🎯 Objective
Capture all enemy units to win. Each team has a reserve gauge — when a unit is captured it respawns from the reserve. Drain an enemy's reserve and capture their remaining units to eliminate them. Answer trivia questions to earn reserve reinforcements and gain the edge!
🎮 Controls
- Click a unit — select it (valid moves highlight in green)
- Click a highlighted hex — move the unit there
- Esc — deselect
⚔️ Combat
- Move onto an adjacent enemy hex to capture that unit
- Captured units respawn from the enemy's reserve — deplete the reserve first to make captures permanent
- Your own reserve is shown in the Quantum Tank gauge (bottom-right in single player)
🌟 Special Hexagons
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Educational (Blue)
A trivia question appears. Answer correctly: +1 reserve unit and adjacent enemy units are captured. Answer incorrectly: the unit that landed here is lost.
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Advantage (Green)
Instantly grants +1 unit to your reserve.
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Disadvantage (Red)
Lose one unit from the board (replaced from reserve if one is available).
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Team Spawn (Purple)
A new AI team enters the board — avoid these unless you want a bigger challenge!
🤖 AI Difficulty (Single Player)
- 🟢 Easy — makes frequent mistakes, plays defensively, 5 reserve units
- 🟠 Medium — skilled tactics, high aggression, plans 3 moves ahead, 5 reserve units
- 🔴 Hard — relentless aggression, plans 5 moves ahead, only 2% mistake rate, 5 reserve units
- ⚛️ Quantum Brain — near-perfect play, plans 10 moves ahead, 0% mistakes, 10 reserve units — truly punishing
🌐 Multiplayer
- Create a room — choose category, age range, and AI difficulty (for future AI teams), then share the room code with your opponent
- Join a room — enter your opponent's room code to connect
- Turns alternate in real time — both players see the board live
- If your opponent disconnects, a 60-second reconnect window opens before the game ends
- Use the 🚪 Forfeit button in the toolbar to concede at any time
🏆 Leaderboard
Scores are recorded after every game. Your rank is based on your best single score:
- 🥉 Cadet — under 500 pts
- 🥈 Scholar — 500–1,999 pts
- 🥇 Expert — 2,000–4,999 pts
- 💎 Quantum — 5,000+ pts
Score is calculated from correct answers, accuracy, and result (win/loss/forfeit). Click 🏆 Leaderboard on the main menu to view rankings and your personal stats.
💡 Strategy Tips
- Build your reserve early — without it, every loss is permanent
- Prioritise educational hexagons to grow your reserve faster than the enemy
- Target enemies with low reserves first — their losses become permanent sooner
- Avoid team spawn hexagons unless you want more AI opponents on the board
- In multiplayer, keep pressure on — sitting back lets your opponent build reserves unopposed
