Empires, the award winning Half-Life 2 mod, combines the best of the first person shooter and real-time strategy genres. Fight as either the Northern Faction, remnants of the fallen nation of Jekotia, or as the imperial Brenodi Empire. Empires features:

Four infantry classes

  • Prepare a surprise attack as the scout or take the enemy head-on as the rifleman. Drive back enemy tanks as the grenadier or support your team as the engineer. With four different infantry classes, each with customizable skills, you can create the perfect class to fit your playing style.

Squad-Based Teamwork

  • Players can organize themselves into highly-effective squads, overwhelming their opponents with superior tactics. Squad leaders can not only direct their respective members, but also use special squad powers such as reviving dead squad members or calling down an artillery strike on the enemy.

Vehicle Combat

  • Whether you're ferrying troops around the battlefield with the Armored Personnel Carrier or reigning fire upon your foes with the Artillery tank, Empires features a variety of vehicular combat. Choose from six different vehicle types, including three levels of tanks, and customize your weapons, armor, and engines.

Real-Time Strategy Commander

  • For those more inclined to RTS gameplay, you can play as the commander. Place buildings, build defensive turrets, construct vehicles, and conduct research on your way to leading your team to victory.

With 15 official maps and dozens more community-created ones, no two matches are ever the same. Empires brings FPS/RTS gameplay to a whole new level. Join up today and see what you've been missing.

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5 comments by Trickster on Mar 23rd, 2013

Empires 2.41 has been released!

Following up the success of 2.4, we're proud to present our latest patch, 2.41. 2.41 is a smaller release mainly consisting of balance improvements and bugfixes, however, does manage to fit in a few extra features, as well as a continuation of our map overhaul project, with the final improved version of the Veteran favourite Slaughtered making an appearance, as well as the latest version of Crossroads, which has undergone extensive redesigning, not to mention a good amount of beautification.

As with our last patch, I have to remind you all that with Team Fortress 2 being Free to Play, Empires is totally free for everyone, with no prior source games required!

Key Empires v2.41 features:

  • Crossroads has been improved even further! Now with improved textures and new infantry paths.
  • Infantry weapon rebalancing for the Pistols, Brenodi Rifles and Northern Faction Heavy Rifle
  • Tank weapons can now be reloaded mid way through a clip (will dump the remaining ammo from the clip)
  • Shortcuts to select class in the class selection menu. E, G, R, S will now select Engineer, Grenadier, Rifleman and Scout appropriately whilst in the class menu, same for general and class specific skills in the skill menu
  • An improved news panel, allowing us to reach players with information, blogs and update news. We plan to use this to inform players of special events, such as tournaments.

We have also fixed the "SteamMountAppID" error which prevented a large proportion of the player base from playing Empires.

You can see the complete changelog on our forums.

Players contest the centre of Crossroads

Improved map for 2.41: Crossroads

The battle for the bridge on Slaughtered

Improved map for 2.41: Slaughtered

The improved News panel - find out about events here!

Improved News panel for 2.41

Our plans going forward are to finally implement the long awaited Scout overhaul. This will be a major patch involving new maps, new weapons, tools and much, much more!

We're also looking for anyone interested in helping out, both on the programmer side, and the 3D artist side. If you're interested, just head over to our forums and make yourself known to one of the developers. Alternatively, you can send me a PM over ModDB.

I look forward to seeing you all ingame!

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OLD ARCHIVED VERSION: Empires v2.30 Client Full

OLD ARCHIVED VERSION: Empires v2.30 Client Full

Dec 15, 2010 Full Version 13 comments

NOTE: This is an archived version of Empires Mod. Download the latest version of Empires Mod on Steam! This will install the Empires v2.30 client. The...

Empires v2.30 Server Full

Empires v2.30 Server Full

Dec 10, 2010 Server 3 comments

This is a server installer for Empires v2.30. Please see the Empires Wiki page for installation instruction (wiki.empiresmod.com).

ARCHIVED: Empires v2.30 Client Patch

ARCHIVED: Empires v2.30 Client Patch

Nov 23, 2010 Patch 7 comments

NOTE: This is an archived version of Empires Mod. Download the latest version of Empires Mod on Steam! Install this client patch after you have installed...

ARCHIVED: Empires v2.30 Server Patch

ARCHIVED: Empires v2.30 Server Patch

Nov 23, 2010 Server 0 comments

NOTE: This is an archived version of Empires Mod. Download the latest version of Empires Mod on Steam! This is a server patch for Empires v2.30. Please...

Empires v2.29 Server Patch

Empires v2.29 Server Patch

Nov 8, 2010 Server 0 comments

This is a server patch for Empires v2.29. Please see the Empires Wiki page for installation instruction (wiki.empiresmod.com).

ARCHIVED: Empires v2.29 Client Patch

ARCHIVED: Empires v2.29 Client Patch

Nov 8, 2010 Patch 7 comments

NOTE: This is an archived version of Empires Mod. Download the latest version of Empires Mod on Steam! Install this client patch after you have installed...

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HEVcrab
HEVcrab Apr 5 2013, 1:05pm says:

Spawning on the tutorial level still causes a crash...

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SG1Shadow
SG1Shadow May 2 2013, 5:00pm replied:

so not only me

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darkendmoon
darkendmoon Apr 4 2013, 9:34pm says:

Go to this website: Empiresmod.com
They are not updating the Moddb page so go this website and download it!
Thumbs up!

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darkendmoon
darkendmoon Apr 4 2013, 9:50pm replied:

P.S. You don't need to go to the website, it's on steam!
Open up steam, go to the Store page, type in Empires Mod, click Empires Mod, download! Easy and 1-2-3. And it's still updating!

+2 votes     reply to comment
LivingDeAd
LivingDeAd Mar 23 2013, 9:40pm says:

When are you implementing air vehicles?

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sealro
sealro Feb 27 2013, 6:48am says:

bot needed

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jdjesse1361080584
jdjesse1361080584 Feb 20 2013, 7:05pm says:

no one hardly plays this mod anymore, its dying

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LordDz
LordDz May 1 2013, 5:46pm replied:

It's still alive. :)

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darkendmoon
darkendmoon Apr 4 2013, 9:30pm replied:

Lie

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vizio.
vizio. Feb 12 2013, 1:55am replied:

yes....And it is amazing

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Empires mod is my favourite mod of all time. With a seamless combination of fps and rts, its definitly something that you should try out. It has always been highly rated, coming in the top 10 of moddb's mod of the year awards with the 2.0 release.

Since then there have been numerous additions and balances to make the gameplay refreshing while also updating the graphics.

Empires is a mod you should not pass up!

Nov 11 2007, 11:47am by petemyster

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