Glossary: the terms you'll see in Conqora

Attack ratio — The share of your troops each attack sends, set with the slider or T/Y.

Bots — Unnamed AI players that fill the map (up to 400 in quick games). Weak individually, numerous.

Nations — Named AI countries with starting land and troops, shown with a flag. They defend, expand, ally and nuke like players.

AI players — AI opponents that look like players and fill public games when few humans are online; marked as AI in the player window.

Troops — Your army. Grows on its own, spent in attacks, capped by land and cities.

Gold — In-match money from land, trade ships, trains and hotspots. Resets every match.

Qora — The account currency for cosmetics. Earned from the battle pass, bought in packs.

City — Building that raises your troop cap by 250K per level.

Port — Coastal building that sends trade ships and builds Warships and Carriers.

Factory — Building that runs trains along rails to your cities and ports.

Defense Post — Makes land within 30 tiles five times harder to take.

Missile Silo — Launches nukes; one launch per 75-second cooldown.

SAM Launcher — Shoots down nukes (80%) and bombers (85%) in range.

Atom Bomb — The small nuke: 750K gold, 12–30 tile blast.

Hydrogen Bomb — The big nuke: 5M gold, 80–100 tile blast.

MIRV — 35M gold; splits into many warheads over the target.

Fallout — Land after a nuke: nothing grows there, attacks across it are slow.

Boat / transport — Troops sent across water; lands on any coast, follows rivers.

Warship — Sinks boats, captures trade ships, fights other warships.

Trade ship — Unarmed ship between ports that pays gold on arrival.

Carrier — Ship built at a port that launches Air Raids and Nuke Bombers.

Alliance — A five-minute pact: no attacks, shared vision, trade bonus.

Traitor — Someone who broke an alliance: halved defence and slower attacks for 30 seconds, visible to all.

Embargo — Stops trade with one player for five minutes.

Hotspot — Gold mine or oil field (hotspots mode); destroyed after three nukes.

Quick game — The public match that starts every few minutes with random map and modifiers.

Modifier — A rule change on a quick game: fog of war, hotspots, 2x gold, no nukes, 30-minute limit and others.

Ranked — Solo, duo and trio queues with a rating and tiers from Bronze to Grandmaster.

Placement matches — Your first five ranked matches in a queue, before a tier is shown.

Party — A group that queues ranked duo or trio together.

Lobby — A private game set up by a host; joined by code or invite link.

Clan — A player group with a tag, banner and chat; founded for 1,000 Qora.

Battle pass — The seasonal 50-tier reward track; 500 XP per tier.

XP / level — Account progress from matches; doubled in ranked and clan wars.

Reserved name — A store item: nobody else can play under your name; a verified mark shows next to it.

Spectate — Watching a clan war or a friend's match live without playing.