Grok Tactics

An original turn-based squad tactics game. You command a small Grok squad on alien worlds against the Gloop Horde. It is cartoonish: downed units just get a little "x" and are patched up after the mission. The full campaign takes roughly 1½ to 3 hours.

Campaign: 18 missions that ramp up gently. Your squad grows from 3 to 6 as new classes join (Heavy after mission 2, Scout after 5, Engineer after 8). Goals:

Rout: defeat every enemy.
Hold: survive a number of turns against waves.
Extract: get the whole squad onto the green pad in time.
Escort: get Envoy Blip to the pad in time.
Boss: four bosses (Warlord Krexx, Hive Queen Vess, Titan Mk II and The Overmind). They have armour and summon help.

If you fail a mission, you retry it, with no score for the failed attempt. Winning first time is worth a bonus.

Classes:

Trooper: Grenade (3x3 blast).
Sniper: long range, plus Aimed Shot.
Medic: Patch Up heals an ally, or revives a downed one.
Heavy: Rocket destroys all cover.
Scout: 6 moves, Dash, and a flanking bonus.
Engineer: Barricade builds high cover.

Enemies:

Gloop Grunts.
Buzz Drones: fly over low cover and ignore cover when shot.
Crushers: armoured melee units.
Spitters: long range and like high ground.

Enemy squads doze ("z") until you come within 8 tiles or shoot them.

Combat: every unit moves, then acts (shoot, ability or hunker).

Hit chance: aim, minus the target's cover on the side facing you (low 20, high cover or walls 40), +15 from high ground, +10 at close range, -20 if the target is hunkered. It is clamped to 5–95%.
Line of sight: walls block it.
Acid: burns 1 HP.
Flanking: a target with no cover facing you shows FLANKED.

Progress: kills and missions give XP. Every level adds HP and aim, plus a promotion point. Spend points in the Barracks on HP, Aim, Move, Damage or Ability charges.

Skirmish / Daily Challenge: a full level-3 squad against a random force on a random map. In Daily mode everyone gets the same seed.

Score: each mission scores 400 + 25 per kill + 80 per survivor + 30 per turn under par + 600 for a boss + 200 for a first try, times the difficulty bonus. There is +5000 for finishing the campaign, plus your best skirmish. Log off to post. Autosaves; no undo; every score is replay-checked on the server.