Rapid Dominance

Overview

You swallow the map one field at a time, spending a thin pool of action points to shove your borders into neighboring tiles until every rival townhall has collapsed. Rapid Dominance is a free, open-source turn-based strategy game built in Phaser 3 and TypeScript by the developer wenta, openly a clone of Bartłomiej Baron's Enemy Flag and trimmed to a single-player campaign against AI. A match opens on a tiled grid — Hex by default, with maps shaped for two to eight players — where you are player one and the remaining two-to-sixteen seats fill with computer rivals in deathmatch or team formations. Each tile is a resource or fortification in waiting: blank ground, a gold deposit, or a townhall that serves as your capital. What makes the loop distinctive is that everything — marching on an enemy, raising a barracks, abandoning a field — draws from the same per-turn action-point budget, so conquest becomes a question of what you can afford to push this round, not how large your army is. It reads as Risk's map-painting married to a build economy, aimed at players who like their conflicts turn-paced and their borders visibly growing every few minutes.

How to Play

Click a field to drop the selection cursor on it — arrow keys nudge it one tile — then pick an action from the right panel or its hotkey. Press A to attack the selected adjacent enemy tile for two action points, L to leave a tile for one, and F to end your turn. To build, select an empty owned tile and press T for townhall (500 gold), M for mine (150), B for barracks (100), W for wooden wall, or S for stone wall. Townhalls, mines, and barracks generate troops and gold each round; you start with 10 troops, 300 gold, and 8 of 14 action points. The catch is adjacency: a tile is only assaultable when at least two of your tiles or one of your townhalls borders it, and every swing costs troops that a barracks must replace. Turns pass clockwise through every living player until only one remains.

Tips & Strategy

Open by raising a barracks beside your starting townhall before pushing outward, because attacks burn troops and the not-enough-troops wall hits faster than new players expect. Spend early gold on a mine atop a deposit — the 16 to 20 gold-per-round bonus doubles a standard mine and funds the stone walls and second townhall you will need once the AI closes in. Respect the adjacency rule: a tile touching only one of yours cannot be taken, so fan into shapes with two or three fronts instead of a single column that cannot widen. A 200-gold stone wall in front of your capital buys the turns a barracks needs to refill the garrison, and walls are cheaper than losing a townhall. Mind the fog of war — enemy stacks appear the instant your border touches them, so keep a screen of owned tiles between your capital and the unknown. When a rival is down to one townhall, dump your whole action-point pool into the kill; the elimination snowballs you toward the next opponent.