Update 0.11.0: Battle Statistics, Expanded Battlefield, and Major Combat Improve

Marshals,

Update 0.11.0 is now available for Crown Marshal.

This update introduces battle damage statistics, predicted engagement targets, per-round battle completion waiting, and clearer feedback for important combat states. The standard 1v1 battlefield has also been significantly expanded, with ranged coverage and movement speeds rebalanced around the new scale.

The Griffin receives a new Windward Wings modification, the Store gains the Foxfire Shrine battlefield skin, and several improvements have been made to large-battle performance, unit routing, low-frame-rate animation, live spectating synchronization, and deployment flow.

New Features

Battle Damage Statistics

Added battle damage statistics.

Panels beside the battlefield now show each side's statistics by unit type:

• Live DPS
• Total damage dealt
• Damage taken

Units are sorted by damage dealt, with a combined total row for each side.

The statistics are available in:

• Live matches
• Replays
• Live spectating

During deployment and round-result phases, the panels retain the frozen totals and round number from the previous battle.

If no battle has been recorded yet during the first round, or the current window does not have enough space, the button is disabled and explains why.

The panels can remain open or collapsed throughout the match without blocking board clicks, dragging, or zooming.

Griffin Modification: Windward Wings

Added Windward Wings for the Griffin.

• Permanent Store unlock: 1,000 Valor
• In-battle installation cost: 100 Energy
• The Griffin must be owned before purchasing it.
• Existing accounts do not receive the modification automatically.

The Griffin retains its flight and anti-air capabilities after installation.

Damage from ordinary attack projectiles is reduced by 30% for both:

• Direct hits
• Splash damage

The following are unaffected:

• Melee attacks
• Retaliation
• Battlefield skills
• Lingering zones created after projectile impact

The route includes dedicated blue-steel wing armor, clasps, runes, and projectile-deflection effects.

New Battlefield Skin: Foxfire Shrine

Added the Foxfire Shrine battlefield skin to the Store for 1,000 Crowns.

Equipping it transforms your half of the battlefield into a violet-blue shrine at night, featuring:

• A large nine-tailed fox emblem beneath a moon halo
• Raked sand
• Torii gates
• Stone lanterns
• Komainu
• An ancient blade planted in the earth
• Drifting foxfire

Grid lines, deployment areas, range rings, units, and Health bars remain clearly visible above the decoration.

Predicted Engagement Targets

Selecting a deployed group or an unplaced purchase preview during deployment now draws a dashed arrow toward the enemy that group is expected to engage first when battle begins.

The arrow uses the appropriate side color.

The predicted target is determined using:

• Current positions
• Body-edge distance
• Minimum range
• Anti-air capability
• Installed modifications

The arrow updates immediately whenever placement changes.

Unified Desktop Cursor Theme

The desktop cursor theme has been unified.

All 17 cursor states, including:

• Default
• Pointing
• Dragging
• Disabled
• Busy
• Help
• Resizing

now use the same black-and-white outlined visual set.

Higher-scale windows automatically switch to higher-resolution cursor artwork with matching hotspots, keeping the cursor sharp, correctly sized, and clear of button text.

Per-Round Battle Completion Wait

Added a per-round battle completion wait.

After normal battle playback finishes, the round can wait up to 30 additional seconds if a participating player has not yet completed playback.

Players who are already finished will see a Waiting for Opponent countdown at the top of the screen.

• The wait ends immediately once every participating player finishes.
• When the timer expires, everyone proceeds to the round result together.
• Bots do not count toward the wait.
• Spectators do not count toward the wait.
• Unused waiting time does not carry over.
• The following deployment phase is not shortened again because of this wait.

Clearer Combat-State Feedback

Added clearer visual feedback for several important combat states.

Crusade Vanguard now flashes with an upward effect whenever its Attack grows each second.

Four filling red-gold marks show progress through:

• +0-50%
• +50-100%
• +100-150%
• +150-200%

A stronger pulse is shown whenever a 50% milestone is reached.

Flank-deployed groups now begin battle with five inward arrows that count down their 5-second action lock one second at a time.

When the lock ends, a group-wide inward sweep effect plays as the units become active.

Unified Battlefield HUD Collapse

The lower-right HUD toggle now collapses both:

• The deployment panel
• The battlefield skill bar

freeing more space for the battlefield.

Collapsing the HUD only cancels an unsubmitted local skill target.

The following remain intact:

• Requests already sent
• Confirmed scheduled skills
• Existing target markers

The collapsed state persists between rounds.

Balance Changes

Expanded Battlefield

The standard 1v1 battlefield has been expanded from:

38x28 cells (76x56 m)

to:

44x36 cells (88x72 m)

Each central deployment area grows from:

32x14 cells

to:

36x18 cells

Each flank deployment area grows from:

3x14 cells

to:

4x18 cells

Both strongholds have also been repositioned.

There is now an eight-cell main-area buffer between each stronghold and the enemy flank deployment area.

