REAL-TIME STRATEGY ONLINE CANDIDATE

RED VECTOR

Build your base.
Break rival cores.
Claim what survives.

GROUND FORCES / ORBITAL RECON

Secure resources. Command your army. Defeat rival commanders and inherit their surviving forces.

BASE BUILDINGCOMBINED ARMSORBITAL WARFARE

COMMAND BRIEFING

Desktop: mouse and keyboard. Experimental touch controls are available for phone testing; mobile support is not yet verified.

Battle format

Each commander fights for themselves. This choice applies to Solo and Play with friends; Quick Online and training stay free-for-all.

Factions Choose how each commander fights

Solo and private lobbies only. Quick Online and training use Standard Command. Friends can change their own faction before everyone is Ready.

Commander 1 · You

Commander 2 · Computer / friend

Commander 3 · Computer / friend

Commander 4 · Computer / friend

Computer opponents

Easy offers slower attacks and smaller raiding groups. Standard brings full skirmish pressure. Human opponents are unaffected.

Battlefield

Illustrative layout. Colors mark starting positions; diamonds mark ore; the center ring is the uplink.

Standard computers adapt to visible threats, regroup after losses, and pay for repairs and reinforcements. Choose Easy for more room to build. Solo uses no online slot; once loaded, it can continue without a connection.

4 COMMANDERS · PERMANENT BATTLEFIELD · ONLINE TEST

Skirmish starts with a command core, an unarmed harvester and 850 credits. Build your economy and recruit your army. Field Training provides an established practice base. Play with friends opens a private lobby with readiness and a shared start. Quick Skirmish begins immediately. Share your invitation to let another player replace an AI opponent. One operation is available at a time. Enemies are visible near your forces or inside your recon sweeps. Scouted terrain is remembered; enemy positions require current sight. Online skirmishes and private battles pause when everyone disconnects and can be recovered for 5 minutes using the same saved seat. Training remains temporary. Active-server crashes can still end a match. This is an online test candidate.

FIELD MANUAL

ONLINE CANDIDATE

The board is your menu.

Tested desktop setup & playtest limits

Four commanders, one online battle at a time. For larger armies, choose Graphics → Performance in the operation menu.

Our five-minute local rendering check uses 300 units at 1440 × 900 on an Apple M2 Pro running macOS 26.4.1, with Chromium 151 and Performance graphics. This is a measured test profile, not a guarantee for every army, device or network.

Functional desktop checks cover Chrome 156 and Firefox 153 on Mac. Safari 26.4 has basic play, save and review checks; broader Safari and phone support is still being validated. Touch controls remain experimental.

Frontline Operations: three optional authored solo missions with finite defenders and normal construction and recruitment costs. Open the objective pill to pause and read your orders. Their checkpoint and completion record stay on this device, separate from your regular skirmish save. Optional mastery is shown separately from mission victory.

Team Survival: commanders 1–2 versus 3–4. Share current sight, control separate armies and economies. Lose your core and your command ends, but your ally can still win for your team. Living infantry can earn a claim on any defeated network. Choose this format for Solo or Play with friends. Open Signal ally to mark Attack, Defend or Regroup on the board or minimap. Signals last 8 seconds and reveal no enemies. Visit a signal and Return to battle without changing your selection. Computer allies do not follow signals.

Establish your base. Every commander starts skirmish with a command core, one unarmed harvester and 850 credits. Build a refinery for ore deliveries, then barracks for infantry or a factory for vehicles. Power supplies turrets and orbital systems. Field Training gives you an established practice base.
Click your factory to build tanks and harvesters. Click barracks to train infantry. Queue up to five units, set a rally point, and cancel individual orders for the displayed refund. Production appears under the selected building’s name.
Click Build or press B, choose a structure, and place it inside the highlighted construction range. Right-click or Escape cancels placement. Select a construction site to see progress or cancel it for the displayed refund. Systems become available when construction finishes. Command Relays add 20 army capacity each. Each original command network inherited adds 40 base capacity and raises the total capacity ceiling by 100. If capacity falls, excess units wait in reserve until capacity is restored.
Drag to select units. When friendly units overlap, click the stack and open Other units here in the selection panel to choose one explicitly. Double-click a unit to select its type on screen; Shift adds them to your selection. Army or Q selects all active combat units, leaving harvesters and your core alone. Right-click to move or attack. Shift-right-click ground or use Add waypoint to queue up to eight additional movement stops. A normal order replaces the route; Stop cancels it. Numbered lines show planned stops, not the exact path around obstacles. Press F or choose Attack, then click ground to advance and engage nearby threats. Use Stop or X to cancel orders; harvesters pause until given a new order. Send infantry to the central uplink to earn free reconnaissance sweeps. Scouting units and buildings reveal nearby enemies; sweeps reveal a chosen area for 15 seconds. Bright terrain is in current sight. Previously scouted ground remains dim; unexplored ground is darkest. Scouted terrain does not reveal current enemies. Your exploration history is private and survives leaving an area. Dashed building markers show old sightings, not confirmed targets. Scout again to update them.
Destroy a rival core. Send infantry to its wreck to claim surviving buildings, units and command capacity. Captured turrets and strategic systems need reactivation. Your original core remains your lifeline. Build powered defense turrets to protect your base.
Reconnect after a lost connection. Your seat is held for 60 seconds of active match time. If that expires, your core is eliminated and its surviving network can be claimed. Returning does not revive an eliminated commander. In online skirmishes and private battles, when every player disconnects, play pauses and a checkpoint is retained for 5 minutes from the last disconnect. Online training is temporary and does not have this checkpoint. Reload the same tab to return with its saved seat while the server still holds it. Resume is tab-local and needs browser session storage; if storage is blocked, play can continue in this tab but a reload may lose your seat. Closing the tab can lose its saved seat. A paused checkpoint preserves the same commander, purchases and orders within that window, including after the unattended server restarts. Recovery is unavailable once that window expires. Active-server crashes can still end the match; this is not a permanent online save.
Read the terrain. On maps with forests and rocky outcrops, units travel around their solid ground footprints. Buildings and deployed cores need clear ground. These features do not grant cover or block reconnaissance.
Command the orbital layer. Open Orbit to prepare recon, select a missile battery, inspect defense coverage and read the optional tactics briefing. Orbital Operations servers launch paid recon after 3 seconds of preparation and 2 seconds of ascent; older servers use immediate sweeps. The uplink still provides immediate free recon. Missile warnings mark impact areas on the battlefield and minimap; click the warning to focus the target.
Respond on another front. Visit a damage warning without losing your army selection. Select asset opens its controls; Return to battle restores your view and surviving selection. Produce → Operations shows current harvesting, power and production problems with access to their controls.
Expand for resources. Deposits run out. Your buildings remain safe from any artificial shrinking boundary.

Construct a building

Signal ally

Production

Orbital operations

Vehicle factory

RED VECTOR

Assemble your commanders.

Choose your operation

Confirm action

Battle paused.

The board is your menu.

Controls & camera

Know your forces.

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