Provinces

Provinces

Highlighted Province

Provinces are the life of your strategic conquest, and will prove to be useful as outposts, airbases, navy bases and more. They have attributes such as Population, Morale, Production, and Terrain Type.

Province Concstuction List

• Capturing and holding a province adds to your total Victory Points. In order to capture a province, your units must occupy its center-point (the point where roads usually form a junction).
• Some provinces contain resources that you harvest by building Local Industry. These resources spawn randomly when a new game is created.
• Units that are stationed on a province's center-point receive an entrechment bonus that can be further increased through the construction of certain buildings.
• Provinces without cities on their center-point have their own construction list.

Cities

City construction list

Cities have the largest strategic value as they are worth a lot of Victory Points, which even increase further as a city's population grows.

• Capture a city just like you would any other province. In this case, the city represents the province's center-point.
• Homeland cities and annexed cities are the biggest source for resources.
• Cities provide a better entrechment bonus to defending troops, compared to normal provinces, and have more buildings in their construction list that further increase it.

Homeland City

Homeland cities are cities that you own at the start of a campaign. These cities have the best starting attributes, with high morale and population, so keep a good eye on them.

Occupied City

As you conquer new cities, the local population will not appreciate your invasion into their homeland. The maximum morale cap will be lower compared to annexed and homeland cities, and you will not be able to mobilize units. You can, however, construct buildings.

Annexed City

Annexed cities remove the Morale cap of an Occupied City and allow you to start mobilising units. As a result of this increase in Morale, also earns you a higher population rate and better resource gathering.

To Annex a city, select it in your construction list.

Population

Population is a game mechanic which allows for Resources and Victory Points to have higher values. Investment in infrastructure, the construction of bunkers and hospitals, and a clearly visible and supportive military contingent of troops will encourage positive increases in population morale, while wars with multiple nations, poor diplomatic relations, and a lack of basic supplies will have negative effects on your campaign.

WMD Contamination

WMD missile attacks will cause contamination on the map area which cause damage to unprotected units and population over time. If a city is contaminated you will need to manually decontaminate it.

Morale

Population Morale Overlay - from negative (red) to positive (green)

Morale plays a vital role in your nation's efficiency. It is influenced by several factors, and can trigger uprisings if left unattended. The morale for each province is updated with every in- game day-change. You can gain an overview of your provinces' morale by toggling the Population Morale overlay via the Settings & Info Panel.

• Morale of a province directly affects its resource production rate, unit mobilization times, and construction time of buildings.
• If a province has a low morale level, its output of resources is significantly reduced.
• The most dramatic outcome of low morale is insurgency. In order to counter population uprisings, leave a unit behind to boost morale.

Some factors that affect your population's morale include:

• Availability of Resources - Citizens need certain goods to be efficient members of society. Make sure your population's basic needs are met.
• Distance to headquarters (or capital)
• War - Nobody likes war. Being at war with too many countries has a significant impact on population morale.
• Morale of neighbouring provinces - A revolutionist mood can spread across province borders, including those of neighbouring countries.
• Enemy armies - If hostile troops invade your territory, it will have a negative impact on your people's morale.

Distance to Headquarters

Capital City

Your nation's capital is a significant factor for morale across provinces.

• The greater the distance between a province and your capital, the greater the negative impact on that province's morale will be.
• You can construct buildings that boost morale.
• You can designate a new city as your capital.
• If your capital is conquered by another player or rogue faction, all your provinces lose 20% morale, and the global morale cap is knocked down to 40%.

Terrain

Each province has a terrain type which can be seen through the terrain overlay or province bar. There are ten types of terrain that will directly influence your unit's attributes.

Terrain Types

Check out the Terrain Modifiers section to see how terrain affects your units' attributes.

Terrain Icon	Terrain Type	Description
	Open Ground	A light vegetation which favors mobile warfare. Most units have maximum speed on this kind of terrain.
	Mountains	Extremely rugged terrain that causes dramatic effects upon unit movement and unit attrition. Most units, and especially the armored units, have minimum speed on this kind of terrain.
	Forest	Medium vegetation that while reducing movement of units also provides defensive options in the form of ample cover.
	Urban	Dense civilian population with tightly constructed buildings. Favors defense and disfavors heavy armor such as tanks. Units are usually very slow in this kind of terrain.
	Suburban	DESCRIPTION
	Jungle	Dense and difficult vegetation, reduces movement and causes attrition in troops. Favors infantry. Most units, and especially the armored units, have minimal speed on this terrain.
	Tundra	Arctic terrain that causes dramatic attrition and disfavors infantry.
	Desert	Arid terrain that causes attrition. Favors mobile warfare.
	High Seas	Open sea marked with large rolling waves.
	Coastal Waters	Coastal waters marked with easily navigable waves.

Attrition

Attrition is a mechanism that makes your units lose some HP as they go through some kind of terrain. It’s not severe enough to kill your units, but the Russian Winter or the Sahara Desert will definitely wound your divisions. Beware of Mountains, Jungles, Arctic, and Desert terrain.