CosmicConquest
The PlayersSelect at least 2 colors
The Classes
The Map
How to conquersix panels · the whole game
Each commander takes the starting areas set in Map settings (5 by default, dealt automatically, or picked by hand in snake order) — the first is your capital. Every turn opens on the start screen: the troops you gained and why, and every card that arrived. Then Start turn and deploy: pick one of your areas, set the troops on the island and confirm ✓.
Thick stepped bands split every world into sectors; the dark abyss between continents is sea — nobody walks on it. Hold a whole sector and it pays its bonus every turn (its band lights up in your colour): few crossings (⇄) hold easily but pay little.
S or ◈ repaints the board by sector — an inky hue and a comic screen each — and captions name them: bonus, areas, crossings, the holder. Tap a caption to light its sector up.
One zoom runs from the system to standing on a world: wheel or pinch, double-tap dives a rung, ⤒ (U) climbs. On the ground other worlds glint in the sky — tap one to fly there, the sun included. 2D (F) unrolls a world into a flat map that scrolls round forever.
Select your area (2+), aim at a touching one, Attack: the lens dives, the armies line up, the dice land, each winner strikes (husks dash through, the Fragile's troopers fire) and the loser snaps to ink; tap empty space to make your troopers take potshots. 3 dice v 2 (3 on a capital), ties defend; Onslaught! rolls on. A docked Spaceship carries 12 — across its family at once, or a bridge out: it hovers, then lands next turn.
Your class promises a card a round for 18 rounds, in three acts of six — rounds VII and XIII unseal the next. Capital and Spaceship play now; the rest arrive as sealed cards, a promise of later issues. Conquer an area in a turn to draw a card.
Spectacle
- Ghost cursors the acting commander's hover, pick and aim show in their colour on everyone else's board.
- Spectating no seat, or a seat the war unmade: watch with the auto camera (tap it for a free lens), Catch up on a backlog, Watch again from the start when it ends.
- Friendly rooms the host adds room codes in the Menu; they hang in the sky as stars — the fallen tap one and warp over to watch, and warp Home again.
- The room card the Menu shows the code, who's in, your role, Copy link and Leave room.
- Rooms Play together → Open a room, then send its code or link: friends join from their phones, tablets or computers.
- Seats that wait a dropped phone or a refreshed page takes its seat back; a player gone too long can be handed to a Husk.
- Spectators latecomers can watch a war under way; the host can lock the room or show someone the door.
- See-through a moon or a ring in front of your world opens a living, dotted cut-out so your world always shows. Settings → Cutoff distance: 0 off, 10 always.
- A wider system worlds and moons stand further apart, and every world's widest view reaches much further out.
- Two-step zoom one zoom stops at the edge; the next one takes you into the map, or into the world nearest the middle. A hard flick still goes straight through.
- The sun can be selected like any world.
- Cleaner labels names and markers of worlds behind your selection stay behind it, and the ownership rings count only land.
- Settings the gear (O) or the pause menu: sound and volume, battle cinematics for your battles and the Husks', 2D by default, the sector flash, the timeline bar, calm actors, quality and reduced motion — kept on this device.
- A faster press each forcefield weighs 6 nearby seeds instead of up to 48, idle frames print their ink lighter, and only what moved goes to the GPU.
- New sounds stamps pop, castles hop, troops stumble, the lens dives through the clouds, dice thud, nails clash, the fallen crumble to ink.
- Gold stitch a sector held whole is trimmed in gold and white.
- How to conquer the help is a six-panel comic now (H).