Pixel General

History's great battles, told in pixel art. Thousands of tiny soldiers, one battle at a time.

First battle

216 BC

Hannibal's army meets one of the largest armies Rome had ever put in the field, on a dusty plain beside the river Aufidus.

The centre gives ground, the wings close in, and the cavalry shuts the door behind them.

Coming soon.

Each figure is a soldier in a simulated army, marching, fighting and falling in formation.

Deployments, numbers and timings come from the ancient accounts and modern historians.

All of the pixel art is generated by our own battle engine. Nothing is borrowed.