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Skills


an example of skill icons

As your units level up, they will gain skill points. Spend skill points to unlock different class skills in the Barracks.


Active Skills

an example of four different active skills including overwatch, reload, and execute.

Active Skills are added to the unit’s action bar as a button. Each Active Skill has an Action cost and a Cooldown value. To activate an Active Skill, click on the button or press the associated hotkey.

Cooldown

The Cooldown value of an Ability or Skill is the number of turns you have to wait before activating that Ability or Skill again.


Passive Skills

an example of ten of the passive skills available in the game

Passive Skills are “always on” and do not need to be activated.

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