---
title: "3D tactics board"
description: "Set a formation, drag the players, animate a move phase by phase, export an MP4 for your slides, or share a link."
canonical: https://hobbit.football/docs/tactics-board
language: en
publisher: Hobbit (https://hobbit.football)
---

# 3D tactics board

> Set a formation, drag the players, animate a move phase by phase, export an MP4 for your slides, or share a link.

![The 3D tactics board in a minute and a half](/showcase/tactics-demo.mp4)

The 3D tactics board is a pitch you can rotate. Set the starting positions, add a phase, drag the players and the ball to where they go next, add another phase; on play, the players run through it phase by phase.

Open [3D tactics board](/tactics-board) in the sidebar. It works without signing in; saving needs an account.

## Setting up

- **Format**: 5v5 to 11v11. Pick a formation for the blue and the red side, or add players one by one.
- **Pitch**: full or half, in four styles (paper, grass, blueprint, slate).
- **Players**: drag them into position, and give each a position or a name. With a team in Hobbit, "Import players" puts the roster on the pitch.
- **Equipment**: discs, cones, mini goals, mannequins, poles, an agility ladder, each of which can be rotated.

## Animating

Set the "Start" positions first, then "Add a phase". In each phase drag players and the ball; runs and passes can bend (left, straight, right), passes can be on the ground or in the air, and each phase can carry a caption. Play, pause and loop are at the bottom.

## Exporting and sharing

"Download" offers two things: a PNG of the current frame, or an MP4 of the whole animation, which is the smoothest and fits a slide deck.

"Save" puts the board in the [Tactics library](/tactics-library) to reopen and keep editing. Every board in the library can be "shared": a public link where anyone can rotate the pitch and play the animation without an account. "Stop sharing" takes it back at any time.

## Allowance

The free plan has 3 boards in total, for life; deleting one does not give the slot back. Pro is unlimited.

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