Conquest

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Players Human players Computer difficulty Computer style Initial territories Setup placement Card set bonus Fortify move Two-player game uses neutral armies (classic)

Optional rules (all off = classic) Round limit (then most points wins) Capitals: your largest stack at round 1 becomes your capital; hold every capital to win Two-player balance: the second player starts with 2 extra armies Secret missions: everyone is dealt a secret goal; complete yours to win at once Needs 3 or more players

Goal: conquer every territory on the map by eliminating all other players. Conquest is inspired by the classic world-domination board games of the 1950s and plays by the rules you probably already know.

Setup

Each player receives an army pool: 40 armies with 2 players, 35 with 3, 30 with 4, 25 with 5, 20 with 6. Turn order is drawn at random. In the classic setup players take turns claiming one unowned territory each until all 42 are taken, then take turns placing their remaining armies until their pools are empty — one army per turn in the printed rules; the setup-placement option lets each turn place up to 3, up to 5, or the whole pool, which is much quicker on a screen. The quick setup deals the territories instead.

Two-player games add a third, neutral army. Territories are dealt three ways; on each setup turn you place two of your own armies and one neutral army (scaled up by the setup-placement option). Neutral armies defend normally but never attack.

Your turn

Reinforce. You receive one army for every three territories you hold (minimum 3), plus a bonus for each continent you hold entirely: North America 5, Europe 5, Asia 7, Africa 3, South America 2, Oceania 2. Trade in a set of cards now if you wish — you must trade if you hold 5 or more.
Attack. Attack an adjacent enemy territory from a territory with at least 2 armies. The attacker rolls up to 3 dice (never more than one fewer than the armies present); the defender rolls up to 2. Highest dice are compared pairwise, and each lost comparison costs one army. Ties go to the defender. "All in" keeps rolling until the territory falls or you can no longer attack. When you capture a territory you must move in at least as many armies as dice you rolled, always leaving at least one behind. Attack as often as you like.
Fortify. Once per turn, move any number of armies from one territory to an adjacent one you also hold (or, with the connected-path option, through a chain of your own territories), leaving at least one behind. This ends your turn.

Cards

If you captured at least one territory during your turn you draw one card at the end of it. Cards show a territory and one of three symbols (infantry, cavalry, artillery); two wild cards match anything. A set is three of a kind or one of each. With the escalating option, sets are worth 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15 armies and then 5 more each time, for everyone at the table; with the fixed option, infantry sets are worth 4, cavalry 6, artillery 8 and mixed 10. If a traded card shows a territory you hold, two extra armies are placed there.

When you eliminate a player you take their cards. If that gives you 6 or more, you must trade sets immediately until you hold 4 or fewer, and place the armies before attacking again.

Optional rules

All are off by default; switch them on in the new-game dialog.

Round limit (10, 15 or 20 rounds). When the last player's turn of the final round ends, the player with the highest score wins: one point per territory held plus the bonus of every continent held entirely (North America and Europe 5, Asia 7, Africa 3, South America and Oceania 2). Ties go to the player with more armies on the board, then to the one earlier in turn order. Scores are shown live in the player list; wiping everyone out before the limit still wins outright.
Capitals. When round 1 starts, each player's territory with the most armies becomes their capital (on a tie, the one listed first on the map), marked with a star. Hold every capital at the same time, your own included, and you win at once; capitals of eliminated players still count. During setup a hollow star shows which stack would become your capital.
Two-player balance. In a two-player game the second player in turn order starts with 2 extra armies, to offset the advantage of moving first.
Secret missions (three or more players). When the game starts, every player is dealt one card from a deck of 14 secret goals: take two named continents (two cards add any third continent of your choice), hold 24 territories, hold 18 territories with at least two armies on each, or wipe a named army off the map — and for that one, the final capture must be yours. As soon as your goal is met during your own turn, you win at once; you don't have to conquer the world, though wiping out every opponent still wins as usual. A card naming an army that isn't playing, or your own, becomes "Hold 24 territories at once", and so does yours if another player wipes out your target. Your card is private: the Mission button shows it and your progress to you alone (in pass-and-play only on your own turn), and every card is revealed when the game ends.

Computer styles, daily challenge and your record

Computer players can have a personality on top of their difficulty: Bastion holds continents and fortifies, Raider attacks often and takes riskier odds, Cartographer expands one continent at a time, and Jackal goes after whoever is weakest. A style changes how a computer plays, not how strong it is. The daily challenge is the same game for everyone each day: the same map, turn order, dice and computer moves, so the same choices lead to the same result. Your first attempt counts toward your record; you can replay it as practice. Your record keeps your wins, streaks, best results and achievements in this browser.

Keyboard

Enter roll or confirm · A all in · 1 2 3 dice · ← → change an amount · F fortify · E end turn · C cards (then 1–9 and Enter) · W whole world · M my territories · Ctrl/⌘ Z undo a placement · Esc cancel.

On the map (Tab to it): arrow keys move between territories · N / P next / previous one you can use · Enter or Space select it · Tab into the attack options. A screen reader announces each territory's owner, armies and what you can do there.

Playing with others

Create a game and share the link (or show the QR code). The game waits in a lobby until the host starts it; the host can also add computer players and, if someone drops out mid-game, hand their seat to the computer — they can take it back when they return. If someone is slow, the others can nudge them after two minutes, and after five the host can let the computer play that one turn. Reopening the link, or "Your online games" on the start screen, takes you straight back to your seat; anyone else can watch a game that has already started. Dice are rolled on the server, and the defender always rolls the maximum dice. Idle games are kept for 7 days.

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