Ok I just saw a paid version. I’ve been playing this version since it was made. I begged the developers to please update the very last time. We had a huge update and you guys did. I’m asking again for you to please keep this updated so I can play this when iOS 26 comes out. There’s a lot of history that I don’t wanna go into as to why this game helps my brain in the morning. I know you guys are concentrating on the paid version, but I’m asking you to please, please, please update this once iOS 26 comes out. I don’t want this app to disappear. This is one of two app games that I play every single morning as soon as I wake up. I hope you guys see this and plan on updating even though it might be a pain, but you have thousands and thousands of people who love this version.. And not because it’s free, because it’s simple and it’s fun and sometimes that’s all ADHD brains can handle. Thank you and I hope you read this.

While I agree with the other reviews about the lopsided battles with computer players, it is not as bad as they say. Does the game give an advantage to the computer players in battles, yes of coarse it does. How else do you expect the game to give you a challenge? Do you expect a free iPad game to have state of the art AI built in? Does the computer win battles against larger armies, yes sometimes. Do you lose battles that you think should have been a cake walk, yes sometimes. Should you take that into account and hedge your bets on battles, yes. Be a better player and adjust your play against a computer players that does have an advantage in battles.

I like the game but it has problems. The developer claims that the algorithms are fair. I would dispute that. The errors become more apparent as the game progresses and the size of armies gets into the hundreds range.There are accounting errors. Sometimes when moving armies, I click on a country with X armies and suddenly the counter says 2X. If I move all the armies, that country now has -X armies in it, and if i move armies back, X armies disappear before the counter starts incrementing. There are also apparent odds miscalculations. Especially for red, I consistently see attacking armies with a 2:3 ratio winning battles. The defending army should win the vast majority of these battles. I have even been attacked by red and lost when I had a 2:1 advantage. This should be virtually impossible. I also see a behavior where sequential attacks on an enemy consistently fail, up to ten times, but choosing another attack country and then switching back resets the odds, and then it behaves normally. A sequence of ten sequential losses is so statistically unlikely that it should not happen. I think that if the developer published his algorithms, or at least the odds equations, the errors would become apparent.

This game used to be a lot of fun but it seems they've made some changes in an attempt to make the game more challenging. Unfortunately they failed miserably at achieving this. While the game is certainly more difficult to win, it seems to come down to chance now. Where as before, it was somewhat predictable as to how many of your guys you would lose when attacking an enemy occupied country. Now however the amount of damage you can inflict and take seems to vary widely, again, making it nearly impossible to strategize as you have no idea if you army of 9 will be able to take out a measly little army of one that the enemy has occupying a country. Just a minute ago I was attacking with an army of 67 and it was reduced to 54 after attacking a blank space. A blank space! Literally no armies on the country and it killed 13 of mine. Yet when the enemy goes on a run, it will decimate all your blank spaces, losing only one army against each of your blank spaces. The game is almost completely random now and it took a lot of the fun out of it. I would pass on this until the issues are dealt with. And certainly pass on the paid version as it's probably the same.