The Sharp End: Wargame

THE SHARP END is a deck-building strategy game of modern British campaigns, played on a glowing green military terminal with cards printed like old map paper. THREE THEATRES, FIFTEEN OPERATIONS Land at San Carlos and fight across the Falklands in 1982. Hold the line with BAOR on the Cold War central front in West Germany. Breach the berms with Operation Granby in the 1991 Gulf War. Each theatre is a five-mission campaign with its own cards, terrain and enemy commanders. PUSH THE FRONT Every mission is three sectors. Spend command points to deploy Harriers, Paras, armour, naval gunfire and support into each lane. Push a lane to 100% and hold it through an enemy turn to consolidate it, or grind the enemy's resistance down to zero before the clock runs out. Let any sector collapse and the operation fails. READ THE BATTLEFIELD Weather changes everything: clear skies favour air power, fog blinds it, storms ground it. Ridgelines favour infantry and punish armour, open ground is tank country, and littoral sectors reward the gunline. SAM locks, chaff, recce and engineers all change the odds. Every opponent is a named commander with a doctrine of his own, and he escalates from probing attacks to desperate measures as time runs short. BUILD YOUR FORCE Choose a doctrine at the start of each campaign. Win missions to earn war bonds, requisition rare and legendary cards between operations, and cut weak cards from your deck. Units mentioned in dispatches get permanently stronger. MORE - Campaign and Skirmish modes, with Easy, Medium and Hard difficulty - Gold and silver medals, a Hall of Fame of best times, and Chronicles of your campaigns - Theatre events that interrupt the mission and demand a decision - Retro SID-style chiptune music and sound effects, and an optional CRT screen effect - Optional "pokes" (cheats) for players who just want to see it through. Records are marked - Haptic feedback, saved progress and resume-anywhere Plays fully offline. No ads, no tracking, no account and no data collected.