Ministry of War (Chinese: 帝国文明; pinyin: Dìguó Wénmíng; literally Civilizations of Empires), known in the formerly separate European version as Terra Militaris, is a massively multiplayer online browser-based strategy game developed by Chinese developer Suzhou Snail Electronic Co., Ltd. (Snail Games).
Further civilization-specific units are found later in the game, like the Egyptian Anubis Chariot or the Persian War Elephant.
Through tutorial quests, players learn how to construct additional buildings, upgrade them, train units for their armies and research skills that will improve various aspects of their empire.
There are five resources in Ministry of War from which construction flows: Food, Lumber, Stone, Metal, and Gold.
These heroes, in classic RPG style, can be levelled up through gaining experience points from battle and have an inventory full of slots in which to equip armour, weapons and accessories.
Battles can be controlled manually by players, or they can choose to let them play out automatically; victory or defeat is decided upon through AI.
Ministry of War requires the participation as a member of a guild to achieve any lasting conquests on the world map.
Players joining a guild gain the ability to wage war on neutral territories, build new cities and campsites and campaign against the other civilizations.