Arctic Talon

The theatre

One frozen ocean.
Nothing under it but sea.

There is no ground. The map is pack ice on open water: floes you can land on, leads you cannot, and a thickness that decides both. A base stands on a floe. Fuel is on that floe. Cross to the next one or do not go.

Two thumbs fly it. The left one is the stick, the right is a ring of weapons — cannon, rockets, anti-tank missiles, Stingers, flares. Lock a target by hand, or let auto-lock hold the nearest threat while you concentrate on staying alive.

And the sea is not empty. Patrol boats work the leads, supply groups cross the theatre, and a submarine surfaces where it likes — including straight up through a floe you had decided was solid ground.

The campaign

The manifest

Nine missions, and no two are the same shape. A training flight comes first.

01 Thin IceFind and destroy three listening posts on the pack
02 Cold StartSling four M1s out and stand a base up on the floe
03 Heavy EscortSix transports — four tanks and two sections. All six arrive
04 CounterattackHold the base you took, then get out alive RETREAT
05 WhiteoutFind and sink one submarine in the storm WEATHER
06 Under the IceSix minutes, four bases, and they call one at a time CLOCK
07 Quiet ApproachPut six men on their helicopter base — unseen NIGHT
08 Cut the LineTwo convoys, escorted, and they do not turn back CLOCK
09 The Last BoatSink the boomer before she gets a launch away FINALE

Two helicopters over the pack at night, lit only by their own cockpit glass and navigation lights

After dark

One of them
is flown blind

A night insertion onto their helicopter base: SAMs on the outer arc, guns over the pads, and six men on your wings. A firefight is a failed insertion however it ends.

The flight

You are not
alone up there

Most sorties give you a wingman or two, flying what you fly. They call their engagements, break for missiles, run out of rockets and say so, come home on fumes and land beside you to rearm. Their fuel and their armour are on your screen because you will spend them.

Nothing you fire can hurt them, and nothing they fire can hurt you. Fly into one and you will both bounce off, which is the only fair way to do formation on a touchscreen.

The hangar

Ten airframes

Four to fly for nothing. One that is not for sale at any price.

Airframe	Role	Access
AH-64 Apache	Attack · rolls	FREE
T-129 ATAK	Attack · rolls	FREE
Mi-24 Hind	Gunship · carries troops	FREE
Mi-28 Havoc	Attack · rolls	FREE
RAH-66 Comanche	Stealth · rolls
Ka-52 Alligator	Coaxial · rolls
AH-1W Cobra	Attack
UH-60M Black Hawk	Utility · lift · troops
AH-6 Little Bird	Light · rolls
Hava Börü	Original design	EARNED

Every one of them wears arctic paint, and the glass is yours to choose. The Hava Börü is the one aircraft the purchase does not open: it is what you are given for finishing the campaign, and staying unbuyable is the point of it.

The deal

Fly it first,
then decide

Free to startThe training flight and the first two missions, in full — plus the skirmish and endless modes, and four aircraft.
One purchaseOpens the rest, once. There is nothing else in the game to buy.
No adsNo advertising, no currency, no loot boxes, no subscription.
No accountNo sign-in and no registration. The campaign plays offline.

One frozen ocean.Nothing under it but sea.

The manifest

One of themis flown blind

You are notalone up there

Ten airframes

Fly it first,then decide

One frozen ocean.
Nothing under it but sea.

One of them
is flown blind

You are not
alone up there

Fly it first,
then decide