![]() ![]() If the enemy slips enough units past your barricades with a certain amount of time, you lose. Gratuitous Tank Battles features an ample supply of smoke, fire, explosions, and crippled hulks.Gratuitous Tank Battles is a “tower defense” game in which you must stop a horde of onrushing attackers by placing defensive obstacles, such as flamethrowers, laser cannons, and entrenched troops. Set in a future where “The War To End All Wars” never, uhm, ended, it mixes imagery and concepts from World War I with lasers and mecha, and not much more plot than “They’re attacking, we blow them up!” Gratuitous virtual violence, at its finest! The trailer says it's out "soon-ish," the site says it'll be out before the end of this year.Gratuitous Tank Battles has some elements in common with its outer-space ancestor, Gratuitous Space Battles, but it is in no way just the same game with a tank skin. As an attacker, you have to choose set up your forces, choose their routes through the battlefield and focus their fire.Ĭreator Cliff Harris also mentions on the Gratuitous Tank Battles site that "a built-in map editor will allow easy sharing of custom maps and defensive challenges with other GTB players in a similar fashion to GSB's challenge system." Which is great news unless you happen to be Hatfield's brain. ![]() ![]() As a defending player, you must place and upgrade your defensive towers sensibly to repel the waves of enemy tanks. ![]() Gratuitous Tanks Battles will require more involvement. Once they were in battle, they acted on their own, and all you could do was sit back and see how your carefully laid plans played out. GSB was all about tailoring the set up of each of your ships. It's predecessor, Gratuitous Space Battles almost destroyed Tom Hatfield's brain with its build-focused brand of strategy. ![]()
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