The Brick Gulf: all three wars, one front
Planes, warships, and tanks, all in one round on one front. The Brick Gulf is a whole new way to play: fly the air war, fight the naval gun line, or grind up the coast in armor — and now they're all the same battle, on a map built for exactly this.
Two full-scale battlefields, one coastline
Tanks and battleships fight at wildly different ranges, and you can't just squeeze them onto one field — a map small enough for armor starves naval gunnery, and an ocean big enough for battleships turns a tank into a long commute. So the Brick Gulf doesn't compromise. It puts two proper battlefields side by side: the steppe — grass, forests, towns — west of a winding coast, the deep sea and low islands east of it, and one front line running clean through both.
Four zones sit on that line, the same distance from either team: Kilnfeld and Crossbrick for the armor, Fort Brick for the fleets, and Brickhaven — the harbor at the head of a bay that bites into the center of the front, capturable by a tank platoon fighting through the streets or a destroyer laid alongside the quay. Over the mouth of the Gulf floats the Sky Ring: holding it doesn't score on its own, it multiplies everything your side earns on the ground and the water. Air superiority always matters, and it never makes the surface war pointless.
The thread that ties the arms together is spotting. A warship can only shell armor that someone on her team can actually see — an unspotted tank is invisible to the enemy fleet. So a fighter circling the steppe becomes the guns' eyes, and shooting down that spotter is how you blind the fleet firing on your tanks. Every arm needs the others: the plane finds the target, the ship kills it, the tank takes the ground.
Every arm fights the way it always has
Nothing got watered down to share the map. Planes fly the way they fly in the air war, warships trade broadsides with the same gunnery as the sea war, and tanks bounce and brew up on the same armor as the land war. Put them together and it all just meshes: ship anti-aircraft guns rake the planes overhead, strafing runs chew up armor, and the cross-arm duels resolve the way they should — a tank that darts into a beached destroyer punches through its thin plating, warship high-explosive rains down on the tank front, and a Warden's guided missile can reach clear across the Gulf.
A battle that swings both ways
The Gulf is meant to seesaw, and it does. The line fights for Crossbrick while the flankers peel off for Kilnfeld and the Brickhaven quay; the fleets duel for Fort Brick out on the water. First contact comes within seconds of the round starting, both fronts trade hands, and a side that's losing on the steppe can still claw the round back on the sea. No single arm decides it — the round belongs to whoever holds the most, in the air, on the water, and on the ground at once.
Roll out
Pick a fighter, a warship, or a tank from one spawn screen — each keeps its own unlock ladder — and it's first side to 1,400 over fifteen minutes. Behind the fighting, a whole war economy runs: supply trucks steer themselves up from headquarters to the forward depot across a roadless map, a freighter sealift sails in reinforcements only while your side holds Brickhaven (thread it through the Breakwater gauntlet, and it'll sink like anything else if you don't guard it), and Fort Brick's garrison — a dormant ruin of flak and one heavy battery — stands up at full strength under the flag of whoever takes the water. Capture the harbor, inherit the fort. The map was drawn on paper before a shot was fired on it, and the ground you fight over is that chart, hill for hill.