Desert Convoy

Overview

Desert Convoy turns the escort mission into the whole game. A line of supply trucks drives itself along a winding desert route while raiders wait behind marked dunes; you command three gun escorts that are the only thing between the convoy and the sand. Tap an escort, tap a position, and it drives there and fires automatically at any raider inside its ninety-pixel ring. Raiders trigger when the lead truck rolls past their dune, sprint for the nearest vehicle, and chew through truck armor fast — so the game is about reading the route, pre-positioning your screen, and rotating escorts to the next ambush before it springs. Kills pay salvage, and between routes you bolt armor plates and hotter guns onto individual escorts, upgrades that persist for the whole run. Eight routes escalate with more dunes, tougher raiders, and trickier bends; trucks lost stay lost, and the campaign ends when the last truck burns or the eighth route is behind you.

How to Play

Press Start Game and the convoy rolls on its own. Tap one of the three green escorts to select it, then tap anywhere on the sand to send it there; it engages raiders automatically. Watch for the dark dune mounds — each hides one ambush that springs when the lead truck gets close. Between and during routes, the Armor and Gun buttons upgrade the currently selected escort for thirty and forty salvage respectively. Keyboard players move the command cursor with the arrow keys and press Space to select or order at the cursor. P pauses, R restarts the campaign.

Tips & Strategy

Never let an escort trail the convoy — raiders outrun escorts, so a screening vehicle that starts behind the trucks will never catch an ambush already in progress. Instead, leapfrog: while one escort covers the current dune, send the other two ahead to the next marked mound so the ambush spawns inside your firing rings. Concentrate upgrades on one escort rather than spreading them; a single plated gun truck with bonus damage can hold a dune alone, freeing the other two to screen. When raiders target an escort instead of a truck, let them — escorts out-range raiders and can kite backward while firing, trading zero truck health. Bank salvage early and buy armor first, because a dead escort takes its guns with it, and routes five through eight punish thin screens with back-to-back dune triggers.

What Makes It Distinct

Most convoy games make you drive. Desert Convoy removes the driving entirely and keeps only the commander's problem: where should three guns be thirty seconds from now? Persistent per-escort upgrades and permanent truck losses give every repositioning decision weight that carries across all eight routes.