Gameplay
In the Local mode (A non-InterBBS game), each player rules over his or her own realm on a post-apocalyptic planet, competing to have the strongest realm. Each day, the player makes various leadership decisions, each of which can cause their population to increase or decrease. The players must be careful to sustain their own empires, preventing low popular support and military morale, as well as starvation, while they strive to expand their might militarily. Tactics and methods vary, but all players may wage war on other players as well as form alliances, truces, and treaties. By capturing or buying new regions, their realm can grow more food, make more gold, or produce more military units. Players are also able to select from a list of espionage missions which can demoralize the enemy's forces, attack the population directly, weaken their defenses or many more. Finally, there is also a list of diplomatic treaties which players can use to create alliances or trade routes.
The InterBBS mode offers many more tactics to players. In this mode, each BBS works together as a team, making alliances with other boards to try to gain supremacy over the entire league. Each team designates a Planetary Coordinator, who is basically the planet's official spokesperson, and usually is also the planet's leader. By working together with different common strategies and layouts, boards can gain various bonuses that are unavailable in the local mode.
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