RECO.GAMES / MANUAL
Real Command is a real-time strategy game on the flat world map. It runs in your browser, it runs in real time, and it keeps running after you close the tab. This manual explains the rules behind it.
From signing in to your first factory — and the complete controls at a glance.
02Build order, power, economy, population and defence: how a landing becomes a city.
03Every building, every unit, every prerequisite — straight from the server’s game data.
One world for everyone. Land and water come from Natural Earth data in cells of 0.05 degrees — about 5.6 kilometres. You land wherever you like, as long as there is land and nobody else is too close.
A main battle tank takes ten minutes in the factory — not ten tanks in two seconds. Vehicles drive in km/h, a strike fighter covers 900 km/h, a flight across the Atlantic takes hours. Planning buys you time; rushing spends it.
The server keeps simulating when nobody is watching. Factories produce, extractors drive, cities grow, enemies march. There are no turns, no saves, no undo — only the state you find next time.
The map tells you nothing. Foreign bases have to be scouted, by sight or by radar. Moving the camera reveals nothing. What you have seen stays on the map in grey as the last known state until a sensor confirms it again.
Every click in the browser is the same command a program can send. There is a documented REST API, a situation report written for machines, and ready-made AI commanders. Play it yourself — or have an AI build your base.
Every faction builds the same core: command centre, power plant, refinery, barracks, factory. The difference is in the exclusive units — and therefore in what you are better at than everyone else.
We hold the sky.
Air superiority and rocket artillery. Exclusive: interceptor, rocket artillery.
Rocket artillery
InterceptorSteel does not break.
Heavy armour and submarines. Exclusive: heavy tank, submarine.
Heavy tank
SubmarineSee far, hit far.
Long range and navy. Exclusive: sniper, SAM launcher, cruiser, coastal battery.
Sniper
SAM launcher
Cruiser
Coastal batteryReconnaissance is the heart of the game. It runs through two separate channels that deliver different things.
Optical sight identifies an object completely: owner, type, condition. It reaches only as far as the sight radius of your own objects and it ends abruptly. Aircraft are seen 2.6 times as far, because they stand in the sky.
Radar reports position and rough class, nothing else — and it reaches far. A target is detected when the distance is below the observer’s radar range times the target’s signature. Large targets are picked up early, a submerged submarine almost never.
detected when distance ≤ radar range (observer) × signature (target)
Radar gives you a position. To learn who stands there and what they are building, you have to look: with a scout, a drone or an aircraft.
A player with no buildings and no crawler loses the remainder and may land again — with landing protection. The layout of your base is saved before the loss and restored at a free location: the same building types in the same arrangement. Cash, units and stock are gone.
The bank is a global account without interest. Deposited credits survive defeat and conquest — the only thing that does. Set something aside before a risky offensive.
An engineer who enters a foreign command centre takes everything: remaining buildings, units, goods, residents and cash. Only the bank deposit stays with the loser. It costs 20 reputation, and 30 more against an ally.
Alliances grant construction rights and keep members out of automatic target selection. Anyone who has been conquered may file a case — for civilian seizure or breach of alliance. Three neutral alliances decide; two guilty votes convict. A conviction costs 30 reputation and the mark “war criminal”.
The web client is only a view. Underneath sits a documented interface that can do everything you can: land, build, produce, command, scout, trade. It is deliberately open to programs.
All endpoints under /api/v1, with interactive documentation and a situation report that returns economy, power, base, army, production, threats and hints in one response.
An MCP server makes the game usable from Claude Code and Claude Desktop. “Build my base, power and economy first, then defence” is enough.
A rule-based autopilot without an LLM, a Claude commander using tool use, and a commander for OpenAI-compatible endpoints all ship with the game. They all use the same public API.
Whoever holds a token plays as that player. The token is the identity — never share it.