Battle for Europe is the first world war grand strategy game. Manage your nation’s economy and military. Conquer empires in this geo-political game.



Economy

  • Construct Factories: Each land province contains a number of factories. Factories generate income every turn. The more factories you have the better. You can spend your cash to build more factories.
  • Raise Divisions: Divisions are raised in land provinces. They fight defensive battles when attacked by a hostile power. You can attack adjacent enemy provinces to capture more land.
  • Build Warships: If a land province is not landlocked, it will have a port. Warships are built in ports. You can fight naval battles for control of the local sea province.




Trade

  • Trade Networks: Sea provinces allow for trade between nations. Land provinces are connected to a local sea province via a port. The number of ports determines the value of trade.
  • Naval Power: The sea province is owned by the power who has their navy active in the sea. To gain control of the sea, you will have to fight a naval battle against the active navy.
  • Trade Relations: If you do not control the sea province, you can still gain trade income. A country that is allied with the sea province owner will gain more than a country that is embargoed by the owner.




Diplomacy

  • Diplomatic Status: Relations with other powers exist on a spectrum. The higher you are the closer you are to a military alliance. The lower you are the closer you are to war.
  • AI Personalities: The AI has their own opinion of you. If they are hostile they will want to declare war on you. If they view you as a partner they will want to form an alliance.
  • Diplomatic Points: You can spend diplomatic points at any time to decrease relations. To improve relations you will need the AI to have a positive opinion of you.
  • War Declarations: Wars are fought when relations decrease so much that one side declares war. During a war you can use your army and navy to capture enemy provinces.
  • Truce Periods: When a war ends a truce is formed between nations. You cannot declare war on a country that you have a truce with.




Land Combat

  • War Requirement: You must be at war to fight land battles. Adjacent provinces can attack each other. It is important to garrison your frontline or the enemy will capture your provinces without a fight.
  • Defensive Placement: Divisions are placed in territories to protect them from attack. The more soldiers you have in a territory the less likely they are to be attacked and captured.
  • Offensive Manoeuvres: If your attack is successful you will break through the enemy lines and capture the province. When attacks fail both sides remain in their provinces and only lose Divisions.




Naval Combat

  • War Requirement: You must be at war to fight naval battles. Warships in port can attack the fleet guarding the local sea province. You cannot attack enemy fleets in port, only the fleet that is on the high seas.
  • Trade Access: Controlling the sea province allows you to dictate who has access to trade. Your enemies will have no access, neutral countries have partial access and allies will have full access.
  • Naval Invasions: The country that controls the sea province can perform naval invasions. Any land province can attack another land province via the sea if they both have a port in the local sea province.




Updated 4 hours ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
Rating
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
AuthorBen
GenreStrategy, Simulation
Made withGameMaker
Tags4X, Alternate History, grand-strategy, Historical, map, Turn-based Strategy, War, World War I

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Battle for Europe 1900 v0.4.exe 20 MB

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Game crashes when opening diplomacy screen after a few turns

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Browser or Windows? 


Did you use mouse input or keyboard hotkeys?


Did you open Diplomacy by selecting the button in the top right or via a selected territory in the bottom left?

Both in browser and windows. I clicked a territory and then clicked diplomacy and it just crashed. On browser is just goes blackscreen

Ok good. It can be fixed given what you told me. When it crashes on Windows it will give an error message. Can you copy and paste this error message on here and I will fix it.

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ERROR in action number 1

of Draw Event for object oGame:

ds_map_find_value argument 1 incorrect type (undefined) expecting a ds_map

at gml_Script_game_gui_diplomacy_countries_powers

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gml_Script_game_gui_diplomacy_countries_powers (line -1)

gml_Script_game_gui_diplomacy_countries

gml_Script_game_gui_diplomacy

gml_Script_screens_gui

gml_Script_game_gui

gml_Object_oGame_Draw_64

This bug has now been resolved in the Browser and Windows versions.

I appreciate you taking the time to flag this issue. I can only fix bugs when people bring them to me. So thanks for that - good spot on your part.

Finally a new update

Let me know if the Learning Guide isn’t detailed enough. I want to know if I am not properly explaining the new mechanics.

How do you move troops?

Please bring an update

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No I have no plans to update this game, but your feedback has been noted.

I like the game however there is a problem scrolling the map and of course a bug breaking the game after I have occupied some regions - I play Austria Hungary - there is some things left to do when it comes to user ergonomy(friendlines) of the interface. This is my wishlist

I need a .zip file for this game, the .exe is messing with my system as it wont run

I appreciate your interest, but this game is no longer supported and I will not update it again. I will be releasing a game similar to this before the end of the summer, in the meantime please check out Saxon Kings. Thanks!

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I cannot seem to figure out the controls

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Fun, took me a while to figure out the controls, functions & how to navigate the UI. No end game screen. Not excited to play again.

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Because its Windows?

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Same

if you open the technology screen you can't close it

Tab will close the screen but I will add a button for the new version coming end of this month.

when already?

I spent about 3 months on a new build with 9 new nations as well as a new crisis system that would start wars. Unfortunately it was never released. You can find my current project Saxon Kings which gets all of my time now.