Getting Started

You Are Piloting a Moving City

The opening of DREADNOUGHT TARTARUS puts the player in command of a battleship the size of a city. The pitch is literally: the TARTARUS's firepower can erase metropolitan areas. That framing shapes every combat decision.

Get Comfortable With the Strategic Layer

The game is a semi-automated strategic simulation rather than a first-person action game. The player is commanding systems at scale, pointing the ship across battle zones, and making loadout decisions between engagements. Direct combat inputs exist, but the big decisions are strategic.

Deploy the Mech When It Fits

Not every fight warrants a city-leveling response. The combat mech launches from the TARTARUS's hangar bay for smaller-scale confrontations. Using it at the right time saves the battleship's major weaponry for bigger targets.

Reverse Engineer Everything

Intel from defeated enemies feeds the reverse engineering system. That means clean kills are valuable beyond the immediate fight: every new enemy type is a potential upgrade path for the TARTARUS.