Uncommon Tanks

The turn

One shot. That is the whole game.

There is nothing else to do on your turn — no moving, no reloading, no positioning — so the only thing that ever improves is your aim. Everything else in the game exists to make that one decision harder: the wind that drifts between turns, the ridge in the way, and the crater you made last time.

The armoury

Ten rounds, each with its own idea

Bought with credits the game pays out for playing it — never for money. The Mk1 shell is unlimited and deliberately mediocre: a player who spends everything and loses must still have a way to fight, and every other row is measured against what the free one does.

Damage is at the centre of the blast and falls off to the rim. ×n means the round arrives in pieces; the last two are spent on your own tank.

Round	Damage	Radius	Credits	Pack	What it does
MK1 SHELL	34	36	free	∞	Free, forever. The one you learn on.
HEAVY SHELL	58	54	220	×4	Bigger crater, bigger bite.
BOUNCER	38	34	240	×3	Skips off the ground three times. Gets in under overhangs.
ROLLER	50	48	320	×3	Lands, then runs downhill at them.
DIGGER	46	44	300	×3	Bores through a hill, then goes off inside it.
ATOMIC	130	124	1200	×1	Removes the hill. And the tank.
MEGA NUKE	175	170	2400	×1	The atomic, without the restraint. Fallout for three rounds.
MIRV	40×5	40	900	×2	Five heavy warheads, one launch.
CLUSTER	22×5	26	300	×3	Splits at the top of the arc.
CARPET BOMB	24	26	520	×2	Six bombs walked in a line across your mark.
NAPALM	16×7	24	350	×3	Splashes fire across the ground.
MOLTEN BOMB	26×5	30	540	×2	Splashes lava that runs downhill and pools where it stops.
OIL SLICK	4	12	300	×3	A pool of oil. Slides a scoot; burns when lit.
POISON GAS	8	16	380	×3	Barely a crater. The cloud sits there for three rounds.
TOXIC RAIN	12	18	420	×2	Acid weather over the mark, and pools where it fell.
LIGHTNING STRIKE	52	40	480	×3	The round marks the spot. The sky does the rest.
TESLA ORB	40	30	560	×2	Slow and blue, and it does not stop at the first hull.
PLASMA BOLT	26	30	380	×3	Small crater. The hull burns for three turns after.
PLASMA BEAM	40	26	480	×2	A beam that does not stop at the ground.
LASER	38	18	420	×3	Instant, thin, and precise. The line is the whole weapon.
LASER DRILL	36	16	480	×2	A mining tool that happens to be aimed. Cuts the deepest tunnel.
SEEKER DRONE	40	34	520	×2	Flies your arc, then turns over and hunts.
SMART MISSILE	46	36	760	×2	The drone that went to school. Turns twice as hard.
SWARM MISSILES	14	18	700	×2	Eight small hunters off one rail.
DRILL MISSILE	50	46	620	×2	Flies like a missile, lands like a digger. The blast is underground.
BURROWING WORM	46	42	680	×2	Enters the ground and comes up under somebody.
EARTHQUAKE	20	120	560	×2	No projectile. The ground itself moves, and everyone pays for where they stood.
GRAVITY BOMB	18	30	820	×2	Opens a well in the air. Every shot flies wrong for two rounds.
BLACK HOLE	30	20	1500	×1	Eats the ground it opens over, and drags hulls toward it.
VORTEX	10	24	640	×2	A standing updraught. Shells entering it are spat back out.
TORNADO	12	24	720	×2	The vortex that will not stay put. Walks with the wind.
DIRT BOMB	6	20	260	×3	Adds a hill instead of removing one. Cover, or a burial.
DIRT WALL	4	16	320	×2	A rampart grown straight up out of the ground.
NAPALM RAIN	14	20	640	×2	Napalm, delivered as weather. Seven fires at once.
FIREBALL	42	44	400	×3	A big warm crater, and the hull burns after.
ICE BOMB	18	26	420	×3	Freezes a shelf onto the ground, and the hull where it stands.
SHATTER BOMB	26	30	440	×2	Barely a crater. The ground around it cracks and drops.
SONIC BOMB	18	60	400	×3	A pressure wave. Light on damage, heavy on where you end up.
EMP BOMB	10	52	540	×2	Hurts nothing much. Switches everything off for two turns.
SHIELD BREAKER	16	36	480	×2	Spends itself against the battery. Four damage per point of shield.
ENERGY SHIELD	0	0	680	×2	A heavier shield than the crate, bought with the turn.
REFLECTOR	0	0	700	×1	The next round to strike you turns around and goes home.
TELEPORTER	0	0	620	×2	The shot is a beacon. You go where it lands.
DECOY TANK	0	0	480	×2	A tank-shaped lie. Every round it soaks was meant for you.
REPAIR DRONE	0	0	540	×2	Docks with your hull and patches it every turn for three.
SUPPLY DROP	0	0	380	×2	A flare up, a crate down. What is inside is the gamble.
CLUSTER DRILL	26×5	30	780	×2	Five diggers off one split. The hill becomes a colander.
VAPORIZER	52	34	1100	×1	Things inside the beam do not explode. They stop being there.
DEATH RAY	70	40	1400	×1	Wound up first, then everything at once. The longest cut in the game.
SATELLITE STRIKE	110	88	1800	×1	You mark it. Orbit answers.
WORLD ENDER	210	200	3000	×1	The endgame event. The field is not the same field afterwards.
ACID SHELL	18	28	340	×3	Eats plating: damage every turn, and armour counts for less.
MINIGUN	13	15	300	×3	Seven light rounds in a fan. Volume, not weight.
MINE LAYER	44	40	360	×2	Leaves three charges on the ground. They wait.
SIEGE ROUND	56	54	free	∞	Bulldog only. Through the plating, not around it.
RAIL LANCE	44	26	free	∞	Viper only. Instant, dead straight, and the wind cannot touch it.
FIRE MISSION	26	32	free	∞	Howitzer only. Three rounds fall straight down on your mark.
PHASE CHARGE	52	46	free	∞	Phantom only. Cloaked mines that burn whatever finds them.
AUTOCANNON STRAFE	13	18	free	∞	Strider only. Nine rounds walked across the ground.
WEB LANCE	16	30	free	∞	Widow only. Pins the hull where it stands and keeps eating it.
STING	46	28	free	∞	Hornet only. A fast flat dart that hits harder than its size.
CRUSHER	52	40	free	∞	Colossus only. Slow, heavy, and it lands like the machine that fired it.
CORE BOLT	40	30	free	∞	Reactor only. A slug of the core: plasma, and the electronics it touches go dead.
REPAIR KIT	—	—	250	×2	Spend a turn, get 60 hull back.
SHIELD	—	—	400	×2	Soaks the next 70 damage.

