CARRIER COMMAND / SPECIALIST ARMIES

FLAG//FRONT

Distinct armies. Big bomb runs. A real flight deck.

WAR CREDITS · FICTIONAL1,000 WC

RECORD0W / 0L

LAST GROSS RETURN0 WC

VOLUME25%STARTS ON PLAY

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■ BLUE / YOUR FORCE
CANADA

LIVE TRAINING

◆ CORAL / OPPONENT
FRANCE

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RIVER CROSSING / WOODLANDLIVE PATROL · TANKS ARE MOVING

01—03 / RECRUITMENT REELS200 BUDGET / REEL

01 / LAND FORCE

INFANTRY

Ready to roll

02 / AIR WING

TANK

Ready to roll

03 / SEA PATROL

ARTILLERY

Ready to roll

Each reel recruits one unit type into its lane. Your stake buys the army budget. The fight decides the return.

FIELD TEST

CARRIER FLIGHT SCHOOL

Two reusable aircraft. Watch them grow into flight, drop three big bombs and shrink back onto the deck.

✦ ALIEN INVASION

10% after every completed fake-WC round. One roll at start, independent of stake, history or result. Choose EVACUATE or DEFEND with no extra stake. Charge humanity’s secret weapon before the beacon falls. One timed EMP can turn the battle. Hero only on victory; aliens win otherwise. Max 350 fake WC. Free preview awards nothing.

THEATER / SELECT BATTLEFIELD

Ground units use the north and south bridges. Helicopters cross open water.

LAND / AIR / SEA3 ACTIVE FRONTS

COMMAND / LOADOUT

Choose your flag

DEPLOYMENT STAKE · FAKE WC

100 WC

600 army budget
Per reel: 5 infantry / 1 tank / 1 artillery

RECON / SEPARATE FROM REELS

Opponent scouted

Fictional doctrines chosen for this game. Flags do not describe real military capabilities.

FIELD GUIDE / NEW RECRUITS

Blue squares are your force. Coral diamonds are the opponent.
Drone swarms lose drones as their health falls.
Snipers stay exactly where deployed. Artillery creeps into firing range.

Combat rules + fixed recruitment weights

FICTIONAL OPPONENT DOCTRINES
Each flag has an invented arcade loadout chosen for this game, not a real military profile. Opponent recruitment uses the fixed raw weights below, filtered by legal terrain and affordable unit costs, then normalized within each reel. On inland maps each reel uses that country's combined land/air weights. On Coastal Front each domain is normalized separately. The UK carrier doctrine falls back to artillery and AA inland. A carrier too expensive for the current sea budget is excluded, leaving patrol boats.

Your chosen flag does not change your recruitment weights. Enemy doctrine never adapts to your loadout, stake history, wins, losses, refills or balance. Stake only sets the budget and therefore which units are affordable; the existing fixed country budget multiplier still applies. The scout card shows current top-choice probabilities; the full raw weights are listed here.

Coastal Front: reel 1 deploys land, reel 2 air, reel 3 patrol boats or a carrier group. Both sides fight on land and at sea, with aircraft crossing the whole map. Crossroads and River Crossing keep three mixed land/air reels. Water blocks land units; boats stay at sea.

Coastal land weights: infantry 20, AA rockets 17, AA SUV 13, sniper 12, light tank 12, medium 10, heavy 6, artillery 10. Air weights: helicopter 34, bomber jet 33, drone swarm 33. Sea: patrol boats 60, carrier group 40. On other maps these land weights total 72% and air weights total 28%. A class costing more than the reel budget is excluded and the remaining fixed weights are normalized. Enemy countries use the separate fixed doctrine weights listed above plus their fixed budget multiplier. No history-based or stake-based odds adjustment.

Costs: infantry 38; AA rockets 68; AA SUV 125; sniper 90; light / medium / heavy tanks 80 / 120 / 165; artillery 140; helicopter 150; bomber jet 160; drone swarm 110; patrol boat 120; carrier package with two reusable jets 220. Each swarm starts with 5 drones, with firepower falling as drones are lost. Counts never exceed a reel's budget.

