Hello All!
Steps to War is a new MMO Grand Strategy game that is set to open to an open beta tomorrow on the 13th as of writing this. The game is set to include detailed economics, military and diplomacy and has a lot of interesting ideas for game-play. For example if you get defeated in a war and the enemy decides to annex your country, you can start your own faction and become a guerrilla leader to fight against the oppressors. That means, you can make your enemy’s life a living hell by targeting their military, infrastructure, civilians and cause enough havoc for them to give back your country or if they are persistent, gather an alliance to liberate your country.
If you get defeated but they don’t annex your country – you will lose political power. This will limit you in your abilities to run your country as it falls in to chaos. There will be a few options:
1) Start a faction and become a guerrilla fighter.
2) Become a colony and based on the agreement you could retain your political power
3) Negotiate to cede – any agreement if possible (e.g. resources / technology)
The developers have stated they will not reset the world and it will be persistent.
And here is a link to the youtube channel of tutorial
videos by the developers have made covering various features.
The game has had several delays already, but I am hoping that it should release on time as this is a very ambitious and interesting project.
Below: The world map, Antarctica not pictured but can be settled