As of version 1.1 of Wargame (and Wargame Lite), there is an in-game tutorial. It will give you quick and detailed instructions on how to play. You can also check out our online tutorial here.

Wargame is a turn-based grand strategy game where you can take control of 6 different factions, conquer many countries and dominate the world. You can start a new local game by tapping the "New Game" button, or start a network session by tapping the "Network" button. You can play with up to 5 other players on the same iPhone, or via Bluetooth, WiFi or Internet (Direct IP) connection (or any combination of those).

New Game: start a new local game. You can setup a local game with up to 6 players on the same iPhone.
Resume Game: resume the current game. This button will be enabled when the game loads an autosave on launch.
Load Game: gives you an editable list of saved games.
Save Game: pick a name and save your current game.
Network: start a new network game. Up to 6 players via Bluetooth, WiFi or Internet (Direct IP).
Settings: the gear located on the bottom right of the screen gives you access to the settings menu. As of now, only audio settings are available.

When you start a new game, you'll be prompted with a factions setup screen. For each faction, you can set it as either being a human Player, an active AI or a neutral AI. You then choose a name for your General and pick a game objective from over 20 different objectives. Look at their in-game descriptions to find a game mode that fits your domination mood.

The main game interface is divided in four parts :
Tactical Map: This is were you'll plan most of the game actions.
Top Bar: When no country is selected, it indicates the name of the faction currently playing. If a country is selected, the top bar shows its name. It also prints the current game date (season and year).
Bottom Toolbar: Hidden by default, the bottom toolbar can be revealed by tapping on the triangle on the bottom right edge (this button is always visible).
Action Bar: visible only when you've selected a country belonging to your faction, it allows you to perform various actions related to this country.

Zoom: you can zoom in and out using the pinch technique exactly as you do with your photos. In addition you can double tap the screen for fast zoom-in/zoom-out action. Note that the double-tap doesn't zoom-in at maximum zoom factor. You can zoom further using the pinch technique. This is useful to select the smallest countries. We purposely chose to limit the double-tap zoom factor to the most useful zoom level in most situations and not to the maximum zoom factor available.
Scroll: when you're zoomed in, you can swipe your finger across the map to scroll around it.
Select: you can select any country by tapping once inside its boundaries (whether your control it or not). If you want to cancel your selection, just tap on the sea. Happily, there is plenty of water on the map.

Map tip: if you want to perform an action involving two distant countries, use the double-tap to fast zoom. The double-tap doesn't clear your selection. Example: you want to attack Australia from Canada. Select Canada, tap on the "Move Units" button, then double-tap to unzoom and double-tap again on the Australia to zoom on it. Then select Australia with a single tap and conclude your attack.

This bar appears only after you have selected a country you own. It allows you to perform actions related to this country:

Move Units: After you tapped this button it turns green, meaning that you can select a target country. If the target is one of your countries, it will result in a neutral move. If the target is an enemy or a neutral country, it will result in an attack move. You can cancel this action by tapping again on the button or by tapping on the sea. Buy Units: This button allows you to buy troops, ships, planes, missiles and commandos. You can buy units only in starting countries and those where you've built a Supply Center. Country Upgrades: Build defense systems, supply centers and country upgrades to increase your faction's power. Starting countries, marked by a star, are equipped with defense systems and supply centers by default. Country Info: Gives you various informations on the selected country about its garrison, its resources and its infrastructures.

When the bottom toolbar is hidden, you can tap on the "Status Bars" button, on the bottom-center part of the screen. This button shows/hides overlay informations about your garrisons on the map. Those bars only appears when you're sufficiently zoomed-in (that is when flags are also visible). Colored bars inform you on the number of troops/ships/planes you have in your countries. Each bar can show ten gradations.

Troops: Full orange bar represents 100,000 men. When the bar is full, the green bar grows. Each green bar level represents 100,000 men. Full green bar represents 1,000,000 men. Ships: Full orange bar represents 100 ships. Full green bar represents 1,000 ships. Planes: Full orange bar represents 100 planes. Full green bar represents 1,000 planes.

The buttons are, from left to right: Skip Turn, Action Queue, World Upgrade, Spy Action, General, Main Menu, Hide/Show Bottom Toolbar.
Skip turn: Wargame is turn-based. Every action you decide is queued and resolved only when you skip your turn. In a single player game, when you skip your turn, the iPhone computes AI controlled factions' moves and gives you back the control. In a multiplayer game, you'll have to wait until all players have skipped their turn. While your in wait mode, you can still get info on your countries and chat with other players.
Action Queue: You can review all the actions you have decided in this table view. If needed, you can delete any action you've planned except for spy actions that are immediate.
World Upgrade: Those upgrades gives you powerful and unique special abilities depending on your faction. They are very expensive but can provide you an decisive advantage over your enemies.
Spy Action: Gathering intelligence about your rivals can give you a decisive advantage. In this section you can spy a country, or try a bribery to weaken a country.
General: Review your mission, status and grade. Your victories grant you medals and honor. Scroll through your medals and tap on any of it to get its description and its award conditions.
Main Menu: You can return to the main menu (to save your progression for example), and then continue your game with the "Resume Game" button.

