CLASH OF CROWNS

A tactical skirmish in the Dual Turn system. You and the enemy plan your turn at the same moment. Then both units move at once, and their attacks resolve one after another in random order.

How a turn works

• Pick one of your units, choose where it moves, then an action and its target. Meanwhile the enemy secretly plans a move for one of its units.
• After you confirm, the screen splits in two: your unit on the left, the enemy on the right. Both move at the same time, step by step.
• When both arrive, the screen merges and the actions (attacks, spells, heals) resolve one by one, in random order. The camera shows each one and then returns to your view.
• Attacks target a tile, not a character. If the target leaves the tile this turn, you hit thin air. If someone steps onto that tile, they take the hit, even your own ally.
• A unit that already acted this round stays put until the round ends. It is a sure target. Of the enemies that haven't acted yet, only one moves each turn.
• Arena: a new battlefield is built before every battle: rivers with a few narrow fords, one tall hill for archers, boulders and columns.
• Counterattack: a unit that survives a single-target attack from an adjacent attacker may strike back in close combat (never at range) (about 25%, more if it's faster, +20% in a defensive stance) for half damage. The forecast shows the chance.
• Duel: when it's one on one, Dual Turn stops and the sides take turns (the faster unit opens each round), so a fight can't drag on forever.
• Support: every other ally standing next to the target (any of the 8 surrounding tiles) adds +25% to the hit chance of a physical attack. Enemies get the same bonus.
• An enemy moving across your path can block you. If the target is out of range after being blocked, the action is lost.
• A round ends when every living unit has taken its turn.

Combat and evasion

• Hit chance depends on the target's evasion, the height difference (±6% per level) and direction: +10% from the side, +20% from behind.
• Physical damage: +10% from the side, +25% from behind, plus +10% for every level of height advantage.
• High ground: an archer shooting down at a lower target deals more damage, +12% per level of height, a little more the farther the shot (up to +50%).
• Arrows fly only in a straight line: an archer can shoot along its row or column, never diagonally (Arrow Rain is lobbed and can land anywhere in range). Bows are one-handed: keep a sword or dagger in the other hand for close combat. A bow hits hard only from range (100% at 2 tiles, rising to 115% at 5); clubbing a neighbour with it deals just 30%.
• You are what you wear. There are no classes. Armour and hand items give Hp, Mp and Ep: plate gives the most Hp but no Mp, cloth gives Mp for spells, leather Ep for weapon techniques. Spells cost Mp, techniques cost Ep, and neither refills during a battle. The character level caps Hp, Mp and Ep: gear above the cap is wasted until the next level.
• Weight: every item weighs something (oz). Gear load up to 160 oz gives move 5, up to 400 oz move 4, up to 720 oz move 3, more is move 2. When two enemies cross paths at the same moment, the one at least 1.1× heavier (body + gear) shoves through and the other is blocked; if they are closer in weight, it's a coin toss.
• Armor: Plate is the hardest to pierce and gives the most HP, Cloth the easiest, but it boosts spell power.
• Mp and Ep: spells cost Mp, weapon techniques cost Ep. Both come from your gear, are capped by your level and do not refill during a battle (an Ether restores some).
• Techniques live in weapons and match their type (poison arrow only on bows, blade whirl on swords). In Heroes you can move a technique to another item of the same type.
• Imbuing: an element stone imbues a weapon: fire (burn), poison, ice (slow) or storm (stun). An imbued weapon glows on the map.
• Effects: stun takes the next action, poison and burn hurt at the start of a round, slow cuts movement, buffs last a few rounds.
• Equipment: only three slots: armor, right hand and left hand (weapon + shield, two weapons, two shields or a two-hander). Armor dresses the whole character. Rarity (common, magic, rare, epic) adds bonuses, and better weapons carry more spells.
• Melee works up to a height difference of 2. Magic always hits its tile, but the target can step off it.

Progress

• XP for every hit, heal and buff, the most for defeating an enemy. Stronger enemies give more. 100 XP is a new level.
• gp for every win, more on higher difficulty. The shop restocks after every battle. Progress saves automatically.

Controls

Click: select · drag: rotate camera · Q/E rotate 90° · WASD move camera · Esc back · Enter execute turn · H rules

Menu

Full screen

1. Tap Share
2. Tap Add to Home Screen
3. Open the game from your Home Screen

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