Wavefront: Vanguard

The fused sensor picture

Eyes, radar, sonar, magnetic sensors and laser designators all feed one shared picture. Hills cast radar shadows, jammers blind whole sectors, and deep submarines hide from everything but sonar.

Land, sea and air

Tanks, frigates, submarines, carriers, fighters, gunships, early warning aircraft and drones. SAMs need your radar network, bombers need spotters, carriers need escorts. Every unit has a job and a weakness.

Every map is new

Islands, archipelagos, straits and riverlands crossed by great bridges, in temperate, desert or arctic biomes. Weather fronts, a day/night cycle and a map you have to discover before you can fight on it.

Missions and multiplayer

Basic training, three sensor lessons and 15 missions with Steam leaderboards. Then up to 8 players, human or AI, over Steam or LAN in Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Domination or a Persistent World.

See first. Strike first.

Every match is fought on a freshly generated map, 8 km across and ringed by open sea. Radar sees far but gives itself away. Night falls and your eyes go dark unless you brought thermal optics. A storm front rolls in and only the radar network can see. The side with the better sensor picture wins the fight before it starts.

The radar scope view: only radar contacts show over a darkened coastline — The radar scope shows the world as your radars actually see it.

A night battle in thermal view, with burning wrecks and tracer fire glowing — Thermal at night: engines, fires and tracers glow, everything else goes dark.

A tank column at night through night vision, with tracer arcs overhead — Night vision, thermal and radar-scope views change how the battlefield reads.

Cut the crossing

Bridges are real, destructible structures. Drop a section of a truss bridge and that crossing is gone for everyone. Drop any section of a suspension bridge and the whole span lets go, and the column halfway across goes into the river with it.

An armoured column crossing a truss bridge over a wide river — A column crosses the grand bridge on a Riverland map.

A patrol boat off a coastal base — Ships sail the grand river far inland, and pass under the bridges.

An armoured column rolling out of a coastal base — An armoured column rolls out of a coastal base.

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