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Guard Force: Covert Strike

Windows - 2004

Description from the publisher:

In the same spirit as the U.S. Army's successful soldier simulation America's Army, the Army National Guard presents Guard Force, a real-time strategy game designed to demonstrate authentic aspects of tactical modern warfare. The game features six different missions involving real-world war machines and units such as M1A1 tanks, M9 Ace minelayers, and Bradley tanks. At the time of its release, Guard Force was distributed exclusively at local National Guard recruiting offices, to United States residents 13 years and older.

How to Play

Install & play guide:

  • Mount the disc image, you will need the utility for mounting disc image files, Windows 8 and 10 has built-in utility (if it doesn't work use disc mounting apps like WinCDEmu, UltraISO, Alcohol 52%/Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools Lite)
  • Install the game
  • Open the directory with the game and find NGuard.exe. Right click on NGuard.exe - Properties - Compatibility - Set "Run this app in compatibility mode with Windows XP"
  • Launch the game and play. If the game doesn't run - open Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del by default) and check for processes NGuard.exe and rundll32.exe. Close NGuard.exe but don't touch rundll32.exe (it's a Windows app for running old apps from 32-bit operational systems, most old games running through rundll32.exe). Now try to launch the game again, it must work. Don't forget to close rundll32.exe process in Task Manager after finishing playing.
  • If the game hides mouse cursor, try to launch the game in windowed mode

The game has been tested on Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 10, works okay. If you have troubles with the game, try to use utilities that helps to run the old games on new PCs, like DXWnd or dgVoodoo

NoCD for Russian version has a lot of warnings on VirusTotal, use at your own risk https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f3c063e10ed0415835cc36aaa45f8540971d054f09ed80c726c979e652a5020f/detection

Comments and reviews

Couize 09 Sep. 2026

If you don't see the mouse cursor, select "Acceleration - OFF"
Works on W11 Pro

;o)

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Downloads

Windows version
Disc Image
United Kingdom English
441 MB
Disc Image
Russia Russian
563 MB

Extras

NoCD NoCD 1
NoCD for Russian license
Windows 6 KB Russian Russian

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