Player guides

Guides for people who play games through coilbox. To install it, see Install on the home page.

Play

Singleplayer battles. Set up a battle against AI opponents, start it, and carry on from a saved game.
Sign in and chat. Create an account on a lobby server, log in to one or more servers, and chat in channels and direct messages.
Multiplayer battles. Find and join a battle, host one on a lobby server or straight from your computer, and play with other people.
Campaigns and scenarios. Play a campaign one mission at a time, play a scenario on its own, and import ones somebody shared.
Replays. Find a replay, watch it, read its players, chart, build orders, map and chat, and analyse it.
Career and player stats. See your progress in each game, your record and achievements, and your record against another player.
Battle presets. Save a battle setup, from singleplayer, a multiplayer room, a conquest or a Warpath fight, and play it again.
Galactic conquest. Take a map one battle at a time, on a galaxy of stars, a theatre chart, cities or provinces.
Warpath. Cross a map once, unlocking units and perks as you go, until you beat the boss or run out of health.
Replay rewind. Watch a replay in the engine and seek, play backward and change speed, and what recording costs in time and disk.

Maps, games and units. Look through the maps and games you have installed, see how a map is played, read and compare a game's units, and find a game or map that is not listed.
Base blueprints. Draw a layout of buildings, place it in a match with the in-game widget, save a base you built, and share blueprints on the hub.

Get games, maps and engines. Download maps, map packs, games and engines, install a file you already have, choose the folders coilbox reads and saves to, and free up space.
Settings and keybinds. Change the game's graphics, sound and controls, edit keybinds, keep copies of your settings, find the engine log after a crash, and set up notifications and updates.
Portable mode. Run coilbox from one folder, next to skylobby or another lobby, without touching your other settings.

The Coilbox hub. Find and import what other players have shared, publish your own challenges, scenarios, blueprints and setup packs, and see what coilbox sends to the hub.
Community hub. Browse presets, challenges, scenarios and blueprints other players have shared, and import them.