How to Play

uTanks is played in your browser: nothing to download. Make an account, create a tank, then press Play Game.

The turn-based part

The battlefield is turn based. Everybody's orders are collected for a couple of seconds, carried out in the order they came in, and then you see what happened. You give one order at a time: you can give the next once the last one has been answered. Switching equipment on or off is free and never waits.

Controls

Do thisTo
Click a tileMove there
Double-click a tank or tile, or SpaceFire
Hold the mouse button on an itemPick it up
SRadar (shows fuel, equipment and mines nearby)
DLay a mine
FThe map (click it to teleport; it costs fuel)
1 to 6Switch armor, dual shots, missiles, homing missiles, extra radar and beacons on or off
C, I, X, /Your statistics, your inventory, the forces, the players
T, R, B, O, PThe top lists
LHow long the server takes to answer you (your ping)
ZHide other players' comments
;Sound on or off

These are the standard keys. Logged in, you can change any of them on the Controls page.

Fuel, weapons and equipment

  • Fuel is your health. Moving, firing and teleporting spend it, and being hit takes it away. Pick up barrels to refuel.
  • Armor soaks a hit. Dual shots are worth double. Missiles fly over rocks and other tanks and are worth one and a half. Homing missiles follow a tank that moves away from the spot you shot at. A dual shot is used before a missile, and a missile before a homing missile.
  • Beacons mark an enemy tank so that it shows on your map, pulsing, wherever it goes. You can carry as many as your rank allows.
  • You cannot fire at your own force, and you cannot drive onto another tank.
  • Mines are hidden from the other forces until a radar finds them. Driving onto one hurts.

Ranks

Hit and deactivate enemy tanks to earn promotion points. See Awards for what each rank and prestige needs, and the medals you can win.