Tactical Angband is a variant of the classic roguelike game Angband. Tactical Angband reduces the grind and increases the tactical depth, while maintaining the feel of Angband.

The following is a (possibly incomplete) list of changes made to Tactical Angband relative to (Vanilla) Angband 4.2.5.

The dungeon is now 50 levels deep rather than 100, and each level is one-fourth the area of a classic Angband level.

Although the dungeon has half as many levels as Vanilla Angband, levels are counted 2, 4, 6, ..., 100 for consistency with Vanilla monster and item depths.

Player and monster line-of-sight is reduced to 10 squares.

Nests and pits are smaller, and restricted to one per level.

Teleportation in vaults is no longer restricted.

Monster drops are a bit more generous, to counterbalance the reduced game length.

The Black Market now always stocks Acquirement scrolls.

While blind, the player can still cast memorized spells.

Player melee 'blows per round' is replaced by 'might', and a single blow per round. 'Might' is a straight multiplier of final damage, and is calculated identically to 'blows per round' in Vanilla Angband. This change was made to reduce the grindy feel of late game combat (where players have 5+ blows per round, and monsters typically 4), and make critical hits more decisive.

Monster melee is altered similarly. Monsters with multiple attacks will choose a single attack type, and its final damage will be multiplied by the monster's melee 'might', which is simply the number of melee attack types the monster has.

Amulets, boots, and potions of running (+1 moves) have been added.

Phase door is rarer. A staff of phase door has been added. All other teleport, teleport other and teleport level objects have been removed (but not deep descent). Teleport curses are the only long-range teleport available. New wands/staffs/rods of wind, and of swap places, have been added to provide more restricted and tactically interesting 'get me out of here' tools.

There is a new "scroll of locking", that repairs and locks doors adjacent to the player.

All banishment & mass banishment is removed.

Destruction now pushes monsters to the edge of the effect radius, and does 2d25 damage to the player. Earthquake is more effective at blocking line-of-sight by creating rubble.

Monster breath damage halved, and most damage caps halved.

Monster spell damage halved, except for Morgoth and Sauron.

Monster summoning has been considerably weakened: the level of summoned monsters can be up to two thirds of the summoner's level, and is not dungeon level dependent. Summon group sizes are greatly reduced.

When paralyzed the player is now guaranteed a move at the end of paralysis, whereas in Vanilla Angband you can be re-paralyzed when paralysis has ended but the player has not accumulated 'movement energy' enough to take a turn yet.

Blindness, confusion and paralysis have shorter durations, which are measured in player turns (so the effects last less absolute game time the faster the player is). They are non-stacking (you can't be made more blind/confused/paralyzed while already afflicted). Immediate cures for blindness and confusion are now much rarer.

Standard turns are used in the highscore table.

• Teleport Self, Teleport Other and Teleport Level are replaced by Locking, Swap Places and Imprisonment respectively.
• Dimension Door is restricted to line of sight.
• Banishment and Mass Banishment are replaced by high damage elemental attacks.

• Sense Surroundings spell is now a timed effect that detects nearby dungeon features by walk distance from the player.

• Portal now has the same range as Phase Door.
• Banish Evil is replaced by Holy Terror, which causes irresistible fear in evil non-unique creatures.

• Shadow Shift now has the same range as Phase Door.
• Banish Spirits is replaced by Mass Terror, which causes irresistible fear in creatures with spirits, if their level is sufficiently below the player's level.

• Healing spell now only heals 300 hitpoints, not 2000.

• Spells that effected number of melee blows now modify melee 'might' (see above).

• As with the Druid, Sense Surroundings spell is now a timed effect that detects nearby dungeon features by walk distance from the player.

• Teleport Self, Teleport Other and Teleport Level have been replaced with Locking, Swap Places and Imprisonment respectively.
• "Hit and run" now teleports up to 5 squares (not 20).

Enjoy!

-- Tom Morton

Angband is a graphical dungeon adventure game that uses textual characters to represent the walls and floors of a dungeon and the inhabitants therein, in the vein of games like NetHack and Rogue. If you need help in-game, press ?.

• Installing Angband: See the Official Website or compile it yourself.
• How to Play: The Angband Manual
• Getting Help: Angband Forums

Enjoy!

-- The Angband Dev Team