The war
Three Factions, the Crimson Crown, the Iron Republic and the Verdant Compact, hold a freshly drawn map of Provinces, with the city-states caught between them.
A campaign is one run, played a month at a time across the Seasons. You write your Orders as your rivals write theirs: reinforce a front, move a Commander, order an attack. Every battle is fought on a hex board with a battalion of sixteen cards.
It began as a board game on a real table, and keeps that table's discipline: a small board, a small deck, and rules two people could agree on to finish a game.
- Genre
- Strategy roguelite deck-builder
- Setting
- Three Factions at war, in shakos and greatcoats
- Platform
- PC, on Steam
- Status
- In development
Follow the campaign
The Steam page is coming. Until then, the studio's letter says when War of Attrition is out, and nothing else.
What's in it
What in this game was made with AI, as its Steam AI disclosure states it. How and why: the AI policy.
- Art
- The paintings, card art, watercolours and margin sketches are generated with DIG, my own image pipeline, on open-weight models: Juggernaut XL v9 by KandooAI and RunDiffusion; DreamShaper XL by Lykon for the watercolours; Sinful Strokes by mnemic, with coileralt's Napoleonic uniform LoRAs, for the cards. The margin sketches take their hand from Thomas Rowlandson's public-domain pen-and-wash.
- Code
- Written with Claude, by Anthropic, and directed, reviewed and played by me.
- Rules
- Designed by hand, from the board game it started as.
- Vibe credit
- The games and histories this one grew from are listed here as they are gathered.