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Chapters Board Layout

Fortress Hub Basics

Board Layout

The live game uses the Route Atlas as its playing surface. The Atlas is the shared view of the airports and routes; the surrounding panels provide actions, phase status, financials, and history.

Route Atlas

The map centers the six airports. Each airport shows its current size, open gates, owners, and route connections. Select an airport or route to inspect the same state that is used for route profits and maintenance.

Action panel

The action panel shows the actions available to you in the current phase. When another player must act, it identifies that player. During an auction or trade, the panel switches to the response required from the bidder or trade partner.

Phase and turn status

The phase track lists the seven phases in round order and highlights the current phase. Open Turn order to see whether this phase uses forward order, reverse order, or independent responses, along with the players still pending. In a simultaneous phase, several players can be pending at once.

Financials

Financials list every player's cash, dividends, routes, gates, operating profit, maintenance cost, and net profit. Select a route to inspect its factor calculation. Route operating profit comes from the route factors; net profit is total route operating profit minus maintenance for all owned gates. An unused gate appears in your gate list and still contributes to maintenance.

Player summary and history

The player summary shows each airline's color, cash, dividend count, net profit, route count, and gate count. Action History records recent actions in reverse chronological order, including auctions, trades, phase settlements, regulatory effects, and bankruptcies.

The Atlas is a live shared view. Refreshing or reopening a game does not create a new state; it reconnects you to the existing game.