How this works

One tick a day. Everything below resolves at the same instant, for everybody, with nobody moving first.

The tick

Orders resolve at midnight Eastern, once a day. Until then nothing you save has happened yet — deploys, moves and attacks are a plan, and you can change them as often as you like.

At midnight every player's orders resolve simultaneously. There is no turn order and no advantage to submitting early or late. You cannot see anyone else's plan, and they cannot see yours.

Soldiers you earn tonight are spendable tonight — income arrives before your orders are checked, so a deploy funded by today's income is legal.

Where soldiers come from

• Territory income. max(5, territories / 2) rounded down, plus a bonus for every whole region you hold. Anything up to eleven territories pays the same 5, so early on completing a region is worth far more than collecting scattered ground — the count itself does not start to matter until twelve.
• Workouts. Post a photo in Slack. When two other players react 👍 it counts, and you get +1. Up to two photos a day. Only 👍 counts, and your own reaction never does.
• Timing bonuses. The first person to post that day gets +1. The last person to be approved before midnight gets +1. One bonus each, so if you hold both ends the second goes to the next player.
• Settled wagers. See below.

A faction with no territories earns no income.

Moving

You can move soldiers to an adjacent territory you already own. They arrive before any fighting, defend the destination that same night, and can die doing it. Reinforcement, not logistics.

Moves and attacks share one budget per territory, and a territory can never be emptied — at least one soldier always stays home. If you order more out of one place than it can spare, the move survives and the attack is dropped: losing ground you already hold is worse than failing to take more.

Fighting

• You may attack any adjacent territory you do not own, with up to all but one of the attacking territory's soldiers.
• A territory defends with the soldiers still in it. Anything you ordered out has already left, so attacking out of a border territory weakens its defence the same night.
• Losses total exactly the defending garrison, shared out across everyone attacking that territory. Beat the defence and you take it with whatever survives; fall short and you have only thinned the garrison.
• If two players attack each other across the same border, the smaller force dies outright and the larger continues with size − 2 × smaller. A small attack into a big one is not a cheap spoiler — it is a total loss, and it still costs the attacker double.
• Attacks from several of your own territories onto one target fight as a single force. Survivors of a failed attack withdraw to where they came from.

Wagers

Press Wagers on the board for the day's markets. Pick a side, set a stake, and it saves as you go — the page shows what a win pays before you commit.

• Wagers and soldiers share one reserve. A stake you commit to a market is not available to deploy, and the board counts both against the same number.
• One wager per market, per player. Backing both sides of the same market would be a guaranteed profit, so it is not allowed.
• A wager is priced when you place it, not at the tick. Changing your stake re-prices it at the current odds.
• Each market locks at its own close time, not at midnight — often hours earlier, and sooner still if it settles early.
• Your stake leaves your reserve at the tick. Winning pays it back with a premium; losing returns nothing.

The daily rule

Every morning the bot offers three rules from the catalogue in Slack. React with the numeral next to the one you want. You can change your mind — your latest reaction is the one that counts — and the most-voted rule is applied at midnight for that night only. If nobody votes, nothing changes.

Being knocked out

A player with no territories left can shield one territory a day from attack — anyone's — but only if they posted a workout that day. Showing up is the price of a say in how it ends.

If the game does something you did not expect, it is probably on this page — and if it is not, it is a bug worth reporting.

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