Redoubt

You command Ellis, the soldier with the gold ring. Defeat the raiders and keep the radio intact. Each turn gives each soldier two actions; spend each on one move OR one shot. Arrows choose a square. The preview says what Space will do. Bootprints mark reachable ground; red crosses mark where the raiders will fire. Move away or defeat the shooter before pressing Enter. Enter resolves their fire and reloads your actions. Z restores your last action until you commit the turn. Clear every raider and incoming wave to continue.

Play controls

• Arrows / WASD - choose a square

• Space - move, fire or select a teammate

• Tab / 1 / 2 / 3 - choose a specialist

• X - special ability

• Z - undo an action

• Enter / E - resolve enemy fire and reload

• P - pause

• R - resume

• N - play again

Specialists

Ellis is the ranger: olive cape and long rifle, five-square range, two damage. Bell joins patrol two: broad steel armor and a tall shield, close-range hits that shove raiders. Shaw joins patrol three: cream coat and green field bag, four-square range, one damage. X uses one special ability per specialist per patrol: Ellis fires a stronger shot, Bell makes a longer-range shove, and Shaw heals nearby soldiers.

Score and progression

Defeat a raider for 100 points. Clear a patrol for 500 plus 25 per remaining radio health. Patrols continue with tougher enemies; the run ends if the transmitter or every soldier is lost. Scores are local practice; this release has no global leaderboard, multiplayer or saved runs.

A helper on your live board

Your terminal and game share one board from launch. nano helper.sh edits the saved starter; ./helper.sh & runs it alongside manual play. jobs lists helpers; stop stops them. Ctrl+C interrupts a foreground program. Edited files survive re-entry. Use delay for live helper timing; wait joins jobs. benchmark opens separate deterministic practice with GIF, replay and receipt exports; standard restores the same paused live board.

nano helper.sh
./helper.sh &
jobs
stop

The starter watches radio health while you move and fire. scan units, scan enemies and scan map expose the visible battlefield. JSON x/y coordinates are zero-based; add one when passing them to move or cursor.

Sharing

Saved files use the shared editor, filesystem and Git tools. Review a helper before running it; preserve its author and license when adapting it. The existing forge contribution flow provides versions and source credit. Cloning never executes a script. See the terminal workspace guide.

Use man redoubt for the command reference, or play Redoubt.