Middle East
6 powers across 67 territories — 53 land and 14 at sea. 24 supply centres, 9 to win. Room to negotiate, and few enough players that a betrayal is personal.
Multiplayer strategy · iOS
Gulf Gambit
6 powers share one map and one clock. Every order is written in secret and resolves at the same instant — so the only weapon that matters is what you can talk someone else into doing.
Coming to iOS
How it plays
No dice. No initiative. Only intent.
Every player writes their orders in secret, every order is revealed and resolved together, and nothing anywhere on the board is random — no rolls, no hidden modifiers, no luck. A unit is beaten only by more units, which means it is beaten only by someone who agreed to help.
- Powers
- 6
- Territories
- 67
- Supply centres
- 24
- Centres to win
- 9
- Dice
- 0
Negotiation
Everything is a conversation
Private threads, group channels and a global council run the whole time the clock does. Nothing said in them binds anyone — there is no enforcement, no contract, no mechanic that makes a promise true. An alliance is only ever as good as the orders that actually arrive.
Resolution
The whole board moves at once
There are no turns-in-sequence and no first-mover advantage. When the timer runs out every order is revealed together and resolved by the same rules, so two powers pushing into the same province simply bounce — unless one of them brought a friend.
The council
Motions, votes and stalling
Powers can put motions to the table — extend the deadline, raise the stakes — and everyone votes. It is the one place where talk becomes binding, which makes it the one place worth manipulating.
Commanders
Choose who you play as
Collect commanders and accessories to change the face you present at the table. They are cosmetic — nothing you unlock moves a unit or wins a province. The advantage stays where it belongs.
Why it stings
A promise is just a sentence
Nothing in the rules stops anyone doing this to you. That is the game.
A game year
Two campaigns and a reckoning
Each year runs spring, then autumn, then winter. Retreats only happen in a year where something was actually dislodged, so a quiet year is a short one. Negotiation is not a separate step — it runs continuously, for as long as the clock does.
- 01 Spring orders Everyone writes. The clock runs. Orders resolve at once.
- If needed Spring retreat Dislodged units retreat or disband.
- 02 Autumn orders The same again — and this is the turn that counts.
- If needed Autumn retreat Dislodged units retreat or disband.
- 03 Winter adjustments Count your centres. Build up to them, or disband down to them.
The powers
6 powers, unequal on purpose
They do not start with matching home centres. The opening position was searched rather than drawn — thousands of simulated games, tuned until no power's win rate ran away from the others. What looks lopsided on the map is what made the results level.
TurkeyTUR2 centres
IranIRN3 centres
Saudi ArabiaSAU3 centres
EgyptEGY3 centres
IraqIRQ5 centres
SyriaSYR4 centres
Two boards
Bring six, or bring twelve
Battle Royale
The same 67 territories cut 12 ways, with 41 supply centres and 11 needed to take it. Crowded, faster, and far harder to hold a border — every neighbour is a front.
TurkeyTUR
CaucasusCAU
IranIRN
IraqIRQ
SyriaSYR
TransjordanTRJ
EgyptEGY
Saudi ArabiaSAU
HejazHEJ
Gulf StatesGLF
OmanOMN
YemenYEM
Media
Screens
Support
Something wrong? Tell us.
Questions about an account, a game that went sideways, a purchase, or a request to delete your data — mail us and a person will read it.
You can delete your account and everything attached to it from inside the app, under Settings. You do not need to ask us to do it, and you do not need a reason.