The Freedom Alliance cannot be stopped! Barely two weeks ago we launched Stories, a whole section of our site that lets clans and Helldivers publish their own lore, series, histories, and more. Well, today, we take HD2Clans to the next level.

Have you ever wanted to deploy Super Earth's forces across the galactic map?

Free of the heinous machinations of The Blob?

Starting today, you finally can. Welcome to...

Fleet Conquest is a free real-time strategy game, playable right now in your browser, on desktop or mobile, with no download and no install. Log in with Discord and deploy!

Is this real?

Hell yeah lmao

How does Fleet Conquest work?

You command a fleet of Freedom Alliance warships designed by Alucard Hellsing, Emps, and more of our partners. The galaxy starts almost entirely neutral, and you start with Super Earth and a small pocket of nearby worlds. Everything else has to be claimed.

You can read the full game guide here, or you can even take a guided in-game tutorial here!

Claiming a world links it into your supply network, and every planet you hold has to trace a connection back to Super Earth. Resource worlds pay you Metal, Fuel, and Tech while they are connected. Drydocks build and repair ships while they are connected. Cut a planet off and it goes idle until you reconnect it. Protecting your lines is as much of the game as pushing forward.

Each enemy faction has a capital planet marked with a crown. Capture every active capital and you win the run.

Meanwhile, the enemy is pushing the other way, toward Super Earth. If a faction reaches the center of the galaxy it launches an assault on our home. The only way to stop an assault is to go and capture the enemy world projecting it. Every assault that runs its clock out takes one of Super Earth's three megacities. Lose all three and the run is over!

Ways to Play

New Run is the standard game. Pick your difficulty (Peaceful, Normal, Hard, Insane), pick 1 to 3 enemy factions, and go. Harder settings are earned: winning at your current highest difficulty unlocks the next one up, and the same goes for faction counts.

Co-op puts up to four players in one shared galaxy! One player makes a lobby, shares the code, and everyone deploys together. You share one pool of materials and one fleet limit, so talk to each other before somebody spends the whole treasury on 100 Super Destroyers! (we have seen this happen in playtesting). You can even tap and hold a planet, or press F on the keyboard, to ping planets - for better coordination among your teammates!

The Weekly Challenge is a randomized game generated fresh every week, identical for every player in the world. The win condition is harder: you have to clear every enemy planet off the map, not just the capitals. You get two attempts, and the leaderboard ranks you on how fast you cleared it!

Escalations are optional handicaps for players who have started finding the standard difficulties comfortable. Twelve categories cover crazy stuff like reduced income, tougher enemy planets, a weakened DSS, extra enemy Minor Capitals, and more. They unlock after a handful of wins, they add XP to your post-game rewards, and there are Medals tied to winning with them on. They are entirely optional, and every one of them is described in full on the main menu.

Share Your Run

Every run ends with an after-action report, and next to it is a Share button! Press it and Fleet Conquest builds you a card: the outcome, your full run statistics, how long it took, and a cool chart showing how galactic control swung between you and each enemy faction over the whole run. We love seeing our friends post these cards after a run!

One small extra: if you are a supporter of HD2Clans, your Tier badge is drawn right next to your name on the card, the same Tier 1 and Tier 2 icons that appear on your profile. Contributing to support HD2Clans does not unlock a single thing in Fleet Conquest, and it never will. Everything in the game is available to everybody! In a world where other communities are adding pay-to-use features, we think this is a refreshing choice (and hope that you agree, and consider supporting us to keep the Fleet Conquest server alive and running).

Achievements and Career Stats

Every run you play while signed in banks to a permanent stats record. Fleets Conquest comes with 300 levels of progression with titles running from Recruit up to Grand Admiral, full career statistics, and 30+ Achievements.

Each Achievement comes with a Medals, too - which are real Awards you can see in the Awards section of your HD2Clans profile page. If you complete an achievement, you can even equip its medal to your Melchior player card like any other Award!

Where to Start

You can go play right now! If you are brand new, you can take the Guided Tour. It walks you through the real interface in a couple of minutes, and it does not require a login. It's linked from the main menu of the game, too.

Past that, the full game guide is at Fleet Conquest: How To Play. It covers everything: territory grades, supply range, strike groups, the DSS, fortification, the assault on Super Earth, and the full keyboard shortcut list.

In Closing

Fleet Conquest is our way of adding yet another way for folks to enjoy HD2Clans and our Hangar system, without being a clan admin. We love our ships and are super stoked that more people get to experience them now, besides just via the Deployments system or the Paint Shop ship customization system. Speaking of those - in celebration of Fleet Conquest being released, all ships in the hangar receive double FP and have lightning-fast repair rates for this entire weekend!

Fleet Conquest is our love letter to the community, and to the incredible universe created by Arrowhead. But it's also worth providing our standard disclaimer:

Fleet Conquest is a fan-made community project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Arrowhead Game Studios AB or Sony Interactive Entertainment. HELLDIVERS is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC. All game content and assets are property of their respective owners.

We hope you enjoy it, and look forward to seeing your Share Cards from your runs (whether you win or lose)! We've set up a #fleet-conquest-chat in our Support Server if you want to chat, find coop partners, or post your share cards.