Overlander - Grand Strategy Virtual Tabletop

CURRENTLY RECRUITING

Next campaign arc is planned to start on the 29th of July.

Overlander is a grand strategy 'virtual tabletop' game. This is effectively a community project; all players are part of the same grand campaign. Join to follow along with the community or ask questions at our Discord: https://discord.gg/ecGh69u6Cd 

GRAND CAMPAIGN

Overlander combines tactical tabletop battles with a long-term realm-building campaign. The campaign is persistent and continuous. It functions using a weekly update day during which the consequences of your actions are computed and income is generated. Players can act on their own time while contributing to a developing narrative unfolding on the Campaign Map.

You take your time to govern your faction whenever you please. Take your time to plan out structures or expansion and choose the right character to appoint as commander or governor to ensure a stable reign.

Players can schedule and initiate battles against other players at any time. There’s no rigid schedule: simply declare your intent to conquer a territory, assault a rival’s realm, or tackle a pre-made Quest Battle. Any other player can step up to contest you in battle, scheduling the fight at a time that works for both of you. Victory in these battles, along with the conquest of lands and completion of key objectives, earns you the resources needed to recruit new warriors, build infrastructure across your territories, and issue new edicts to solidify your rule.

Outside of battles, there are many tools with which to build up your domain:

Realm Development. Exploit local resources, construct new buildings, and expand your rule while managing the stability of your domain to avoid violent uprisings, corruption, or squalor.

Governance. Sign edicts, laws and reforms to influence both internal and external affairs through measures such as taxes, succession laws, festivals, and new doctrines. 

Trade. Exchange key resources such as iron or lumber with other players or neutral trading hubs to generate income and gain access to resources from far beyond your borders.

Diplomacy. Engage with other players to forge steadfast alliances or bitter rivalries to either cooperate or compete for objectives. Rise to power as king or serve as loyal vassal, or rebel and start your Faction on a path to independence.

Each player can focus on the aspect of the game they resonate with the most. Are you interested only in warfare? Join as a nomadic warlord or mercenary captain. Prefer diplomacy? Rule a city-state or protectorate in the shadow of a powerful kingdom.  The game scales up to a large number of players, with the possibility to include more than 30 people in one campaign.

TACTICAL BATTLES

Battles in Overlander can be fought both on physical and virtual tabletops. Using an elegant D6 dice pool system, you can take direct control of your units on the battlefield. Command anywhere between approximately 20 to over a 100 individual models and outmanoeuvre your opponents. Ensure favourable match-ups by utilising units with different equipment such as spears or maces, light armour or heavy armour, cavalry, and unique elite troops to achieve victory and gain the wealth and prestige needed to propel your realm to glory.

Battles can be scheduled by players independently at a time convenient to them. Results can be tracked easily and made public to tie them into the developing campaign.

ASYNCHRONOUS GAMEPLAY

A Grand Campaign in Overlander can unfold over the course of many weeks or months. Players can act on their own time thanks to a weekly 'tick' system during which production, construction, resources, taxes, and recruitment are updated to keep everyone on the same page. 

Plan ahead to get the most out of the territories and resources at your disposal and specialise your realm in clever ways to capitalise on the niches and needs of the realm around you. Supply desperate players with troops or resources at high prices, fight battles for them in return for servitude, or otherwise set the fate of the realm to your hand through diplomacy, intrigue, and strategy.

LEAVE YOUR MARK

Overlander takes place in a custom setting providing a background within which to both immerse yourself and rise above by selecting and customising a Heritage and making your own Faction. There are many roles to fill, and with a large pool of players there are always alliances and enemies to be made. As you compete to complete competitive and collaborative goals, the tapestry of the world around you will change. New realms will rise, others will crumble.

The setting of Athalar takes broad inspiration from cultures all over the world in a relatively low fantasy bronze age to early medieval setting. With influences from sources as widespread as pre-contact America, through European antiquity, and into ancient cradles of civilisation such as Mesopotamia.