Actual gameplay
Strategy
Wildfire command
Seasons and crews
Fire Season
Read the wind, cut the line, hold the town
A fire has started in the hills above town. It spreads cell by cell across a contour map, pushed by the wind, the slope, the fuel and the time of day: slow through the morning, running hard in the afternoon burn period, laying down at dusk. You send hand crews to cut line and set backburns, park engines by the houses, and decide where the one air tanker drop goes.
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How to play
- 1Tap a crew, pick Cut line, and drag a line ahead of the fire. They walk to it and cut along it.
- 2Watch the forecast strip. When the wind is about to swing, get your line on the side it will push the fire toward.
- 3Pause any time to plan. Crews fall back on their own when the heat builds, so leave them a way out.
What's in it
- Fire that spreads with the wind, the slope, the fuel and the humidity, and throws embers ahead of itself in tall timber
- Hand crews, engines, dozers and hotshots, each good on different ground
- Air tanker drops that lay a pink line of retardant, and a helicopter bucket for hot spots
- Four regions, from open grass to a town at the bottom of a windy canyon
- Crews that level up and learn the skills you pick, and a station to build out between calls
- A service record, and fire seasons that run hotter and drier every year