PHASES IN EACH TURN
Combat Move (also includes Diplomacy, which is done with special combat units in a "arena" with various tracks on the right side of the board)
Conduct Combat (It will still be done with 6-sided dice, it just feels right to me even if it makes for less unit variety)
Non-Combat (semi-redundant within TripleA system, mostly for landing planes)
Purchase/Repair and 5. Mobilize New Units (The Arheic Wars setting combines the WW2 period with modern electronics, so digital economic coordination is easier. Also makes it so you don't have to guess what you'll need at the end of a round you're going to play through)
Collect Income
(will moving Purchase to be right before Mobilization make AI play faster, or will it break AI? Want to know in advance.)
TURN ORDER
Starian Treaty-Aligned Republics (Coalition)
Begins at war, has to press its advantage as hard as possible before Alliance hits back.
Circulean Impe-Royal Confederation (Alliance)
First turns will be spent on desperate damage control, use the Triangulic navy till you lose it
Diamond Direct Democracy (Neutral)
Will wait many turns to enter the game- acts as a counterbalance to offset Square's "sleeping giant" value
Square Sectocracy (Neutral)
Will spend the entire game as the epicentre of the main diplomatic tug-of-war, potentially not entering the war at all.
Trapezoid Tradeguilds (True Neutral)
Blocks off the middle of the map to make the playable space more of a "donut", makes shortcut attempts costly
Triangulic Thalassocracy (Neutral, Alliance-leaning)
Starts neutral but with its giant navy transferred to Circulean control. Will probably join Alliance within first few turns
Rhombic Republic (semi-Alliance)
Starts at war with Staria, won't go to war with Hexagona. Has to unify their subcontinent before they can really fight
Hexagonan Hegemony (Neutral, Coalition-leaning)
Has powerful special units and economy, also will probably be brought on the Coalition in first few turns.
More detailed info on each nation's playstyle is to come... eventually... any day now lol