marchland

A historical battle and campaign simulation where you command armies across career seasons — muster, march, siege, battle, winter court. Every outcome replays identically from the same seed. Every death has a cause you can read.

Built around one thesis: history is hard to predict and easy to explain. Three design decisions follow from it. First, no quality coefficients — every difference between forces must have a receipt, a changeable in-world fact (drill-days, calories, armor, roads, bonds) that an automated audit checks against every data file. Second, a full trace: time, killer, cause (melee · volley · pursuit · thirst · disease), location — every rout records the appraisal cues that triggered it. Third, you command; you don’t pilot. Orders travel at rider speed. Men appraise them against what they can see. You can’t undo a dispatch once sent, and your patron evaluates based on what you reported, not what actually happened.