Theaters
Theaters are 21 continent-scale areas built from whole regions. They organize the military view and measure regional crisis tension, but they are geography only: brigades are not assigned to them and there are no theater settings to manage.
A theater is a named, fixed area of the world made from whole Regions. The map is divided in three levels: provinces make up regions, and regions make up theaters, each level partitioning the one below. Every land province belongs to exactly one theater, and every country sees the same theaters.
Theaters are geography only
Theaters exist to organize what you see, not to add another layer of command:
- The The Map can select a theater, and the Theater view lists its regions.
- The Military view's Land Forces tab groups your Brigades by the theater their province lies in, so a global army is easy to survey.
- Each flashpoint belongs to the theater where most of its disputed provinces lie (otherwise the theater of the defender's capital), and the Flashpoints and Crises screen measures regional tension per theater.
Brigades are not assigned to theaters. Countries have no theater priorities, control settings or allocations to manage, and the AI plans its army for the country as a whole. You order your own brigades directly, and the AI never moves them for you.
The theaters of Atomic Dawn
The world is divided into 21 theaters. Most countries lie wholly within one; a few large ones are divided between two, such as Russia, whose European oblasts belong to Eastern Europe and whose lands from the Urals eastward form Siberia.
| Theater | Coverage |
|---|---|
| North America | United States (including Alaska), Canada, Greenland, Bermuda |
| Central America | Mexico through Panama |
| Caribbean | The Caribbean islands, including Puerto Rico and the Dutch Antilles |
| South America | South America, the Falklands and South Georgia |
| Western Europe | Iceland, the Faroes, Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands and Man, France, Benelux, Iberia, Andorra, Gibraltar |
| Central Europe | Germany (including Berlin), Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia, Hungary |
| Northern Europe | Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltic states |
| Eastern Europe | European Russia (west of the Urals, plus Kaliningrad and the North Caucasus), Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, the Transcaucasus |
| Southern Europe | Italy, San Marino, Malta, Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, the lands of Yugoslavia |
| Siberia | Russia from the Urals eastward |
| Central Asia | Kazakhstan, the Central Asian republics, Afghanistan |
| East Asia | China, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan |
| Southeast Asia | Mainland and maritime Southeast Asia, including Indonesia and the Philippines |
| South Asia | The Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, the Maldives |
| Oceania | Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and the Pacific islands |
| Middle East | Turkey, Iran, the Levant, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula |
| Northern Africa | Egypt and the Maghreb, including Western Sahara |
| West Africa | Mauritania to Nigeria and Niger, Cape Verde |
| East Africa | Sudan and South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes, Seychelles |
| Central Africa | Chad, Cameroon, the Congo basin, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé |
| Southern Africa | Angola and Zambia southward, Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius |
The coverage is described in terms of modern geography, since theaters are built from regions that stay fixed even as the countries that own them change over the decades.