Demo 0.3.5 The new terrain · Terrain generation for battlefields has been overhauled. Which now includes a bunch of new terrain features: · Bogs: Slow down units moving through them and prevent charges. · Forest: Slightly slows units, reduces incoming ranged damage, and has a chance to disrupt charges. · Rocks: Impassable, also blocks ranged attacks. · Fords: Most common river crossing, similar…
New · The economy is rebuilt. Every settlement grows food, works its industries, eats, builds and trades in one simulation. Prices track real scarcity and shortages pull caravans. · Every town has a speciality: farming, fishing, forestry, mining, smithing, stonecutting, horses, weaving, brewing, or a guild seat that works every craft. It shows on the map label, the town screen and the tooltip,…
New · Your soldiers have faces. Every named soldier now carries a small pixel portrait, shown next to his name in the warband's unit list, on the camp-life event cards he stars in, beside the deadliest-warrior line on the saga pages, and in the pick-a-man lists for couriers and vassals. A veteran raised to vassal keeps his face as a lord, on the hall of the fief he holds. A face is rolled once…
Balance · Lord loyalty is an economy now. Summoning a lord spends a little goodwill and each stretch under your banner wears him down; shared victories pay for the campaign, and sworn vassals rest back toward readiness at home. Sacking or burning a lord's own fief angers him personally, past what his court records. Summon-and-dismiss cycling no longer farms loyalty up; it just burns it · Horse…
Diplomacy · A faction that wants your land writes before it marches. It sends a demand naming a daily tribute, and a war only follows if you refuse or ignore it. Taking your first town no longer means a kingdom declaring on you out of nowhere a few days later · What a faction demands is now worth having. Its price is set by what marching on you would actually win them, so refusing is a real dec…
Diplomacy · Once you have founded a faction, you can write to others. A letter is composed from clauses with numbers you set: send or demand silver, peace, a truce, daily tribute in either direction, hand over or ask for a settlement, ask them to declare war on a rival, or offer to join a war of theirs. Your envoy reads the terms before you seal it and tells you roughly how the court will take…
Interface · Text throughout the game now sits on a drop shadow, including button and tab labels. It is sized to the font's own pixel grid, so it stays in proportion at every text size. Readouts over the world map in particular now read clearly against whatever they are sitting on · New ship art, drawn in perspective. Ships now hold that perspective instead of spinning to face their heading: the…
Battle · Dead units now fall like bodies instead of playing one canned collapse. Knees buckle, the body topples and thumps down, and momentum carries a charging victim into a skid. Every corpse settles into its own pose · The fallen keep their kit. Corpses now drop the correct shield shape and weapon for their unit, sized to the body that carried them, with helmets, plumes, tabards and pauldron…
World · Besiege a settlement and its lord now rides to relieve it. If his force can match yours he attacks on arrival; if not, he holds off and sallies out with the garrison once they can win together. When they reach you, stand and fight or abandon the siege. Beat the relief force and the town falls · Rob too many caravans, or sack towns, and a war party is sent to hunt you down. Haul a fat st…
Battles · It's now possible to only deploy a subsection of your army · Fixed idle units noticing nearby enemies after a random delay; a standing line now reacts together instead of waking up one by one Interface · Overhauled the UI across the whole game. Aiming for consistent dark panels, clearer text, and one visual language on every screen · Rebuilt the Custom Battle setup screen to match · M…
Voices · Added proper voice actor unit barks for all races: selection, moves, attacks, holds, shield walls, volleys and charges · Added voice lines for victory, defeat and shield walls breaking; removed the old victory horn Battles · Ordering a shield wall together with other units no longer disbands the wall · Victory no longer ends the battle instantly; look around and press Tab when done · B…
Battles · Dragged formations now order themselves: shields take the front rank, unshielded melee the middle, ranged the rear. Squares and circles do the same by ring, shields on the outside, bows in the core · Soldiers in a shield wall keep facing the wall's front while they move, and only turn when they engage · Esc now closes the battle pause menu as well as opening it · 'Take All' on the pri…
Demo 0.2.0 Cohesion · Your warband has a cohesion meter, from -100 to +100, shown as a bar in the top of the overworld screen. Zero is the resting point. Hover it for a summary, click it for the full ledger · Cohesion comes from how you run the band: good and varied food raises it, half rations and hunger sink it, late wages sink it fast, and battle results land as swings that fade over days. ·…
Roads · The overworld now has a proper road network. Roads follow the lie of the land: they stick to plains and valleys, wind around mountains and marshes, and merge into shared trunk routes with natural junctions · Roads meet towns properly instead of skirting past them, and bridges now appear where roads cross rivers · Merchant caravans follow the roads, and travel faster on them than cross-c…
Battles · Cavalry no longer jitter back and forth when attacking. They brake into melee against standing enemies, and match pace behind fleeing ones to cut them down mid-chase · Your army starts the battle ready to fight: units engage enemies that come into range instead of standing passively until ordered. Shield walls still hold fast · Formation moves no longer secretly change your units' beh…
Combat Pacing · New "Combat Lethality" setting under Gameplay: Low, Medium or High. It controls how much damage units deal · The default is Low so battles run considerably longer, giving you time to manoeuvre, commit reserves and react to threats. Formations and flanking matter more when the line holds · 'High' is the same damage dealt as in the last version, more arcade-like. Sieges · Batterin…
Battle AI AI battle mechanics still need plenty of work but I've worked through a few distinct issues. · Enemy armies are no longer blind to their sides and rear. They track threats across the whole battlefield, and unengaged squads wheel to brace against cavalry charges from the flanks · How quickly an army reacts depends on its lord. Disciplined commanders respond in a couple of seconds, reck…
Economy · Towns now start fully developed, with industries matched to their terrain and size · Bowyers exist across the map. Bows and crossbows are finally produced and sold · Fixed the supply chain that kept flax, rope, hides and other materials from ever being made World · More bandit hideouts, and cleared regions repopulate over time · Small raiding parties now roam near hideouts. There is a…
- Fixed a graphics memory leak that caused performance to gradually drop, and eventually crash the game, the more battles you fought in a single session. Long play sessions should now run smoothly throughout. If you've had slowdowns or crashes after a few battles, this was almost certainly the cause. - Fixed ability cooldown indicators sometimes failing to display correctly at the moment an abi…
- Wood-gate siege fix (breached gates are now enterable without ladders) - Version label on the main menu (v0.1 Playtest) - Coin sound on all money gains (ransoms, quests, loot, etc.) - Correct Sentry release tag ([email protected]) - 288 MB download (was ~1 GB) after excluding scratch dirs from the export
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