Conquest



Conquest is a members-only activity released on 25 August 2010 at 3:45PM GMT, and can be played from the Void Knights' Outpost. It was released as an addition to the Void Knights quest series, a series of "three quests and an activity" released by Jagex in 2010. Like Pest Control, the other activity which is playable from the Outpost, the only requirement for Conquest is 40 combat. It is a safe minigame and players themselves cannot die at all. It rewards commendation points the same as Pest Control, though there is an additional reward unique to Conquest called the Void knight deflector.

Gameplay
Conquest is a turn-based, player-vs-player, tactical war game. The player is put in command of a squad of Void Knights. Every person gets the same amount of resources to build their squad with, and can do so by talking to Knight Dorian. Players are able to choose their troops and their starting formation, and they can also pick a number of powerful special Commands. You can start this activity by speaking to Captain Ethar.

Each turn is split into four segments, or Phases. The selection, movement, attacking and rally Phase. In the selection phase, the player may choose a unit to use that turn, a display will come up showing movement range and possible attack targets. The movement phase allows movement until the unit's movement attribute has reached 0 or the player wishes to move no further. The attacking phase allows player to attack a unit with his selected unit or end his turn. A command can be used anytime during the player's turn and a player can call up the "details" on a unit anytime during a match. This will show the units attributes as well as any commands it may be under the effect of.

Throughout the turn there are the "End turn" and "End phase" options as well as the "Quit" and "Truce" options.

Post-Game
After each game, a player will gain or lose Ranking depending upon the game's outcome. Much like in other ranked minigames, the amount of rank won or lost depends upon the two player's rankings.

Rewards
After every game, you are awarded with Void Knight commendation points. If you have a Conquest ranking of 1250 or higher, you can purchase the Void Knight deflector, which replaces the Void Knight equipment except the helm, so you can use the body, legs, and gloves slot for other gear.

Each game won will award you with 40 Void Knight commendation points. <--- This is not true.

Controversy
The release of this new activity was controversial in some ways because it, like many recent PvP activities such as Soul Wars, affect the population of players in other team-based minigames such as Stealing Creation, Castle Wars and Fist of Guthix.

One hour 35 minutes after the official launch of this activity, there was a system update, on 25 August 2010 at 5:20PM GMT