Symphony of War The Nephilim Saga

Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga is a 2D turn-based strategy RPG built around squad-based armies rather than individual units. You play a young Imperial War Academy graduate sent to contain a rebellion after a rogue General abducts Empress Florina from the capital of Veridia, and the campaign — thirty to forty hours, with serious replay value — unfolds across a war that quickly outgrows any simple containment.

Armies in Symphony of War are composed of squads of up to nine soldiers, drawn from over fifty unit classes — heavy infantry, archers, shock cavalry, medics, arquebusiers, dragons, battle mages and more. You position squads on a strategic map, exploit high ground, woodland ambushes and chokepoints, deal with weather effects like blizzards and heat waves, and break enemy morale or shatter chains of command by eliminating squad leaders. Engagements themselves play out automatically once the orders are set, which puts the focus on planning rather than execution.

Between engagements sits a full logistics and progression layer. You outfit squads with looted equipment and artifacts, decide whether to nurture conscripts into elite veterans or hire mercenaries for immediate firepower, and push specialisations through a faction tech tree. A dynamic relationship system tracks bonds between characters, unlocking iconic conversations and combat bonuses, and the central plot — heavy with malice, betrayal and ambition — leans on those relationships as much as on the larger geopolitical structure of Tahnra.