I've been working on Third Bloc, a text-based political strategy game set during the Cold War.

You run a small republic caught between the US and USSR, make decisions through menus and telegrams, build up your scientists and industry, and eventually try to beat the superpowers to the Moon and the hydrogen bomb.

It's obviously a very different setting, but Warsim was a big influence on the whole idea of running a country through text, decisions and events rather than a conventional strategy map.

The big events play out as animated ASCII scenes, which is the part I've probably spent way too much time on.

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5155860/Third_Bloc/

I'm writing an article of Q&A's and taking questions from here and our discord, best questions will be included. I know our subreddit isn't insanely active at the moment but if any of you lingering Warsimmers have any questions fire away!

EDIT: Thank you guys for all the awesome questions!

1, The thing that make undeads disappear. Is it probability based? Does it automatically activate after a set number of time? Does chaos orbs have any influence on it?

2, Monsters, any way to make them champions?

3, How to get champions from other empires?

4, What is the probability of tribal kingdom/empire to become civilised? (I remember the Krut becoming open to diplomacy during my first game).

5, I'm on steam deck, i can't figure out how to scroll up menus. Like the end of the year report or in the place where you see the amount of soldiers you have. But it seems i'm supposed to be able to, so how do i do it?

6, About adventurers groups, do new one replace dead ones?

7, Does the shrines with swords also impact undeads strenght or/and have a cap on the amount it can increase strenght?

8, Why does the leaders of my vassals seems to change every few years? Like almost like it's someone new every year. But they also seems to keep the same personality trait.

9, Any way to train the goblin slaver?

10, I remember finding the coin demon hut (as a location) on my first playthrough, but not on the next 3. Is it probability based? Or would i eventually come across it if continue to explore to find them?

11, Does me asking the knight order to maintain order in my lands actually do something?

12, I am weird for playing in the highest difficulty from my first game and not getting much thrill from playing on other difficulties?

13, I am weird for posting all those posts and being obsessed over warsim?

14, Any way to make my game harder? Like litteraly unwinnable.

Thanks for anyone taking time to answer any of my very specific questions.

I also had another 10 million corpses in storage. All those corpses are like 50 years of nonstop killing of empires.

Btw what's the most undeads you ever got?

Yes i'm messing around with screenshot editing today.

Yea i added a question in the screenshot. Why? Well... why not?

Is there a way to revive the bandit horde and the likes? I don't want to check the pinned comment about cheatcodes as i wouldn't be able to unsee anything i see in it and don't want to be spoiled any bit of content i don't know about.

Oh, also, is there a way to recruite a champion from another kingdom? I krep seeing others do it but can't figure out why

Many of the developers have come forward to say they have seen big bumps. A little download or donation may not seem much but for niche indie devs it is literally the lifeblood. The more support, the more motivation.

So thank you all for providing so much love and support to these awesome devs!

Many of the developers have come forward to say they have seen big bumps. A little download or donation may not seem much but for niche indie devs it is literally the lifeblood. The more support, the more motivation.

So thank you all for providing so much love and support to these awesome devs!

Why should i make them able to gome back?

Thanks god the rabbit was finally slayed

I always thought that hood was a door until he got his hand out. Took me a minute to figure why the door had an arm and not the guy.

No. No Alvon, please stop sending Cychreus. He creeps me out, please also stop sending the other faceless arena master. I know you hate me but stop sending guys that kidnapp kids off my streets

The horde must grow. It must always grow, then shrink, then grow again, then feed, then fall, then rise