Tacticus Guide

## Overview

* When you start the game, I strongly recommend you buy the low cost time limited offer that unlock Commissar Yarrick or Isabella offer. You can play the game without making any purchase (including Yarrick) and unlock everything, but most player who skip this offer regret it.

**Isabella offer** (Isabella offer appears only if you skipped Yarrick)

* Vindicta get her to Uncommon. Focus on raise her to at least Iron Rank III. She is the key to beat the Indomitus campaign.

After every successful Onslaught battle you are able to "Honor your Heroes." You could pick Vindicta until you have finished the Indomitus campaign. You could also Honor a Hero like Yarrick, that you can not farm his shards.

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## BattlePass Thoread (Calendar of events)

* https://tacticus.fandom.com/wiki/Ancient\_Thoread
* Previous Battle Pass Battle Pass content analysis

## Energy / tickets recharge time and Cap

* **Energy** recharge one every 5 minutes (12 per hour), 288 energy per day.
* Once per day you can refill 50 energy with an ad (you only get 7 total ad for the day).
* Up to 5 times per day you can get 100 energy with blackstone: 50, 110, 250, 500, and 1000. **Use the ad first**.

You should try to have max Energy and at least 2 Arena battle when the game reset every day. At least one Salvage Run, one Guild Raid and one Onslaught. Why? you will be able to quickly do your Daily Mission and all the new mission that appear at reset.

* Arena tickets are 1.25 hours (Cap at 15)
* Guild Raid 12 hours (Cap at 3)
* Salvage Run 12 hours (Cap at 2)
* Onslaught 16 hours (Cap at 3)
* Tournament Arena (live) 1h 20min (Cap at 12, starts at 6. In each event, it's possible to participate in a maximum of 41 ranked fights)
* Quest ticket 2 hours (Cap at 6, at the start of the Quest, tickets accumulate over the maximum of 6 as long as the player is not online)
* Legendary Character 3 hours (Cap at 12, start with 6 tickets)

## Requisition Orders

* Always save them to do a 10 pulls!
* Every 10-pull dedicates the 10th requisition slot to a full character.

Each increase in your Power Level rewards one, Missions can also reward you with a Requisition Scroll.

## Blackstone

* Best use of Blackstone?

1. Refill energy after using the first free refill with ad, up to 110 (or 250) blackstone. Refill energy with Blackstone is mostly for people who buy Blackstone. The best low cost deal is the monthly Blackstone deal. It will allow you to do one refill per day and have some extra Blackstone.
2. Buy the Guild Credits Bundle (almost the same price has two legendary codex, available once per week).
3. Buy Xp books, but buy only the legendary Codex of war (175 BS, +12500 xp).
4. Buy Epic or Legendary badges.
5. Buy Epic equipment you can use (and need).
6. Buy Legendary equipment you can use (and need).
7. Buy some requisition scroll (when you are near 10, no more than two).

3000 Blackstone for a 10 pulls, do this only if you are swimming in Blackstone and do not mind buying more.

## Get amazing free stuff with your Ads

**You get up to seven ads every day**, their is no indication in the game how many you have left, until the game indicate you have none left.

I recommend following the order below with your ads:

1. Once per day you can **refill 50 energies** with an ad.
2. Special Events use your ads for extra tokens (Quest, Live Arena, Legendary character release event).
3. Once per day you can **refresh the Guild Shop** with an ad.
4. Many times per day you can refresh the DAILY DEALS with ads.

## The best bang for your money!

1. **Yarrick offer** or **Isabella offer** (Isabella offer appears only if you skipped Yarrick)
2. **Monthly Blackstone deal**
3. **Premium Battle Pass**

If you have the first 3 above, and you want to spend a little more?

* **Blackstone pack**: Get the highest pack your budget allow you will get X2 the first time, if you buy more later on, pick another pack that still has the X2. Use the blackstone to go for 50, 110 or 250 daily energy refill (ideally plan for the next 30 days).

If you have all the above, and you want to spend a little more?

* **Ultimate Battle Pass**
* **Unlock Campaign offers** You want to speed up your early game ? Than unlocking a new Campaign is an option (not has cost effective has the one listed above), furthermore the cost goes down if you have already have one or more character needed for the unlock.

## Tools

* Labs T.A.C.T.I.C.U.S Online tools made by Towen. **Make a copy** to be able to edit.
* Public Upgrade Calc Online tools made by sonsonVallano. **Make a copy** to be able to edit.
* Tacticus Legendary Event Planner Online tools made by Severyn.
* Tacticus Wiki Main wiki contributor SirEldricIV.
* Ez3kiel The best Tacticus Discord bot!

## Active PROMO CODES

Join Tacticus Discord

Direct Link Once you have added the Tacticus Discord server

## New Character Events

Time-limited special event that allows you to unlock, promote, and ascend a character.

