CROWNFALL

How to play — a five-minute tutorial

How to begin

Launch the game from the Tronsoft Games library. You command House Aurelian (gold), starting in the north of the Sundered Realm. Three rival houses — Sethys (blue), Morvenna (green), and Corvane (red) — are controlled by the computer. The throne at Kingscrown, in the center of the map, is empty and unclaimed.

The screen

Left panel — the four houses, their holdings, your diplomatic status with each, and the state of the throne.
Center — the province map. Circles are provinces, colored by their holder; lines are borders you can march across.
Right panel — the selected province, your Council decrees, and the Chronicle log.
Top bar — turn number, whose turn it is, your treasury, province count, and the Diplomacy, End Turn, and Menu buttons.

Controls

The game is played entirely with the mouse.

Action	How
Inspect a province	Click it. Details appear in the right panel.
Select for a march	Click one of your provinces; its neighbors glow.
March / attack	Set the March Strength slider, then click a glowing neighbor.
Recruit	Select your province, then Recruit Levy (3) or Knight (7).
Council decree	Click a decree in the Council panel (one per turn).
Diplomacy	Top-bar Diplomacy button.
End your turn	End Turn button.

Turn order

Your turn begins: income is collected automatically and your provinces refresh.
You act freely — recruit, march, one council decree, and any diplomacy.
You press End Turn.
Each AI house takes its turn in sequence.
Play returns to you and the next round begins.

Movement

Each province may take one action per turn — either recruit or march. Marching into your own province reinforces it. Marching into a neutral or enemy province is an attack. Levies march first; knights join only when you send a large host. A freshly recruited unit cannot march the same turn.

Combat & sieges

Battles resolve on total power (levy = 1, knight = 2.4), with the defender gaining a bonus from terrain and walls. Win and you capture the province; lose and your attacking force is destroyed.

Walls (▲, level 0–3) add defense. You usually can't storm a strong fortress in one blow — but a large failed assault still breaches a wall level. Keep attacking to grind the walls down; a truly overwhelming assault storms the seat and casts the walls down at once. Build your own walls with the Council's Build Walls decree.

Winning

Hold Kingscrown at the end of three of your own turns, or
Control half the realm (12+ provinces on the classic map), or
Be the last house standing.

Losing

You lose if your house is wiped out — every province taken from you — or if a rival house meets a victory condition first.

Saving & restarting

Open the Menu. Save and Load use your browser's local storage. Export Save downloads a save file you can Import later. To restart, choose a New Game — Classic, Large, or Random — or build your own in the Scenario Editor and press Play.

Good fortune, and may your house hold the throne.