======================================================================== LINE OF DEPARTURE Command a rifle company through a Third World War river crossing, squad by squad, under jamming. ======================================================================== Title Line of Departure Version 1.0.0 Package version Tronsoft Games Package Specification v1.4 Engine Tronsoft Wargame Engine 1.0.0 Portal Requires portal version 6.12 or later Entry file index.html Author Tronsoft Games Publisher Tronsoft Games Released 2026-08-02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INSTALLATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a standard Tronsoft Games package. Upload the ZIP through the portal's game administration page; the portal reads manifest.json, validates the package and installs it. No other steps are required, and nothing is downloaded at run time. To run it outside the portal, extract the ZIP and serve the folder over HTTP, or open index.html directly: the package carries an offline copy of its data (engine/bundle.js) for the file:// case, where browsers refuse fetch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO LAUNCH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open the game from the portal library, or open index.html in any current browser. Choose an action or the campaign, set the opposition, and press "Take command". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTROLS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mouse and touch Tap or click a counter select that unit (tap again to cycle a stack) Drag the map pan Wheel or pinch zoom about the pointer Order button, then a hex give the order against that hex Keyboard Arrow keys move the map cursor Shift + up/down the other two diagonals Space or Enter select what is under the cursor E end the turn Escape cancel an order that is waiting for a hex + and - zoom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT THE GAME IS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A squad-level wargame of a Third World War fought over two kilometres of the Ansbek valley. You command a rifle company: nine-man sections, a gun group, a missile team, carriers and a single tank, against a Continental Union force dug in on the far bank. Fire seldom kills at this scale — it suppresses — so every position is taken by pinning it with one team and walking onto it with another. Electronic warfare is the second enemy: jamming shortens your digital net until orders have to go by voice, and then by runner. Three linked actions, a branching campaign, fog of war, indirect fire, close air support and a command net you can watch degrade in real time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KNOWN ISSUES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - The map is drawn to fit the window when an action begins. On a very narrow phone the side panel takes the lower part of the screen and the map is correspondingly short; rotating to landscape gives the map the whole width. - Sound is synthesised, not sampled. A browser that refuses the Web Audio API will run the game silently with no other effect. - A browser with storage disabled cannot save. The action remains playable and the game says so once, at the menu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUPPORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Support is provided through the Tronsoft Games portal. Report a defect with the action name, the turn number and the seed shown on the menu screen: those three together reproduce the position exactly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LICENSE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ See LICENSE.txt in this package. Line of Departure is (c) 2026 Tronsoft Games.