Build the town. Hold the line. High noon settles it.
A Western strategy game you play with hundreds of others on one shared frontier. Raise a town, recruit legends of the Old West, ride the rails, win a Railhead for your clan and march on the star fort at the heart of the map.
Build your town
Start with a Town Hall and a handful of plots behind a timber stockade. 24 kinds of building, most of them up to level 30: mines, mills and farms to feed it, the Rifle Range, Stables, Barracks and Archery Camp to train its army, the War College to research, a Bank, a Chapel and a Hospital to keep it standing.
Every building grows through five stages as it levels, from rough planks to brick and iron, and the Town Hall sets the ceiling for them all.
II · Heroes
Lawmen, outlaws, scouts and soldiers lead your marches. Recruit them with Bullets at the Saloon's shooting gallery, level them up, add stars and put the right captain at the head of each army.
10 Gold, 16 Silver and 24 Bronze heroes. Every painting is from the game. Meet them all in the guide.
Rail and clan trains
From day 15, public shuttle trains run every open section of the line to a fixed timetable, and your marches hop aboard by themselves whenever that makes the whole journey faster. Players have no trains of their own.
Clans do. A clan train leaves the clan's Railhead and hauls resources to a clanmate's town. A safe route keeps clear of rival stations, a risky one takes the short way. Pass a station or depot your clan does not hold and the line takes a 10% toll; a rival that keeps a garrison at its station can stop the train, so send escorts.
Railheads and territory
20 Railheads stand at the foot of the home corners, 5 to a corner, each held by the Rail Gang until a clan of 5 or more beats it. A clan's land grows out from its Railhead in five-by-five-tile outposts that join edge to edge.
A held Railhead can be attacked after an hour's declared notice, and the winner takes the Railhead only. The loser keeps its cities, treasury and research, but its trains stop and its outposts are cut off until it wins a Railhead back.
The capital
At the heart of the map stands the capital: a three-tier star fort of stone bastions and dry ditches, cannon on every face, the territorial flag on every bastion and the domed Territorial Capitol crowning the top terrace.
Its gates open on day 30. From day 34 clans fight for it in timed windows, and the clan that holds it names the Sheriff of Liberty Hold. The Final Showdown on day 41 settles the season.
Herds, fishing and horses
Wild horses and longhorn cattle roam the range, each herd guarded by a cowboy. Beat the guard once and the herd stands open to everyone after you, smaller with every head taken, until it is roped out and a new herd turns up.
One Rope brings home one horse or one head of cattle; Bait lands a bag of 1,000 fish at the ponds. From Town Hall 10 the Horse Yard raises Bronze, Silver and Gold horses to level 40 to speed your marches, and the Cattle Ranch turns cattle into beef.
VII · The story
For a month the Red Hand gang has burned farms and robbed the mail. The old Marshal, Ada Holloway, rode after them and never came home.
The town council sent east for a new one: you. Deputy Hale meets you on the Town Hall steps, and seven chapters of painted scenes follow the trail to the man who signs every page J.C.
More on the frontier
From Town Hall 6, challenge another player and meet them on their Main Street: first-person, hand over the holster, the other fellow in plain sight. Gold and Reputation ride on it, never your troops.
The shop sells Silver Dollars, skins, passes and convenience. Troops, territory, gate openings and whole Gold heroes are never for sale, and a skin adds a few percent at most.
Season 1 is a 42-day land rush. The walls open for everyone at once: the frontier on day 15, the capital on day 30, the corner walls on day 35. Then the rewards are paid.
From the build
Plates from the build: the game's own models of the capital, the frontier cities and the buildings of your town, printed in the manner of 1871.
Screenshots and a trailer arrive with the store pages.
News, tester builds, events and clan channels live on the Liberty Hold Discord. Come and find a clan before the gates open.
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