Halfstrike

How to play

The basics

Drag from your land to send half its troops, near or far.
Every territory you hold gains 1 troop a second.
After sending, a territory waits before it can act again, and so does one you just conquered. How long depends on the tempo you pick. Drag during the wait and the send goes when it's ready.
Long trips are relayed through your side's land. At each stop the troops join that territory, which then sends half of all it holds onward as soon as it can act. That send is the stop's own move: cancel it there like any queued send and the troops stay.
Defenders fight harder: 100 attackers only remove 80 of them.
Hold Ctrl as you let go to repeat a send, keeping 20 at home.
Land with 1,000 troops can fly, and a small jet circles it. Drag it anywhere on the map: onto rival or gray land it's a missile strike that takes the land if it wins, onto your own it's an airlift. It still sends half, and the bigger the send, the bigger the strike looks.
In 2 vs 2, send to your ally's land to reinforce them. Your team wins when both rivals are out.
Every match opens with 30 seconds of strategy time. Nothing moves yet: drag to queue opening moves, and they all go the moment the clock hits zero.
The last side standing wins.

The map

Gray land is held by a few soldiers who gain 1 every 3 seconds. Bigger land holds more.
Hold a whole continent and its territories grow twice as fast. The bottom-left corner shows how many extra troops each one gives.
Gold land grows twice as fast for whoever holds it.
Pins give a one-time power-up for capturing that land: orange is an air strike, green is extra troops, teal is a supply drop.
Capitals wear a gray crown and sit on each continent's edge, where it touches another. Hold the whole continent and it turns gold. Take a rival's gold capital while your army is smaller and it explodes into missiles at random land of theirs. Every land hit turns gray, keeping what's left of its troops. The further behind you are, the more missiles and the harder each hits: with 60% of their army, 12 missiles each destroy 40%. Even or ahead, nothing happens. A capital explodes every time it's taken while gold, so guard yours. One explosion hits at most half the rival's land, and less when more armies are in: a quarter with two rivals, a sixth with three.

Turn your phone sideways to play.