Tin Coffins

WAKE PROTOCOL — LINE TALON, ITERATION 22. You are a combat clone. Your body was printed this shift. The number on your hull is not a callsign. It is a version. Tin Coffins is a cel-shaded third-person mech roguelite. You pilot a four-meter armored mech, infantry in someone else's war, through short, lethal missions in procedurally generated, war-torn cities, with three wingmates at your back. When you die, the war doesn't rewind. The front line keeps what you won and lost, the casualty board takes your name, and the next iteration of you wakes up to keep fighting.A soldier in a suit, not a godCover, sightlines and reload windows decide fights.

Peek, fire, displace. Mechs die in seconds under sustained fire, and so do you. Grounded movement: walk, sprint, crouch, lean and a committed dive-roll, all on one stamina pool. No boost, no flight. Per-limb damage. Lose an arm or your head and keep fighting; lose your torso or your legs and you go down. Friendly fire is real. Your wingmates check their line of fire before they shoot. Do the same. Enemies that fight as squadsEvery enemy squad has a commander handing out roles (anchor, flank, suppress, overwatch, retreat) to pilots who decide for themselves when to peek, push, reload and fall back.

They only shoot at you when they can see you. Pop smoke and they lose you; break line of sight and they search where you were.…