🏰 Dominion

🎯 Quick Start

1. Create or join a game from the Lobby.
2. You start with a Settlement on the map and some starting resources.
3. Build roads to explore the fog of war and expand your visibility.
4. Build resource buildings (farms, quarries, lumber mills) on resource-rich hexes.
5. Research technologies to unlock better buildings and bonuses.
6. Expand your territory by building settlements and capturing enemy hexes.
7. Win by dominating the map, achieving tech supremacy, or amassing gold!

🎮 Controls

🏆 Win Conditions

Be the first player to achieve any one of these:

📦 Resources

There are 6 resources. You start with Food: 100, Wood: 50, Stone: 30, Iron: 0, Gold: 20, Rare Metals: 0.

Income is earned each turn from buildings extracting hex resources. Hover the resource bar to see your per-turn income.

🌍 Terrain Types

Only ~30% of non-water hexes have building slots (1-3). The rest are road-only.

🔄 Turn Flow

Each turn, the active player goes through these phases:

1. Income Phase (automatic) — Collect resources from all your buildings.
2. Research Phase (automatic) — Current research progresses. If complete, tech is unlocked.
3. Action Phase (you decide) — Build roads/buildings, start research, upgrade buildings, capture territory. You can take as many actions as you can afford.
4. End Turn — Click "End Turn" to pass to the next player.

🏗️ Buildings

💰 How Income Works

Base extraction: Any hex you own (via Settlement) automatically yields 50% of its innate resources per turn. Roads yield 25%. This lets you collect resources immediately when you claim territory.

Building extraction: Specialized buildings (Farms, Quarries, etc.) extract at higher rates and replace the base rate for their resource type:

1. Each building checks the hex's innate resource value (e.g., a hex with Food: 3).
2. Multiply by the building's extraction rate (e.g., Farm = 2x, so 3 × 2 = 6 food).
3. Apply tech bonuses (e.g., Irrigation = +50% food, so 6 × 1.5 = 9 food).
4. Apply factory bonus if a Factory is on the same hex (+25%).

Base extraction still applies to resource types not covered by a building. For example, if a hex has Food and Stone but you only build a Farm, you get the Farm's food rate plus 50% base stone.

Flat bonuses (Market +2 gold, Bank +3 gold) are added separately and aren't affected by hex resources.

🌫️ Fog of War

You can only see hexes within range of your buildings and roads:

Build roads to explore cheaply, settlements to claim and see further, and watchtowers for maximum scouting.

⚔️ Territory Capture

To capture an enemy hex:

1. You need a Barracks adjacent to the target (or a Fortress within 2 hexes).
2. Base capture cost: ⛏️ 15 Iron + 🌾 10 Food.
3. Enemy defenses multiply the cost:

Tech reductions: Siege Craft (-20%), Medicine (-25%), Diplomacy (-50%).

All enemy buildings on a captured hex are destroyed.

🔬 Technology Tree

48 technologies across 5 ages. Research one tech at a time by clicking the Tech Tree button.

Categories: ● Economy   ● Military   ● Science   ● Infrastructure   ● Culture

Some techs require a specific building at a certain level (e.g., Writing requires Knowledge Hut Lv2). Multi-level techs can be researched multiple times for stacking bonuses. Each tech awards achievement score (⭐).

📊 Key Tech Bonuses

🛡️ Military Units

Train military units at Barracks or Stables to attack and defend territory. Each unit costs food upkeep per turn.

Training: Select a hex with a Barracks (or Stable for Cavalry) and use the "Train Units" section in the build panel.

Movement: Select a hex with your units → click "Move" → click a blue highlighted hex. Cavalry moves up to 3 hexes.

Combat: Moving into an enemy hex initiates melee combat. Ranged units can use "Attack" to fire at enemies within range without taking damage.

Type Advantage (1.5x): Melee > Siege, Ranged > Melee, Cavalry > Ranged, Spearman > Cavalry.

Terrain Defense: Hills/Mountains +25%, Forest +15%. Walls and Fortress add defense from buildings.

Upkeep: Each unit costs 1 🌾 food per turn. Units starve (-3 HP) if you can't pay.

Healing: Hospital heals friendly units on its hex and adjacent hexes by 3 HP/turn.

Max 5 units per hex. Press ESC to cancel move/attack mode.

🗺️ Map Sizes

Players spawn at least 10 hexes apart on buildable plains hexes.

💡 Tips

• Build roads early to explore and find resource-rich hexes.
• Prioritize Food and Wood early — they fuel expansion.
• Research Agriculture and Mining quickly to unlock extraction buildings.
• Place extraction buildings on hexes with high innate resources for maximum yield.
• Build a Knowledge Hut early — you'll need it for advanced research.
• Save Iron for military — you'll need it for barracks and capturing.
• Use Watchtowers for efficient scouting (3 hex range).
• Walls double enemy capture costs — fortify your borders!
• Factory on a resource-rich hex gives a multiplicative +25% bonus to everything on it.
• Research speed techs (Mathematics, Printing, Computing) compound to dramatically cut research time.