On nexus 7. Latest rev.

July 30, 2014

Functionality=non existent Crashes whilst loading initially at 76% consistently. Abandoned hope for this game.

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Andrew Bowman June 22, 2014

Looks fun but... Tutorial works now, but is hugely overwhelming. Each wall of text has so much info on it that it's more of a manual than a tutorial. It doesn't actually show you how to do anything. It just tells you how and hopes you remember four or five screens later. Not very effective.

Kasey Ganzini June 26, 2014

Ground pounders alpha Sofisticated command experience

David Craig February 21, 2014

Broken Black screen. Doesnt load

West More March 3, 2014

Ok I needed it

Jamie Waine September 21, 2013

Great game! Is challenging and addictive.

Rhodes Davis March 14, 2014

cant touch this

Matthew Taylor September 17, 2013

A great start Let's face it... This is an alpha. There are bugs. However, this looks like a solid start, and is very much worth a try. Can't wait for the full version!

William Wilkes August 10, 2015

Can't create profile. Let me create a profile and I will gladly pay for your campaigns. Otherwise thanks for wasting my time.

Jonathan Shaltz August 17, 2014

Tutorial Is Broken I love old tabletop hex-based wargames, and was very happy to see Kerberos revisiting this class of game. However, this version at least is simply not playable. The tutorial (aside from being click-happy and very hard to read) kept getting into invalid states - e.g., you must move a specific unit to advance, but it doesn't respond to taps. I hope they fix these issues, because based on this free preview I don't expect the paid version to be worth spending money.

Jake K March 11, 2015

Brilliant I cannot get enough of your games played the pit on pc purchased from gog constantly with all dlcs and now ground pounders which I love to bit please keep up the great work I hope ypu make more games like this and The pit sequel sword of the stars please. Thank you again reccomend this game for all.

Makaii Melissa July 31, 2014

Not functional Has opened succesfully 1/8 times ... usually crashes before loading.

Ryan McGowan August 4, 2016

Dont bother No problem registering but once I get in I find that the campaigns are for a fee. Come on, not worth it considering how few people can actually play...

Christopher Alberts October 2, 2014

Ground Pounders It's a game u have to pay to play, NOT A FREE GAME. Play store should remove immediately.

Kerberos Productions October 3, 2014

The free version allows players unlimited access to multiple skirmishes, with no adverts. Extra content such as campaigns and multiplayer is unlocked via purchase in the in-app store. I'm sorry if you feel this is unfair.