The illustrated field manual
Know your empire.
Readable rules from the same reference used inside the game. Unit values here use the human Napoleonic baseline; people guides cover every roster and era.
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Getting started
Eras & research
Technologies
Units
Buildings
World artwork
Civilizations
- Iron Banner Coalition
- Lantern Republic
- Frontier League
- Glitter Stampede
- Pillowfort Principality
- Wandering Bouquet
- Ember Scale Dominion
- Moonroot Circle
- Wandering Watchtower Guild
- Redshift Command
- Quiet Orbit Collective
- Far Horizon Cooperative
- Midnight Bin Brigade
- Lidlocked League
- Snack Route Confederacy
- Hostile Holdings
- Compliance Citadel
- Branch Office Unlimited
- Hiss Majesty’s Court
- Sunbeam Sanctuary
- Cardboard Commonwealth
- The Endless Hunger
- The Verdant Reckoning
- The Glass Concord
Government
- Purchase an independent state
- Civic council
- Representative democracy
- Central command
- Communal assembly
- Hive Mind
- Mixed economy
- Free enterprise
- Planned industry
- Mutual aid
- Hive Mind
- Civil liberties
- Public welfare
- National duty
- Technocracy
- Hive Mind
- Community policing
- Professional security
- Emergency authority
- Surveillance state
- Hive Mind
- Citizen army
- Rapid response
- Professional corps
- Total mobilization
- Hive Mind
- Balanced
- Civil welfare
- War economy
Systems
- Building raids
- Deploy cannons
- Automatic doom stacks
- Four construction plots
- Founding & rebuilding
- Recruitment & conscription
- Economy & population
- Crewing defenses
- Combat & orders
- Designing a government
- Morale, unrest & breakaways
- War, peace & devourers
- Arming protesters
- Capture & occupation
- Nuclear strike
- Civilizations, colors & appearances
- Computer opponents
- Maps & multiplayer
- Victory & surviving armies