This is not the first Tacticus Diary and it will not be the last, you can find the others here.

Last Week’s Hangovers

• I can’t lie, actually looking forward to a “quieter” week on Tacticus with the grind of the Honour The Prince event for Hascule coming to an end. That said, there’s a little more work to go on that front too…

Saturday 20th December 2025

• Much grinding but no real milestones hit today. We’re very much at the business end of the “Lucius Plan” now so it’s largely key objectives or none hit on a day-by-day basis.

Sunday 21st December 2025

• Took advantage of the “Oh So Close” offer at the end of the Honour The Prince event to promote Hascule to Epic 3 Red Stars. I finished the event 1 Shard off of the promotion. For those that aren’t familiar, if you finish with 25 shards of the next promotion or ascension event for a character. The game offers you an “Oh So Close” offer that allows you to purchase the remaining shards to that step in exchange for Blackstone. Was very glad of this feature as missing out by 1 shard and having nothing that I could do to get that would have been incredibly frustrating! The good news is, I’ve been doing lots of farming and missions (plus Onslaught games) so tomorrow, I’ll be able to promote Hascule to Legendary and rank him to Diamond 1. You just can’t use any regular character shards whilst the event shards are active so need the event to expire for everyone (so all those with an “Oh So Close” offer have had time to decide whether to take advantage of it or not).
• I also unlocked Sy-Gex in a Requisition Drop. Sygex is an interesting one as he does add some depth to my Heavy Weapon and Physical Damage teams so he has managed to squeeze himself into the “Lucius Plan.” Only at Silver 1 but he’ll hopefully help make sure that team hits the numbers I need it to to unlock Lucius in February. I do quite like the Ad-Mech characters (only Vitruvius that I haven’t unlocked so far) and I might put some focus on those once I have Lucius and have less direction on the rest of the characters that need some work.

Monday 22nd December 2025

• What a beautiful day! Hascule to Legendary and Diamond 1. As you may have noticed from my gushing about him on here, he’s quickly become one of my favourites, even Shiron’s place as my actual favourite character is under threat! Diamond 1 puts him in a very strong place for the Lucius event but also the Farsight one beforehand.
• The latest Incursion launched today, and with it, the first chance to unlock Z’kar the Daemon Prince of Tzeentch. I don’t think I’ll use him a great deal but my love of Daemon Princes is well documented so I had to add him to my collection and managed to get him unlocked.

Tuesday 23rd December 2025

• Couple of promotions with Rotbone getting to Silver 1 (aiming for Gold 1) and Ulf reaching Bronze 3 (aiming for Silver 1).

Wednesday 24th December 2025

• Another relatively quiet one but Rotbone advanced to Silver 2, which has been a great help in my Onslaught games as really feeling the difficulty there even with my Emperor’s Children so getting some healing in is making the difference.

Thursday 25th December 2025

• Merry Grotmas! So of course, it’s time to celebrate with Da Red Gobbo event! More shards for Marneus Calgar the Smurfboss certainly won’t hurt. Should have enough by the end of the event to ‘Blue Star’ him. Just need to get enough Legendary Orbs to allow that!
• Kariyan reached Gold 1 today, which is another goal on the “Lucius Plan” ticked off. Result! He’s quite a cool character too and very handy to have around. I’m quite looking forward to the Piercing track in the Farsight event including both him and Hascule for lots of dicing waves of enemies with their many attacks with multiple blades!

Friday 26th December 2025

• Aethana promoted to Silver 3, one more rank to go to Gold 1. The Aeldari characters are important for opening up more avenues to farm materials for my Emperor’s Children so I’m always pleased with these ones!
• Volk to Gold 1 – another goal reached and an important one in that Volk is still an honourary member of my Emperor’s Children, enjoying working with Adamatar and Shiron whilst I wait for the rest of the Emperor’s Children to join my Arena teams etc.

Highs

• Despite being a quieter week in theory, hitting my goals for Hascule, Kariyan, Volk feels like a big achievement. The deadline draws ever nearer for Lucius so all progress is good but it’s especially nice to tick a job off the list rather than just a checkpoint along the way!

Lows

• Not any lows that come to mind. Been a productive week!

Learning

• Some more tidying of the Lucius Plan – I’ll post on the blog about it separately but no real learning that stands out!

Upgrade Item of the Week

This week’s Upgrade Item is a: Amplified Senses

All other upgrades are not at the level of the sheer awesome beauty of the Amplified Senses craftable upgrade. Taking a great many Boons of Slaanesh, Combat Stimms, Bionic Neural Pathways and Healing Ointments to make it’s an investment of time and energy but to my eyes, easily the best looking upgrade in the game!

I’m currently using the Tacticus Planner and the Tacticus Codex to help with my event planning and my Raiding plan – you can see a bit more about them in my Getting Started with Tacticus post.