CTMayor vs Global Ordnance
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CTMayor
Manage cities across different eras, from ancient Rome to modern times, or run a bustling hospital and a comprehensive transport network. Each mode offers unique challenges in planning, resource management, and citizen satisfaction.
- Ancient Rome city management
- Modern city zoning and infrastructure
- Transport network simulation
- Hospital management and patient care
- Multiple simulation modes
- Disaster and crisis response
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CTMayor offers four distinct simulation modes, each focusing on a different era and style of city management: • Ancient Rome Mode Rule as a provincial governor of the Roman Empire. Plan and grow prosperous cities, satisfy citizens’ needs, and respond to disasters, divine unrest, and hostile forces. Inspired by classic Roman city-building simulations. • Classic City Mode Design and manage a modern city by zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, building infrastructure, and collecting taxes to support expansion. Maintain quality of life, balance the economy, and monitor environmental health to prevent decline or bankruptcy. Inspired by early city-building classics. • Transport Company Mode Create and operate a comprehensive transport network using trucks, buses, trains, aircraft, and ships. Connect towns and industries, deliver cargo efficiently, and reinvest profits to expand your network. Spanning 1950–2050, your objective is to achieve the highest performance rating. • Hospital Mode Build and run your own hospital. Construct rooms, hire doctors, nurses, and handymen, and diagnose and cure patients suffering from a range of comical illnesses. Research new treatments, keep your finances healthy, and cope with epidemics and VIP inspections. Inspired by classic hospital management simulations. For information about how the app works and how your data is handled, please review our policies: Service Terms: https://drwjf.github.io/ctm/ctm-terms.html Privacy Policy: https://drwjf.github.io/ctm/ctm-privacy.html
Global Ordnance
Experience a classic real-time strategy game on your phone with direct unit control. Research powerful upgrades, manage finite resources, and face an AI that adapts to your tactics. Enjoy offline play with no in-app purchases or pay-to-win mechanics.
- Direct unit command
- 29 unique units
- 75+ impactful upgrades
- Adaptive enemy AI
- Kill-to-Earn resource system
- Offline play
- Multiple game modes
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A real RTS on your phone: 29 units, 75+ upgrades, an enemy AI that learns how you play — free, offline, nothing to buy. Global Ordnance: The Iron Fist is built in the spirit of the classic PC real-time strategy games of the late '90s — real units, hard counters, a front line that moves — and redesigned from the ground up for a touchscreen. The whole battlefield fits on one screen. No base to build, no map to drag: every decision is a combat decision. Research, deploy, push the line, and put a shell through the enemy HQ before it does the same to yours. YOU COMMAND. DIRECTLY. Units drop straight onto your side of the field while the fight is already on. Pick targets, focus fire, pull back. Two fingers grab every tank, three every vehicle, four every gun; double-tap takes every unit of one type. No menus mid-fight. FROM SCOUT CAR TO NUCLEAR STRIKE • The Ferret: $100, fast, fragile, first on the field • The Mammoth Tank: two barrels, crushes lines and keeps rolling • The Trident: three barrels, artillery range, lays mines as it moves • The Sniper Tank: never misses, fires first, dies if anything gets close • The Hammer Tank: one oversized gun, the highest HQ damage in the game • The Corsair and the Twin Bomber: four guns and twin rockets, or a long-range missile from beyond sight • The Apocalypse bomber and the V2 ballistic missile: when the ground game is not enough 29 units across armor, vehicles, aircraft and fixed defenses, every one with an in-game info card and a counter. UPGRADES THAT REWRITE A UNIT 75+ upgrades, researched while shells are still flying. A Medium Tank with the Grinder chews through wreckage and repairs its own hull. Uranium shells leave lingering radiation. Chaff, flash bombs and a radar scrambler blind the enemy's anti-air. Upgrades don't buff a unit — they change what it is. AMMO RUNS OUT. WRECKAGE PAYS. Kill-to-Earn: what you destroy funds what you build next. Ammo is finite, so supply trucks rearm and repair the front, lay anti-tank or nuclear mines, and the units that survive rank up and hit harder. THE ENEMY IS WATCHING The Adaptive AI tracks how you play and counters it. No inflated stats, no artificial accuracy, no scripted waves — it just plays smarter. Do well, and your best units become its priority targets. Keep your anti-air close. THE GROUND FIGHTS BACK Two battlefields: a green biome, and a snow biome with Thin Ice — frozen ground that holds a unit only so long. The heavier the tank, the faster it sinks. Send a Mammoth onto the wrong patch and it isn't coming back. THREE WAYS TO PLAY Classic matches. Timed Blitz: 1, 3 or 5 minutes, only HQ damage counts, turtling loses. Upkeep: every unit on the field costs you money for as long as it stands. FAIR BY DESIGN • Free. No in-app purchases, no premium tier, no pay-to-win • Plays offline — no account, no connection needed • 60+ achievements unlock skins and perks — earned by playing, never sold • Ads never interrupt a match: at most one after it, and none at all if you win • iPhone and iPad, with a dedicated large-screen layout • A 14-track metal soundtrack written for the game Much of how the game plays — the controls, the ad rule, the balance — came from RTS players on forums and social media. A new update most weeks, every one free and documented at awngames.com. Made by a two-person studio.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Global Ordnance at 100% against CTMayor's 46%. Global Ordnance also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). CTMayor's advantage is ratings volume (41 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. CTMayor sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per year and Global Ordnance sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Global Ordnance holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CTMayor has 41 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of CTMayor's written reviews are positive against 100% of Global Ordnance's.
CTMayor ships an update every 3 weeks, Global Ordnance every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CTMayor | Global Ordnance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (41 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 391 MB | 670 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jianfeng Wu | Aleksandre Glonti |
Customer experience
CTMayor
Global Ordnance
Bugs and requests
CTMayor
Reported bugs
13 issues- Ads block menu
- Ads block building buttons
- Mouse cursor offset
- Game crashes
- Game lags
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- Unable to quit game
- Power not working
- Budget screen sliders have no effect
- Game not saving progress
- Police and fire systems not covering city
- Pollution levels too high
- Game progression is too slow
- Directional menu for tracks is confusing
Requested features
16 requests- Auto budget on city simulator
- Add AI and multiplayer
- Add sandbox mode
- Add colony survival mode
- Add trams
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- Add more airplane and train options
- Add bonus buildings (casinos, parks, etc.)
- Add street view mode
- Add rescue center
- Improve graphics and settings
- Add download/temp download feature for GRFS
- Make all directions for trains/roads possible
- Add zoom in and zoom out feature
- Make time fluid (speed up/pause)
- Add headquarters for police stations
- Translate comments from other languages
Global Ordnance
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CTMayor
- Sponsorship Yearly$0.991 Year
Global Ordnance
- Remove Ads$4.99









