🛡️ Tank Battle

How to play

You drive the green tank at the bottom of the arena while enemy tanks patrol the upper half and fire down at you. Your turret always points at the mouse, so you drive with one hand and aim with the other. Clear every enemy on screen and the next wave spawns with more tanks; lose all three lives and the run is over.

• W A S D or arrow keys — drive up, left, down and right. The tank moves freely anywhere on the field.
• Mouse movement — rotates the turret to point at the cursor.
• Click — fires a shell along the turret line. There is a short cooldown, so holding a click does not produce a stream.
• Start button — begins a run and becomes Restart, which resets score, lives and wave.

Scoring

Destroying an enemy tank is worth 10 points, whatever wave it came from. Each wave spawns three tanks plus two per wave number, so wave 1 has five and wave 5 has thirteen. From wave 3 onward tanks start taking more than one shell: red tanks die to a single hit, orange ones need another. You have three lives, each enemy shell that reaches you costs one, and there are no extra lives, so the run ends at zero.

Tips

• Never stand still. Enemy shells are aimed at where you were when they fired, so a steady sideways drift makes most of them miss.
• Your shells travel twice as fast as theirs, which means a duel you start at range is one you usually win.
• The fire cooldown makes every shot count. Lead moving tanks rather than firing at where they are now.
• Orange tanks are the ones with extra armour. Finish them before they add their fire to the wave.

Frequently asked questions