This week’s Guild Highlights features an innovative and exciting guild function: Tactics! Guild Tactics provide a way for guild leaders to choose extra bonuses on the battlefield for anyone who is in range of their guild’s Standard.
While the Standards themselves provide a morale generation bonus for the party, additional area-wide bonuses can be applied to Standards through the use of guild Tactics. Guild Tactics can be purchased using guild Tactic points, which are earned as the guild reaches new guild ranks.  A guild must also unlock Tactic slots on its Standards to be able to slot its Tactics onto them, with up to three Tactic slots eventually becoming available (per Standard). This provides each Guild with a variety of ways to customize the bonuses on their Standards to best suit the needs and play styles of their Guild members.

Specific Guild Tactics are selected by the guild leader or members with appropriate permissions through the Standard pane of the Guild Management Interface. Guild Tactics are purchased in the guild tactics list in the Standard pane of the Guild Management Interface by selecting the desired tactic then selecting the Purchase Tactic option. Once purchased, the tactic may be slotted into a Standard tactic slot on the Standard templates interface.

Guild Standard Tactics slots
- Once unlocked, the additional guild Standard Tactic slot appears in the guild                Standard templates on the Standard pane of the Guild Management Interface.

Guild Tactics points (used to purchase guild tactics)
- Once granted, the tactic point is listed as available for spending in the Guild                 Tactics list in the Standard pane of the Guild Management Interface.

Tactics are passive enhancements that help you fight the way YOU want to. Are you going to charge headlong into batter, or sneak around and plan a surprise attack? There are 3 kinds of guild tactics – Offensive, Defensive, and Stat Enhancement.  Each Standard may contain one of each type of Tactic.

Some examples of Guild Tactics include:

Defensive:

- Weapon Deflection: Increases armor by a certain percentage (depending on      level of tactic).
-  Blade Avoidance: Increases Parry Chance by a certain percentage
(depending on level of tactic).

Stat Buffs:

-  Enhanced Brawn: Increases Strength by a certain percentage (depending
on level of tactic).
- Enhanced Knowledge: Increases Intelligence by a certain percentage
(depending on level of Tactic)

Offensive:

- Thornshield: Deals a number of damage back to the attacker when you’re
struck by a melee attack.
- Enhanced Vigor: Increases Actio Point regain rate by a certain percentage
(depending on level of tactic).

Each basic guild Tactic that is purchased by a guild may be upgraded to more significant versions of the tactic by spending additional guild tactics points on the tactics line. Each guild tactic possesses a base version of the tactic and three upgraded versions that must purchased sequentially. (ie: purchasing the base version unlocks the ability to purchase version 2 of the tactic, purchasing version 2 unlocks the ability to purchase version 3, etc.


Sturmgrenadier is made up of and led by adults from many walks of life including many military service personnel, college students, and professionals.  Most everyone in SG has a family of their own and enjoys gaming as their number one past-time.  We all have lives outside of gaming but at the same time play games to win.  We do so in a very organized way with a long-standing history of structure, discipline, and success at what we do while having a great time.  Our goal and purpose as a gaming organization is to provide an environment in which friendships endure and fun can be had regardless of the game, platform, or geographical location.  We are very excited to be a part of the Warhammer Online experience and Sturmgrenadier is in WAR for one reason and one reason only, to crush our enemies and move the map until we ultimately capture the enemy city.

From the Guild Leader:
Since 2000, Sturmgrenadier, aka SG, has opened its doors to gamers from around the world from all walks of life.  We pride ourselves for having an adult oriented gaming community in which we practice an operational tempo that far exceeds that of any other online organization.  Although SG revolves around massive multi-player online games, we are also active in some of the smaller team oriented games, console games, and even board games (like Warhammer!)  Many people have come through our doors over the years and more than 600 are actively playing games together as a community, every single week.  I personally have enjoyed the lore and history of Warhammer from the Warhammer Fantasy RPG to Warhammer 40k tabletop, and now of course Warhammer Online.  It’s very exciting to see a game come along with the depth of the Warhammer universe and with the game mechanics that allow guilds such as Sturmgrenadier to really shine.

As we say at Sturmgrenadier, without our members and without you we are nothing!