Trench Tycoon: Toy Army Defense

Prospectus

Build a toy army fortress and hold the line. Gold mines, farms, mills and a market pay for soldiers, tanks, bazookas, machine guns, mortars, artillery and planes, while waves of tan plastic troops, armoured cars and tanks cross no-man's land toward your trenches and walls. It is an idle tycoon and a fortress defense in one: the battle runs itself, but you can take command of any of your soldiers or man any gun and fight in overhead or first-person view. Earn major upgrades, pick the road reinforcements take, call in the Big Bomb, and push as far as your fort can go.

How it plays

Spend gold on the cards at the bottom: Economy buildings earn gold, Army and Defenses stop the waves. Tap the Gold Mine to speed it up. Each wave crosses no-man's land to your forward trench, the front-line trench and then the wall; clear waves to earn bonuses and unlock new units. Press Lead to take control of a soldier or gun. Desktop: WASD or arrow keys move, mouse aims, click or Space fires, V or F switches first person, Q/E turn, C charges, G follow me, H hold, Esc lets go. Mobile: drag to scroll, pinch to zoom, stick to move and FIRE to shoot.

Opening an account with this game takes one press: Open the holding, above, and it loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first decision. It is drawn for a landscape (wide) screen and takes its instructions from mouse, keyboard or touch, as the game prefers. The file is drawn wide, for a landscape screen — turn a phone sideways, or let a tablet or desktop give it room to breathe. If a fullscreen control is offered, take it — a growing enterprise deserves the whole desk.

Analyst's notes for tycoon holdings

• Reinvest while it still feels too early. The gap between a stall and a business is one upgrade bought before it was comfortable; tycoon games are compound interest with scenery.
• Location before decoration. Customers pay for position and throughput; the marble floor can wait until the queue is long enough to admire it.
• Expand sideways before upward. A second modest revenue line steadies a tycoon run far better than one glorious flagship riding a single market.

Trench Tycoon: Toy Army Defense — questions from the readership

What does it cost to open Trench Tycoon: Toy Army Defense?

Nothing, at any point. The holding is free from the first click to the last upgrade — no account to open, no download to wait for, no paywall filed anywhere in its pages. The advertising around this page is what pays the bookkeeping.

What kind of game is Trench Tycoon: Toy Army Defense, exactly?

We file it on the Tycoon shelf of the ledger. It is a browser game through and through — the prospectus above is the publisher's own summary of what the game asks of you and what it gives back.

Can I play Trench Tycoon: Toy Army Defense on a phone or tablet?

Yes — it runs in the browser on phones and tablets just as it does on a computer. The file is drawn wide, for a landscape screen — turn a phone sideways, or let a tablet or desktop give it room to breathe.

Is there anything to download or install first?

Nothing at all. Trench Tycoon: Toy Army Defense is an HTML5 game: press the open button and it loads on this very page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind on your device.

Closing entry

Finished the audit, or still mid-season? The full Tycoon shelf is one click away — Start with a stall, end with a skyline. One hundred and four tycoon files chart the whole arc — first customer, first expansion, first property you bought purely because you could.