Field guide
Controls & Common Tasks
A task-first checklist for reading reports, using the requisition console, reconnaissance, illumination, and movement.
Build a clean report
Keep the Iron Nest, observer, target, and correction as separate locations. A bearing is only meaningful when its origin is known. Use the planner's two modes to preserve that origin.
- Direct: target bearing and range are from the Nest.
- Forward observer: first locate the observer from the Nest, then the target from the observer.
- Read the final result at the Nest, not at the observer.
Requisition and recon
Operation 3 introduces punchcards and the scout-plane request. The card database distinguishes normal purchases, one-use variants, auto-eject behavior, and experimental cards.
- Check the card cost before committing requisition.
- Request the flyover over the objective area.
- Use the returned location or correction in a new firing solution.
Payload tasks
HE is the normal soft-target round, AP is the primary hardened-target round, STAR illuminates, and SMK obscures. Gas and incendiary shells create area effects; EMPT is the practice payload. Powder charge still depends only on range.