The biggest update since launch. NEW: WAR MODE • A war that builds from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON 1: industry, oil and uranium, strategic sites, bases to build, upgrades. • Ground forces: infantry battalions, tanks, artillery, a front that moves, select and give orders with a finger. • Air power: fighters, bombers, drones. Defences: lasers, anti-ballistic batteries, decoys, gatling AA with tracer rounds. • A navy: destroyers, cruisers, battleships and missile ships, shipyards, battles at sea, coasts shelled. • AI vs AI: two computers wage a full war. A MUCH RICHER LIVING WORLD • 2 to 8 nations, each with its own name, tongue, colour and ruler (traits, reigns, epithets, extreme rulers). • Diplomacy: tensions, crises, alliances, coalitions, peace congresses, trade, secessions. • Economy: seven resources, power plants, producer villages, roads and lorries, ministers and budgets. • Living towns: districts, skyscrapers, square, town hall, church, market; razed districts grow back another way. • Real wars: mobilisation, fronts, trenches, bunkers, war fleets, peace treaties and the bill of each war. • The bomb leaves land dead for decades, and a nuclear winter. • The sea: 4 new maps (Continents, Inner sea, Thousand isles, Coast and isles), ports, cargo ships, colonies overseas, landings, oil platforms. • Rules of the world and the armies: every system on or off, and every unit, defence and weapon too (War mode included). • New powers: war and peace bells, gifts of arms and resources, found a nation, Rebellion, Influence. AND ALSO • Huge and gigantic maps, up to 24 km across. • Real recorded sounds, richer blasts, a sound for each weapon. • The duel on sea maps: tanks by transport, landings. • Strikes on a town aim at what still stands. • The menu keeps your choices until Create the world or New map. • A smoother living world, without the hitches of big games. • Hundreds of fixes.