Compact Conflict Unblocked

Compact Conflict packs a whole conquest board game into a few minutes and a few kilobytes. The map is a patchwork of odd-shaped regions drawn fresh for every match, scattered with temples. Armies march, collide and grow, but the real engine is faith: temples pump out soldiers and can be blessed with an element that quietly changes the rules around them. Jakub Wasilewski wrote it for js13kGames 2014, when the whole thing had to fit inside 13 KB. It runs unblocked here with mouse or touch, for one player against the AI or up to four around a single screen.

Setting Up and Taking Turns

The setup screen lets you assign each of four colors to a human, the AI or nobody. You also choose the AI temperament, from Nice through Rude and Mean to Evil, and a length of 9, 12 or 15 turns, or no limit. If you dislike the map, reroll it before starting.

On your turn you have three moves. A move takes some or all soldiers from one region into a bordering one. Empty land becomes yours just by entering it. Entering enemy land triggers a fight, and the region only changes hands if the whole defending army is wiped out. Soldiers that just conquered must wait until your next turn before moving again.

Ending the turn triggers your income. Every temple you own adds one soldier, and you earn faith: a point for each region plus a point for each soldier standing on a temple.

What faith buys

At any temple you hold, spend faith on more soldiers (the price rises with each purchase in the same turn) or on one of four blessings, each with two levels:

• Water increases faith income.
• Fire protects some of your attackers from losses.
• Air grants extra moves each turn.
• Earth kills one or two invaders before a battle even starts.

A temple carries just one element. If someone captures it, the blessing is theirs to lose too.

Compact Conflict controls

To do this	Mouse	Touch
Pick up one of your armies	Click a region you own that still has soldiers able to move	Tap the region
Adjust the number of soldiers sent	Click the selected region again to cycle the count	Tap the selected region again
March or invade	Click a neighboring region	Tap a neighboring region
Recruit or bless at a temple	Click one of your temples, then a button in the side panel	Tap the temple, then a panel button
Take back a move, finish the turn and other options	Buttons in the side panel and the round icons at the bottom right	Tap the same buttons

How Matches Are Won

The final count is regions, not armies. That single fact shapes good play.

Early turns. Race for neutral temples. Each is a free soldier every turn for the rest of the game, and an early lead in temples compounds quickly.

Middle turns. Keep a soldier parked on every temple. It earns faith each turn and makes a surprise grab harder. If your own soldiers fall defending, you also get four faith apiece.

Attacking. The odds swing hard toward the bigger stack, so an even trade is usually a bad trade. Waiting one turn to bring extra troops is often the strongest move.

Final two turns. Stop thinking about armies and start counting land. Spread single soldiers into every empty or lightly held region you can reach. Undo works as long as no dice were rolled, so you can test a route first.

Pick blessings that fit your plan. Water pays off in long games, Air helps a sprawling empire, and Earth makes a frontier temple a fortress.

Why It Is Worth a Few Rounds

Few browser strategy games give you this much decision-making in such a short match, and the random maps keep it fresh. The built-in five-card rules guide behind the question mark button helps first-timers. If you want a faster real-time take on conquest, try OrbitSwarm, or browse more strategy games.