What's New

Airborne Major → Airborne Captain — Power reduced from 8 to 7. Airborne Captain still beats a standard Captain in direct combat.

Airborne Lieutenant → Airborne Warrant Officer — Power reduced from 6 to 5. Airborne Warrant Officer still beats a standard Warrant Officer in direct combat.

Airborne units are now easier to outmanoeuvre with senior officers — the parachute element remains the threat, not the raw power.

Terrain is now selected via a six-theme map picker: Classic, Standard, Jungle, Desert, Arctic, and Night — replacing the old on/off toggle.

Jungle — dense green canopy with wide river channels.

Desert — sandy terrain, brown highlands, blue river.

Arctic — snow and ice palette; pale blue river and mountains.

Night — dark board with muted greens and deep blue water.

Chosen terrain theme is now also applied during the unit placement phase so you set up on the actual battlefield.

Dark Mode added to Settings — darkens the UI chrome, panels, and sidebars.

Enabling Dark Mode automatically switches the map to the Night terrain theme.

Remote disarm — Engineer now disarms adjacent mines without stepping onto them, similar to how Scout scanning works. The Engineer stays in place; the mine is removed.

Engineers can no longer accidentally walk into mines — enemy mine cells are excluded from regular movement and attack options.

Disarm targets are highlighted in orange on the board.

Computer AI now uses remote disarm when an Engineer is adjacent to an enemy mine.

Combat reveal — after a battle, the surviving unit is now fully revealed to both players. Its identity is confirmed by the outcome — you no longer see generic "intel hints" for a unit you just fought.

Units with observed behaviour (diagonal move, long jump, survived combat) continue to show an ! intel badge — click them to read accumulated clues.

Mountains — impassable for all ground units. Airborne can fly over during parachute deploy.

Hills — defending unit gains +1 power in combat.

Forests — Scout cannot scan a unit hiding inside a forest.

Terrain layout is procedurally generated each game — no two boards are the same.

Scout mechanics — 2 moves + 1 scan per turn. Scan reveals an adjacent enemy's rank without combat.

Scout can locate the enemy Flag but cannot capture it — send another unit to win.

Units inside forests are hidden from Scout scans.

Choose between NATO, Soviet, and PLA icon styles — independently for each player.

Unit names follow the selected UI language across all six styles.

Full UI and unit name support for English, Russian, French, German, Chinese (Simplified), and Ukrainian.

All rules, status messages, combat results, and intel hints translated.

Move log — last 50 actions shown in the side panel with player colour coding.

Undo — step back up to 10 actions per game.

Save / Load — game state persisted to browser local storage.

Unit reference panel — full roster with power, movement, and special rules.

Enemy Intel panel — tracks observed enemy behaviour and narrows possible identities.

AI opponent added — evaluates board position, territory control, and unit threat values.

AI uses parachute deploy, Scout scanning, and Engineer disarm tactically.

AI uses occasional random redeployment to keep pressure unpredictable.

Core game — 30-unit roster across 16 types: General, Colonel, Major, Captain, Lieutenant, Warrant Officer, Staff Sergeant, Sergeant, Engineer, Private, Airborne Captain, Airborne Warrant Officer, Scout, Assassin, Mine, and Flag.

River board — 20 × 19 grid with a river at row 9 and three crossing bridges.

Auto-placement — strategic random setup option for both players.

Combat system — power-based resolution with Assassin and Airborne special overrides.

Pass-and-play — two players on the same device with a hidden-hand screen between turns.

Fully playable in mobile browsers — no install required.