EmojiTactics

Hello

EmojiTactics is an turn-based tactical combat game for mobile. It works offline, too: just go to the main site and select "Add to homescreen" from your browser's menu

The Basics

Read this section first. Return to the reference sections as necessary.

• Two teams of emoji units battle in an encounter.
• Each team has a leader(⭐). A team loses when its leader dies.
• The two teams take turns performing actions or passing.
• When both teams pass in succession, all movement (👟) is restored and all abilities are re-enabled.
• When two units engage (⊹), each unit deals damage (🗡) to the other's hearts (❤️) and both units' movement (👟) is lost.
• A unit cannot engage (⊹) a unit that has more movement (👟) than it does.

Encounter Reference

• ⭐ Leader background. In an encounter, each team has a leader. When the leader dies, that team loses.
• ⊹ Engage. Use this ability to make two units deal damage to each other.
• 🗡 Piercing damage. Breaks one heart (❤️).
• ❤️ Heart. Measures how much damage the unit can take.
• 💔 Broken heart. When a unit has only broken hearts remaining, it dies.
• 👟 Movement. You cannot engage a unit that is faster than you.
• 🦋 Flight movement. Counts as one movement (👟). However, regular movement cannot be used to engage a unit with flight movement.
• 🛑 Blocker. Prevents non-flying units from engaging units other than this one.
• 🤕 Heal action. Restores one broken heart (💔).
• 🛡 Armor. Each protects the unit from one piercing damage (🗡).
• 👊 Impact damage. Ignores armor.
• 🔥 Fire damage. Ignores armor.
• ⚡ Electrical damage. Ignores armor. Disables all special abilities on the target for the current round.
• 🗡💨 Charge damage. Deals one piercing damage (🗡), plus one additional damage (🗡) for each movement the engager is faster than the target.
• 🏹 Ranged damage. This ability deals the displayed damage directly to a target, without receiving any damage from the targeted unit.
• 🍄 Growth. This unit will gain one new heart each time a unit dies.
• 🌪️ Ranged wind attack. Removes all movement from from the target. Deals one point of impact (👊) damage if the target is capable of air movement.
• 🕸️ Web. Removes all movement from an opposing unit. Does not affect abilities, however.
• ❄️ Freeze damage. Removes all movement from an opposing unit and drains all abilities.
• 👀 This ability refreshes the unit's movement and abilities. Can be used only once per round.
• X⤵️ Placing action. Grants a certain advantage to another friendly unit.
• X* Spawn action. Creates a new friendly unit.
• X¹ One-time use. This ability can only be used once per game.
• X† Sacrifice. Use of this ability destroys the unit performing it.
• X⸩ This ability affects all units on the opposing team
• ⸨X⸩ This ability affects all units (both friendly and opposing)
• 🎭 Masquerade. This ability turns the acting unit into a copy of any target unit, but with only a single heart (❤️).
• 💘 Charm. This ability turns a target opposing unit into a friendly unit. The charm ability is disabled on the first round of an encounter.

UI Reference

• 💰 Money. Used to purchase upgrades for your leader.
• 👥 Select team. Use this to change the units in your team, subject to available space.
• 🎒 Space. Space lets you take more units with you.
• ❱ Next. Move to the next screen, acknowledge the current action, or pass on your turn.
• ❰ Back. Go to the previous screen.
• ⏏ Stop. Abort the current encounter.
• 💥 Reset game. Reset the game to its initial state. You will lose all your saved progress.