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Section Command: Helmand Ops is a real-time tactics game about the British Army in Helmand, played from above, a section at a time.
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.
A Chinook puts your company down on a field outside Zarghun Kalay at first light. The hill above the village is where the patrol base goes. The Taliban hold every compound between you and it, and the families who lived in them are waiting to see who wins.
Your sections fight the way they were trained: one group puts rounds down while the other bounds, the gun goes to the flank, smoke, then the assault. Compounds are cleared room by room. The wounded go down, not out: buddy aid, the team medic, and the MERT in the back of a Chinook if you can hold the landing zone. The Fire Support Team brings the guns, mortars, attack helicopters and fast air, but only onto a target somebody can see.
Around the fighting is a valley full of people, with a pattern of life: men in the fields, children running up to the patrol, a farmer on his motorbike to the bazaar. The rules of engagement are the ones the soldiers had: no positive identification, no shooting. Every civilian who gets hurt costs you the village's trust, and its help.
Section Command began in October 2026, built on the engine of Charlie Foxtrot Company, the studio's free browser squad game. Charlie Foxtrot is loud and daft on purpose; Section Command is the opposite, as close to the real thing as one developer can get it. Its free demo went up on this site on 18 October 2026; since 19 October it has been presented as what it is, a playtest: Zarghun, the only mission for now, where the systems are tuned with players' feedback while the full campaigns are built. On 19 October it was named Section Command: Helmand Ops, the 2D game being finished for Steam. The devlog follows it as it goes.
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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 about Jack and why he's making this game: the Studio page.
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Taken from the game on 18 October 2026, at 1600x900. Pre-alpha: everything here is still changing. Click any picture for full size.
The logos are drawn from the game itself: the title as its menu sets it, the studio's chicken as its splash draws her. The key art is made from the game's own frames (October 2026); new art comes with the Steam page.
