The first game · In development

A patient war game, drawn like a summer morning.

Battle Tactics is a turn-based tactics game for iPhone and iPad. Grid maps where the ground decides the fight, units you produce from what you hold, fog that hides what matters most, and four commanders whose powers are worth waiting for.

The four commanders of Battle Tactics gathered around a map spread over a tank's hull at sunrise, a valley opening away behind them

Battle Tactics

Coming to the App Store

How it plays

Four rules doing all the work.

i.

Terrain decides

Woods and mountains pay defence; rivers cost movement. Where a unit stands is most of what it is worth.

ii.

Hold to build

Cities pay income, bases build units. The map is the economy, and every tile of it changes hands.

iii.

Fog hides intent

Vision is a resource. Cover conceals, and an ambush from a treeline can end a day before it starts.

iv.

Officers turn days

Each commander changes how the whole army fights, with a power that charges as the battle goes against you.


The cast

Four friends in an unready army.

A prosperous country with a small, decent, unprepared army — and four officers who have to hold it. Each one changes how the army fights.

Commander Roan
Roan
Front line
Colonel Moss
Moss
Patient defence
Major Vera
Vera
Guns & supply
Captain Kestrel
Kestrel
The air
Colonel Moss reading the ground from a treeline
Commander Roan up on her turret above the valley
An officer resting on her tank, a valley opening away to the right
Major Vera taking a count off a supply truck
Captain Kestrel up on a wing

The board

Painted by hand, tile by tile.

Every map is composed from a hand-painted kit — meadow, road, river, reef, treeline and mountain — so terrain runs continuously across the grid instead of stopping at each tile's edge.

A Battle Tactics board: meadows crossed by roads, a river with four bridges, forests and mountains, ringed by sea

Status

In development.

Battle Tactics is not released yet. There is no pre-order, no waiting list, and nothing to buy — when it is ready, it will appear on the App Store and here.

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