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A serious toy about commanding autonomous drones.
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Chapter 1 · Command & Control
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1
Find the Setting
Two screens and a slider. Tune the range until nothing gets through. Static Picket is in the list as a warning.
Choose
Parameters
Seed
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2
Standoff
Command Red. Wind up the munition standoff and watch your optimised screen die. Find the range where it breaks.
Choose
Parameters
Command red
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3
Time to Impact
No fixed screen holds the standoff raid. One doctrine does. Run Triage, read its source, then write your own.
Choose
Parameters
Write code
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4
Divide and Conquer
Split the raid across simultaneous bearings to break Triage, then push further and watch it dilute back to a raid you can hold.
Command red
Write code
Take command →
5
Two Ships
A second high-value unit and a finite magazine. You cannot cover both, so who do you save?
Multiple HVUs
Limited ammo
Coming soon
6
Fog of War
Limited sensing and patchy comms. Command what you cannot fully see.
Partial sensing
Coming soon
Chapter 2 · Count the Cost
Cheap drones against dear defences. Win the fight, then win the bill.
1
Count the Cost
Guns only against a drone raid. Set how many barrels you mount, choose how the raid comes in, then hold the line and read the bill.
Choose
Parameters
Cost
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2
Force Composition
One budget, three real systems, one raid. Buy guns, a Phalanx and interceptor drones from the catalogue and see what holds. You cannot afford everything.
Compose
Budget
Cost
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3
Convoy
Several ships, one defensive budget. Spread it evenly and lose the lot, or spend where it counts and let something burn.
Multiple HVUs
Cost
Coming soon
4
Formation
Space the escorts to cover the raid without firing into each other. Too tight and you waste rounds, too loose and drones slip the gaps.
Spacing
Fratricide
Coming soon