Squad Command: Counterstrike

Squad Command: Counterstrike is about planning, not fast clicking. You have gold, a deployment grid, and four unit classes with distinct roles, costs, and counter interactions.

How to play

1. On the setup screen, buy units from the shop and place them on the grid on the left. Infantry is cheap and soaks damage, archers hit from range, cavalry reaches the back line fast, and artillery hits hard in an area but is fragile up close.

2. The counter chain: cavalry beats artillery, infantry holds cavalry, archers pick off infantry on approach, and artillery shreds dense groups. Keep a front line of infantry with archers behind.

3. Press Battle. The fight runs itself: units move to the nearest target and attack. Click a unit to give it a priority target; click a tile to rally them there.

4. Between waves you earn gold per kill, and clearing a wave grants a bonus. You lose when your HQ is destroyed.

Tips

• Don't spend all your gold at once: keep a reserve for upgrades between waves.
• Park artillery behind your front line, or enemy cavalry will delete it in seconds.
• Check the next wave's composition in the top panel and buy the right counters.