The Playbook / Pressure
TIER 1 · STRATEGY · ATTRITION-BASED
Pressure
Renamed from "Erosion," itself renamed from "Exhaustion" — both earlier names centered passive decay rather than the operator's own deliberate, sustained action.
You are removing the target's capacity to resist. This page runs the process — read the threshold, don't convert early.
THE PATIENCE DOCTRINE
Read the Threshold
Pressure is the strategy most frequently abandoned too early. It produces no visible ground taken — only degradation, invisible until the conversion point is reached. Drag to set the target's current capacity and see whether it's actually time to convert.
0% — collapsed
100% — full strength
Target capacity: 70%
THE PLAY
Attrition
Attrition — Pressure's Play
Impose cost at every contact faster than the target can recover. Do not seek decisive engagement — seek cumulative degradation. Control arrives at the point of collapse, not before.
Objectives
Drain · Sustain · Control
Requires
Sustained engagement viable · target recovery slower than your own loss rate · own capability sufficient to outlast
Failure Standard
If your own losses exceed the target's recovery rate, you are running Pressure on yourself. Convert or abort.
WHAT COMES NEXT
Pressure's Conversion Map
Click the trigger to see where it routes.
Full mechanics and the Tactics reference live in the Playbook.