Warnament — Mac download

Warnament is a turn-based grand strategy game about managing a nation one province at a time, where every pact and sanction carries weight. You stare at a map divided into provinces, each one a small economy you can upgrade or neglect. A turn might start with adjusting a tax rate in a coastal province, then assigning an infantry unit to a border you share with a neighbour whose ideology you find suspect.

Diplomacy is the main tool. You guarantee a smaller ally's independence, which draws a line your rivals must think twice before crossing. When talk fails, you escalate through economic sanctions—blocking a key resource—before mobilizing battleships and cruisers. The technology tree lets you progress from basic infantry to aircraft carriers and, eventually, chemical and nuclear weapons. Using them reshapes the map, but the political cost can fracture your own alliances.

Between turns, you choose a political regime that colours how other nations see you. You might vassalize a defeated enemy, extracting resources while controlling their foreign policy, or sign a formal pact that commits both sides to a common defence. The customization options let you tweak these starting conditions before a game even begins.

The built-in map editor is where the community-driven side lives. You can redraw provincial borders, place resources, and set the initial balance of power. Once satisfied, you play through your creation to see which regime rises and which alliance crumbles under the weight of its own guarantees.

Skipping Independence Guarantees Opens a Feeding Frenzy

New players often treat Warnament like a pure conquest simulator and ignore diplomacy entirely. They skip independence guarantees for smaller buffer states, then wonder why a rival swallowed three provinces in four turns. A guarantee isn't charity—it's a tripwire.

Another error: upgrading every province evenly. Spreading production buildings across your whole territory makes you mediocre everywhere. Pick two or three industrial cores, harden them with forts, and let the rest supply raw manpower. Also, rushing nuclear weapons without the political regime to absorb the backlash usually ends with your own alliances turning on you mid-war.

A Trade War, Step by Step

1. Identify the target's resource gap. Open the province panel for a rival and note which refined material they import. Usually it's steel or oil derivatives.
2. Lock down the source. Use the map editor to check who supplies that resource. If it's a minor nation, guarantee its independence or offer a pact that includes a trade exclusivity clause.
3. Apply sanctions. Once the pact is active, embargo the rival. Their industrial provinces begin losing efficiency within three turns.
4. Position your fleet. Move cruisers and a carrier group into adjacent sea zones. The rival now faces a choice: accept vassalage terms or watch their economy stall while your navy blocks any alternative supply route.
5. Enforce or escalate. If they refuse, declare a limited war for the border provinces that house their remaining factories. You win by economics, not by grinding infantry.

• Apple Silicon or Intel 64-bit Mac