AA prioritizes aircraft, with weak backup surface fire. Bombers fly repeated attack runs: splash bombs against land or boats, light cannons against air. Snipers hold rear positions and reach across the map; they are weak against armor. Artillery advances at 10 speed and fires surface-only splash. Boats attack boats and shores, with light anti-air fire. Tanks cannot hit air.

CARRIER FLIGHT DECK
Coastal deep sea only. 220 budget buys one 120-value hull and two 50-value aircraft. At most one carrier per sea reel; remaining budget buys patrol escorts. Two persistent airframes launch, climb, drop three bombs along their actual flight path, return and shrink onto the deck. Rearming takes 4.2 seconds and does not repair damage. A lost plane is never replaced. If the carrier sinks, deck aircraft are lost; airborne aircraft finish their attack and divert away. Aircraft and hull share the original package value, so launches never inflate survival returns. AA counters aircraft; bombers and patrol boats threaten carriers.

Player sea weights: boats 60, carrier 40, filtered by affordability. Free carrier flight school has no stake, record changes, rewards, invasion draw or effect on future randomness.

At 45 seconds, surviving unit cost × health fraction decides the field. A difference below 8 is a draw. A draw returns the stake. Victory returns 3× stake above 70% allied strength, 2× above 35%, otherwise 1.5×; defeat returns 0. Net = gross return − stake. Field tests choose your reels; normal fake-WC stake and random opponent recruitment apply.

Alien vs Hero rules + credits

A fixed 10% check is made once when each valid paid fictional-WC round starts, including field tests, and revealed after the base round settles. Flag, map, stake, previous wins/losses and refills never change the chance. No calibrated RTP or casino certification is claimed.

First choose: EVACUATE returns to command, keeping the already settled base credits, with no bonus. DEFEND costs nothing extra and cannot take those credits away. Reality rips across the whole game, you spiral through, and the scene becomes a raised hex dimension. Six scouts and one carrier arrive. Three batteries fire automatically.

THE CHARGE RACE
The beacon begins at 100 health. The secret weapon charges at 3.4 points per combat second. Reach 100 charge while the beacon is alive, within 25 combat seconds, to win. If the beacon falls, or charge is below 100 at 25 seconds, the aliens win. A beacon hit and charge completion on the same fixed 20 ms step resolve as a loss if health reaches zero. The same fixed encounter plays every time; there is no hidden bonus outcome roll.

ONE OPTIONAL EMP
Press Space or tap the scene once during combat. It deals 40 damage to each surviving ship, adds 8–32 charge, and pauses enemy launch timers for 1.2–3.6 seconds. Timing quality is max(0, 1 − |combat seconds − 6| / 3.5). Extra charge = 8 + 24 × quality; jam duration = 1.2 + 2.4 × quality seconds. The 5–7 second band is marked, and the peak is at 6 seconds. Existing projectiles still hit. Automatic defense continues if you do nothing; victory is not guaranteed. There are no panels or buttons during the full scene.

A successful charge locks a human victory before the hero appears. AEGIS, humanity’s secret weapon, arrives and destroys the remaining fleet. If the beacon falls or time runs out, the alien ending plays and no hero appears. Each scout destroyed earns 25 fake WC, the carrier 100, and a charged victory adds 100: maximum 350 WC. On a loss, only ships already destroyed count. The bonus is credited once, separately from the base return. Cinematics never change the locked outcome or credits.

Free preview consumes no credits or game randomness and never changes your record or future paid draws. It uses the actual mechanic by default. Clearly labeled developer previews can demonstrate either ending, without rewards. Battles, transitions and endings pause while hidden. Reduced motion replaces travel and impacts with static scene states. All music and effects obey the master sound and volume controls. The scene returns automatically; Escape leaves a preview.

Native fullscreen is attempted from the DEFEND click when permitted. Otherwise the scene fills its own viewport; a host application may retain its own shell.

CREATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS
Bobby: the alien invasion bonus idea.
Dalton: the dimensional rip, spiral portal arrival and humanity’s hero contribution.

ARCADE DEMO ONLY — War Credits are fictional play money with no cash value, no purchase flow, and no withdrawal. Free refills, always. Country profiles are invented for this game; they are not military rankings.

FLAG//FRONT

VICTORY

THE SKY IS TEARING