When turns collide

Each target you attack holds one of your fronts, and Command research sets how many you can hold at once. The Warlord starts with fronts open before any research.

The Core's garrison, its emplacements, its wall and any allied army parked there defend it together. A siege turn then plays out in up to three steps.

1. 1Every attacker against the defender. Everyone besieging the Core that turn, allied or not, fights as one side. There is no half measure: if the defence holds, every attacker loses everything it sent, Marshals included.
2. 2The strongest besieger leads. If the defence breaks, the attacker with the most units left standing leads, decided without a fight. Units are counted by head, not by strength. Only its Marshals spend: each one takes a point of the Core's Integrity, up to a limit per turn that Ordnance research raises. Send as many as you like: only the limit spends. Every other besieger burns as many of its own Marshals as the leader spent, unless it is the leader's ally. Marshals are not counted when choosing the leader, so a besieger whose soldiers all fell cannot lead and its Marshals cannot spend. A lone besieger leads.
3. 3Home with the loot, or a fight for the prize. While Integrity stays above zero, nobody fights anybody else: the attackers take … of the Colony's stockpile above what it keeps protected, shared by what each can carry, and march home. Only on the turn Integrity reaches zero do the attackers turn on each other, allies standing as one. The player with the most units left standing on the last side takes the Colony, the losing rivals are destroyed where they stand, and the winner's allies march home. If nobody survives that clash, the Colony stays with its owner, its Integrity spent.

Marshals that were not spent always come home, or join the new garrison on a capture, even if every soldier escorting them fell. Only a defence that holds takes them.

Win or lose, the defender loses the units that fell and any emplacements that fail to rebuild. If the defence breaks it also loses … of its counter-spies, all of them if the Colony falls, and, if Marshals were spent, that turn's monument level.

When Integrity reaches zero the whole Colony changes hands: the Core, every Holding, every building and the entire stockpile, food debt included. Every unit standing anywhere in it is destroyed, parked allies too, and the winner's survivors become the new garrison.

Every emplacement is destroyed and the wall drops a level. Work in progress is cancelled without a refund, a monument standing there is destroyed, and the counter-spies are gone. A captured capital becomes an ordinary Colony.

The loser's armies from that Colony standing anywhere else, on the march, on a landmark or with an ally, are not lost: from then on they eat from, and march home to, the loser's capital, which is their oldest remaining Colony if the capital itself fell. Only a player who has lost their last Colony loses them too.

A raid meets a share of the Core's emplacements, a share its Outworks widen, with the wall and the Armory behind them, plus any army standing on the Holding itself, the owner's or an ally's. The Core's own garrison stays home. Win or lose, every player on either side keeps at least … of each kind of unit they brought.

Raiders who win carry off the Holding's production first: up to a set stretch of its output (…), less if their survivors cannot carry it all, and none from a building an earlier raid has already stopped. The building then produces nothing for as long as the output they took would have needed. Then they take … of the Colony's stockpile above its protected floor, which the Hideout raises. The raiders share the haul by what each can carry, and what nobody can carry stays behind.

Raid several of a Colony's Holdings on the same turn and the raids settle one after another, each taking its share of what the ones before it left. The stockpile is never counted twice.

After the fight, each emplacement the raid knocked out is either rebuilt or destroyed, and the ones that stood are untouched. Several raids on one Colony in the same turn each meet their own full share of the ring, so their losses add up. Nothing is left damaged. A raid never takes ground and never touches Integrity or the wall.

Landmarks are fixed ancient sites that nobody can own as territory, only hold. Everyone can see who holds each one. An unheld landmark keeps a neutral guard that grows every turn it stands untaken.

Taking one is an attack at the turn like any other, and it holds a front. Attackers break the guard together, then settle it among themselves with allies standing as one, and the largest force left standing takes it. If nobody survives, nobody holds it, and the guard returns.

Your fighting units on the landmark are its garrison, and you hold it for as long as one of them remains. Send more to reinforce it and build emplacements there, but no wall. Allies cannot attack your landmark, but they can send units to help defend it. Those units stay theirs: they feed them, recall them, and earn nothing from the landmark, and they go home if you lose it or the alliance ends. When someone takes it, their survivors become the garrison and every emplacement you built is destroyed.

Each landmark you hold makes every Colony produce more and build faster, and the bonuses stack. It is lost the moment the landmark is. Landmarks are also what you need to found a monument.