TunaWars

TunaWars 8.0 — Two Ways to Play TWO WAYS TO PLAY • Every game now begins with one question: how do you want to play? • Archē — Command. Armies, cities, trade and works take your orders on the map. Rule from the throne, or govern a province as Satrap for a crown you do not rule. • Bios — A Life. You live one life in the world. The people of your seat bring you the matters of the turn and you answer them; when it comes to a fight, you are there. BIOS: THREE LIVES • The Autokrator sits the throne and moves no piece. His world opens on the Court, where each matter is brought by the man whose office it is, in his own voice; quiet seasons pass by themselves. • He rides a progress through his realm, seeks a marriage alliance, and hears a city's elders and the temple's man. • A counselor may sit at the table: a second player on the same device who reads the Court's counsel and strikes what he would not have done. • The Captain lives in the Camp of his free company. His men bring the turn's matters, and they have names, ranks, wages and grievances of their own. • The Merchant keeps a Counting-House, with men of its own, and trades where the kings make war. • All three lives can be played by voice. ONE WORLD, MANY GAMES • Keep This Moment holds a world as it stands, to begin new games from it. • Take up a world as it stands, one of yours, a moment you kept or a world file, in any seat at its turn. • Change Your Seat in the same game: lay down a realm for a house, or a house for a realm. THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE • An eighth age, from the Arab conquests to the sack of New Rome, AD 630–1204. • The Carolingians and their heirs, the English, the Norse and the Normans, the Magyars and the Slavs, the Bretons, Welsh, Scots and Irish, the Arabs, the East Romans, the Bulgarians and the Turks. • Knights and huscarls, horse archers and mamluks, the longship and the trebuchet. The Northmen fall on the coasts; the Magyars ride out of the east to stay. THE BOARDS OF HISTORY • Year of 888 · The Brothers' War, 841 · The Iron Crown, 951 · The Wars of Basil II, 976 · Canossa, 1077 · El Cid, 1081. • Outremer, 1099: four Frankish states on a hostile coast, and enemies who could not unite. WHAT IF • Poitiers Lost, 733 · Fontenoy Won, 841 · Lechfeld Lost, 955 · Renovatio Imperii, 1002 · Maniakes Remains, 1040 · The Shield Wall, 1066 · Manzikert Won, 1071 · Elster Won, 1080. • The City Holds, 1204: Dandolo dies before the walls, the crusade scatters, and the Empire stands. EACH AGE ITS OWN COIN • Money is shown in the coin of its age and its people, painted from photographs of real coins, from the shekel to the hyperpyron. ON ALL YOUR DEVICES • Keep a world on your iPhone, iPad and Mac, and play it on the one in your hand: Play Here moves the game. Devices pair by a code and sync nearby, with no account. AND MORE • Two new Classical boards: The Rise of Rome, 343 BC, and The Fiery War, 153 BC. • Browse the boards by age, or every board of history or What If in the order of their years. • Your first game opens on the Paideia's first lesson. • Pin a world to the top of the list, and show your worlds by the way they are played. • A new icon: Athena under the bluefin.