# ⚔️ WAR

**Designed by Sawyer** · built by Claude · July 26, 2026

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## 🪖 You

You're an **army guy**. You are **NOT** the boss — someone else is the boss.

You start as **just a person**. No tank.

## ⭕ The XP circle

- You get **XP** from everything you do
- XP fills up the **circle**
- The **number inside the circle** is your **level**
- Circle full → **LEVEL UP**
- Each level needs **more XP** than the last one

## 📅 One level = one YEAR

## 🎮 What you do during a year

- ⚔️ **Fight** in the three-army war (below) — good money
- 🗺️ **Missions** the boss gives you — a little money
- 🏕️ **Train** at the base to get stronger

## 🎁 Every level-up gives you

- 💰 **Money — always.** Level 1 gives 💰50, then **➕5 more every level**
- ✨ Sometimes something **RARE and really good** — you have to be lucky
- 🔝 The **higher your level, the better the stuff**

## 🔫🗡️ Weapons

You can **upgrade** your gun and sword, or **buy new ones**.

Sawyer's weapons:
- 🔥 **FIRE GUN** 💰400 — shoots out fire
- 🔥 **FIRE SWORD** 💰300 — has fire on it

Sawyer said *"make more of everything"*, so Claude added these — any name or
price is Sawyer's to change:

| Guns | | Swords | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⚡ Lightning Gun | 💰1,200 | ⚡ Lightning Sword | 💰900 |
| ❄️ Ice Gun | 💰2,500 | ❄️ Ice Sword | 💰2,000 |
| 🕳️ Shadow Gun | 💰20,000 | 🕳️ Shadow Sword | 💰15,000 |

## 🚜 Tanks

You start with **no tank**. You have to save up and buy one.

| Tank | Cost | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 🚜 Normal Tank | 💰500 | Shoots normal bullet things. Not that strong. |
| 🔥 **FIRE TANK** | 💰1,000 | Shoots out **FIRE**. Second worst. |
| ⚡ Lightning Tank | 💰6,000 | Lightning that goes right **through** people. *(Claude made this one up)* |
| ❄️ Ice Tank | 💰15,000 | **Freezes** enemies solid. *(Claude made this one up)* |
| 🕳️ **SHADOW TANK** | 💰50,000 | Shoots out **BLACK HOLES**. The best. Really, really strong. |

> Sawyer first said the Shadow Tank should cost **one million** — then worked out
> on his own that you'd never reach it, and changed it to **50,000**. His call.
>
> The Shadow Tank is still the **BEST** tank — Sawyer's rule — so the made-up
> ones sit under it.

## 🚁 Helicopters

**Sawyer's rule:** *"the same as the tanks, but a little bit more — like 10,000 more."*

So there's a helicopter to match every tank, and each one costs **💰10,000 more**:

| Helicopter | Cost |
|---|---|
| 🚁 Normal Helicopter | 💰10,500 |
| 🔥 FIRE Helicopter | 💰11,000 |
| ⚡ Lightning Helicopter | 💰16,000 |
| ❄️ Ice Helicopter | 💰25,000 |
| 🕳️ SHADOW Helicopter | 💰60,000 |

Claude warned him the cheapest one was 20 normal tanks and asked if the first
should be cheaper. Sawyer: **"It shouldn't be cheaper. Say it like I said."**
So that's how it is. Helicopters **fly**, so they're the fastest thing you can get.

## 🏭 Machines & space

- 🏭 **COMBINING MACHINE** — Sawyer's machine. It **combines stuff**.
  See the big section below — he grew it into the heart of the game.
- 📦 **More space** — so you can hold more things
- Sawyer let Claude make up one machine too

## 🎖️ Who becomes the boss

- At the end of every year, **the boss picks the next boss**
- He picks whoever **he thinks is pretty good**
- He might pick you. He might not.
- **When YOU'RE the boss → at the end of the year, YOU pick who's next**

## 🪖⚔️🪖⚔️🪖 The three-army war

**Sawyer's rule:** *"three armies going against each other. Even the two other
armies that are not your team both do battle against each other, but they both
battle against your army, so they all battle against each other. Except for the
same army."*

**Sawyer picks how big the war is** before every battle — *"I wanna make it so
you can do a two-way battle, three-way battle, four-way battle, or five-way battle."*

| | Armies | Guys |
|---|---|---|
| 2-WAY | 🟩🟥 | 10 |
| 3-WAY | 🟩🟥🟦 | 15 |
| 4-WAY | 🟩🟥🟦🟪 | 20 |
| 5-WAY | 🟩🟥🟦🟪🟧 | 25 |

- **Armies of five.** Yours is you + Max, Jonah, Ellie and Ravi. Sawyer set the
  size: *"five against five."*
- **Everybody fights everybody.** Red shoots Blue. Blue shoots Red. They all
  shoot you. The only guys you never fight are your own army.
- **You win when your army is the last one standing** — Sawyer: *"you have to
  beat the whole other army."*
- Your guys have their names over their heads.

