HOW TO PLAY

Goal

Be the richest company when the war ends (net worth: cash plus what your buildings and stock are worth). The war ends when time runs out or one alliance wipes out the other.

Make things

• Steel works go on iron ore (grey rocks), oil wells on oil fields (black pools), chemical plants on salt flats (white crystals).
• A factory turns materials into one kind of weapon. Pick its product, upgrade it for more output.
• Research labs (and your HQ, slowly) earn research points for new weapons and better logistics.
• Every building has upkeep. Go below -$3,000 and you're bankrupt.

Move things

• Click a building, then Ship to… and click where it goes: another of your buildings (materials to a factory) or a faction's city (to sell weapons).
• Convoys travel by road and sea. Crossing land owned by a faction that dislikes you, or a battlefield, risks a raid. Research Railways, Armed escorts and Air cargo.

Pick your customers

• Selling to a faction makes it like you, its allies a little too, and its enemies hate you.
• You can't build within a few tiles of a border where a battle is going on; the rest of the province is fine.
• Factions that turn wary won't let you build on their land. Hostile ones raid your convoys.
• To win a faction back, keep shipping weapons to its cities: wary factions pay 60% of the price, hostile ones 25%, but every delivery rebuilds trust faster than a normal sale. A faction never raids a convoy that's bringing it weapons.
• If a hostile faction captures a province, it seizes your buildings there. They're gone for good.
• Weapons you sell really go to the front: arm a faction well and it starts winning. Prices rise where fighting is hot.
• Factions post contracts with bonus pay. Fail one and they'll be angry.

The black market

• Politics (public): incite a war between two factions (war fever: higher prices and fatter contracts for 3 minutes), broker a ceasefire, lobby a faction, or smear a rival with one.
• Dirty work (anonymous): blow up a rival's building in an "industrial accident" (the tile is then free to grab), stir up a strike, or hijack every convoy they have on the road.
• Hire security to guard a building: it foils the next accident or strike and stops one seizure.
• Every job makes that job dearer for everyone, rivals included, and prices cool off over time.

Controls

Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom. H find your HQ · Esc cancel · Space pause (solo) · 1–5 tabs