You need a Discord account, Manage Server on your server and at least two voice channels. Make a caller channel and one channel per party, invite the Callout bot, pick your roles and speaker channels on the dashboard, then type /start in any text channel.
Before you start#
- A Discord account with Manage Server on the server you want to set up — see who can set up a server.
- At least two voice channels: one for your callers and one per party.
- A few minutes. Nothing to install, and no bot tokens to handle.
Steps#
Make the channels
Create one voice channel for your callers — call it command, officers, whatever fits; several callers in it is fine — and one voice channel per party: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie… Starting from an empty server? Copy the gaming guild server template, or the layout for your game.
Make a caller role
In Server Settings → Roles, create a role for the people running comms, for example Shot Caller. Don't use @everyone or a general member role, or anyone can broadcast.
Invite the bot, then check status
Click Invite bot and authorise it. It asks for three permissions: View Channels, Connect and Speak. Back on the dashboard, click Check status; once it says connected you land on the configuration page.
Set roles and the shot caller channel
Pick the starter role (who can run /start and /stop), the shot caller channel and the primary and backup caller roles. The page saves by itself. Details in configuration.
Add speaker bots
Each speaker slot has its own Invite bot button. Invite them, hit Refresh, then pick a voice channel for each. See speaker bots.
Type /start
In any text channel, type
/start. The speaker bots join their channels; your caller talks in the shot caller channel and every party hears them./stopsends the bots home. All commands are in the command reference.
What next#
- Let party leaders reach the caller with talk back.
- Run attack and defense calls at the same time with voice teams.
- Link a second server with an alliance.
- Something not working? Start at troubleshooting.