Shield Line: Riot Police Tactics

Shield Line: Riot Police Tactics is a real-time tactics game in which you command a riot police unit. From peaceful marches to post-derby clashes, from looted shopping centres to a station under siege, your job is to keep order across the city's districts. How you keep it is up to you.

The crowd is not a single enemy. Every protester acts on their own anger, fear and patience. Peaceful marchers, ringleaders, militants, hooligans and looters all behave differently. Excessive force makes a crowd grow; a well-timed announcement or negotiation can end the day without bloodshed.

Features

• Crowds of hundreds: 250-300 people per mission, each with their own mood; panic spreads, narrow streets turn into crushes.
  
• Shield lines, protective rings, evacuation corridors: form them at any angle and use the terrain; tired front ranks fall back while the second rank takes over.
  
• 12 unit types: shield officers, patrol officers, gas grenadiers, water cannon, mounted police, flash-bang team, undercover officers, medics, negotiators, police drone, prisoner van and more.
  
• Fog of war and emergency calls: what your officers can't see stays dark; incidents arrive as calls, and not every call is true. CCTV cameras and the drone are your eyes.
  
• Night, rain and fog: change visibility, tear gas, fires and the mood of the crowd.
  
• Public opinion and the press: journalists film every intervention. Each mission ends with a newspaper headline, a shift in public trust and a crowd that remembers.
  
• Campaign and budget: funds carried between missions, specialist units and equipment upgrades, detention decisions, intelligence. Failure makes the next mission harder.
  
• Replayability: waves, weather and surprise events change on every run; build your own scenarios with the mission editor.