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 ====== Sengoku: Road to Unification ====== ====== Sengoku: Road to Unification ======
  
-Sengoku is a turn-based strategy game set in sixteenth-century Japan, written for Kalgoorlie Retro Gaming. You lead one of 28 clans in the 1560 or 1582 scenario. Each month you govern your provinces, raise and train soldiers, make alliances and send ninja against your rivals. Invade a neighbouring province and you fight the battle yourself on a hex field. Hold all 38 provinces to win.+Sengoku is a turn-based strategy game set in sixteenth-century Japan, written for Kalgoorlie Retro Gaming. You lead one of 28 clans in the 1560 or 1582 scenario. Each province has a governor and up to seven samurai, each with his own abilities, body points and men, and you appoint one for every order: govern your provinces, raise and train soldiers, recruit ronin and your rivals' samurai, make alliances and send spies and assassins against your rivals. Invade a neighbouring province and you fight the battle yourself on a hex field. Hold all 38 provinces to win.
  
 It has the same retro look as [[brokenseal:start|The Broken Seal]]: a sixteen-colour screen, portraits for every lord and governor, and its own music. It has the same retro look as [[brokenseal:start|The Broken Seal]]: a sixteen-colour screen, portraits for every lord and governor, and its own music.
  
-The current version is **1.2.0** (4 November 2026).+The current version is **1.4.0** (5 November 2026).
  
 ===== Two editions, one game ===== ===== Two editions, one game =====
  
 ^ Edition ^ Where ^ Players ^ ^ Edition ^ Where ^ Players ^
-| **Browser** | https://retro.theiguru.au/sengoku/ (nothing to install) | One player against the computer, or **multi-player games** with other people | +| **Browser** | https://retro.theiguru.au/sengoku/ (nothing to install) | One player against the computer, up to nine taking turns at one computer, none (watch the computer clans), or **multi-player games** online | 
-| **Desktop** | Windows and Linux, from https://retro.theiguru.au/sengoku/desktop/ | One player against the computer |+| **Desktop** | Windows and Linux, from https://retro.theiguru.au/sengoku/desktop/ | One player against the computer, up to nine taking turns at one computer, or none |
  
 The two editions have the same rules, screens, music and save format. The browser edition is a port of the desktop's Free Pascal code to TypeScript, and both run the same self-test; a battle fought from the same start comes out the same in both. **Export** and **Import** move a campaign between the two editions as a save file: see [[sengoku:saves|Saves]]. The two editions have the same rules, screens, music and save format. The browser edition is a port of the desktop's Free Pascal code to TypeScript, and both run the same self-test; a battle fought from the same start comes out the same in both. **Export** and **Import** move a campaign between the two editions as a save file: see [[sengoku:saves|Saves]].
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 ^ Page ^ What it covers ^ ^ Page ^ What it covers ^
-| [[sengoku:playing|How to play]] | The main screen, the orders, the seasons and the hex battles |+| [[sengoku:playing|How to play]] | Starting a campaign, the main screen, officers, the orders, the seasons and the hex battles |
 | [[sengoku:online|Multi-player games]] | Players, invite codes, the monthly time limit, battles against other players, the computer playing for late players, and the emails | | [[sengoku:online|Multi-player games]] | Players, invite codes, the monthly time limit, battles against other players, the computer playing for late players, and the emails |
 | [[sengoku:installing|Installing]] | The desktop edition on Windows and Linux; the browser edition | | [[sengoku:installing|Installing]] | The desktop edition on Windows and Linux; the browser edition |
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 | [[sengoku:history|Version history]] | What changed in each version | | [[sengoku:history|Version history]] | What changed in each version |
  
-The same help is in the game: press **7 Help** on the main screen.+The same help is in the game: **9 Other > How to play** on the main screen.
  
 ===== Downloads ===== ===== Downloads =====
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 ^ File ^ What it is ^ ^ File ^ What it is ^
-| ''Sengoku-1.2.0-x64.msi'' | Windows (64-bit) installer, for your user only | +| ''Sengoku-1.4.0-x64.msi'' | Windows (64-bit) installer, for your user only | 
-| ''sengoku_1.2.0_amd64.deb'' | Linux package for Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint and others | +| ''sengoku_1.4.0_amd64.deb'' | Linux package for Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint and others | 
-| ''sengoku-1.2.0-source.tar.gz'' | Desktop source (Free Pascal 3.2.2 and Lazarus 4.4), GNU GPL |+| ''sengoku-1.4.0-source.tar.gz'' | Desktop source (Free Pascal 3.2.2 and Lazarus 4.4), GNU GPL |
  
 The browser edition's source is linked from the bar at the top of the game page. The browser edition's source is linked from the bar at the top of the game page.
  
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