SECTION COMMAND: HELMAND OPS - PRESS FACT SHEET
tacticalchicken.games/press (updated 19 October 2026)

IN ONE LINE
Section Command: Helmand Ops is a real-time tactics game about the British Army in Helmand, played from above,
a section at a time.

FACTS
Title:          Section Command: Helmand Ops (short form: Section Command)
Developer:      Tactical Chicken Studios: one person, Jack Mustard (Fist Full Of Mustard on Steam)
Publisher:      Self-published
Genre:          Real-time tactics
Setting:        Helmand, Afghanistan
Platforms:      Windows, macOS, Linux (Steam)
Playtest:       Free in a desktop web browser, one mission (Zarghun): tacticalchicken.games/section-command
Release date:   Not yet dated
Price:          Not yet set
Status:         Pre-alpha
Languages:      English
Press contact:  hello@tacticalchicken.games

SHORT DESCRIPTION
Section Command: Helmand Ops is a real-time tactics game about the British Army in Afghanistan. You command a
rifle company's sections, teams and attachments directly, the way a platoon commander would: suppress, flank and
clear compounds, call in the guns and the Chinook, and win the valley's people round without losing your men. A free
playtest, one mission, plays in the browser now while the full campaigns are built; the full game is coming to
Steam.

FEATURES
- Fire and movement: one group puts rounds down while the other bounds; the gun on the flank; smoke, then the
  assault.
- Cover is everything: mud walls, irrigation ditches, tree lines and the crops of the green zone.
- Compounds cleared room by room: a hole blown in the wall rather than the gate, the stack on the door.
- The wounded go down, not out: buddy aid, the team medic, and the MERT in the back of a Chinook.
- Fire support from the Fire Support Team, but only onto a target somebody can see.
- A valley with a pattern of life, the rules of engagement as they were (no positive ID, no shooting), IEDs in the
  tracks, and shuras with the elders. Every civilian hurt costs the village's trust.
- No two missions play out the same: the enemy forces are randomised, there's more than one way to complete each
  one, and how you go about it is up to you.
- Patrol bases built with sangars, HESCO and towers, held, and handed to the Afghan Army.
- A free playtest now: the five training areas and one mission, Zarghun (three days), the ground where the
  systems are being tuned with players' feedback. The full game is planned as campaigns built around a
  fourteen-day tour.
- Played from above in 2D, with the soldiers, vehicles and people built as 3D models and drawn from overhead.

VIDEOS AND STREAMING
You may stream Section Command: Helmand Ops and monetise your videos, on any platform. No need to ask.

ABOUT TACTICAL CHICKEN STUDIOS
Tactical Chicken Studios is one person: Jack Mustard, who has been making games since 2020 and is Fist Full Of
Mustard on Steam. With no team and no publisher, he makes real-time tactics, strategy and simulation games for
desktop, and free games for the browser. Section Command: Helmand Ops is the studio's lead game.
More: tacticalchicken.games/about

IN THIS KIT
screenshots/           The game as it is on 18 October 2026, 1600x900
logos/                 The game's logo, SECTION COMMAND over HELMAND OPS, for dark and light backgrounds; the
                       studio's logo (the chicken over the name, and side by side) for dark and light; its icon.
                       Each SVG and PNG.
key-art/               Key art made from the game's own frames (October 2026), landscape and portrait