A sixth age between Steam and Neon: diesel engines, camouflage and radios, with its own base, mine, top bar and battlefield

Commando: a fast knife fighter with face paint

Rifleman: fires bursts of three rounds from an assault rifle, with a radio on his back

Riot Trooper: a clear riot shield, padded armour and a baton

Gun Truck, the age's unique unit: a light truck with a shielded machine gun on its roof; its bursts slow the attacks of whatever they hit

Battle Tank, the age's champion: tracks, a long gun and shells that burst

Three turrets: a twin Rocket Launcher, a Howitzer that lobs heavy shells and a Machine Gun Nest behind sandbags

The Airstrike: two jets scream over the battlefield while a line of bombs walks across the enemy

Fully animated vehicles: wheels and tracks roll, guns recoil, crews look about and cheer, and a destroyed vehicle blows up or burns out

Recorded sounds for the age's guns: a rifle crack for the riflemen and a heavy machine gun for the Gun Truck and the Machine Gun Nest

The Modern Age in every mode: start versus battles in it, and meet it in the campaign, on the Warpath and in the daily challenge

Melee units have a job now: the front row takes 40% less damage from shots, melee units charge in when enemies are close, and their blows also hit the enemies beside their target

Shooters in the back row deal half damage at point blank, so keep a front line ahead of them

Counters hit harder: a unit deals 50% more to the role it beats and 30% less to the one that beats it

Unit tooltips explain their row's strengths and weaknesses

Soldiers walk past a truck or tank that has stopped to fire, to reach the enemy