Soldiers are the bread and butter of every army. While their attack and defence powers are not very high, they are cheap and the only unit able to take control of a country. Soldiers can travel only to adjoining countries; or to distant countries if they're aboard ships. You NEED to send troops in order to conquer a country. Troops are the only unit capable of overtaking countries. If you send ships, planes, missiles and commandos without troops, you can win battles but you can't overtake a country.

Attack: average
Defence: average
Cost: low

Ships are a key element in victory. While their attack and defense powers are moderate, they are the fastest way to bring your soldiers directly behind the enemy lines. Ships can carry troops throughout the world in one turn. You can send 1,000 troops per ship.

Attack: average
Defence: average
Cost: average


When you move ships, you have two options offered :
Board troops: Sending ships is great, filling them with troops is even better. Board them with this option.
Auto Send Back: If you enable this option, your ships will go back to their originating country after they have transported the troops. They'll get automatically queued for return on next turn.

Military aircrafts are the ultimate weapons to carry out a quick and devastating attack. It is an attack only unit and thus has no defence power. Planes can travel throughout the entire map in one turn. Planes cannot carry troops.

Attack: high
Defence: none
Cost: high

Ever wanted to try the power of destruction of a Tomahawk ? Missiles are one shot units, however they are relatively cheap and have a devastating firepower. You can launch missiles anywhere on the map or move them between your countries. Missiles offer no defense bonus. Missiles are one-shot and do not get back to base...

Attack: very high
Defence: none
Cost: low

The pinnacle of a military force, commandos are highly trained and deadly. They are very expensive to train, available in limited number but are the single most powerful unit in the game. Commandos can travel anywhere on the map without the need of ships. You cannot have more than 100 active commandos in your faction.

Attack: very high
Defence: very high
Cost: very high

Each country can build its own upgrades. To do so, select one of your countries and tap the "Country Upgrade" button on the Action Bar. Each faction has two common upgrades and one unique upgrade. Note that starting countries (marked by a star under their flag) already have the two common upgrades built (AWFDS and Supply Center). When you buy a country upgrade, the action first gets queued in the Action Queue and is applied next turn. Consequently, it can be cancelled from the Action Queue.

AWFDS: Air Water Field Defense System is a fortification that increases your country defense score by 50%.
Supply Center: Allows you to buy units in the country where it's built.
Unique upgrade: Each country can build a special upgrade depending on the faction you play. For example, US owned countries can build capitalism which increases the country's cash per turn by 50%. This only applies in the countries where you have bought capitalism.

Each faction has a unique World Upgrade which will cost them far more but will also give it a consequent bonus. Some of them require special actions to be activated or used after they've been built. When you buy a world upgrade, the action first gets queued in the Action Queue and is applied next turn. Consequently, it can be cancelled from the Action Queue.

The United States of America are capable of producing 2 nuclear warheads through its upgrade Manhattan Project. Once you've built it, just return to the World Upgrade panel and hit the Nuke button if you wish to unleash the wrath of God upon your enemies. You'll return to the tactical map and will be prompted to pick a target country. Just make a short tap inside the boundaries of an enemy country and confirm. The nuke action will be queued and applied on the next turn (and can consequently be cancelled).

Cost: 100,000,000

Blitzkrieg allows you to combine two attack moves into one. Once you've built the Blitzkrieg world upgrade, just make a regular move. When you confirm this move, if available, you'll be presented with two options: either confirm this move or turn it into a Blitzkrieg move. May you chose a Blitzkrieg move, you'll return to the tactical map with the attacked country marked as selected. Just tap inside the boundaries of the country you want to blitz and confirm the action. You can only blitz countries adjoining the first country you attacked. If your first attack succeeds, 10% of your attacking units will stay on the first country and 90% will try to attack the next country.

Cost: 30,000,000

Shall you play the Empire of the Sun, Quick Learner allows you to build country upgrades from all other factions in your countries. As soon as you've built this world upgrade, just go to the regular country upgrade page and you'll see it updated with all the upgrades from your enemies. You can scroll through them using the buttons or by swiping your finger over them. Their cost is the same as for your opponents.

Cost: 100,000,000

Jihad raises the ground units attack force by 50% but also decreases their defense force by 25%. Your infantry is filled with the power of Allah. They are now the sword of the prophet. By ground forces, we mean Troops and Commandos. This upgrade makes Great Khalifa's commandos extremely powerful and devastating.

Cost: 50,000,000

00 Agents are European Federation's World Upgrade and significantly improve their spying arsenal. 00 Agents reduce spying costs by 50% and give you the possibility to assassinate another's player general, thus turning him inactive for a limited duration. Charming, highly trained and deadly, 00 agents are the ultimate weapons of the Federation. Generals can check their status (active/inactive) in the General panel.

Cost: 30,000,000

Moscow Pact instantly doubles the quantity of ground armies. The comrades have answered your call to arms and are now marching like an invincible army. If during the same turn you buy units and buy the Moscow Pact world upgrade, your "Buy Units" actions will be flushed before the World Upgrade is built so those units you just enrolled will be taken into account when doubling the quantity of ground armies. Moscow Pact ground armies include only troops and do not double your commandos' count.

