The Advantage System
The Squad's Shared Tempo Resource
Advantage is a shared resource in STAR WARS Zero Company that you build by damaging enemies and spend on your squad's most powerful abilities — the economy that rewards aggressive, coordinated play.
Earn the edge. Then press it.
Plenty of tactics games punish you for taking risks. Zero Company’s Advantage system does the opposite — it rewards them. Advantage is a shared resource the whole squad draws from, and you build it by damaging enemies. Spend it, and your operatives unlock their most powerful abilities and synergies.
How Advantage shapes a fight
Because Advantage is earned through aggression and spent on big plays, it pushes you toward a proactive, snowballing rhythm. A clean opening — say a Sharpshooter removing a priority target — doesn’t just thin the enemy, it funds the squad’s next move. Land hits, bank Advantage, then cash it in for a decisive ability when the moment is right.
That shared pool also ties your operatives together. One character’s good positioning pays for another’s ultimate, so the system quietly encourages you to think of the squad as a single engine rather than four separate units.
Playing the economy
The skill in Advantage is timing. Spend too eagerly and you’ll have nothing left when the fight tilts; hoard it and you’ll waste turns you could have ended. The strongest squads chain Advantage with the cover and action-point loop and Force synergies, building the resource on safe turns and unleashing it when a single big play can break the enemy.
Exact costs and abilities may be tuned before launch; we’ll update as the numbers are confirmed.