Advanced Tactics Gold

Advanced Tactics Gold is a wargame built on the Advanced Tactics engine. It supports conflicts ranging from modern warfare to battles in fantasy realms, with scenarios, a random game mode and tools for creating and sharing scenarios. The Gold edition expands on Advanced Tactics: World War II with a more powerful editor, an improved random game engine, new features and abilities, additional troop types, new graphics and scenarios, and changes based on player feedback.

Scenarios and creation

The scenario editor lets you alter almost any aspect of the game in detail. You can create and share scenarios, including through ZIP import and export, and browse a large, continually growing scenario bank with dozens of scenarios available to download and install. The game includes three Even-Steven scenarios for play against a human or AI opponent, three Tom Weber scenarios, and more than 25 scenarios from Advanced Tactics WWII:

• World at War 39-45: a Tom Weber scenario for human-versus-human play only.
• Pacific War 41-45: a Tom Weber scenario for human-versus-human play only.
• East Front 41-45: a Tom Weber scenario.

Random games

The expanded random game mode adds rules, actions and mechanics, including more unit types, unit fuel, climates and seasons. Its generated games offer a different set of circumstances for each playthrough.

Alliances and combat

You can form alliances with other players, share reconnaissance information and support allies in combat. Alliances also let you give units, hexes and research to other players. A combat detail screen shows how each modifier affects a battle, and you can watch AI turns as their moves and attacks happen.

The rules include movement delays in hexes caused by combat, less predictable air intercepts and persistent battlestack counters. Interface changes provide more information about landscapes, location types, peoples and subformation types. Scenario loading and saving are faster, as are AI turn calculations and execution.

Included scenarios

The game includes three Even-Steven scenarios and three Tom Weber scenarios, alongside more than 25 scenarios from Advanced Tactics WWII. The World at War 39-45 and Pacific War 41-45 scenarios are for human-versus-human play only.