# Tactical-Retreat: rebuilding Counter-Strike 1.5 gameplay in QuakeC

> Tactical-Retreat rebuilds Counter-Strike 1.5 game logic for the QuakeC-based Rad-Therapy and FTEQW stack. Its entity notes map hostage, bomb, buy-zone and other CS behaviors to source implementations, while original game data is supplied separately.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/eukara/freecs>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/eukara/freecs/blob/79893de18d34e9f55cbf4877283145e63bfab5f1/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tactical-retreat-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tactical-retreat-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/tactical-retreat-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** FTEQW, Rad-Therapy and the Tactical-Retreat package are needed to run it.
- **Prerequisites:** Original game data files must be provided separately.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires the Nuclide SDK and its game build process.
- **License:** ISC License.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/eukara/freecs/blob/79893de18d34e9f55cbf4877283145e63bfab5f1/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/eukara/freecs/blob/79893de18d34e9f55cbf4877283145e63bfab5f1/Documentation/Entities.md>

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