Turn 01/01
Turn-based tactics under a low sun
In development · Prototype v0.8
Briefing
Low Sun is a 3D turn-based tactics game. Move infantry, armour and artillery across the board, take cities and factories, and cover each unit’s weakness with another.
If you grew up on Advance Wars, you will know what to do on turn one.
Real boards from the campaign, straight from the game. Cities, factories, roads and rivers, from grassland to wasteland and snow. Pick a mission to look closer.
Campaign9
Between battles you move across a 3D planet. Every operation sits on the globe, from Asteria’s coast to the ice of Varkov.
World map7
Two missions break the rules. The enemy brings one machine the size of a city block.
Boss fight · Mission 05A super-heavy tank that takes up nine tiles. Each enemy turn it marks where its missiles and its laser will land, then fires. Anything in its path gets crushed, even its own side. Destroy it and the mission is won.
Boss fight · Mission 10A flying command ship over an island of towns. It charges four missile lanes, fires, and calls in airstrikes that flatten buildings. Get out of the marked lanes or hide behind a building, then bring it down.
29 units across land, air and sea. Every one has a job, and a weakness another unit covers.
Ground unit
Basic infantry that captures structures, climbs mountains and attacks adjacent units.
Army colour
Every CO rides inside one of your units. The shaded tiles around it are the aura: it starts as a cross and grows with each kill, to a square and then a diamond. Units inside it get the CO’s passive.
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Allied CO
Chain of Command
Discipline under pressure. A young officer still learning the weight of his rank. He trusts the field manual and the people beside him.
Nobody fights alone. Tight formations, clear orders and a line held together.
PassiveChain of Command
Units inside his aura gain extra attack and defence while they stand next to another friendly unit. His aura rewards advancing as a block, not in single file.
Allied CO
Hold the Line
Four campaigns holding the line. A veteran of desperate defenses, Helena turns every position into a fortress.
Every inch has a price. She digs in, waits and makes the enemy pay to advance.
PassiveHold the Line
Her aura does not push, it covers. Units inside it gain more defence than under any other commander, moving or not, but not a single point of extra attack. Ground she covers is ground that holds.
Allied CO
Eyes Open
First to know. A reconnaissance and signals specialist who maps the battlefield before the others finish deploying.
Information decides. Mara finds what the enemy wants hidden and fights with that advantage.
PassiveEyes Open
Units inside her aura see one tile further, and uncover what hides (forest, reef, a dived hull) from one tile further too.
Allied CO
Breaking Point
Into the breach. A shock commander forged by short, fierce campaigns. He picks a weak point and commits the whole attack.
Keep the momentum. Once the line gives way, Darius keeps pushing.
PassiveMomentum
Direct-fire units inside his aura hit far harder. Whatever shoots from the back rank gets the usual bonus: Darius leads from the front.
Allied CO
Field Repair
Raised among scrap. A field engineer who keeps machines running long after anyone else would have written them off.
There is always a fix. Where others see an exhausted army, Sofia finds something to repair and a way forward.
PassiveImprovised Logistics
Her aura resupplies at dawn like a convoy: units inside it wake with full fuel and ammo, and Engineers inside it finish a bridge in a single day. The unit carrying her never runs out of fuel. It does not repair.
Neutral CO
The Ledger
A contact in every depot. A supply broker long before becoming a commander, she knows where to look when the usual routes fail.
There is always something left. She keeps her forces going through good deals and stocks nobody else can find.
PassiveSupply Network
Any factory, airport, dock or carrier deck under her aura sells for 10% less.
Allied CO
The Salvager
Cunning, irreverent, and able to find a use for anything left on the battlefield. Her network of mechanics and haulers keeps her people moving.
PassiveNothing Goes to Waste
When Tessa’s carrier destroys an enemy, it heals 2 HP and other own units within her aura heal 1 HP. When another own unit within her aura destroys an enemy, only that unit heals 2 HP. Healing cannot exceed maximum health and includes counterattack kills. Retains the aura’s +20% attack and +10% defense. Requires Tessa alive and deployed.
Allied CO
Ironvale Commander
Ironvale commander. His vehicles return to the front without visiting the workshop: whatever rolls with him gets repaired on the way.
PassiveField Repairs
At the start of the turn, ground vehicles within his aura recover 1 HP, his own included, at no cost and without exceeding maximum health. Retains the aura’s +20% attack and +10% defense.
Allied CO
Ironvale Commander
Ironvale commander. Whatever sets out beside her goes further: her troops move off together and gain ground on the first step.
PassiveCoordinated Advance
Ground units that start their move inside her aura get +1 movement. Ending the move beside her does not count: they must set out from inside. Retains the aura’s +20% attack and +10% defense.
Rival CO
Brute Force
First on the front line. Built like the vehicles he drives, Branko usually stands wherever the fighting is fiercest.
Hit harder. When an attack fails, Branko sees only one answer: bring more force.
PassiveBrute Force
Units inside his aura hit harder than under any other commander, and take more damage in return. His formations win the turn or lose it outright.
Rival CO
The Red Hawk
A broken promise. He once flew medicine to isolated towns. When high command diverted an evacuation’s fuel, he lost his pilots and contact with his sister. Then they forged his signature to blame him.
No tank runs dry. His loyalty is now ruthless: he would seize a hospital’s fuel before losing another aircraft. The Red Hawk does not wait for reinforcements; he prepares them.
PassiveDawn’s Promise
His aircraft gain +20% attack and +10% defence, but only inside his aura. At the start of his turn, aircraft inside it refill fuel and ammunition without healing. Outside the aura there is no bonus and no supply.
Rival CO
The Marshal
War on the map table. A marshal and staff officer, Viktor commands with the precision of someone who has calculated every move.
One coordinated strike. His orders bring separate columns together as a single force.
PassivePerfect Coordination
Units inside his aura hit much harder than under any other commander, but get no special defence from it. His aura is purely offensive: his troops strike first or they take it.
Rival CO
Cold Ledger
Nothing wasted. A logistics officer who rose to command by counting the cost of every decision. To Selene, an army is also a ledger that must balance.
Nothing idle. Every resource has a destination and every unit a job.
PassiveAbsolute Efficiency
Indirect-fire units inside her aura reach one tile further, her own carrier included, but take 10% more damage in return.
Rival CO
Counterattack
Disciplined and relentless. Colonel Kaori Kurogane makes every enemy attack a costly decision.
Punish the reach. Her units hold formation and punish anyone who enters their reach.
PassiveRelentless Response
Within her aura, her units deal 25% more damage when counterattacking, on top of the usual aura bonus to attack and defence.
Rival CO
The Hunter
Built to hunt. A combat intelligence that concentrates its attention on one objective at a time.
Study. Respond. It analyzes how the enemy fights, identifies the unit it relies on and prepares an answer.
PassiveThreat Analysis
It studies whatever it is facing: units inside its aura take much less damage from whichever unit type the attacking side fields the most. If two or more types are tied at the top, it resists every one of them.
Commander Adrian Vale
“Why not solve everything with the biggest machine we own?”
Colonel Helena Voss
“Because every unit has a job. Rifles capture, armour pushes, and the mortar attacks from safety.”
Low Sun is made by LoneForgeDev.
LoneForgeDev is a one-person game studio. Low Sun is designed and programmed by a single developer.
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Turn-based tactics under a low sun
