Clickgamer launches the assault with strategy game Modern Conflict

In a move that's probably best described as a reskin than a brand new game, Chillingo's budget label Clickgamer and Russian developer Gaijin Entertainment have released real-time strategy game Modern Conflict for iPhone and iPad.

Based on Gaijin's Judgment Day War iPhone strategy game, which had Six Day War and Vietnam settings, Modern Conflict offers a simple contemporary take on tactical warfare that has you controlling tanks and helicopters to overcome the enemy forces.

The gameplay is pick-up-and-play.

Bases you control automatically generate units, up to a certain limit, over time. You can either select either half or all of the units in a base and send them to conquer neutral or enemy bases. Tanks have to travel by road, while helicopters can move anywhere but only capture heliports.

Capturing bases is simply a question of throwing more units at a target than the number of defenders it has, although there's further complication in terms of how bases are armoured. The various options require you to throw two, three or four times the numbers of attackers to overcome their defences.

Of course, the enemy artificial intelligence is doing something similar against your bases, so levels become a mixture of building up enough bases to provide you with lots of units, and then having those units in the right places to defend your bases and attack the enemy's weak spots. There's the choice of three difficulty levels.

In the main Campaign mode, there are 33 missions in American, Russian and Chinese settings, and there's also an endless Survival mode, using randomly generated levels.

The game uses Chillingo's Crystal social network with 50 achievements, three challenges, six leaderboards.

Out now, and available in a 50 percent launch sale mode, Modern Conflict costs 99c for the iPhone version and $1.99 for the iPad HD version. There are free Lite versions of each device too.