VMS Empire

VMS Empire is a war simulation between the player and the computer.

Game play
VMS Empire uses characters to represent the game world: It consists of sea (.), land (+), uncontrolled cities (*), computer-controlled cities (X), and cities that the player controls (O).

The game starts with one city per party. Cities produce pieces which can be used to expand the empire.

Map coordinates consists of two digits for the row and two digits for the column.

History
The Empire game was originally written by Walter Bright. Craig Leres added support for different terminal types and eventually it was ported to curses by Ed James. The C/Unix version written by Chuck Simmons and colourized by Eric S. Raymond.