How To Play Junqi Online

• Single player: play a full Four Nations Military Chess match with bot players filling the other seats.
• Multiplayer: create or join an online room and play with other human players.
• Human vs bot rooms: use bots to fill seats when you do not have four human players ready.
• Tutorial mode: learn interactively through guided scenarios before jumping into a full match.

Single player is the fastest way to practice Junqi. You control your own side while bots handle the other players. It is useful for learning setup patterns, testing attacks, practicing railway movement, and getting comfortable with hidden-information combat before playing online.

Multiplayer rooms let people play Junqi together online. Players join seats, prepare their armies, ready up, and then play clockwise through the battle. Because Junqi is a team game, the strongest multiplayer matches combine careful private reasoning with limited teammate communication through board tools.

Mixed rooms help start games when there are not enough human players. Human players can occupy some seats while bots fill the rest, making it possible to practice team situations, try openings, or introduce a new player without waiting for a full table.

Junqi is built around hidden information, so reveal mode changes how much information is visible while learning, testing, or reviewing a match.

• Normal hidden play: enemy ranks stay hidden, and players must infer pieces from movement, combat, and board position.
• Player view: you can see your own ranks while enemy information remains concealed.
• Debug or reveal view: useful for learning, testing, or reviewing, because more piece information can be shown.
• Replay review: after a game, replay tools can help you study the final board and understand key decisions.

Junqi teammates often need to coordinate without exposing too much. The ping and trail tools provide lightweight board communication.

• Pings: point to an important space, threat, target, suspected flag area, or move idea.
• Trails: draw attention to a path, railway route, attack lane, retreat line, or movement plan.
• Use pings and trails to suggest ideas quickly while keeping the game moving.

Marking helps you track suspicions about hidden enemy pieces. As the game develops, you can mark a piece based on combat results, movement behavior, defensive posture, or likely setup patterns.

• Mark possible bombs, mines, flags, or high-rank pieces.
• Update marks when new evidence changes your read.
• Use marks as memory aids; they are guesses, not confirmed truth.

Tutorial mode teaches Junqi interactively. Instead of reading every rule first, you can follow guided scenarios that introduce setup, movement, combat, railways, camps, headquarters, flags, and tactical patterns one step at a time.