> Claude asked whether the enemy army should get bigger to stay fair with five
> guys helping. Sawyer's answer was to invent the third army instead.

### 💪 How tough the other armies are

Sawyer played it and said **"it's too easy."** Asked *harder how*, he chose
**"the other armies are tougher."** Asked how many hits an enemy should take
from his normal gun (it was 5), he said **"ten hits."**

- Enemy guys take **10 hits** from the normal gun — double what they were
- The other armies also **hit harder** (11 damage a shot instead of 8)
- **Your own army is unchanged** — he said the *other* armies are tougher, so
  Max, Jonah, Ellie and Ravi stayed exactly as they were

## 🏭 The Combining Machine — combine ANYTHING

**Sawyer's rule:** *"make it so you can combine anything together and just make a
whole new thing… tons more of guns, swords, helicopters and tanks. Tons more!"*

Pick **any two things** and smash them together. They do **not** have to match.

**Mixing the kind** makes a hybrid — and a hybrid works as **both**:

| ➕ | = |
|---|---|
| 🔫 gun + 🗡️ sword | **GUN-SWORD** — shoots *and* swings |
| 🔫 gun + 🚜 tank | **GUN-TANK** |
| 🔫 gun + 🚁 helicopter | **GUN-COPTER** |
| 🗡️ sword + 🚜 tank | **SWORD-TANK** |
| 🗡️ sword + 🚁 helicopter | **SWORD-COPTER** |
| 🚜 tank + 🚁 helicopter | **TANK-COPTER** |

**Mixing the element** makes a brand new element:

| ➕ | = |
|---|---|
| 🔥 Fire + ⚡ Lightning | **Blazebolt** 🔥⚡ |
| 🔥 Fire + ❄️ Ice | **Steam** 🌫️ |
| 🔥 Fire + 🕳️ Shadow | **Emberdark** 🌋 |
| ⚡ Lightning + ❄️ Ice | **Frostbolt** ❄️⚡ |
| ⚡ Lightning + 🕳️ Shadow | **Voidbolt** 🌀 |
| ❄️ Ice + 🕳️ Shadow | **Frostvoid** 💠 |

Two of the **same** thing still work too — that makes it **stronger** (+1 power),
which is how it worked before and Sawyer kept it.

**11 elements × 10 kinds = 110 different names**, and every one of them comes in
every power level, so there are **thousands** of things he can make. Combined
things can be combined again — power just keeps stacking.

- 🧩 **Parts shop** — buy plain parts to feed the machine
- 📦 Parts live in your **space**, so more space = more combining

## ⏳ Wait your turn

**Sawyer's rule:** getting picked was too rare, so — *"wait your turn."*
Every year you don't get picked, your chance goes up.

| Years waiting | Your chance |
|---|---|
| ★☆☆ 0 | about 1 in 6 |
| ★★☆ 1 | about 1 in 3 |
| ★★★ 2 | about half |
| **3** | **It's DEFINITELY your turn** — Sawyer picked three |

Being boss resets it back to zero.

## 💪 Your army works for you (boss only)

**Sawyer's rule:** *"when you are the boss, other people have to work to the next
level for you, but you don't work to the next level."*

- While you're the boss, your army guys go do battles and missions **on their own**
- Every win they get fills **YOUR** XP circle
- They give you **the same XP** you'd get doing it yourself — Sawyer: *"the same,
  but you don't have to do anything"*
- Watching one of them win counts too

## 👀 Watching your army (boss only)

**Sawyer's rule:** *"When you're the boss, you just watch everybody and see how
they're doing. You can actually see them battling. But you can't play in a battle."*

- Only shows up **when you're the boss**
- See all six army guys, what each one is **doing right now**, and their record
- Tap one and **watch his real battle happen** — he fights by himself
- You **can't** move him. You just watch.
- Their wins add up, so when you pick the next boss you know who's good

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*Sawyer's rules. Nothing in here was made up by Claude except the second machine.*