Guest practice · Frontline

Practice · no monetary value

Match configuration

Clock

Format: Best of three · stops at two wins
Board: 9 × 9 field · ore fields · 20 turns each
Clock: 90s bank per round · max 20s per turn · match at most 10 min
Openers: You open round 1, bot opens round 2, you open round 3
Opening swap: Once per round, right after the first move, the responder may take over the opening side instead of moving
Opponent: House practice bot — strong, deterministic, runs locally, not a person

Each turn, give up to three orders: deploy a unit next to your command post, move a unit, or attack. Each unit moves once and attacks once per turn.
Trooper (2 cr): cheap, deadly to batteries. Tank (5 cr): fast and tough, crushes troopers. Battery (4 cr): shells at range 2–3, strong against tanks and command posts.
Income each turn: 1 credit, plus 1 for every ore field one of your units stands on. Five units per side at most.
Destroy the enemy command post (8 HP) to win the round. After 20 turns each, the stronger post wins, then the bigger army, then more credits, then the second player.