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 # wasteland-tactics
 A simple yet deep tabletop wargame
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+# The game
+Wasteland tactics is a tabletop wargame simulating the fast-paced randomness and tactical decision-making of a real battlefield.
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+The rules are fundamentally simple to encourage fast play, yet combine together in deep and interesting ways. The game can be played at any scale: a skirmish between ragtag bands of desperadoes will take under an hour to play, while a company-scale battle with hundreds of soldiers and a dozen monsters and war machines is feasible in under four hours.
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+# Building from source
+The Wasteland Tactics rules are written using LaTeX. To compile them into a PDF document, you will need a LaTeX app
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+# Policies, philosophy, and licensing
+The goal of Wasteland Tactics is to make available a high quality 100% free open source wargaming ruleset. Accordingly, the rules will never use a freemium or DLC model with the "core" rules provided for free but extra "advanced rules" or "bonus content" costing money. The source code for 100% of the rules will always be free and open source under the GPLv3 license.
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+When the rules change, the goal is to improve the game by making it more fun, faster to play, and to reduce imbalances--never to temporarily give one faction an edge to encourage the sale of models, books, or anything else.
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+All rules changes will come in the form of discrete releases with a full set of release notes detailing what has changed, for your convenience.