Army Men is set in Europe during the early 20th century. As part of the Green group, your object is to battle a group called Tan. The Tan are Nazi-like tyrants, armed to achieve world domination. The commander of Tan has vowed to conquer all of Green's territory and claim it for his own. The Green are fighting to protect themselves from the growing Tan threat. But the Tan's territory runs along the Green's borders, enabling Tan to invade Green from all sides. Your strategic skills will be put to the test with this military game.
Players use their resources to construct buildings and units. Since both factions have access to the same buildings and units neither side has an innate advantage over the other. Some buildings construct new units while others provide defense for a base. The production buildings can be upgraded to produce better units. Units are either infantry or vehicles. Infantry troops are cheap to produce but are not as tough, while vehicles tend to be costly. Vehicles range from passive (dump trucks and base-building bulldozers) to aggressive (tanks and half-tracks) to defensive (mine layers) to suicidal Dum-dums, robots armed with firecrackers). Aside from grunts and grenadiers, infantry units have a special task; minesweepers clear out traps, snipers are potent anti-infantry units, and mortar men can annihilate buildings from afar.
