I used to play a text based mob/mafia game on MySpace, is this like that ?
It has really in depth battle elements, but no it's not text based. It's like a build & battle type game that are very common on phone games now... It just i believe was one of the first to do really do it and the best and most popular.
You have a base with buildings, and have four different troop types you create. They all counteract and interact with each other differently, melee, bikers, shooters, and vehicles. There are four different resources that accumulate over time, and you basically just spend the resources to upgrade the buildings and pump out troops. As well as make investments to make your stats better. Big social element as well, each city kinda is it's own universe with different clans and management.
It takes some time to get stronger, and it's just one of those games you basically have a bunch of things to keep up on and keep developing. There are a lot of little mini games and events and such.
As important as having a ton of troops, your stats are just as important. For example, here's my stats against dude I smashed:
I didn't even bother scouting his base before attacking. He wasn't a pushover necessarily but his mansion level was a lot lower and I was like five times stronger. Even if I didn't have way stronger troops I would've beat him on stats alone.
And I just wanted to be quick. So just teleported to him, sent my full march to attack his base, and used some speedups to get there in like three seconds so he wouldn't have time to put a shield up or anything. Sending your troops anywhere takes time, you can upgrade them to be quicker, but even if it's a base one square over, it'll take 30 secs or something to get there, so there's a lot of strategic use of items and things like that