MergeCiv

The Metal War Conquest is here. The "Call the Banners" research opens the War tab. RAISE AN ARMY — The Muster Grounds are a merge grid of their own. Pitch recruit tents, merge them upward, and a tent's tier is its population. Then arrange your line of battle: each row is a line, and the vanguard column faces the enemy. MARCH THE ROAD — 200 stones of goblin-held country. Every ordinary stone is a working site — farmland, lumber camp, ore mine, mana well, workshop — that pays its own resource once cleared. Every 25th is a walled siege that pays Valor, the war's currency. Your road is drawn once and never redrawn. LIGHT THE FORGE — Smelting is a spoil of war, unlocked at road rank 10. A manned Workshop refines its adjacent ore into Metal, the game's only flat resource. Metal arms the war: armor and armor-piercing ranks, knight musters, and the writs that dismiss standing units. SIX LINES, AND WHO THEY BECOME — Militia, archers, spearmen, mages, heroes and knights each unlock through their own research card and train through six ranks. Each can specialize: berserkers, tower shields, crossbowmen, fire and ice mages, battle priests, medics and more, every one with its own battlefield art. Once a path is owned you switch freely. WAR IS PERMANENT — The campaign belongs to you, not to this civilization. Resettling, Citadel imbues and Ascension all carry your road, your standing host and your Metal forward. Too much resets already. THE BIRD LEARNS WAR — Two new feather-shop tracks for Metal and Valor production, two progression rows gated on your war balances, and Conquest Road boons at ranks 50, 100 and 175 that feed the bird extra charges and faster recharge. Two new Royal bundles for the war chest: War Chest (+20% Valor forever) and Forgemaster (+20% Metal forever).