I can't work out what the best ratio of soldiers/workers in. It seems that for the first 30 seconds or so you need almost all soldiers to expand fast, but after that?

There's a lot of luck involved too, sometimes you'll just get dogpiled by two neighbours and there's not much you can do, but at least it's fast.

Your population growth depends on your population size, so you have to not over expand at the beginning.

Get allies at the beginning so that you may aggressively conquer bots without worrying about being conquered. Those ally may cross you, but they'll have a penalty so they are disincentive to do so.

Thank you; I thought I was the only one that did not get that

Yep. I had to lookup a tutorial on YouTube to figure out what I was doing wrong...

Another good player to watch is Corgi Circus who came to the game through being popular in the Territorial.io world, a similar but far simpler game: https://www.youtube.com/@CorgiCircus – https://territorial.io/ is worth playing as an alternative if you only have 5 minutes to spare though but the strategy is quite simple.

What's the fun in that? Almost half the fun of finding a new game is discovering how it works by trial and error. Watching hours of someone else playing a game I just picked up seems self-defeating. Are there really people who want to start new games and being good at them from the get go?

> Recently there has been some new activity on the warfront repo

Yeah, seems there is a for-profit company running the show now, so expect some squeezing in the mid-to-long term.

Also, latest gameplay change seems to be trains, anyone had time to play around with it yet? I've played quite hours of Openfront and not sure how I feel about the train addition yet.

On mobile I go for Coop and try hard to just support other players, by giving troops to the right player. Having good backend players is vital in Coop.

Sadly communication and cooperation is very hard.

Risk Games are kind of niche but have a hardcore base. Check out Risk Legacy SC2 custom map, and Line Wars on Steam.

There is a singleplayer mode too, which is how I learned to play before jumping into multiplayer.

It's where you click and then the node that has a thick yellow outline around it. But I agree, the whole startup/placement sequence should be made a lot more explicit and user friendly.