What is the "War" mode? | "War" mode Heroes & Generals Guide

A view on the map available in the War mode - it's quite impressive!

The War mode (or called General mode several times in this guide) is, like the name implies, the war taking place on the world map. This game mode is played exclusively from your internet browser, and not like the "normal" game on the engine of the game. It works based on different, but at the same time somehow similar rules. To put it simply:

• Commanders send their Assault Teams to capture a given point;
• Players join the game by using the "To Battle" -> "War" buttons and use the available Assault Teams during the encounter;
• After the encounter ends, the winning team captures the given point.

Generally, each dozen or so hours (those real hours, of course) a new war starts on the world map, in which all three sides of the conflict take part: America, Germany and Soviet Union. Each of the sides are given a pair of capital cities at the beginning. Those are:

• America: London and Oslo
• Germany: Berlin and Rome
• Soviet Union: Moscow and Leningrad

The task of each side is to capture all 12 capital cities - after one of the sides manages to do so, the war ends and the one team which did it is called the victor. Afterwards, the whole process is reset and the next war is started.

A zoomed-in view, in which you can see the battlefields.

To make it a "a little" more complicated, you can't just capture the capital cities right away. The world map is divided into hundreds of points, which serve the purpose of "cannon fodder". After a team managed to capture all the points leading to a capital city, only then it can launch an attack to capture the capital city itself. Naturally, all three sides of the conflict can take part in a single battle - if that happens, all of them are present on the battlefield.

War mode is tightly associated with the "normal" gameplay, in which the soldiers take part - yes, that is precisely the same mode, which you can select from the "To Battle" and then "War" menus. It is also the reason why battles in this mode are so much different than those "scripted" ones - the number, as well as the type of equipment a team can use on the battlefield depends on the Assault Teams sent there by the commanders.