What are the controls?
We have HUD buttons and order names, not a full key list. Settings toggles Helping Arrow, Low Graphics, and Music. Combat in CHALLS shows a Glock-17 Auto with 17 rounds. Late plots add Missions under Setting.
Command
Military Army Tycoon Orders
Four order names are recorded. The button is the green radio, third on the left HUD. Unused squads are a Cash leak.
Updated
The four names, and the one button
A 31 August field note recorded Follow, Attack, Hold, and Retreat. The HUD control for that set is the green walkie-talkie labelled Orders, third from the top. It is not inside Settings.
CHALLS combat prints New order: Attack while the infantry blob is pushed into a village ring. That is the only on-screen order sentence we have cropped. Use Follow to get there, Attack to commit, Hold if they wander, Retreat if the take is lost.
| Order | Use in footage / notes |
|---|---|
| Follow | Move the blob with you to a pad or flag |
| Attack | Printed in CHALLS during the Tent Camp push |
| Hold | Stop a chase into a bad NPC lane |
| Retreat | Leave a lost ring instead of feeding |
Helping arrows are not orders
Yellow or white chevrons on the floor are the Helping Arrow toggle inside Settings. They point at the next pad or the next flag. They do not issue Attack. You can turn them off in Settings if they clutter the shot.
A Base 1 plate appears under the avatar in CHALLS. That is your plot label, not a command.
Why this page exists
The official description says you send troops into battle and capture locations. That sentence assumes a command layer. Players who only buy droppers never open the green radio.
NPC friendly fire
A Battle Action post asked for alliances because “we don’t intend to harm them but the npc does.” The site cannot add an alliance tool. Hold and Retreat are the only sourced answers.
Six-player servers
Max players is 6. Plots get contested. If a capture fails, check whether your squad is still on Follow into someone else’s troops or an NPC lane.
Orders is not the Missions board
Later plots grow a fifth HUD button: orange clipboard, labelled Missions. That board is a separate page on this site. Orders still only moves the blob you already bought. If you open the walkie-talkie looking for Riot Squad or Ural Truck, you opened the wrong icon.
DinozaurPlays (VjxGWbiSce8) shows both icons on the same left stack. Early clips from POCKET-CODES and VendoPlus stop at four buttons. If your HUD has no orange clipboard yet, you have not unlocked that row — keep buying pads and barracks.
What we have not seen
Keybinds, controller mapping, and whether orders are per-squad or global are not in the official description. A keyboard graphic copied from Military Tycoon is guessing. Open the green radio and read the live labels. If a pad flashes You need to complete the required mission first!, that message belongs to Missions, not to Follow or Attack.
FAQ
Military Army Tycoon Orders FAQ
Can I ally other players?
Not as an official feature we can point to. Use Hold and Retreat.
Is Missions the same as Orders?
No. Orders is the green radio that issues Follow and Attack. Missions is the orange clipboard that lists named tasks such as Oppression.