The navy, two new powers, and M.A.D. on the App Store

M.A.D. is on the App Store. The game now runs on iPhone and iPad: get it on the App Store. And this update gives the war a navy. Version française plus bas.

On iPhone and iPad

• Free, with every mode: Duel, War mode, AI against AI and the living world. It plays offline, with no account and no data collected.
• The Full Arsenal, a one-time purchase, unlocks nine weapons of the Nuclear and Experimental tabs. On the web, here on itch, everything stays free.

The navy

• Four warships. The destroyer is fast, with a gun at 1.5 km and torpedoes at 2 km; it escorts your cargos and hunts the enemy's. The cruiser shoots down aircraft and missiles within 2.5 km. The battleship fires heavy salvos at ships and coasts 6 km off. The missile ship fires salvo, cluster, napalm, thermobaric and glider from the sea.
• They are built at a shipyard on a coast: four ships a shipyard, sixteen at most. A warship burns oil: it costs as much oil as industry.

A fleet under way at dusk: a battleship, cruisers, destroyers and a missile ship.
Une flotte en route au crépuscule : un cuirassé, des croiseurs, des destroyers et un lance-missiles.

Fighting at sea

• Turrets turn to their target, shells fly and fall, misses throw up columns of water, torpedoes leave a wake. A ship hit hard smokes, then burns, then goes down.
• Battleships shell the coast from DEFCON 3: the point you give them, or the enemy's coastal defences first. Never your own land, and never from closer than 400 m to what they shell.
• Cruisers guard the sky: missiles at aircraft and incoming missiles, and close-in guns that pour tracer rounds.

A battleship's broadside; far off, its shells land on an enemy port.
La bordée d'un cuirassé ; au loin, ses obus tombent sur un port ennemi.

A cruiser's guns on three bombers coming over its port.
Les canons d'un croiseur sur trois bombardiers qui arrivent sur son port.

In War mode

• Build a shipyard from the Defence, air tab, order ships from the Units tab.
• Select them like tanks (Shift+drag, or a long press), then click: an enemy ship to attack it, the sea to sail there, the enemy coast to shell it (battleships).
• The missile ship fires from the weapons bar, like a rocket battery or a silo.
• The computer builds its own fleet, hunts your cargos and tankers, and shells your coastal defences.

A missile ship fires a salvo from the sea while the batteries ashore reload.
Un lance-missiles tire une salve depuis la mer pendant que les batteries à terre rechargent.

A shipyard, its dry dock and gantries; each new ship sails out to a mooring of its own.
Un chantier naval, sa cale sèche et ses portiques ; chaque navire neuf gagne son propre mouillage.

In the living world

• A nation with a port and a reason (a rival on the water, lands beyond the sea) raises a shipyard; its Defence ministry buys a warship a year.
• In peace the fleet lies at its moorings. At war it patrols, escorts its cargos, hunts the enemy's, and shells the enemy coast before the landings. A nation that ends takes its fleet down with it.
• The nation card counts the fleet in its Forces tab.

Gatling AA

• A new close defence: thousands of tracer rounds at whatever flies within 2 km, aircraft, drones and airlifts. It does not stop missiles.

Two gatlings open up on three bombers.
Deux DCA rotatives ouvrent le feu sur trois bombardiers.

Ports

• Berths along the pier: ships queue in the roads instead of running into each other, and a port busy the whole year lengthens its pier.
• Several ports a land, on another shore first; an enclosed sea is navigable, with its own ports and ships.

Rulers and powers

• Three rare extreme rulers, each a rule of the world you can turn off: the Butcher (no difference made between civilians and soldiers), the Mad (gives up its own people to strike the enemy), the Unbounded (the whole arsenal for the least enemy).
• A new Politics tab of powers. Rebellion: click a town, it rises with its province as a rebel nation, and the old nation goes to war with it at once (never the capital). Influence: click a nation, its card opens on its ruler, and you give or take away a trait.

Influence: the ruler's traits, one click to give or take one away.
Influence : les traits du dirigeant, un clic pour en donner ou en retirer un.

And also

• Strikes on a town aim at the heart of what still stands, not at its middle already in craters.
• At peace, the fire stops: no more tracers or beams frozen in the sky.
• The nation card is docked at the bottom left, in tabs.
• Concrete follows the lines of the buildings, round under round ones.
• The menu keeps the map, size and number of nations you pick: the world is generated only when you press Create the world or New map.