Games Thursday : Modern Tactics 3
A tactical turn-based Flash game featuring soldiers armed with modern day infantry weapons such as assault rifles, light machineguns, sniper rifles, combat shotguns and a selection of frag, stun and flash grenades in an small, isometric arena. Think of it as a more lethal form of virtual paintball. Or a turnbased and less reflex-oriented Counterstrike. Picked up this addictive game at Kongregate fan blog COCAK.
You take turns against the computer to outwit, outflank and outfight your opponents in the campaign consisting of 23 missions. As the team leader, you gain experience for killing enemies with the soldiers under your command with this experience translating to rank promotions which in turn unlocks more weapons in the armory and extra stats and abilities for your troopers.
To organize your squad for maximum lethality, it’s essential to set up classes with different loadouts and abilties e.g rifleman, snipers, assault classes and assign the different loadouts to your individual squad members. A cool feature is that different uniforms and helmets can be used to customize and differentiate the various specialists in your squad.
If you find that your squad continually fails to complete a mission in the campaign, try exiting the mission, tweak and re-assign loadouts and retry the mission. I remember getting stuck at Mission 2 for more than five tries before I realized that classes were available at the start of the campaign 
There’s several types of missions that I have encountered in the campaign. (currently I just completed mission 5)
Destination : Move your soldiers to the designated destination (marked by a blue star). Soldiers will respawn 1 turn after they die.
Search and Destroy : Eliminate all enemy units. Soldiers do not respawn.
Stealth : 2 units vs all enemies in the map. No respawning.
There’s a comprehensive interactive tutorial which takes you through the basics of controlling your soldiers and their weapons.
Some important keys to remember:
0-9 : Select soldier of that number
Cursor keys - Scroll the map
Z - Move
C - Shoot
R - Reload
G - Throw grenade / Use Aid Item
B - Wait (passes control to the next soldier)
Do note that once you select a soldier, you have to issue all the orders before clicking Wait or pressing B since he will not be selectable once control is passed to the next soldier.
Play Modern Tactics 3 on Kongregate or visit the official page at Throw the Project.
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