Lead your community through the war

From convoy to the land

The game starts on the road. You have a few wagons, a handful of people and supplies for a few days. You win followers, find food and powder, and when an attack comes, you build a wall from your wagons.

The camp becomes a settlement, a home you keep coming back to. Step by step you gain sway over the villages, castles and towns of the region. The land is not won by colouring the map but through roads, supplies and allies.

Ways to play

The campaign is your way into the game. Free play is where you will keep coming back. The roadmap shows what arrives when.

• the way in

  Historical campaign

  The story of a field community from 1420 to 1436. Real events, fictional people and the consequences of your decisions.

• again and differently

  Free play

  1420, one wagon and a few people. Trade or conquer, make alliances and, when you must, change sides. Your rivals pursue their own goals.

• for both sides

  Historical battles

  Standalone scenarios based on real engagements. Enter each one as the Hussites or as their enemies.

• later

  Multiplayer

  Comes once the single-player game is finished. No date yet.

Two sides of the war

The Hussites set out with a few wagons. They win followers, learn to build the wagon fort, and a crowd of peasants and craftsmen becomes a feared army.

The Catholic coalition starts with a town garrison or a noble’s retinue. It holds castles and towns, hires mercenaries and leads campaigns against the heretics.

The demo and the first campaign are played as the Hussites. Historical battles will be playable for both sides, and a campaign for the Catholic coalition comes later. The campaigns also lead to north-west Bohemia, to Chomutov, Kadaň, Most and Žatec, where in 1421 both sides took turns attacking and defending.

The wagon is home and wall

You start with no buildings, only a convoy: wagons, people and supplies. Crusaders and raiders strike in several places at once and you have one convoy. You choose where to raise the wagon fort and what to leave to defend itself.

In battle you command in person. The exact number of wagons, gun barrels, kegs of powder and fed people goes into the fight. Whatever breaks, is fired or falls is missing at home.

Five epochs, one place

The campaign follows the community from the spring of 1420 to 1436. Nothing is unlocked by research. What matters is how the settlement grows, who lives in it and what the campaigns bring home.

• 1420

  I. Defending the land

  A convoy without buildings on the map of Bohemia. Hold as much of the land as you can and live to see winter.

• 1420–1422

  II. Settlement

  The wagons are taken apart and their timber becomes the Common House. Gathering resources, building, hunger and winter, robbers and wild animals.

• 1422–1426

  III. Village

  Houses, a mill and a chapel, more crafts. Disputes over faith and over whose side the community is on.

• 1426–1431

  IV. Fortified town

  Walls of timber, then of stone, guilds, a market where the ring of wagons once stood, campaigns beyond the border.

• 1431–1436

  V. The fate of the crown

  Choosing a side, Lipany and the Compacts. In the end it is not victory that is judged but the community’s chronicle.

The land remembers

What you build and fell stays. Ruts left by the ring of wagons, scorched earth from the fires, the first well. Left untended, everything grows over with the seasons and the years.

The first ring of wagons decides where the square and the main road will be. Your people have names and live through the epochs: the wheelwright of the first year is a guild master years later. The chronicler knows them by name.

What the game holds to

Mud, winter, hunger, money. No magic, no chosen ones, no miracles. Only people who believe in them.

We do not rewrite history. Your community is fictional, but it stands on a real place and real events happen around it.