FRONTLINE

MODERN COMMAND

Briefing: Rival armies have dug in across the region. Deploy your Command Center, secure the oil fields and towns, and wipe every enemy structure off the map — or force them to the table.

Difficulty

Map size

Opponents

Starting money

Map seed

LMB select / drag box RMB move · attack · harvest R attack-move X stop Ctrl+1-9 groups WASD/Arrows/edges scroll Wheel zoom

MISSION

Field Manual

Controls

Left-click select · drag box-select · Shift add
Double-click select all of that type on screen
Right-click move / attack enemy / harvest oil
R then click: attack-move (fight on the way)
X stop · Q select whole army · H jump to base
Ctrl+1-9 set group · 1-9 recall (twice to jump)
F airstrike (when ready) · P pause · Esc cancel
Scroll with WASD, arrow keys, screen edges, middle-drag or the minimap
Mouse wheel or +/- zoom · Z reset zoom
With a factory/barracks selected, right-click sets a rally point
Walls: pick Concrete Wall, then click-drag to lay a line ($50 a segment)
Cities: park ground units next to a City Hall to capture it for +$240/min and vision. Contested halls don't flip.
Forests regrow from saplings a while after trees are cut
Diplomacy: ceasefires, tribute and peace treaties with OPFOR (top bar)
Bulldozer: right-click forest or rocks to clear them for lumber / stone money
Borders: your HQ, buildings and cities claim territory. Structures must go inside it. Enemy ground troops in your land suffer attrition unless a Supply Truck is near them.
Research Lab: research upgrades one at a time in the Research tab (armor, damage, sight, income, borders)
Infantry think for themselves: under fire they dash to cover (rocks, trees, walls, buildings), crouch, and lean out to shoot. Heavy fire pins them down. Riflemen throw grenades at troops behind cover.
Wounded: badly hit soldiers go down bleeding and scream for a medic; if strong enough they crawl to cover. Nearby infantry or a Field Medic drag them to safety and patch them up before they bleed out.
Close quarters: blasts throw men through the air and leave survivors dazed. Soldiers vault walls, slide into cover, dive from grenades (or throw them back) and fight hand to hand.
Armor: tanks crush enemy walls, rounds can ricochet off the front plate, and a blown track leaves a tank stuck until a Bulldozer repairs it (right-click the tank with a dozer selected; idle dozers nearby go on their own).
FPV Operator (Infantry, needs Comms Center): flies kamikaze drones at enemy troops and tanks. Soldiers hear drones coming, shoot at them and dive clear.
Transport Helicopter (Helipad): right-click it with infantry selected to board (up to 6). Press U to land and unload, or Ctrl+right-click a spot to fly there and drop them. Landed choppers can be hit by anything; if one is shot down low, some troops get out.
Trade Convoys (War Factory): drive between your HQ and captured cities for cash; 2 per city held

How to win

Build Power Plants first. Low power halves production and shuts down radar and defenses.
A Refinery comes with a Supply Truck. Trucks pump crude from dark oil pools and haul it home for credits.
Rifles beat infantry, rockets beat armor and helicopters, tanks anchor the line, MLRS shells from long range, AA stops air.
Infantry in forest takes less damage. Vehicles can't enter forest.
The Comms Center lights up the minimap and charges an airstrike.
Destroy every enemy structure to win.

Restart mission?

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