Getting started

This page covers your first match, from the tutorial and the lobby through the first few minutes of play.

Play the tutorial

The first time you open Play, the game offers a tutorial. It walks you through building, training units, exploring, a rival duel and wrecking a city. You can skip it and replay it from Play at any time.

Pick your Titan

1. Choose Single Player or Multiplayer.
2. Cycle the Titans with the arrows or A / D. Each one has its own stats and Special. See Titans.
3. Optional: click Customize to change colors and cosmetics. See Customization.
4. Open Game Settings to choose the AI difficulty (Easy, Normal or Hard), the starting shield and other options.
5. Click Lock In, then Start Game.

Your first few minutes

Every city starts empty with 12 citizens and 600, behind a starting shield that gives you time to build.

A typical opening:

1. Press for Build View and place a few Houses. Housing raises the population limit, and income comes from citizens (see Citizens).
2. Put down a Barracks and a Military Shed and train some units from City View.
3. Press to take your Titan out in Siege View. Neutral villages can be wrecked, and there's gold lying around the map.
4. Build a Gold Scavenger Station so you can bring that gold home (see Gold).
5. After that, raid rival cities, fight their Titans in duels and level up.

Reading the HUD

The bar at the top of the screen shows your Resources (gold), Military (living troops and vehicles) and Citizens (living citizens / population limit).