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The Farhold Reach
A shared-turn space strategy game for 2–8 accounts. Explore a wrapping galaxy, settle new worlds, develop technology and send fleets into contested space.
Waiting rooms and your expeditions
Click your ship count to select a group, then click a planet to fill Fleet destination. Press Dispatch fleet to send. Esc cancels map selection. · Drag to pan · Scroll or use Zoom buttons · Arrow keys pan when map is focused · 0 resets. Starts at 2×: about half the galaxy width and height are visible. Zoom out for an overview. Pan continuously in any direction. Opposite edges join automatically.
Room channel
How to play
Sign in to Tronsoft. Create a room and invite another account. Two humans must join before the host starts; add up to six computer empires, with eight empires total.
Each empire starts with a colony, 12 ships and 60 credits. Select one of your colonies to build ships (10 credits each), scan nearby stars (15 credits), or send a fleet. Research costs 40 + 20 × your current level, up to level 5. Technology improves fleet range, speed and combat strength.
Fleet range is 4 + technology hexes, measured across the wrapping map. Travel takes ceil(distance ÷ (2 + technology)) turns. Fleets move after all active humans press Ready. Colony income is then collected. You can Unready until the last commander readies. Building, research and dispatch are immediate confirmed commands; they cannot be undone.
Arriving fleets fight together. Power is ships × (10 + 2 × technology). A force must exceed all opposing power combined to survive. Ties annihilate all forces and leave the star neutral. Surviving ships capture neutral and hostile colonies automatically; friendly fleets reinforce. Research on a colony helps its defending ships; launched fleets retain their launch technology.
Uncharted stars conceal ownership, defenders and income. Exploring charts star locations and names. Current ownership, defenders and income are visible only at your colonies or within one hex of one, or within two hexes of a colony scanned this turn. Charted stars outside sensor coverage show no current colony or ship details. Enemy moving fleets remain hidden. The complete map is revealed when the expedition ends. The public roster shows readiness, presence and account names. Score is revealed at game end: colonies × 100 + ships × 2 + credits + technology × 25. Highest score wins after turn 40, or the last surviving empire wins earlier. Equal scores share victory.
There is no automatic timer. A host may mark a commander absent for more than 90 seconds ready for one turn. Hostship transfers to a present member after 90 seconds. Rejoin with the same account to resume; rooms expire after 24 hours of inactivity.
Tutorial · Manual (PDF)Starting home bases always show the original contestant’s color. This marker does not reveal current ownership, ships or income. Passive sensors: 1 hex. Scan: 2 hexes for 15 credits, until this turn resolves. Technology does not increase scanner range.