Musket guide

Musket is a free real-time tank battle for 1 to 12 players that runs in your browser. Pick a hull, push up the field with your minions, and bring down the other side's base. Nothing to download and no sign-up.

If you played Minions, the 2008 Flash game on Casual Collective, Musket plays the same way: the board scrolls from your base up to theirs, towers fall one by one, and minions march out in threes.

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How a match is won

  1. Each side has a base and four towers. Towers shoot the closest enemy in reach.
  2. Minions march from your base in squads of three. Let them soak tower fire while you shoot.
  3. Every tower you lose makes your base take more damage.
  4. Destroy the enemy base to win. After eight minutes the final assault starts and both sides go all in.

The eight hulls

Bastion, a blue armoured tank

Bastion

Bulwark · Hard to kill, gentle to shoot. The safe first pick.
  • Repair: heal yourself 18 hp a second for 6 s.
  • Shield: +2 armour for 3.5 s.
  • Watchful: see further, always.
Grenadier, a tank with a very long gun

Grenadier

Glass cannon · Paper armour, heavy charge.
  • Rapid Volley: +25% attack speed for 5 s.
  • Hot Shot: shots ignore armour for 4.5 s.
  • Heavy Charge: +4 shell damage, always.
Surgeon, a wheeled ambulance wagon

Surgeon

Support · Makes everyone near it last longer.
  • Field Dressing: heal every ally within 75 for 3 s.
  • Spyglass: much longer sight for 6 s.
  • Forced March: second fastest hull.
Sapper, a tank with a scorpion tail

Sapper

Control · Brittle, but it stops enemies where they stand.
  • Chain Shot: stuns for 1.8 s.
  • Tar Pot: −30% move and −25% attack speed for 4 s.
  • Rally: +15% damage and 5% armour for 5 s.
Bombardier, a tank on four legs with a bronze mortar

Bombardier

Artillery · Longest reach on the board.
  • Rocket: 32 damage out to 125, ignores armour.
  • Carcass: burning shell, 28 damage in a 45 radius.
  • Ramrod: instantly reloads Rocket and Carcass.
Lancer, a domed tank with a lance

Lancer

Shredder · Must be touching you to hurt you.
  • Charge: nearly double speed for 5 s.
  • Confusion: enemy hulls touching you aim wild for 3 s.
  • Bayonet: +30% damage up close; towers hit it 8% softer.
Hussar, a fast tank with wings

Hussar

Harasser · Fastest chassis built. Paper thin.
  • Gallop: big burst of speed for 4 s.
  • Trample: charge forward, smashing what you hit.
  • Light Horse: nothing outruns you, and you mend 25% faster.
Ranger, a low tank with a hood and a long rifle

Ranger

Ambusher · Unseen until it is too late.
  • Concealment: invisible until you fire.
  • Marksman: next shot hits for +150%.
  • Light Step: faster while hidden.

Playing with friends

Share the page link and everyone lands in the same room. Up to six a side; bots fill the empty seats, and you can set how hard they play.

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