What is better than the original

The rules stay exactly as they were in 1996. Everything below is about the hands, not about the game.

Orders in a queue

Hold Shift and click several times: the unit walks the points one after another instead of forgetting the previous order. An attack step follows the living target, not the patch of ground where it stood. The plan is drawn on the map as a dashed line with numbered stops, so you can see what the unit is going to do.

One key for the meat

After a hunt the kills lie scattered around and each piece used to need its own click. T sends every selected unit to collect everything within ten tiles, one piece per unit, nearest first; B sends whoever carries something to the storehouse. The orders are the ordinary ones the game already has.

Groups with a visible number

Bind a selection to a digit and the number is drawn beside every unit of that group. You can see who belongs where without clicking through the map, and the binding survives losses and reinforcements.

Patrol

Up to ten points; the unit walks them in a circle, fights what it meets on the way and goes back to the route afterwards. It never chases further than eight tiles from the route, and it never turns its back on an enemy already at arm’s length.

Tooltips with the real numbers

Hovering an item or a production button prints what it is, what it does and what it costs — with the numbers read from the game tables of this very tribe, not from a wiki. Three languages: English, Russian, Polish.

The map window is as wide as your screen

The original draws a 512×480 window into the map — sixteen tiles by fifteen, which on a modern monitor is a keyhole. The magnifier buttons now enlarge the window itself instead of the picture: the game renders into a frame the size of your browser window, one pixel to one pixel, with no scaling and no blur, so you simply see three times more ground. The side panel moves to the right edge, the minimap, the cursor and the scrolling at the screen edge follow it. The rules do not change at all — the engine never had the screen size hard-coded, it reads it out of memory, so it was enough to hand it a bigger frame. The page always opens at the native size; only the magnifiers change it.

The whole map at a glance

An observer can zoom out to the entire map. The far step draws it from tile colours the way the minimap does, so even 256×176 costs 5 ms instead of 79.

Replays that do not die with the tab

Every match records itself and the recording goes to the server as it plays, so it survives a closed tab and other people can watch it. Playback is exact: the same seed, the same orders, the same computer opponents.

A computer you can actually pick

Every computer seat in the lobby picks its difficulty, its character and now its brain: the script or the trained networks. That is a choice of opponent, not a change of rules — the units still fight by the original tables.