one war on graph paper · two ways to fight it
2D real-time strategy
Run the whole war from above. Harvest ore, keep the power on, queue tanks from the sidebar and send twelve of them at the other side — in the tradition of Command & Conquer and Red Alert.
3D first-person shooter
Be one of the soldiers. Buy a tank at the purchase terminal, drive it across the field and put C4 on their master control terminal — the base war on foot, in the spirit of C&C Renegade.
No download. No account. No launcher. Both start in seconds, in this tab.
Blue and red, the same bases, the same Margin Wars campaign. One game gives you the map; the other puts you on it.
| TANKS 2D | Frontline 3D | |
|---|---|---|
| You are | the commander | one soldier, or one tank |
| You see | the whole map, top-down | what is in front of you |
| Money | harvesters fill your build queue | harvesters fill your purchase terminal |
| You win by | flattening every building | C4 on every master control terminal |
| Power down means | slow production, dark radar | defences off, prices doubled |
| Inspired by | Command & Conquer, Red Alert | C&C Renegade |
| Play | /play | /frontline |
A lot of people played Command & Conquer or Red Alert at the wrong age and have been quietly looking for the same feeling ever since. A smaller, louder group did the same with Renegade — the one where you could walk into the Hand of Nod. Both feelings are surprisingly hard to find.
The remasters, the open-source engines and the modern successors.
Renegade X, the W3D Hub mods, and the FPS–RTS hybrids that kept the base war alive.
Tesla coils, Mammoth tanks and the specific silliness that made it what it was.
The C&C game everybody wrote off, and the multiplayer mode that outlived its studio.
Yes. There is no price, no account, no email, no launcher, no advertisement and nothing to buy, in either of them. It is one person’s pair of games, put on the internet.
If you grew up on Command & Conquer or Red Alert and want to run the whole war, start with the 2D RTS. If you remember Renegade — or you just want to drive a tank yourself — start with Frontline. They tell the same campaign from two heights, so there is no wrong order.
No. Both are web pages. They run in Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge on Windows, macOS or Linux. Frontline needs WebGL, which every modern browser has. Progress is saved in your browser.
No, and neither game is affiliated with the people who own them. They are original games built on the mechanics those games invented — harvesters, a power grid and a sidebar in the RTS; purchase terminals, master control terminals and C4 in the shooter — drawn as if doodled in a school exercise book.
They will load, but both want a mouse and a keyboard. A laptop or a desktop is the machine to play them on.
Not yet. Each game has a twelve-mission campaign and a skirmish mode against AI that plays the same rules you do. An online mode is what the tip jar is for.
No advertisements, no account, nothing locked. One person built both of these in the evenings and gave them away. If you want to help pay for the next batch of levels and an online mode, there is a tip jar — and if you would rather just play, that was always the point.
Command the whole war from above in 2D, or fight it on foot in 3D. Both are free, and both start in seconds.