How to play Conqora

The rules in five minutes. Everything here is also in the game under "How to play".

Goal

Own 80% of the land (95% as a team) or hold the most when the time runs out. Everyone starts as a dot, and nations and bots fill the rest of the map.

Starting

Pick a spawn on the coast or away from strong nations. Your troops grow by themselves, fastest at around 40% of your maximum, so spend them: an army sitting at full strength grows nothing.

Attacking

• Click land next to your border to attack it. Attacks take troops from you and fight the defender's troops tile by tile. Taking land from a strong player costs far more than taking empty land.
• The attack ratio slider is the share of your troops each attack sends. 20% keeps a reserve at home, 100% is all in.
• Click across water to send a boat. Boats land anywhere on the coast, follow rivers inland, and can be sunk by warships.
• Defenders fight back on the border: don't leave your own border empty while you push.

Troops and gold

• Your max troops grow with land and with Cities (+250K each level). Troop regrowth and gold income rise with the land you own.
• Gold comes from land, trade ships from your Ports, and trains from your Factories. Gold buys buildings, ships and bombs.
• Prices rise with every building of the same kind you own. Upgrades (middle click) make one building stronger instead.

Buildings

• City — raises your max troops.
• Port — sends trade ships to other ports for gold (more ports, bigger payouts) and builds Warships and Carriers.
• Factory — links to your cities and ports by rail. Trains earn gold, and trains to allies earn the most. A higher-level factory runs longer trains.
• Defense Post — land within 30 tiles is five times harder to take and your attacks there move faster.
• Missile Silo — launches Atom Bombs, Hydrogen Bombs and MIRVs. One launch, then a cooldown.
• SAM Launcher — shoots down nukes and bombers that fly over its range (80% hit chance).

Military

• Warship — patrols the sea, sinks boats and captures trade ships. Click it, then the sea, to move it.
• Nukes — Atom Bomb: small blast. Hydrogen Bomb: huge blast. MIRV: splits into many warheads over the target. Blasts kill troops, wreck buildings and leave fallout nobody can grow on.
• Aircraft Carrier — built at a Port (one for every 3 port levels). Air Raid sends a bomber to destroy one building near the coast, Nuke Bomber drops an atom bomb.

Diplomacy

• Alliances last 5 minutes and can be renewed. Allies can't attack each other, share vision and earn more from trade.
• Breaking an alliance marks you as a traitor: your defence is halved and your attacks slow down for a while, and others see it.
• Embargo a player to stop trading with them. Donate troops or gold to an ally. Mark a target so your allies see who to hit.
• Quick chat and emojis reach everyone or one player. Report abusive players from their window.

Hotspots mode

Some quick games run with hotspots: gold mines and oil fields scattered over the map. Holding a gold mine pays extra gold, holding an oil field boosts your troops. A hotspot is destroyed after three nukes land on it, so expect fights, and fallout, around them.

Tips

• Expand fast into empty land early and fight players later.
• Build a City and a Port first, then Defense Posts on the borders you can't afford to lose.
• Keep your ratio low when a strong neighbour is next door: a failed attack hands them your troops.
• Watch the leaderboard: whoever nears 80% is everybody's problem.

Keyboard and mouse

On phones and tablets: tap to attack, long-press for the action menu, pinch to zoom.