Craft the War

Mission briefing

Craft Theft War is a fast-paced online first-person shooter set across compact industrial battlefields. Join or create multiplayer rooms, choose your loadout, and outmaneuver rival soldiers in team and free-for-all combat. Responsive gunplay, multiple weapon types, vehicles, character selection, and varied match modes make every battle play differently.

Field manual

Objective Join or create a multiplayer room, defeat opponents, and help your team reach the match score or objective before the other side. In free-for-all modes, earn the highest score before time runs out. Controls WASD — Move Mouse — Look and aim Left Mouse Button — Fire Right Mouse Button — Aim R — Reload Space — Jump Shift — Sprint Ctrl or C — Crouch Number keys / Mouse wheel — Switch weapons Tab — Scoreboard Esc — Pause menu Mobile devices use the on-screen movement, aim, fire, jump, reload, and weapon controls.

Launch orders: press Launch mission above and the game loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first move. It is designed for a landscape (wide) screen and takes its orders from mouse, keyboard or touch, depending on the mission. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on. If it offers a fullscreen control, use it — a fight this size deserves the whole screen.

Field notes for action operations

• First run is reconnaissance. Spend it learning where the danger actually spawns from instead of chasing a score — most action games announce their patterns honestly in the opening minute, then repeat them with worse manners.
• Movement is a defensive stat. A moving target at half health outlives a stationary one at full health in nearly every game on this board, so keep relocating between shots, strikes and reloads.
• Learn the exit before the entrance closes. In arena and chase games alike, the players who survive longest are the ones who noticed the second doorway while everyone else was watching the first.

Craft the War — questions from the ranks

What does it cost to play Craft the War?

Nothing at all. The mission is free from the first order to the last — no sign-up, no download, no paid tier guarding the good levels. The advertising around this page is what keeps the board free.

What sort of mission is Craft the War?

Craft the War is filed in our Action theatre. Like every operation on this board, it is a browser game — read the briefing above for the publisher's own account of what you are deploying into.

Can I run Craft the War on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It plays in the browser on phones and tablets exactly as it does on a computer. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on.

Do I have to install anything before playing?

No installation of any kind. Craft the War is an HTML5 game: press the launch button and it loads on this page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind.

After-action

Mission complete, or still pinned down? The full Action theatre is one click away — The main hall of the board: 469 operations where something is always moving, exploding, escaping or being chased. If a game has a pulse and a problem, it is probably filed here.