🌍 History & Empires

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How to get gold: every turn you earn the total land value of all the territories you own (hover any country to see its value per turn). More land means more income, and conquering a country adds its income to yours — but losing an income-rich land devastates your empire’s stability.

What gold does: it buys troops (1💰 = 1,000 troops, placed in your selected territory) and pays for every troop movement — attacks and transfers both cost 1💰 per 10,000 troops moved.

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How to get troops: select one of your territories and buy them with gold (1💰 = 1,000). Troops stay where you place them — use Transfer mode to redeploy.

What troops do: battles are won by power = troops × kill ratio (set by stability). The winner loses 1/5 of its committed troops, the loser 1/2. Garrisons also keep conquered land loyal: keep MORE troops there than the land had before you invaded, or it may revolt.

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What political stability is: each territory’s allegiance to your motherland (1–100). It sets how deadly its troops are: 80+ kills 2:1, 60+ 1:1, 40+ 0.5:1, 20+ 0.25:1, below 20 just 0.2:1. This box shows your empire-wide total PS.

How it changes: winning attacks raises the attacking lands ×1.2; failed offensives, bloody defenses, and losing income-rich territory all drain it — and every loss is amplified the farther a land is from your motherland.

Why it matters: low-PS territories fight feebly and rise in revolution (up to 75% per turn below 5% PS), breaking away as independent republics.

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▶ Simulation mode: watches the AI world play itself — pressing it is like clicking End Turn over and over automatically. Empires wage war, revolutions erupt, and the map redraws itself while you just watch. Once running, this button becomes ⏹ Exit Simulation, which stops the auto-play (the world keeps its new borders — press 🏁 Begin Game to claim an empire the simulation made powerful).

⏸ Pause: appears beside the speed slider while the simulation runs — click it to freeze the world mid-history, and click ▶ Resume to continue.

Speed slider: sets how long each turn takes, from a blistering 0.1s to a leisurely 2s per turn. You can drag it while the simulation is running.

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📖 How to Play

Goal: conquer half of the world’s nations before your empire is erased. Every country on Earth starts as its own empire — bigger lands begin with more gold and troops (Russia = 100💰 = 100,000⚔️).

Your turn: click one of your countries to command it. Buy troops with the buttons or the gold slider. Set the send slider, then click a red-outlined enemy neighbor to attack, or tick 🚚 Transfer mode and click a green friendly neighbor to redeploy. Ctrl+click a friendly neighbor, then keep clicking to join up to four into the attack in one continuous move (each contributes an equal share). When you’re done, press End Turn — other players move, then every AI empire acts, then revolts erupt and incomes are paid.

💰 Gold is your engine: income each turn equals the total land value you hold. It buys troops (1💰 = 1,000) and fuels every movement (1💰 per 10,000 troops moved). Conquest grows your income — but losing a rich province shatters stability empire-wide.

⚔️ Troops are your sword and your police. Battle power = troops × kill ratio; the winner loses 1/5 of the troops committed, the loser 1/2. Occupied land compares your garrison to the army it had before you invaded — station more than that or face up to 95% revolt odds.

🏛️ Political stability is each territory’s allegiance to your motherland, and it decides the kill ratio (80+ → 2:1 down to <20 → 0.2:1). Victories raise it; failed attacks, bloody defenses, and lost income lands drain it — amplified by ×(1 + 0.5 per border-hop) from your motherland, uncapped. Unstable or under-garrisoned lands secede as independent republics after the turn.

The loop that wins games: gold buys troops → troops win battles and hold conquests → victories keep stability high → stability makes troops deadly and lands loyal → conquest brings more gold. Break any link and the empire unravels.