Dig in. Hold the line. Then go over the top.
Shovel Brigade is a multiplayer game about life at the front. Two camps sit out of sight of each other and spend the time between attacks doing what soldiers really do: digging trenches, stacking sandbags, stringing wire and keeping everyone supplied, rested and ready. Then the order comes from HQ, and someone has to cross the open ground.
BUILD YOUR POSITION
Dig trenches, one shovel stroke at a time.
Build from your supply crates: sandbag cover, barbed wire, camo nets, watchtowers, sleeping tents, searchlights and a team mortar.
Lay anti-tank mines that only your own side can see.
WAIT FOR THE ORDER
60 minutes, two days, two nights. That's one match.
Every five minutes HQ orders one camp to attack. Nobody knows which one.
Two minutes to leave camp. Stay behind and you're a deserter. Wander off without orders and you're one too.
Take their flag. Haul it down in the middle of the enemy's town during your attack, and the match is yours.
KEEP YOUR SOLDIERS GOING
Sleep is the only rest. Stamina comes back only in a sleeping tent you built.
Paid every minute. Spend it at your camp's command center on supply crates, ammo, medic and grenade boxes, mortar shells, jerry cans and vehicles.
The truck brings what you order. Getting it to where it's needed is up to you.
Nights are dark. There's no night vision, only your flashlight, headlights and the searchlights you put up yourself.
WEAPONS AND VEHICLES
Small arms: AK-12, AKM, RPK-74, PKM, SVD with its scope, Mosin-Nagant, RPG-7 and grenades, each with its own recoil and spread. Binoculars come in every kit.
The shovel: it digs your trench and it wins a fight. Two blows kill.
Vehicles: van, supply truck, BRDM-2, BTR-80A and T-72. Anyone can take any vehicle, even the enemy's.
TOS-1 "Buratino": thermobaric rockets that cost a fortune and leave the ground burning.
Ramming: drive fast enough and you go straight through a brick wall. Wire and tents go under your wheels.
Destruction: houses come apart under grenades and rockets. Shoot a jerry can and the fire spreads to tents and nets.
TALK LIKE YOU'RE THERE
Proximity voice: you're heard only as far as your voice would carry.
Walkie-talkie: reaches your whole team.
Watch what you say on it. Each camp has a radio set that plays the enemy's walkie-talkie chatter out loud to anyone standing near it.
PLAY TOGETHER
Host a match and invite friends through Steam, or pick one from the match list.
Drop in and out at any time. The sides stay even, up to 8 against 8.
Private matches with a password.
Free to play. The shop sells only looks for your soldier, never an advantage.
