SCALE UP YOUR CAMPAIGN!
Unleash bigger battles, wider conflicts, and new stories, spanning solo, head-to-head, and campaign play in this completely stand-alone scenario-driven variation of the popular Five Parsecs from Home tabletop game.
Tactics takes adventure wargaming from starports and back alleys to the battlefields of Unified Space. This scenario-focused version of Five Parsecs from Home is all about creativity:
The 212-page, full colour, Royal-size (15.6cm x 23.4cm) hardcover features:
- Play solo or with friends, in single games or campaigns, with or without a Game Master.
- Make your own scenarios for the troops you choose, playing games your way.
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Tactics allows you to take Five Parsecs beyond small skirmishes to multi-unit battles: Big tanks, big monsters, big events, and platoons of troops slugging it out.
- Features an array of troops, characters, creatures, and situations.
- Packed with random tables to keep you facing the unexpected.
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Tactics is also a stand-alone game, yet fully compatible with 5PFH, with rules for transferring characters and events between the systems.
MULTIPLE GAME MODES:
CAMPAIGN GAMING
Great for individual battles, Tactics is even better for campaign gaming.
- Play battles that feed into each other, creating an overarching storyline.
- Multiple scenario types, from skirmishes to grand battles and evolving objectives.
- Story Event Generation table.
- 100 scenario seeds.
- Advancement system allowing troops to gain experience as well as your favorite characters.
- More detailed advancement system to create exciting stories with the potential to surprise you at every turn.
PICK-UP PLAY
Enjoy one-off battles between multiple players:
- Points-built armies.
- Army building guidelines.
- Suitable for friendly club tournament play.
SOLO GAMING
Combat rules include ‘AI’ mechanics for solo play, managing the enemy while you command your own forces.
- Game Mastering advice for objectives, side plots, complications and scenario components.
- Solo campaign rules to allow vast story arcs.
- Scenarios and options aimed specifically for the solo experience.
- Expand solo play to two or more people on the same side against the AI enemy.
THE COMBINED GAME
Or simply blend the options! Play a friend head-to-head, continue your story in a solo campaign, then join up again for a Game Mastered scenario... all in the same storyline! A group of friends could even run a shared story in separate parts of a much larger conflict.
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