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About This Demo

This free demo has the first three chapters of the summer — The Toy Town, The Train Set and The Kitchen Table — plus BOOT CAMP, eight short drills that teach every order and every call, and skirmish on the same three boards. The garden, lights-out and bath-time chapters and THE BIG ONE are in the full game: wishlist Plastic Front to hear when it is out.

Your big brother has the tan army. You have the green one. The rug is the battlefield, the toy town is the objective, and every painted wooden house on it can come down.

Plastic Front is a destructible tactics game played with classic plastic army men. Pick your squads from a card hand, set them down, tell each one what to do — then press FIGHT and watch your plan meet his.

• Riflemen go cover to cover and lob grenades through windows. Snipers lie flat and wait. Mortar teams drop bombs on anything a friend can see.
  
• Engineers plant dynamite on walls and tanks. Bazooka teams hunt armour. The tank takes a floor out of a house with every shot. The battle robot from the eighties shrugs off rifle fire from the front.
  
• Every unit says what it beats and what beats it. Read their line-up, then answer it.

Every house is built from blocks, floor by floor. Blow the ground floor out and the whole thing folds onto whoever was hiding inside. A sniper in a window is a job for engineers — or for the tank. What falls down stays down for the rest of the match, so the town you fight over in round three is not the one you started with.

• Give every squad an order before the fight: ATTACK, HOLD a patch, walk a ROUTE round the side, or COVER the tank.
  
• Two orders a round once it starts — keep one for when it goes wrong.
  
• The best moment of every round plays back as a replay, in slow motion over the losses. Then the STATS sheet shows who really did the damage.
  
• Your brother plays a different plan every round, and answers what you did last time.

Once a round you can call in the kid's hand. Drop THE BOOK on a knot of figures. Put down a BLOCK WALL for instant cover. Send THE EXPRESS down the train line. Every table has its own calls.

• The Toy Town — a painted wooden town on the playroom rug.
  
• The Train Set — the attic floor, a wind-up express and a tunnel through a paper mountain.
  
• The Kitchen Table — cereal boxes, mugs and a toaster that fires toast.

Each chapter opens with an 80s-style comic of the two brothers, and a toy box of new units to unlock. Three more tables wait in the full game.

• BOOT CAMP: eight short drills that teach every order and every call on a table of their own.
  
• Skirmish on the three demo boards.
  
• Veterans who survive carry their stripes into the next round.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Some 2D art (the logo, the chapter comics, card art, room backdrops and some textures) was made with AI image tools and then edited by the developer. Several 3D models (toy vehicles, the robot, some props) were generated from that art with AI 3D tools, then cleaned up and rigged by hand. Voice lines, sound effects and music were made with AI audio tools. Nothing is generated by AI while you play: the toy town, the destruction and all game logic are built in code by the developer.