Drones fill the airspace over the tangled war-torn Awbari capital sprawl. In the narrow streets and alleys below, small unit kill teams of private military contractors carry out ruthless targeted killings of jihadists. Each assassination buys the military dictatorship another day of viability and ensures the flow of natural resources out of the country.

Step into the event horizon of absolute chaos. Now.

The near present. Following the invasion of Iraq, Private Military Contractors(PMC) become the preferred instrument of foreign policy by Petro-Monarchies in the failed states of the Middle East. Staffed with US special operations combat veterans, PMC select, train and lead armies of local nationals in conventional and unconventional warfare operations. Combat actions conducted by the contractors are not considered acts of war. They are matters of foreign internal defense.

Black Powder Red Earth is a minute-to-minute turn-based tactics game set in a proxy war between the dictatorship of a failing petro-state and a brutal jihadist insurgency. Fighting in war-torn urban sprawls, players lead an enhanced capability advisory and enabler unit, conducting kinetic actions with full lethal surrogacy to accomplish their missions.

Isolating minute-to-minute decision-making, BPRE is a laser-focused, no-frills tactical experience that follows four key principles.

• Speed is security
• Don’t fight the whole city
• Never go into a fight with only one gun
• Keep shooting until the target changes shape or catches fire

There are no tech-trees, base-building, or role-playing elements. Only fire and maneuver to fix and finish your targets. Poor planning or the application of “video game” tactics will kill every one of your assaulters. Without fail.

Offered originally as a series of single-serving operations with minimal narrative, the new campaign is a string of 12 single-player story-driven missions, complete with cutscenes designed and produced in the style of the graphic novels.

Hunt down three high-value targets - operational emirs of the jihadist Shadow Emirate - with full lethal authority.

With a year in early access to tune gameplay, refine the UI and add features; the one point zero release includes:

• Campaign Mode: Story-driven kill-no capture operations, complete with cutscenes (more on this later).
• Operations Mode: One-off high threat missions conducted in one of six unique operations areas.
• Tutorial: A fully interactive in-game tutorial that teaches players the fundamentals of the title.
• Audio Redesign: With newly crafted sound effects and an expanded soundtrack by guitarist, Takafumi Matsubara (Mortalized, GridLink).

Black Powder Red Earth launched as an Amazon best-selling graphic novel series that led DC think tank The Atlantic Council to invite series creator and game designer Token to speak on a panel alongside author Max Brooks (World War Z) and Dr. Erin Simpson, CEO/President of national strategic design consultants Caerus Associates.

Black Powder Red Earth 28mm is an upcoming tabletop miniatures war game grown out of years of working closely with some of the top special operations training companies in the National Defense space to include Haley Strategic, Northern Red, Fieldcraft Survival, Guerrilla Approach, and capabilities provider BCM.

Black Powder Red Earth goes full send with version one point zero (Steam) dropping on March 30, 2021.