Kwarn Armada Tactics

Kwarn Armada Tactics (KAT) is a strategy and action game about commanding an armada in tactical battles. You arrange units into formations, using their lines of action to strengthen allies or destroy opposing units, and position them to counter enemy assaults. Choose one of six generals to lead your troops; each general shapes your armada’s strategy and has three powers that can turn a battle in your favor.

Generals and units

The six generals support strategies including massive assaults, fast attacks, impenetrable defence, ruses, diversions, guerilla warfare and destabilization. Their powers include prototype drones, capturing opposing units, camouflage, and boosts to speed or power.

You choose from 27 units and equip some of your drones with equipment that can be used at any time during battle. Heavy units have shields and can crush defensive formations; light units dodge attacks and harry opponents; medium units provide a balanced core; and transport units carry troops into the heart of an enemy armada or create diversions. Equipment includes bombs that turn units into suicide bombers, teleporters that place a unit in the middle of enemy defenses, viruses that sabotage defenses and bastions that turn units into fortresses. There are 10 types of equipment.

Battlefields and modes

Battlefields can bring hazards and interference, including violent snowstorms that immobilize units, asteroid fields that threaten troops and pirates that can capture units. The AI can choose from dozens of tactics and hundreds of unit formations, and each general plays differently.

Campaign mode and quick play are available, with 14 game modes in total. Quick play starts an immediate battle against the AI or another player on the same device.

Science fiction setting

The game presents its dark science fiction universe in a comic-book style.