# Ordoor: reimplementing the Strategy Engine for four games

> Ordoor rebuilds the Strategy Engine used by Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate, Soldiers At War, Squad Leader, and Wages of War. Its format work and viewers cover maps, menus, graphics, sound, and video to varying degrees; gameplay mechanics remain unfinished.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://code.ur.gs/lupine/ordoor>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ordoor-strategy-engine-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ordoor-strategy-engine-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/ordoor-strategy-engine-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A copy of each original game's data is required to play it.
- **Prerequisites:** The Rust rewrite builds with cargo; the README lists libsdl3-0 as a runtime package on Debian.
- **Limits:** Game mechanics are not implemented yet.
- **License:** MIT License.

## Primary sources

1. <https://code.ur.gs/lupine/ordoor>

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