Minewars: Cincomm-9

Minewars is a browser-based war strategy game.  The game requires no downloads, has no banners or ads, and is free to play. Many of its players have been playing for over a year, some of the oldest for over three years. This is in part because there are many different ways that you can play to try to reach the coveted Hall of Fame.

The basic goal is to finish the round in the top 10. You get score for mainly three different tasks: mining resources, destroying enemy units in battle, or keeping special units called k-drones, which you can take by force from others or they may take from you.  Broadly speaking, players earn score primarily from attacking and destroying hundreds of thousands of enemy unit, from building and protecting expansive mining operations, or from specializing in various espionage techniques, some of which provide score.

You'll find a wide variety of options among each of the styles, choosing from over 80 different units (vehicles, tanks, planes, mechs, helicopters, etc) and selecting different combinations of over 30 different research projects. Each research project gives you a different ability, or perhaps gives you a special military unit or building. But you cannot do all 30+ of them. Each project has a cost of a certain number of data modules (DM), ranging from 1 to 18. You start the game with 10 DM, and may freely build 10 more. But after that you have to make a choice. The more DM you build, the less higher tech types of units and weapons you will be able to build.

Whichever way you choose, you have the flexibility to cancel and change your research projects at any time, but you cannot cancel your data module decision.

This is a strategy game with great depth designed for those that enjoy the challenge of out-thinking, of reacting to changes, of planning with multiple options, of managing economic factors and most of all, of building a base from scratch and waging war. There are too many layers of the game to get into here - an open market, a terrain to explore for various mineral rich areas, outposts to build apart from your main base, generals leading your armies and how they level up, special attack techniques like guerilla warfare, air strikes, ambushes - but the best part is you don't need to know it all to compete. It is easy to learn the basics (mine, build, attack) and you can go from there.