The chart

How the gun run works.

GUNBOAR is a flying pickup truck with a chainsaw. You are already low. The cannon is the game. Tusks are for trucks.

The Boar

A fictional close-air-support jet with A-10 DNA and none of the paperwork. Twin engines high on the rear fuselage, straight wings, a bathtub cockpit, a ridiculous rotary cannon in the snout. Ugly on purpose. Slow enough a thumb can fly it.

The gun is called the Grinder. Thirty millimeters, many barrels, no subtlety. You do not squeeze off a burst. You hold the trigger and walk a glowing line through a machine column until something comes apart. Under the wings: six Tusks, fat air-to-ground missiles for the thing that will not die to a stitch.

Not affiliated with the United States Air Force, Northrop Grumman, Fairchild Republic, or any aircraft manufacturer. The Boar is original. Do not look for a real bureau number. There isn’t one.

The Boar, a fictional ugly attack jet with a nose rotary cannon and twin high engines — The Boar. High twins, straight wings, Grinder in the snout.

Controls

Line up. Hold. Pull off.

Fly

WASD, arrows, mouse, or the stick

On desktop, move the mouse to pitch and yaw — up climbs, down dives, left and right bank. A/D also banks. W/S also changes altitude. On a phone, the left stick does both. You are already fast. There is no throttle and no airfield. Stay low enough to chew, high enough that the salt pan does not keep you. P or Esc holds. M mutes.

Gun

Space, click, or hold GUN

The fat pipper is where the Grinder stitches. Put it on a machine and hold. Tracers leave the snout. Brass kicks starboard. Chew four hulks and the Boar racks a Twin Grinder — two streams, wider stitch, meaner BRRRT. The gun is still the point.

Tusks

E, Q, right-click, or Tusk

Start with six Tusks. A lime diamond marks the lock. E, Q, right-click, or Tusk. It lofts, then dives. Eight hulks racks four more rails. Fourteen hulks is Illegal Load — two Tusks leave the wings at once, twelve on the board. Empty rails click. Do not spend them all on Scraps.

Flares

F, Shift, or Flare

Needles lock — red box, LOCK in your face, a tone that is not a suggestion — then they write your name in smoke. Dump flares and bank hard. You get three. The spoof only works if the pellet is still burning when the missile looks.

A Scrap, a barrel-torso industrial walker with tractor treads and a single red optic — A Scrap. Barrel torso, treads, one red optic. Not a person.

The Cinder Line

An original machine army. They weld themselves out of scrapyards and walk the salt pan in columns. Soft-ish armored farm equipment that learned how to hate. They are machines. You are not strafing people.

Scraps — squat walkers. They pop if you walk the gun through them.

Haulers — six-wheel cages full of more Scraps. Kill the truck, the cargo spills, then kill the cargo.

Stingers — AA dishes. They throw flak into your bathtub. Jink.

Needles — SAM boxes. Lock tone, smoke, then a missile that wants you specifically.

Anvils — furnace-bellied quadrupeds. You do not tap an Anvil. Walk the Grinder through it, or put two Tusks in the bell, until the optic goes dark.

Score, then immediately again

Kills feed a combo. The combo dies if you stop chewing. Best score lives in this browser only — localStorage, no account, no energy, no live-service. Runs are twenty to ninety seconds because that is how long a gun run should last.

GUNBOAR is a toy in the spirit of a tight itch.io / CrazyGames arcade, not a flight sim. There is no loadout screen. There is no airfield. There is a cannon, a column, and a salt pan that will keep you if you get greedy.

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