Editing StatWar

StatWar is a modable strategy/war game where you can design your own units based on a point buy system.

== 
Unit Creation ==

Description
This does nothing. It's required though so you might as well have some awesome fluff for your cannon fodder.

Stats
Damage:
How much damage a unit does. Defaults to 0. Costs 1 point to increase.

Range:
The number of squares away a unit can attack. Defaults to 0. Costs 1 point to increase.

Armor:
How much damage a unit resists. If a unit that does three damage attacks a unit with two armor, it does one damage. If a unit that does three damage attacks a unit with three or more armor, it does no damage. Defaults to 0. Costs 1 point to increase. A unit cannot have a higher Armor stat than its Health stat.

Move:
How many squares a unit can travel per turn. Defaults to 0. Costs 1 point to increase.

Health:
How much damage a unit can take before dying. Defaults to 5. Can't be raised here.

Special Abilities
Suicide Bomb:
Does it's damage to all units on it's square and adjacent squares upon death. Units with Suicide Bomb can die intentionally if they don't feel like waiting. 5 points.

Big:
This ability increases the number of squares the unit takes up. Each level that it is increased by makes the unit's length and width increase by one. For example, the first level of Big makes a unit take up 4 squares. The next level makes it take up 9. Units get one bonus Health for each square they take up beyond their original one. 5 points per level.

Ridable:
Each level of this allows one non-ridable unit to move on top of the ridable unit as it's move for that turn. Riding units will be moved with the ridable unit. If it is their turn, riding units can dismount and move their normal number of squares, attack, or both. Riding units cannot be attacked. Units with multiple levels of Ridable must have enough squares to actually fit all of the units they carry. For example, a unit with one level of Big and two levels of Ridable can carry two normal sized units or one unit with one level of Big. A unit with one level of Big and twenty levels of Ridable can carry 4 normal sized units or one unit with one level of Big. 5 points per level.

Defender:
This ability gives the unit control over the squares adjacent to it. Enemy units that move into these squares end their movement, no matter how many squares they would normally be allowed to move. They can still attack. Additional levels give the unit control of an additional ring of adjacent squares. 5 points per level.

Example Units
Crossbow Dorf - 25 points
Description: Short, bearded, alcoholic, enjoys mining.
Damage: 5
Range: 6
Armor: 5
Move: 4
Health: 5
Special: Defender - 1

Bear - 25
Description: Big, brown, eats everything, hibernates.
Damage: 4
Range: 1
Armor: 1
Move: 9
Health: 11
Special: Ridable - 1, Big - 1

Models
Use your image editing software of choice to edit the template (forthcoming, it's just a piece of paper with a base though, so if you're desperate it's not hard to do your own), print it out, fold it, and tape it to a base of some kind. A penny works really well. If you plan on having more than one of that unit, number them and write that number on the base.


== Playing ==

Pregame
1. Find someone to play against. Agree on a point total. Make an army that costs that many points. Make a list of your units in the order you want them to move in. Write how many HPs they have next to their names on the list. Trade character sheets with your opponent so you both know what the hell everything is.

2. Pick sides on the board. The board can be anything as long as it is symmetrical, has squares, is symmetrical, and has a neutral zone along a line of symmetry. Flip a coin to see who goes first. Take turns putting down units in the order you listed them. You can't put a unit in the neutral zone, or on the side that has your opponent's units on it.

Game
1. Whoever put down the last unit in the pregame secion has to go second.

2. Take turns with your opponent moving one unit. Move your units in the order you listed them. Move your unit a maximum of the number of squares in its Move stat, then attack one unit in range if you want to. The unit you attack takes attacker Damage - defender Armor damage. Record damage on your character list. If a unit gets to 0 HP, it dies and is removed.

3. Keep doing this until someone runs out of dudes.

This is totally a work in progress. A big pile of example units is forthcoming.