HEX-BOX — Tactics Prototype

click tile = cycle height

Identity

Name Color

Description

Terrain effect

Damage / turn Heal / turn Lifetime (rounds, 0 = ∞)

A unit starting its activation on this tile takes the damage. Lifetime ticks down at the end of each round; 0 means the tag never expires.

Tag unit (barrier)

Hit points (0 = plain tag) Pushable Collectible Trigger on pass

HP > 0 turns the tag into a blocking object that must be destroyed. Pushable objects obey shove / fall / collision rules like units. A collectible vanishes when a unit steps on it and casts its pickup ability on that unit. Trigger on pass makes it fire the moment a walking unit enters the tile instead of only when it stops there — that is how you build traps. Flyers glide over such tiles and only set them off where they land.

Linked abilities

On destroyed On expired On pickup

The linked ability is cast on the tag's own tile at that moment (e.g. an exploding barrel).

Periodic ability

Every X rounds (0 = off) First cast after (0 = X) Cast

The tag casts this ability on its own tile at the end of every X-th round, for as long as it lives. The countdown runs just before the lifetime tick, so a tag can fire and expire in the same round (both casts happen). The offset only changes the first countdown — set 1 to fire at the end of the very first round, then keep the normal X-round rhythm.

tag preview

Abilities

Identity

Name Color

Effect

Damage Heal Status

Damage, heal and status apply to every unit inside the damage area. Shield absorbs one hit of any kind and blocks one hostile push (damage + push in the same cast consume a single shield); friendly pushes pass through. Stun makes the target skip its next activation, exactly like landing under a falling body. Speed Change alters the unit's next move by X and then expires — positive is Haste, negative is Slow (webs, tar…); the result never drops below the global Min speed (⚙ SETTINGS). High ground: attacking from ≥2 tiles above adds the High ground bonus to base ability damage, from ≥2 tiles below subtracts the Low ground penalty (both in ⚙ SETTINGS). Crit charge then doubles the result. Fall/crash damage is unaffected.

Tag

Tag properties (damage, lifetime, HP…) are defined in the TAGS tab. The tag is placed on every tile of the tag area.

Spawn

Unit to spawn

A fresh copy of the chosen template appears on every tile of the SPAWN area. Its side comes from the list it was taken from — enemies from ENEMIES, allies from UNITS. Tiles that are blocked or already hold a unit or barrier are silently skipped. A summon joins the turn order at once but stays inert (✦) for the round it appeared in and acts from the next one.

Orientation

Rotatable

Author all zones facing → (left to right). When cast, damage / tag / height / push zones and push directions snap to one of 6 directions — whichever way the aimed point lies from the caster.

Movement

Move caster to target

After all other effects resolve, the caster moves to the aimed tile. The ability can only be aimed at a tile it can actually land on — a tile holding another unit or a tag-unit, and a blocked tile, cannot be targeted at all. No fall damage. Combine with CAST → “Target any tile” for a teleport.

Zones — click tiles on the right

click tile = edit active zone · ⬢ center = caster (cast) / cursor point (others)

click tile = place a copy of the selected unit · click a placed copy = remove it

click tile = place a copy of the selected enemy · click a placed copy = remove it

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⚙ GLOBAL RULES

These values belong to the level: they travel with it on ⬆ Upload and are restored on LOAD. Levels saved before this tab existed load with the defaults below, so they play exactly as before.

Map edges & blocked tiles

Treat them as bottomless pits

Off (default): blocked tiles and the map edge are walls — a body shoved into them stays put and takes 2 collision damage.
On: they become an abyss. Anything shoved over the edge — unit, barrel or barrier — falls out of the world and dies instantly, no matter how much HP it had. A tag-unit takes its On destroyed ability down with it (a barrel exploding outside the map would hit nothing anyway). A shield still refuses a hostile shove, so a shielded unit cannot be pushed in. Walking is unaffected: nobody can step off the board voluntarily.

Movement

Min speed

The floor a Slow can never push a unit below: effective speed = max( min(Speed, Min speed), Speed + Speed Change ).
At 2 even a heavily slowed unit can still climb one level (uphill costs 2); 0 lets a strong Slow lock a unit in place completely.
The floor never lifts anyone above their own Speed — a unit with Speed 1 slowed by −5 ends at 1, while a unit with Speed 6 slowed by −5 ends at 2.

High ground

High ground bonus Low ground penalty

Applied to the base damage of abilities when the attacker stands 2+ levels above (bonus) or below (penalty) the target. A 1-level difference never does anything. Damage never drops below 0, and multipliers such as Crit charge are applied afterwards. Fall, crash and crush damage (fixed 2) is not modified. Set either to 0 to switch that side off.

TURN ORDER

⚙ GLOBAL RULES

Map edges & blocked tiles

Movement

High ground

UPLOAD LEVEL