Frontlines.

A solo alliance lasts 10 minutes. Leaving gives a 5-minute truce, betraying makes you 35% easier to conquer for good. Every number from the game code.

The slider does not change how fast you expand. It trades gold for defense: 95/5 earned 45% less than 20/80 but survived 39 of 48 matches, not 26.

Frontlines and CONQUEST ship 20 real-world maps between them. Which browser strategy games use real geography, and how real each map is.

One SAM stops one missile, then waits 30 seconds. Costs, the 15-tile range and why a 4,500-gold rocket can beat a 10,000-gold SAM, from the game code.

Frontlines runs on a 45-minute clock. CONQUEST waits for your turn: a 4-player World game took a median 27 rounds. Which one to play tonight.

Send about 1.5 to 1.75 times a nation's troops. Enemy land costs 4 to 19 troops per tile against 1 for empty land. The numbers, from the game code.

Frontlines rooms start 25 seconds after the first player joins. CONQUEST seats 2 to 6. How to set up a game for your group, and what trips people up.

A city pays for itself in 3 minutes 25 seconds, a factory in 5 minutes 35. The build order for your first ten minutes, with numbers from the game code.