Warnament Dev Update #3: Losses, Political Decisions, And a Tiger At Sea

Hey everyone! Welcome to Warnament Dev Updates! Warnament is a grand strategy game, made by a solo dev Denis Makhortov. It is as deep as classic games in the genre, but only takes minutes to get into action. You can play out historic scenarios or create your own: take control of a nation on a global map and take it to glory by taking over territories and achieving military, technical, cultural, or political advantage. It is a spiritual successor to Cold Path, another game with a similar philosophy.

Written by: Denis Makhortov / Editor: Georgii Kurgan

But first things first! Perhaps the most popular question we're getting these days is: how to play Warnament? We hope this little instruction will be helpful to you:

1. How to play Warnament ASAP? Join our very vivid community on Discord, where you can also apply for entering a closed alpha tester team.

2. How to play Warnament ASAP (slightly lazier edition)? We will announce an official Steam Page pretty soon, so you could add the game to your wish list and follow the latest updates. Also, make sure to subscribe to this newsletter:

3. But when the game will finally be released? Sometime in 2023. The place to be when we announce the open alpha/demo/release date is, yet again, our Discord server. Or this very newsletter. Or our Twitter.

4. Every second of waiting is pure agony to me, what do I do?! Great news: you can play Cold Path, the older bro of Warnament, for free. No ads, no in-app purchases, no catch - just have fun!

5. Oh, and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, we're posting videos about game development there:

Now that you know the most important information, let's get to what's new in Warnament this time. We've got…

Losses

Well, strictly speaking, it's your army's war losses. Or, if you're playing well enough, your enemies’ armies. Anyway, it's very useful: to see exactly how many human lives an act of aggression costs. (You monster) Don't hold yourself off though: it's just a game, and those virtual humans know no suffering.

Random(ish) Events

You might also want to brace yourself for a variety of events that will happen throughout the campaign. Some of them will just be random; others will be caused by your actions or the actions of other countries (like in the screenshot above).

Political Decisions

What will depend on your will, is the political decisions that you will be making throughout the game. They will provide you with different bonuses and sometimes will even change the color and the name of your country on the map. Some of them will shape and/or reflect your style of play. You will be able to become a naval-centric state, which will increase the damage for your fleet while decreasing the damage dealt by your infantry units:

Others might simply change the course of history, and spark interesting disputes among your playmates:

New Scenario - After The Great War

A fan-made map and scenario by a community member named parkourcat were included in the main game. It starts in 1919: four empires have just collapsed, and millions died in a horrible cross-continent military conflict. Now what?

Well, there are many interesting places and opportunities to explore: you can take control over Soviet Russia, and win the Civil War, or play as such interesting states as Bat'ka Makhno's Territories or the Free State of Bottleneck.

As for places, there's a tiger-shaped island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. What a sight.

Now What?

I am now adding more in-game events to make the players’ journey into the mad world of Warnament truly authentic:

What's Next?

After that, I'm planning to get into reworking the menu for starting a new game, adding more settings to it, too: you'll be able to toggle fog of war, the starting amount of resources, and the overall level of bots’ aggression.

We'll keep you posted as the development of Warnament progresses forward. To keep in touch, Sign up on the website to get a notification once the free demo is out. Or join us on Discord to participate in the development directly!