You start as the USA (Eastern & Western US). Conquer every territory on the map to win. Every other country starts as an independent nation — you must defeat them all.
Your Turn — 3 Phases
1. Reinforce — You receive troops each turn (at least 3, more if you own more territory). Click any territory you own to add a troop. Place all troops before moving on.
2. Attack — Click ⚔ Attack, then click one of your territories to select it (it glows). Then click any enemy territory anywhere on the map to attack it — no adjacency needed. More troops = you win. You can attack as many times as you like.
3. Fortify — Click 🏰 Fortify to move spare troops from one of your territories into an adjacent one to strengthen your border.
Click ⏭ End Turn when you're done. All 42 AI nations then take their turns at once.
Combat (No Dice)
Attacking chips away at both sides — it's not a single all-or-nothing roll.
Each attack, the defender loses about a third of your attacking troops (your troops minus the 1 left behind), and you lose about a third of the defender's troops, rounded up (minimum 1 each side).
Click the same enemy territory again to keep pressing the attack.
Capture happens the instant the defender's troops hit 0 — your surviving attackers (minus 1, which stays behind) move in.
You always keep at least 1 troop on your attacking territory, so a stalled assault never costs you the territory you attacked from.
Troop Bonuses Each Turn
Base: 1 troop per 3 territories you own (minimum 3).
Control an entire continent for a big bonus:
N. America +5, Europe +5, Asia +7, Africa +3, S. America +2, Australia +2.
Tips
Conquer North America first — it's your home continent and gives +5 troops/turn.
Stack troops on your border territories before attacking, not interior ones.
The hover ring shows which territory your cursor is over before you click.
You can attack any enemy territory, not just neighbors — great for hitting an undefended country across the map. In Attack mode, red dashed lines still mark your nearby enemies for convenience.