* Tacticus Previous Character Release Event

## Upcoming Character Events

### AUN'SHI 3/3 January 28

* https://youtu.be/nPnMxrm0tHs?si=EuUJp3V6sdKuQAUC AUN'SHI 3/3 Nandi
	+ https://youtu.be/Dg4Qv5MCyhY?si=e4gy13eoLinUBldQ AUN'SHI 2/3 Nandi
* Tacticus Legendary Event Planner Online tools made by Severyn.
* Aun'Shi Legendary Event Google Sheet

## Onslaught

For upgrading the skills of your characters.

After every successful Onslaught battle you are able to "Honour your Warriors." Choose one character who was deployed at any point during the battle, even if the character was defeated before the end. You then receive shards for that character and have a chance to obtain badges or orbs of the same Alliance. See the table below,

Onslaught Loot

R = Rare, E = Epic, L = Legendary

**The shards Reward start at 3-5 and will slowly increase toward 6-7 when you reach higher level. Each Onslaught Imperial/Xenos/Chaos will reward you between 3-5 to 6-7 shards depending on the Sector Level, higher better the reward.**

## Salvage Run

Tacticus Salvage run, tips for not losing loot from chests

https://youtu.be/IjGTnJYekZc

**Steppables**: Gold piles, XP books, or piles of blackstone.

**Objects**: various boxes, barrels, crates, and pods. May contain gold, blackstone, forge badges, upgrade materials, or equipment.
You will have Strongbox with the Impervious trait, you will have to do a critical hit to get the loot, it has a better chance to drop good loot including Snotflogga shards.

Salvage Run Loot

### Equipment

* Legendary 4 = Epic 9 (see details below)

* Epic cost from level 1 to 9: 1860 Salvage and 13K Coins. If You buy the Epic equipment from the shop +300 Blackstone.
* Legendary cost from level 1 to 4: 1200 Salvage and 11K Coins. If You buy the Legendary equipment from the shop +900 Blackstone.

## All you need to know about GUILD/GUILD SHOP

* Tacticus Guild All you need to know about guild and the guild shop.

### Spot Open in our top 9 Guild

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You can Search for us, with the guild tag **EUVQZ**.

https://discord.gg/pantsofhorus

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## ARENA (Vs AI)

Just use your most geared characters and you will do fine, the AI is easy to beat.

https://youtu.be/JataZG6f8h8 How to WIN in Tacticus Arena (vs AI)

## Tournament Arena (live PVP)

If you go five turns without moving you lose.

**Tips**

**Common**

All characters are capped to Common, which means the following values are the maximum for the mode:

* Active Ability: Level 8
* Passive Ability: Level 8 (Note: As you can not upgrade the passive ability of common characters, they will have a level 1 passive in this mode. For optimal gameplay, the common Cap means you need uncommon characters to produce the best results.)
* Gear Ranks: Iron Rank 1
* Equipment: Common Gear at Level 3 (Note: Can also use higher rarity gear at Level 1, if their values exceed the common 3 values.)
	+ Check you character equipment they need to be level 3 Common, Rare level 3+, Epic level 3+ or L level 3+.
**Rare**

All characters are capped to Rare, which means the following values are the maximum for the mode:

* Active Ability: Level 26
* Passive Ability: Level 26
* Gear Ranks: Silver 1
* Equipment: Rare at Level 7 (Note: Can also use higher rarity gear, even better if their values exceed the Rare 7 values.)
**Powerup PvP guide**

* Powerup PvP guide
## How to beat ANY Tacticus Missions

* Tacticus Missions How to beat any mission.
## Campaign

* Timed Missions
**Shards to Unlock Characters**

* Common 40 Shards
* UnCommon 80 Shards
* Rare 130 Shards
* Epic 250 Shards
* Legendary 500 Shards (or 150 special "event shards" in legendary release event)
* Tacticus Campaign Walkthrough
## Best Characters

Made by **Nandi** He also does Youtube video for Tacticus, check it out here.

* Tacticus Level 50
### Ahriman

September Patch Ahriman, Screamer-Killer Raid Boss and more!

https://lordlancelot.fandom.com/wiki/Tacticus\_Level\_50#Ahriman

#### Psychic Stalk (Ahriman Pasive)

Level 1 **+30%** maximum of + 99 damage

Level 9 **+35%** maximum of + 270 damage

Level 18 **+40%** maximum of + 473 damage

Level 26 +40% maximum of + 954 damage

Level 27 **+45%** maximum of + 1044 damage

Level 36 **+50%** maximum of + 1854 damage

Level 40 +50% maximum of + 2252 damage

Level 44 +50% maximum of + 3042 damage

Level 47 +50% maximum of + 4264 damage

Level 48 +50% maximum of + 4669 damage

Level 49 +50% maximum of + 5076 damage

Level 50 +50% maximum of + 5483 damage

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## See also

* Labs T.A.C.T.I.C.U.S Online tools
* Public Upgrade Calc Online tools
* Gameplay Mechanics
* Game Modes
* Factions and Characters
* How Does That Work (FAQ)
* Glossary of Terms
* The game discord
* Reddit Wh40K Tacticus
* Reddit Warhammer40kTacticus