Tactician
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| Tactician Frontier Town big shot |
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Make: Human Mode: Ground Move: 3 Shoot: 1-3 Initiative: 4 |
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| He deflects ballistic attacks with his umbrella. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Tactician is a smooth operating Big Shot with a few tricks up his sleeve. He may take a while to get across the board, but his invulnerability to Artillery fire and his high-powered brolly shotgun make him a good choice in games where your opponents are focusing on knocking out your Big Shot. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| He deflects ballistic shots using his umbrella. If another unit is next to him they may be hit by the deflected shot. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Offense bonuses | Defense bonuses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Tactician is a big shot who is immune to attacks from the Artillery, and will frequently deflect Artillery attacks onto an adjacent square. Otherwise, he takes normal damage. Artillery attacks can only be deflected once; deflecting an attack onto another Tactician will always hit the second Tactician.
Firing an artillery shell onto a tactician who then deflects it onto one of a player's own units is one of the few ways to hit one's own units; a player loses points for this.
The Tactician deals the highest average damage of all the units. This point plays an especially key role in Forest Guardians, where a Tactitian at full health with a Bear Fetish can destroy most enemies with a single shot. However, he also has the lowest average defense against damage dealt (though, thanks to his partial immunity to artillery fire, this is not always true in practice). This can prove particularily helpful in scenarios such as Land Grab or Cattle Rustling, where only Big Shots can complete objectives.
| Frontier Town units | |
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| Big shots: | Cavalry • Old Codger • Tactician |
| Units: | Artillery • Dirigible • Gunslinger • Sharpshooter • Shotgunner • Steam Gunman |
