Public rulesets
The full How to Play is free and there is no email on it. We would rather you were playing it than deciding whether it is worth paying for. The rest of the armoury goes public with the Platoon Forge, and it will be free too.
Playtesting
Play it with us
Doctor Absal built the end of the world at a bench like this one. A hooded lamp, a mechanism in pieces, a notebook nobody has been permitted to read since. Whatever he was reaching for he got at it the only way anyone gets at anything: he took it apart, ran it well past its rating, wrote down what failed, and came back in the morning to fail at it better. On 13 September 1973 something answered him. Berlin has not been seen since.
We are asking for the same working method at considerably lower stakes. Come and test it, experiment with it, break it, and build something out of the pieces with us. Field a hull nobody has tried, bolt on a gun that has no business anywhere near that chassis, and run the platoon until it comes apart in your hands. Then tell us exactly where it went. Nothing here is finished and nothing here is sacred: the parts you snap off are the parts we would otherwise have found on our own, six months late, with the book already at the printer.
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Start playing
Everything you need is free and none of it wants an account. Bring a platoon, bring an opponent, and tell us what happened.
Available now
What you can grab today
Find local games
The Discord is where people sort out who is playing where. Plenty are looking for an opponent, and you are very welcome to challenge one of us to a game. We lose plenty of them.
Direct feedback
Tell us what did not work, what read confusingly, what felt off on turn four. A lot of what has changed so far started as someone raising it in the Discord, and we would like to keep it working that way.
Setting expectations
What to expect
Active development
Things will change while you play. Points get retuned, rules get reorganized, and descriptions get rewritten once we work out a clearer way to say them. That is what a playtest is for.
Your feedback counts
Player feedback has already changed missions, factions and a good number of points values. It is not a suggestion box we never open.
Expanding battlefield
Faction rules, weather, more missions, and new art and lore as fast as we can finish it. There is a great deal still to come.