Faction Tactics

### Every thousand years, reality thins.

The Observers appear — hooded figures who walk between dimensions — and deliver the Summons. The multiverse's most brilliant war-bands are pulled to the **Nexus Field**, where vast cosmic wars distill into eight-by-eight battlefields. Only one champion will be granted a universe of their own.

**Faction Tactics** is a turn-based strategy game that starts where chess ends: familiar bones — an 8×8 board, one action per turn, capture the enemy leader — wearing five completely different armies on top.

### Five factions. Five rulebooks.

- ⚔️ **The Iron Legion** — Disciplined shield-walls that block killing blows and sacrifice pawns for the king. The formation does not break.

- 🔮 **The Arcane Order** — Elemental casters who attack at range, freeze your plans mid-move, and blink across the battlefield.

- 🗡️ **The Shadow Syndicate** — Traps, backstabs, and a Master Thief who steals your spent abilities. When they blunder, it's bait.

- 💀 **The Undead Legion** — Your captures come back as their skeletons. Their necromancer borrows your pawns. Death is a temporary inconvenience.

- 🔧 **The Forgeborn Engineers** — Dwarves who bolt the battlefield itself into a weapon. Every turn you give them, the killing ground grows.

### What makes it tick

- **One action per turn** — every decision is the whole turn. No economy, no dice (well… one coin flip), just consequences.

- **One-use specials** — every unit carries a single ability. Spending it at the right moment is the game.

- **Reactions** — blocks, phase shifts, pawn sacrifices: your opponent's turn isn't safe for them either.

- **Pawn promotion, asymmetric style** — reach the far rank and promote into any hero of your faction.

- **Campaign mode** — fight all four rival factions in the Millennial Crucible, with lore between every round.

- **Local & online versus** — hot-seat on one machine, or direct-IP online matches.

- **AI opponents** at three difficulty levels, including a lookahead AI on Hard.

### 🧪 This is a playtest build — I need you.

Faction Tactics started as a physical board game and every rule you'll play was tested on a kitchen table first. Now I need eyes on the video game: balance reads, confusing moments, bugs, and honest first impressions.

- Join the Discord: **[https://discord.gg/FJKwKv7wvD]**

- Leave feedback in the itch comments below

Tell me: which faction feels too strong, what confused you in your first match, and anything that broke.

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## Feature bullets (itch sidebar / metadata)

- Genre: Strategy / Tactics / Chess-like

- Made with: Godot 4

- Platform: Windows

- Price: Free (playtest)

- Session length: 5 min per match

- Players: 1 (vs AI), 2 (hot-seat or online direct-IP)

- Status: In development — playtest build