THE BROKEN SEAL 0.6.1 - DESKTOP EDITION (LINUX AND WINDOWS)
Created by Heisenberg

A Free Pascal strategy game about officers, provinces and alliances.
The emperor has vanished. Lead one of six rival households or outlaw bands,
govern provinces, recruit followers, supply armies and unite a fractured realm.
Win alone or with a coalition. There is no campaign time limit.

INSTALL
  Linux:   sudo apt install ./brokenseal_0.6.1_amd64.deb
           Then select The Broken Seal from the Games application menu, or run:
             brokenseal
  Windows: run BrokenSeal-0.6.1-x64.msi (per user, no administrator rights
           needed). See README-WINDOWS.txt.

The game is for one player; the computer leads the other houses. This is a
native desktop application (Linux and Windows), with no BBS, network server
or scheduled maintenance requirement.

START
  1 New campaign > scenario > pick a house > roll the ruler's
  abilities > level (1 Easy to 5 Hardest) > Y to begin. Every campaign
  draws a new 32-province map.
  Click a province, or move with the arrow keys; Enter or double-click
  governs it. Press 1-9 for the orders shown on screen: Govern, Officers,
  Military, Supply, Diplomacy, Reports, Review, End month and Campaign.
  V steps through the map views: houses, diplomacy, supply, intelligence.
  Only End month advances time.

P/O/M/D/R/T open council windows; F1 opens the guide; F5 quicksaves; Ctrl+S
saves a named campaign. F11 toggles fullscreen. Letter keys can be rebound
in Settings.

The game includes a 16-colour retro screen of its own design, a new map
for each campaign, six houses (yours and five led by the computer), five levels of computer
play, three scenarios, officers with drawn portraits, three troop types,
supply, siege combat, recruitment, prisoners, treaties, gifts, private
messages, coalitions and shared victory. Your battles can be fought on a hex
field, unit by unit, or left to your commanders; the rest resolve
automatically into reports. Background music plays (Settings turns it off).
There is no network multiplayer.
docs/RELEASE.txt lists what is new and what is still to come.

Full manual: /usr/share/doc/brokenseal/PLAYER.txt
Source: /usr/share/doc/brokenseal/brokenseal-0.6.1-source.tar.gz
Local project: make, make test, make deb; tools/build-win64.sh for Windows.
See docs/BUILD.txt.

Saves: ~/.local/share/brokenseal/ (respects XDG_DATA_HOME); on Windows
%APPDATA%\BrokenSeal.
The desktop and existing door edition have separate save formats and binaries.
Never point this application at a live BBS game's directory.

GNU GPL version 2 or later. Copyright (C) 2026 Michael Slater.
Provided WITHOUT WARRANTY. See COPYING and NOTICE.txt.
