Mandate: Shell Rising

An alternate third-century-BCE command shaped by late Warring States China. Thirteen levels turn direct orders into real Bash doctrine; The Defile remains a provisional playtest candidate.

Your units are files in a persistent workbench, and your scripts become the orders they carry out. The current beta begins with a five-person bridge crossing, advances through rosters, contact, scouting, terrain, screening, combined arms, and one immutable policy tested across Three Roads A, B, and C, then provisionally compares holding, surrendering, and breaking contact at the Defile. Reports travel over ground, knowledge can go stale, and every accepted order remains in the ledger until it is delivered or fails. West Ford carries one detachment through three dispatches. A returned scout report changes the crossing, and the survivors must clear the next road.