Join the map, read a tile, move your commanders, use spies, hold your roads and win tile tournaments.
On your first visit, the global map asks whether you want to participate. Accepting activates your presence on the Global Map and grants you your first HQ. It is your main structure and acts as the anchor for territory, defense and map progression.
Hovering over the map or using the side panel shows the terrain, the structure on the tile, and useful context for the current selection. Roads and bridges also affect movement on the map.
| Element | What matters |
|---|---|
| HQ | A player's main structure. It can be defended in a tournament, and a change of ownership can eliminate a player from the map who no longer controls any HQ. |
| Outpost | A capturable structure important for territorial control and income. Defending it can also involve allies. |
| Pirate camp | A hostile neutral structure. A pirate camp becomes an outpost if a single attacker wins with the required minimum score. |
| Road | Land movement infrastructure. A road speeds up movement for all units on the tile it crosses; it can be built, repaired or destroyed depending on the situation. |
| Bridge (water) | The water counterpart of the road. A bridge speeds movement across a water tile, while water can still be crossed without it at a much slower pace. It costs credits to build and is destroyed if the tile changes owner. |
| Tunnel (mountain) | The mountain counterpart of the bridge. A mountain tile can be crossed but heavily slows units, while a tunnel makes it fast to cross instead. It costs credits to build and is destroyed if the tile changes owner. |
| Barricade | A defensive structure you build on a tile in your own territory — on a road, abandoned road, tunnel or plain terrain, but never on water or a bridge. It slows down every commander crossing that tile (spies are unaffected), making it handy to fortify a chokepoint. It costs credits, is removed instantly with a 50% refund (no abandoned state), and disappears automatically if you lose control of the tile. |
Commanders are your mobile military units. You use them to position yourself, attack, defend and join tile tournaments. The game shows a route preview and an ETA before you confirm movement.
To attack or defend a tile, your commander must be available and physically standing on that tile.
In World and Random modes, the map wraps horizontally like a continuous loop: moving east brings you back from the west on the same path. Paths and ETA already account for this, so the shortest route can circle the world in one direction — useful for planning encirclements and flank moves. In Europe mode, all four boundaries are closed: movement, territories and roads stay within the map.
The spy is a specialized unit. You can produce it, move it and queue an action for when it arrives. There are three main player-facing action types:
Cooldowns are shown in the interface. A spy that is unavailable or in transit cannot execute an action.
Logistics turns territorial control into a lasting economy. The Economy panel tracks your HQs and outposts, active links and income, including allied destinations when you're part of an alliance.
Global Map combat goes through tournaments opened on attackable tiles. To join one, you need a commander standing on the tile and a linked Wargaming account, because the score is computed from WoT stats captured at registration and read through the coefficient grid configured for the map. Depending on the current map settings, the tournament can also require a minimum number of battles and cap the maximum number of battles effectively counted. The tournament panel summarizes these limits when they apply.
A single top attacker with the required minimum score turns the pirate camp into a captured outpost.
If the top score is tied, the pirate camp stays pirate.
If a single winner remains below the minimum score, the pirate camp stays pirate.
Pirate tournaments never destroy commanders: every participant survives whatever the outcome.
If one or more defenders share first place, the outpost stays with its current owner and every non-first commander is destroyed.
If attackers alone are tied for first place, nobody captures it, the tile becomes pirate again, and those tied attackers survive.
A single attacker in first place above the minimum score captures the outpost; if that first place stays below the minimum score, the outpost stays with its owner.
In every outpost case, only commanders outside the first-place group are destroyed.
If one or more defenders share first place, the HQ stays with its owner and every non-first commander is destroyed.
If attackers alone are tied for first place, the HQ still stays with its owner and those tied attackers survive.
A single attacker in first place above the minimum score captures the HQ; if that first place stays below the minimum score, the HQ stays with its owner.
In every HQ case, only commanders outside the first-place group are destroyed.
If the previous owner no longer controls any HQ after that capture, they are eliminated from the map.
A commander must be available and already standing on the tile. A commander that is moving, engaged, destroyed or absent from the tile cannot join the tournament.
Enemy outpost attacks close every day after a cutoff time defined by the map. Once that cutoff is reached, you can no longer open or join the related attack.
New players get a free 7-day HQ shield right after landing. While it is active, your HQ cannot be attacked, which gives you time to settle in before facing raids. Beware: the shield prevents a new tournament from opening, but never stops one that is already under way. If you activate it once the attack has started, the tournament runs to its end and you can lose the HQ: defend it — you can, and it is your only option. Your other HQs are shielded right away; the besieged one only once that tournament closes.
Build a tunnel on the mountain tile. Just like a bridge over water, a tunnel makes the tile fast to cross instead of being heavily slowed down. It costs credits and is removed if the tile changes owner.
Keep a spy stationed on your own HQ and use the counter-intelligence action. It lowers the success chance of enemy intel attacks, and the protection grows the longer the spy stays still. It disappears as soon as the spy moves.