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Turn-based tactics is a video game genre. Chris Crawford, [1] Julian Gollop, Strategic Simulations, and Blue Byte developed early turn-based tactical games, [2] which were often inspired by traditional tactical wargames played on tabletops. [3]
A progress clock is a tabletop role-playing gamemaster (GM) tool for keeping track of ongoing events that cannot be handled within a single turn, such as the player characters' continuous headway toward defeating a challenge, the gradual approach of an enemy, or a time-limited window of opportunity. The GM draws a segmented circle to represent ...
Tower defense (TD) is a subgenre of strategy games where the goal is to defend a player's territories or possessions by obstructing the enemy attackers or by stopping enemies from reaching the exits, usually achieved by placing defensive structures on or along their path of attack. [1]
A tank behind a tall hill would not be able to see an enemy tank on the other side of the hill. Therefore, the first tank does not have a line of sight to the enemy tank. Conversely, a squad of soldiers atop the hill may be able to see both tanks, though the tanks may not be able to see them (since the tank's upward line of sight is limited).
4X game. Colonization clone. 2024: South Pole Bebop: Sentience Inc. Modern: WIN: Turn-based strategy. Multiplayer. Inspired By Into The Breach. A playable demo is available on Steam. 2024: Field of Glory: Kingdoms: AGEod: Historical: WIN: Fifth game in the Field of Glory series TBA: FreeOrion: FreeOrion team: Sci-fi: CROSS: 4X game. A playable ...
The Battle for Wesnoth, a hex grid based computer game. A hex map, hex board, or hex grid is a game board design commonly used in simulation games of all scales, including wargames, role-playing games, and strategy games in both board games and video games. A hex map is subdivided into a hexagonal tiling, small regular hexagons of identical size.
Hex is a turn-based strategy game developed by Mark of the Unicorn and published in 1985 for the then-new Atari ST [1] and later for the Amiga. [2] The player controls a unicorn that is trying to turn all the hexes on the game board to the same colour. Opponents attempt to turn them to a different colour and thus defeat the unicorn.
Character class is an occupation, profession, or role assigned to a game character to highlight and differentiate their abilities and specializations. [9] Character sheet: A record of a player character in a role-playing game, including whatever details, notes, game statistics, and background information a player would need during a play session.