NOVAHELM - TACTICAL STRIKE

Mission briefing

Novahelm is a fast 4v4 team-elimination shooter played from a third-person view inside a maze of shipping containers and concrete loading bays. Pick your weapon, push the enemy base, and hold the site with your squad. Six weapons with distinct recoil, aim-down-sights, grenades, sprint, crouch, vault, and a killstreak system that rewards aggression. Play matches to unlock the sniper, machine gun and grenade launcher, or watch a short ad to open the SMG and rifle right away.

Field manual

Desktop: W A S D to move, mouse to look and aim, left click to fire, right click to aim down sights. SHIFT toggles sprint, CTRL toggles crouch, SPACE jumps and vaults over low cover, R reloads, G throws a grenade. Press 1 to 6 to pick a loadout slot and ENTER to deploy. Press ESC to release the mouse. Use the sound button in the bottom right to mute. Your team of four fights a four-soldier enemy squad to a score limit. Score a point for every enemy you eliminate. Play matches to unlock the sniper rifle, machine gun and grenade launcher. The SMG and rifle unlock by watching a rewarded ad from the loadout screen. Open the RANKING button on the loadout screen to see the shared lifetime-kills table.

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.

NOVAHELM - TACTICAL STRIKE — questions from the ranks

What does it cost to play NOVAHELM - TACTICAL STRIKE?

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 NOVAHELM - TACTICAL STRIKE?

NOVAHELM - TACTICAL STRIKE 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 NOVAHELM - TACTICAL STRIKE 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. NOVAHELM - TACTICAL STRIKE 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.