The ladder

Forty duels, four theatres, one commander each

Difficulty is carried by three dials and nothing else: how many guns are pointed at you, how well they shoot, and how hard the wind is blowing. None of those numbers were guessed — a bot plays every rung forty times and the table is what puts it in a 45–75% win band, with the commanders deliberately below it.

THE DUST BOWL

Learn the arc, then learn the wind. Rolling dunes, one gun, no excuses.

IRON RIDGE

The ground starts getting in the way. Diggers and rollers earn their price here.

THE WHITE FRONT

Ice shelves, no cover, and a wind that lies to you.

THE SCRAPYARD

Everything they have left, pointed at you at once.

Online

1v1 to 4v4, against people

Team battles on four battlegrounds people learn, or a random roll. Everyone fights with the same standard kit and the hull they chose with its one free charge, so an online match is a match of aim — not of who ground more credits offline. Nothing you do online touches the campaign: no fuel spent, no credits won.

The garage

Six hulls, six abilities, one each

Every hull is a different way to survive a duel — armour that shrugs off a near miss, a longer reach, or legs that walk out of trouble. Each carries a signature ability nothing else can, bought as charges or handed over by an ad, and an ability never costs your shot.

BULLDOG

+30 hull · 10% armour

BULWARK — Takes 60% off every blast for a round.

VIPER

+4% muzzle

RANGEFINDER — Shows the whole arc, terrain and all, for one shot.

HOWITZER

+10 hull · +12% muzzle · 5% armour

OVERCHARGE — The next round leaves harder and lands harder.

PHANTOM

45 shield

SMOKE SCREEN — Everything shooting at you loses its aim for a round.

STRIDER

-10 hull · +6% muzzle · 96px stride

REPOSITION — Walk out of the crater they have been ranging into.

WIDOW

15% armour · 52px stride

DIG IN — Digs a trench and a parapet: half damage, no falling, +20 hull.

And three you only meet

The opposition drives machines the Garage does not sell: a hover scout the ground cannot touch, a quadruped that plants itself, and a reactor on tracks that starts shielded and vents its core at whoever is closest.

HORNET

-20 hull · +2% muzzle · 130px stride

JET — Thrusters: a hop over anything in the way, mines and walls included.

COLOSSUS

+40 hull · +-4% muzzle · 18% armour · 48px stride

STOMP — Four legs into the ground: every hull nearby is rooted for a turn.

REACTOR

5% armour · 30 shield

VENT — Open the core: half of every blast goes back to the gunner; you take a quarter more.

Commanders

Four fights that change while you are having them

At two thirds and at one third of its hull, a commander drops into a new phase: a different part of its locker, a steadier aim, and a line about it. Losing to one should feel like losing to something that got worse, not to something that lasted a long time.

The fleet

Four machines, five paint jobs each

Every tracked hull is generated once as its own machine — squat, sleek, long or faceted — then rotated into the five team palettes, with its gun barrel cut off so the game can draw one that actually aims. A Viper in rust paint is still a Viper, which is what makes recognising an opponent three theatres later possible. They animate in code; the walkers get real 16-frame legs instead.

Medals

Thirty, in six families

Nothing is ever awarded. Every medal is a number read off your save against a goal, re-derived after every duel — which is why a report that failed while you were offline simply heals after the next win.

By the numbers

What is in the box

Support

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