Cost: 50,000,000

Spying is an inexpensive and quick way to get that significant tactical advantage over your enemy for one turn. Spy actions do not get queued. Because the results of spy actions are instantaneous, those actions cannot be cancelled through the action queue (and as a matter of fact do not even get listed in there).

Intelligence allows you to gather all useful informations about an enemy country: it gives you the number of troops currently defending it, the country resources info and cash per turn and its infrastructures (built country upgrades). You can use intelligence against any enemy country (be it neutral or controlled by an enemy faction). You should know that the Great Reich's country upgrade "Spezial Polizei" does prevent you from spying on countries where this upgrade is built. Though, you won't know it until you actually try to get information and after you've paid for that action.

Cost: 5,000,000

Through the subtle use of corruption, you can lower the defence of a country you plan to attack. Effects last until end of turn. The enemy country's defence is lowered by 50% making bribery an extremely powerful weapon even though it's relatively cheap. You can bribe any enemy country (neutral or faction controlled). But keep in mind you cannot bribe factions' initial countries. You should also know that the Great Reich's country upgrade "Spezial Polizei" does prevent you from bribing countries where this upgrade is built. Though, you won't know it until you actually try to get information and after you've paid for that action.

Cost: 3,000,000

You can send one of your highly trained 00 agent to assassinate an enemy general, thus turning him inactive. Inactive generals won't provide their bonuses for one full year. This action is only available to "European Democratic Federation" faction through its World Upgrade "00 Agents". Generals can check their status (active/inactive) in the General panel. Only available to European Democratic Federation (through its World Upgrade: 00 Agents)

Cost: 10,000,000

00 Agents are European Federation's World Upgrade and significantly improve their spying arsenal. 00 Agents reduce spying costs by 50% and give you the possibility to assassinate another's player general, thus turning him inactive for a limited duration. Charming, highly trained and deadly, 00 agents are the ultimate weapons of the Federation. Only available to European Democratic Federation

Cost: 30,000,000

You can play Wargame with up to 6 players on the same iPhone or via network (Bluetooth, WiFi, Internet). As far as local multiplayer matches are concerned, just start a New Game from the main menu and pick as many players as you want. Each player will get his turn in a regular order. On network games, Wargame works on the client/server model (or host/guest). One iPhone sets up a server game and the others join as clients. When you setup a network game as the host, you can set AIs as neutral or aggressive by pressing the button next to the AI type (Neutral in Yellow or Computer AI in Red). Each player can pick its faction in the faction subsection. Please note that when a client changes faction, the game first waits for the server approval which can result in a delay. Finally the host can setup game objective and load a saved network game.

Before making Bluetooth matches, make sure that Bluetooth connectivity is enabled in your Settings. To enable Bluetooth just go to your iPhone Settings then General then Bluetooth and switch it on. Due to some instabilities in iPhone OS 3.x framework, establishing Bluetooth connections can sometime be tricky but once you're connected it should work reliably.

Before making Local Area matches, make sure that WiFi connectivity is enabled and that you and your friends are on the same WiFi network. To enable WiFi and check your active network, just go to your iPhone Settings then WiFi. Switch it on if necessary, else you'll see a list of networks including the one you are connected to, if any.

Direct IP games allows you to play against other players through the Internet. Though, as of now, you have to know the remote IP address of the iPhone you're trying to connect to. Many parameters can prevent Direct IP games from working, such as routers with integrated firewalls or without NAT. You may need to consult the documentation of your router to open a port for the game. As for EDGE/3G connections, this depends on your provider's network architecture.

Right now we are aware that Internet games are difficult to establish and do not favor community aspects. We're working on including OpenFeint and are actively looking at their multiplayer feature (in beta stage). We would have loved to include out of the box Internet game ladders for version 1.0, but unfortunately we're a very small structure and do not have consequent resources; but we are actively thinking about solutions to this issue.

- This game revolves essentially around cash. To make more cash, conquer more countries. The more cash you make, the more units you can buy, the more upgrades you can build and the more countries you can conquer.

- To conquer countries, you NEED to send troops (soldiers). Troops are the only unit capable of overtaking countries. If you send ships, planes, missiles and commandos without troops, you can win battles but you can't overtake a country. The minimum garrison in a country is 1,000 men.

- Neutral countries are your best bet as you begin your campaign for world domination. They are easy enough to capture in quantity and give you both money for enrolling troops and strategic outposts for pushing forward your attack plans.

- As of now, combats have a straight formula and do not use random parameters. Due to the vast diversity of parameters taken into account, you can never be sure you'll win a battle (except if you throw in a nuke...).

- Neutral move actions (between countries or your own faction) are flushed before attack moves.

- The game only shows you battles related to your attacks or to your countries. You don't see any specific animations for enemy moves which do not involve one of your countries.

- When multiple factions attack the same country, it is considered that those factions first combine their effort to defeat that country. Then, the most powerful attack wins the country.