Build your base. Mine the ore. Crush the enemy. Now in 3D.
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Campaign
Choose your side, then a mission. Win a mission to unlock the next one. Beat it on Hard to get all three medals.
Mission
Skirmish
Play together
Everyone on their own iPad or phone, all on one team against the computer. One person hosts and gets a room code. Everyone else types that code to join.
Team battle
Room code (tell the others):
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Waiting for the host to start the battle…
How to play
Build your base
Select your MCV truck and press Deploy to make a Construction Yard.
Tap a building on the right to start building it. When it says READY, tap it again, then tap the map to place it. Green is OK, red is not.
Build Power Plants first. If the power bar goes red, everything slows down and towers stop working.
A Refinery comes with a Harvester. Harvesters collect ore and turn it into money ($) by themselves.
Barracks make soldiers. A War Factory makes tanks. A Radar Dome turns on the map. A Tech Centre unlocks the best stuff.
Command your army
Tap a unit to select it. Tap the ground to move. Tap an enemy to attack it.
Drag with one finger to slide around the map. Pinch to zoom. Twist two fingers to turn the camera, or slide two fingers up and down to tilt it. The ⟲ N ⟳ buttons at the top turn it too (N puts north back at the top).
Turn on Box then drag to select lots of units at once. Army selects all your fighters.
Attack mode: your units fight anything they meet on the way.
Select a Barracks or War Factory, then tap the ground to set where new units go.
Engineers take over enemy buildings, or fully fix your own.
Units get stripes after kills and become stronger.
Helicopters come from a Helipad. When they run out of ammo they fly home to reload. Only Rocket Troopers, Flak Cannons, rifles and towers can hit them.
Walls: pick Wall on the shield tab, then drag across the map. Press Done when finished.
The Missile Silo (Red) and Sky Laser (Blue) charge up. When the red button on the right says READY, tap it, then tap the target.
Ships: build a Naval Yard on the water (buildings tab), then ships from the ⚓ tab. Gunboats are quick, Destroyers (Blue) and Submarines (Red) fight other ships, Cruisers shell the shore from far away. Submarines hide under water until they fire.
Transports carry 5 units: select soldiers or tanks, tap the Transport to load them, sail to the shore and press Unload.
Attack Dogs (Red) hunt soldiers. Medics (Blue) heal soldiers. The Commando (Blue) blows up buildings.
Play together
One person taps Play together, then Host a game, and reads out the 4-letter room code.
Everyone else taps Play together, types the code and taps Join. Then the host taps Start.
You all see the same map and fight on one team. If someone drops out, the computer looks after their base until they join again with the same code.
The host's device runs the battle and saves it. Continue battle on the host's device opens a new room code.
On a computer
Click to select and order. Drag with the left button for a selection box. Right-drag or arrow keys to scroll. Mouse wheel zooms. Middle-drag (or Alt + drag) turns and tilts the camera; , and . turn it, N faces north.
Keys: A attack-move, S stop, D deploy, Q select army, H go to base, Esc clear, Space pause.
Groups: Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+9 saves a group, 1 to 9 selects it, press twice to jump to it.
Saving
Your battle saves by itself every 20 seconds and when you leave. Come back any time and press Continue battle. Log in (button at the top of the menu) to keep your saves on every device. The Classic (2D) version uses the same saves, so you can switch between them.