Tread into the oil-soaked trenches of the Kiln Basin inside an eight-ton, rivet-plated bipedal siege machine. Manage steam boiler pressures, weld blown hull seals under direct mortar fire, and hammer opposing heavy walkers into scrap iron.
Horizontal systems overview. Swipe or drag across the module telemetry plates to inspect mechanical modules.
Firing the 120mm rifled hull cannon produces punishing backward torque. Time the manual pressure release valves on every shot to redirect exhaust gases through lateral foot-spikes, instantly locking your walker into muddy earth.
Your bipedal frame runs on dense crude fuel. Overcharging boilers gives 40% increased stride velocity for trench crossing, but opens you to internal pipe ruptures if secondary radiator grates remain clogged with mud.
Take cover behind collapsed concrete fortifications to conduct hot-patch maintenance. Direct high-amperage arc welders across compromised leg joints while your twin hull turrets automatically spray suppressive slug-fire.
Dense soot and smoke blankets every battlefield. Rotate your chassis' listening horns to pinpoint underground sapper drills, heavy artillery batteries, and enemy walker formations through vibration harmonics alone.
Twelve nations tore the central continent open for anthracite coal and high-grade titanium. What remains is a four-hundred-mile labyrinth of corrugated iron shelters, sunken bunkers, and industrial rail yards.
A subterranean manufacturing ring flooded with liquid slag. Players navigate narrow metal gantries where one wrong footstep plunges eight tons of walker armor into white-hot metal.
Endless waterlogged crater fields choked with barbed cordite wire. Movement slows to a grueling slug-crawl unless you equip serrated track-shoes or paddle-leg stabilizers.
A vertical concrete monolith housing sixty heavy defensive cannon batteries. A multi-stage tactical siege requiring cooperative breach charges and smoke shell cover screens.
Every walker is forged from riveted cast iron, operated by pneumatic hand-levers and mechanical pedal drives.
Compact, high-displacement twin-cylinder scout. Sacrifices front hull armor for rapid sprinting between craters and launching mortar spotter flares.
The backbone iron unit. Boasts a massive cast-iron nose plow for splintering wooden trench beams, barbed wire barriers, and light field barricades.
A ponderous fortress machine driven by a triple-expansion compound steam engine. Slow to turn, but virtually impenetrable to small arms fire.
No digital displays, no neural links, and no automatic lock-on assists. You are physically inside the chassis: throwing iron gear selector rods, hand-cranking azimuth sighting optics, and blowing soot out of brass oil gauges with compressed air pedals.
Extract boiling brass shell casings by hand before feeding the next high-explosive round into the breach.
Pull the ceiling ceiling-mounted steam chain to blast scalding steam into trenches flanking your hull.
When the sovereign smelters of the North collapsed in Year 44, warfare ceased to be an enterprise of sweeping cavalry movements or delicate diplomacy. The conflict coalesced into an unyielding war of mechanical attrition along the jagged scars of the Great Basin. Heavy mechanized squads known colloquially as Boiler Brigades were assembled from reconditioned industrial tractors, mining pile-drivers, and salvaged iron bridge girders.
In Ironclad: Trenchbreaker, you enlist as a junior boiler-marshal assigned to the 14th Irregulars. Every sortie requires meticulous calculation of fuel ratios, replacement rivets, and high-tensile track pins. As your combat chassis suffers localized armor damage, internal fire hazards, and pneumatic line ruptures, survival hinges on your ability to perform field repairs under direct battery bombardment.
Between combat excursions, pilot squads retreat to mobile rail repair caravans. Here, players forge custom heat exchangers, weld scavenged railway track armor onto their hulls, and customize gear-ratio transmissions to match hostile terrain—from mud-drowned riverbeds to jagged slag deposits.
Step into the Colossus chassis with up to three squad companions. While the commander marks targets through an optical periscope, the boiler engineer shovels fuel and vents radiator lines, and twin gunners operate port and starboard swivel cannons.
Helmsman: Steers foot-pedals, monitors track torque, controls direct plow ramming maneuvers.
Boiler Engineer: Maintains firebox draft, wrenches ruptured steam pipes, sprays extinguishing foam.
Master Gunner: Balances shell trajectory arcs, calibrates propellant fuses, triggers flare canisters.
Build custom diesel-punk chassis, script dynamic trench siege missions, and balance custom mechanical components using our open engine toolset.
Import custom 3D models with pre-rigged piston bones and define hit-boxes for mechanical weak points like exposed radiator cowls.
Carve dynamic terrain maps with mud depth physics, destructible wooden revetments, and subterranean drainage pipes.
Tweak projectile mass, ricochet angles against curved cast iron, and explosive blast shockwaves through wet trench earth.
Every engine rumble in IRONCLAD was captured from working 1920s maritime diesel engines, industrial steam hammers, and pneumatic shipyard riveters. When an enemy round glances off your angled hull armor, you hear the violent ring of distressed iron and the ping of sheared rivets ricocheting off cockpit bulkheads.
Submit your pilot credentials to test early builds of the Trenchbreaker combat chassis.
We store minimal telemetry calibration to maintain field audio levels and session layout states across the Trenchbreaker network.