Iron Scorch — live artillery tank game

What It Is

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Iron Scorch takes the artillery duels of the classic games of the nineties and plays them live, in 3D. Nobody waits for a turn: everyone aims, fires and drives at the same time, shells are in the air while you are already correcting your aim, and the wind pushes every one of them.

A match is a series of rounds. Hits earn money, and the shop — before a round and during it — turns money into bigger shells, guided missiles, earth movers and shields. The last tank, or the last team, standing takes the round.

Prefer it the old way? Switch the match to turn-based, or make the tanks stand still so that only aim counts.

Features

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💥97 weapons and shields

Shells, salvos, cluster rounds, guided missiles, energy weapons, earth weapons and tools — each with its own name — plus shields that deflect, bounce, catch or shoot back.

🛡Five tanks, eight commanders

An all-rounder, a heavy, a light, an artillery piece and an assault tank — and a commander who adds an edge of their own: faster reloads, steadier shells in the wind, more money for hits, a tank that repairs itself.

🏝An island to fight over

Hills and mountains, roads, forests, fences and houses, in four map sizes. Trees, rocks and houses stop a tank; bushes and fences it simply rams through.

🌧Six kinds of weather

Sun, clouds, rain, a storm, snow and fog — with their own light and sound — and a wind that can be fixed or random.

🤖Bots that fight back

Play alone against up to seven tanks driven by the computer, at five levels of difficulty, each for itself or in teams.

📶Network game

One player hosts, up to seven join over the same Wi-Fi or LAN — Windows and Android together. Empty seats can be filled with bots, and a bot takes over when somebody drops out.

🎯See where it lands

A minimap marks where your shells came down, and a window follows your own shell in flight — small under the map or large on the left. The camera sits behind the turret or behind the hull, or looks down from above.

⏳Live or turn-based

Everything at once, or one tank at a time. Tanks that drive, or tanks that stand and move only with a Move Tank item. And a proving ground with every weapon and shield to try.

🎛Keys, mouse or touch

On a computer: keyboard and mouse. On a phone: a joystick for driving, a dial for the turret and two bars for angle and power — and the same touch controls work with a mouse.

🔊Sound and music

Shots and explosions that depend on the weapon, the weather in the background, the engine under you — and music, each with its own switch in the options.

🎓Train together

In a network game the host can turn the match into training: every weapon and shield without limit, nobody loses, a destroyed tank is back after a moment — and the AI tanks stand still as targets.

Controls

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	Keyboard / mouse	Touch
Drive, steer	`W` `S` `A` `D`	joystick in the bottom-left corner
Turret	left / right arrows (Shift = fine), or drag with the mouse	the turret dial on the right, or drag across the screen
Angle, power	up / down arrows, `Q` `E`, mouse wheel	two vertical bars on the right
Fire	`Space`	the FIRE button
Ammunition	`Tab` / `Shift+Tab`, or click the weapon's name	the arrows, or tap the weapon's name
Shop, map, shell camera	`B` `M` `C`	buttons at the top

Screenshots

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A wide view over the island: green hills with roads winding between them, the tank under its shield in the foreground — Hills and roads

The proving ground seen from behind the turret, with the touch controls: the drive stick, the turret dial, the angle and power bars and the FIRE button — Behind the turret

A tank under the green dome of a shield, enemy tanks marked on the hills ahead — A shield switched on

A large window on the left following the shell in flight over the island — Following the shell

A match in falling snow under a grey sky, a shell climbing away from the tank — Snow

A dark sky in a storm; the small window shows the shell bursting on its target — A storm

The shop with its tabs — shells, salvos, cluster, guided, energy, earth, tools, shields — and a list of guided weapons — The shop

The ammunition window with tabs and weapon icons — Choosing ammunition

The large map of the island with the tanks marked on it by name — The map

A network match in snow, with fences and trees and an explosion in the distance — A network match

A turn-based match: the bar at the top says whose turn it is — Turn-based play

The game on an Android phone with its touch controls — On an Android phone

The New game screen: tanks, teams, difficulty, map, rounds, weather, and the choice of tank and commander — Setting up a match

System Requirements

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Windows: Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and a graphics card with OpenGL 2.1. No installation: unzip and run.
Android: Android 7.0 or newer with OpenGL ES 2.0.
Web: a browser with WebGL; in the browser the game is played alone against bots.
Network game: all players on the same Wi-Fi or LAN (a phone's hotspot works too). On Windows the firewall may ask once to allow access on private networks.

Status

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In development — version 0.9. The game runs on Windows, on Android and in the browser, in Polish and in English; it has not been published yet.

Still to come: play over Bluetooth between phones and over the internet.