How Battle For Titan works

What Battle For Titan is

Battle For Titan is a text-based, massively multiplayer real-time strategy game, played entirely in your browser. There is no download and no client to install. Rounds are persistent: a round runs for a fixed season, every Commander in it plays the same world side by side, and that world keeps moving whether or not you're currently looking at it.

The core loop

At its heart, Battle For Titan is about building up a base and using it to grow, over and over, at whatever pace suits you:

• Build up your base. Construct buildings that produce resources, unlock research and training, and defend what you own.
• Gather resources. Your economy funds everything else you do.
• Research. Unlock and improve capabilities over time rather than all at once.
• Raise forces. Train units to defend your base and to project power outward.
• Expand. Found additional bases as your capability grows, giving you more production and more territory to hold.
• Scout and attack other Commanders. Recon reveals what's out there; combat is how you take it, defend against it, or come out ahead of it.
• Climb the ranking. Your standing reflects everything above — economy, research, combat record, and growth — measured against every other Commander in the round.

None of these happen in isolation — a stronger economy funds better defences and army; a stronger army protects your economy and lets you take more; ranking simply reflects how well you're doing at all of it together.

Time is real, and it never stops for you

Battle For Titan does not pause when you close the tab. Everything with a timer — a building under construction, a research project, a unit in training, a fleet on the move — keeps advancing in real time, logged in or not. You can check in once a day or watch every minute; the game respects either approach, because the underlying state is never tied to whether you're actively watching it.

Two things work together to make that true. First, there's a steady background pass that quietly settles anything that's come due — deliveries, arrivals — so things don't just sit finished and unprocessed while you're away. Second, and more importantly: whenever you actually open a page, what you see is worked out fresh, from scratch, at that exact moment. You are never looking at a stale number waiting to be corrected — the game always shows you where things genuinely stand right now, however long you've been away.

Resources and currency

Battle For Titan runs on two resources. Titanite is harvested directly from your bases — it's the raw material your economy is built on. ISC is the second currency, obtained by exchanging Titanite at the Imperial Bank, whose quoted rate moves over time rather than staying fixed. Building, training, and research costs typically draw on a mix of both, so keeping an eye on your balance of the two — not just your total wealth — matters.

Houses

Every Commander picks a House at the start of a round, and the choice is re-made fresh each round rather than carried over. There are three: Asturian, Hybris, and Ophion. Each one plays differently and comes with real trade-offs rather than a strictly better or worse option — broadly, Asturian leans dependable and defensive, Hybris leans toward heavy brute force, and Ophion trades some durability for speed and better terms when trading at the bank. Exact numbers are tuned by the people running the game and can change from round to round, so this page won't quote figures that might already be out of date by the time you read them — check your House's own description in-game for the numbers that apply to your current round.

Bases, the map, and territory

Your Commander starts with a main base and can go on to found additional ones by sending out an MCV to claim new ground. Bases sit on a shared world map alongside every other Commander's — territory is something you claim and hold by placing bases well and defending them, not something assigned to you. What you can see of the map and of other Commanders is not automatic: recon is how you learn what's actually out there, and this manual's later pages go into exactly how that works.

Where to find things

• Releases page — a running log of what has changed in the game recently, written for players rather than developers. It is the fastest way to catch up after time away.
• Production page — every production facility at your base as its own card, showing what each of its lines is building and how much capacity is sitting idle. The building chapter covers how production actually splits across your factories.
• Technology Tree page — the whole catalog drawn as one tree: your House at the root, tiers fanning out beneath it, and every building, unit, defence, research line, upgrade and expedition site hung off whatever unlocks it. It replaces the old prerequisites matrix, and it is base-local, since what is met and unmet depends on the base you are looking from.
• Expeditions page — ventures your Commander takes on personally, listed under Military rather than under any one base. Some are sent out into the deep desert; others ask you to go and do something real closer to home. What appears there depends on how far you have come, so it is worth revisiting; the expeditions chapter explains why.
• The Command Desk — the "?" button in the corner of every game screen. Ask it anything about the game, or point at the exact thing on the page that looks wrong, and it answers in your own words within a minute, pointing you to the right manual chapter when one covers it. Anything it can't answer is logged for the engineers, with the reply landing back in the same conversation once it's fixed.
• This manual — the reference for how the game actually works. The index lists every chapter.

Staff announcements

Occasionally the people running the round need to put something in front of every Commander at once — a rule change, a scheduled maintenance window, the outcome of a rebalance. When one goes out, it appears as a one-time notice the next time you load the game, and you have to acknowledge it before you can carry on. Once dismissed, it does not come back.

Where to go next

This page is deliberately an orientation, not a rulebook — it introduces the shape of the game without trying to nail down every formula. Seven chapters carry the detail, and a full reference catalog sits alongside them — both are listed at the foot of this page.

Read them in the order they appear there if you are new. The economy comes first for a reason — everything else in the game is paid for out of the two pots that chapter describes, and most of what a new Commander gets wrong is decided there.