Warp in
Units, buildings and upgrades all warp in around your structures. They are visible to your opponent and vulnerable while they form.
1v1 · Real-time tactics · Invite-only alpha
Into the Breach's precision. StarCraft's economy. Kung Fu Chess's no-turns chaos. Both players act at once, every ability runs on a cooldown, and every order is a commitment.
Everything warps in.
Everything has cooldowns.
Everything is committed.
Cooldowns, not turns
There is no turn order. An ability fires the moment its cooldown is up, on a server tick both players share.
Committed
No auto-cast, no attack-move, no idle fire. A unit acts only when you tell it to, and a missed shot still spends its cooldown.
How it plays
Read the board. Commit. Outplay.
Two ways to win
Destroy the enemy HQ, or capture resource nodes and hold them until your tug-of-war score reaches the threshold first.
A new map every match
There is no map pool. Every match is procedurally generated from a seed, and sharing a seed recreates the exact same map.
Fog of war and high ground
Fog runs on the server, so you only receive what your units can see. Elevation blocks line of sight, and cloaked units vanish completely.
Go tall or go wide
Upgrade a building for extra parallel cooldown slots, or build another one to warp in somewhere new. Forward Warp Points take the fight to the front.
One resource
There is no minerals and gas split. Your HQ mints income, and captured nodes score points, so economy and objective pull you in different directions.
Everything is tunable
Every stat, cooldown, range and ability lives in one config file. Custom rooms accept your own, and the built-in balance editor helps you write it.
The roster
Four mechs. No auto-attack.
Each unit has up to four abilities on Q W E R. There is no basic attack that fires on its own. Every shot is a button you press.
Brawler
Close-range bruiser
- Q Hydraulic Punch
- W Charge, a dash that stuns on landing
- E Reactive Shield
- R Shockwave Stomp
Lancer
Ranged trooper, special ops
- Q Rail Shot
- W Overcharge
- E Cloak
- R Tactical Nuke, channeled and visible to the enemy
Siege Walker
Long-range artillery
- Q Mortar Salvo
- W Siege Mode: rooted, more range, faster salvos
Medi-Frame
Support
- Q Repair Beam
- W Field Pulse
- E Recall Beam, which pulls an ally to safety
Modes
Built for the duel
- Ranked 1v1 Queue up against another player, on a fresh map and the default balance.
- Vs AI Practise against a server-side bot that plays by the same fog-of-war rules you do.
- Custom rooms Pick the seed, bring your own balance file and invite a friend by callsign.
- Tutorial and Practice Learn the controls, then experiment in a sandbox with no opponent.
- Replays Download a god-view recording of your ranked and Vs AI matches and watch it back.
Invite-only alpha
Access is by invitation
Vexillum Parabellum is in a closed alpha. Accounts are created from invite links handed out by the team and secured with passkeys. There are no passwords and no third-party logins.