Ranged Unit Coverage

Ranged coverage has been rescaled for the larger battlefield.

• Goblin Warband: 3 → 4.5 m
• Archers: 7 → 10 m
• Elven Sharpshooter: 10 → 14.5 m
• Priest: 7 → 10 m
• Arrow Tower: 9 → 13 m
• Mage Apprentice: 7 → 10 m
• Necromancer: 8 → 11.5 m
• Crypt Spider: 5.5 → 8 m
• Dwarven Musketeers: 8 → 11.5 m
• Windhawk Crossbow Riders: 6.5 → 9.5 m
• Ember Whelp: 4.5 → 6.5 m
• Mortar Crew range band: 4-13 → 5-18.5 m

Ranged Modifications and Area Effects

• Long Barrels for Dwarven Musketeers: 11 → 14.5 m
• Ground Deployment for Windhawk Crossbow Riders: 9 → 12 m
• Ashwing Metamorphosis for Ember Whelps: 5.5 → 7.5 m
• Close Support for Mortar Crews: 0-12 → 0-17.5 m
• Anti-Air Barrage for Steam Locomotives: 4 → 5.5 m
• Inspiring Morale stronghold aura: 12 → 15 m

Increased Movement Speed for Every Mobile Unit

Base movement speed has been increased for every mobile unit.

• Pikemen: 2.8 → 3.0 m/s
• Militia: 2.8 → 3.0 m/s
• Crusaders: 2.8 → 3.0 m/s
• Goblin Warband: 3.2 → 3.5 m/s
• Ember Whelp: 3.2 → 3.5 m/s
• Archers: 2.4 → 2.6 m/s
• Priests: 2.4 → 2.6 m/s
• Elven Sharpshooter: 2.5 → 2.7 m/s
• Shieldmen: 2.0 → 2.2 m/s
• Necromancers: 2.0 → 2.2 m/s
• Dwarven Musketeers: 2.0 → 2.2 m/s
• Light Knights: 4.8 → 5.2 m/s
• Heavy Knights: 3.6 → 3.9 m/s
• Mage Apprentice: 2.2 → 2.4 m/s
• Crypt Spiders: 2.6 → 2.8 m/s
• Griffins: 4.4 → 4.8 m/s
• Wasp Swarms: 4.8 → 5.2 m/s
• Windhawk Crossbow Riders: 3.8 → 4.1 m/s
• Mortar Crews: 1.2 → 1.3 m/s
• Mountain Giants: 2.1 → 2.3 m/s
• Steam Locomotives: 1.6 → 1.7 m/s

Modification Movement Speeds

Related modification movement speeds have also been increased.

• Tower Shield: 1.5 → 1.7 m/s
• Light Assault: 3.0 → 3.2 m/s
• Shock Lance: 5.2 → 5.6 m/s
• Ashwing Metamorphosis: 3.6 → 3.9 m/s
• Fully stacked Battle Fervor Pikeman: 4.6 → 4.8 m/s

Pikeman and Archer Rebalance

Intermediate Pikeman changes made during development of this update have been folded into the following final values.

Pikemen:

• Deployment cost: 150 → 100 Energy
• Health per member: 120 → 80
• Attack: 12 → 10

Indomitable Will:

• In-battle cost: 100 → 150 Energy
• Post-lethal fighting time: 2 → 2.5 seconds

Archers:

• Attack interval: 1.1 → 1.0 seconds

Priest Modification Rebalance

Smite:

• In-battle cost: 50 → 100 Energy
• Base Attack: 50 → 55

Radiant Afterglow:

It still triggers once immediately after a successful heal and once again after 1 second.

However, each pulse now restores:

5 Health instead of 10

Windhawk Crossbow Riders and Strength in Numbers

Windhawk Crossbow Riders:

• Base attack interval: 2.8 → 2.7 seconds
• Rapid-Fire Ballista attack interval: 1.8 → 1.7 seconds

Strength in Numbers now counts at most 10 nearby allies with the same modification.

Each stack still grants:

• +4% Attack
• 3% less damage taken

Each ally continues to apply its own multiplicative stack.

Fixes and Improvements

Large-Battle Performance

Improved responsiveness in large battles and dense Militia formations.

Reduced stalls when the following systems are heavily active at the same time:

• Targeting
• Collision
• Projectiles
• Group spacing
• Heavy visual effects
• Bot decisions

Live battles, reconnect catch-up, and mid-battle spectating continue to play every battle event and sound in full.

Unit movement during a busy frame also no longer snaps backward before catching up to its new position.

Unit Routing Around Blockers

Fixed units repeatedly switching between left and right routes while trying to pass strongholds, buildings, or enemy frontliners.

When facing a hard blocker, units now commit to a stable side that preserves clearance and continues closing on their target.

This reduces:

• Ranged units oscillating behind strongholds
• Lane clogging
• Units remaining out of range for extended periods

Low-Frame-Rate Attack Animations

Fixed entire attack animations being skipped at low frame rates.

The following key poses of every attack are now each shown at least once:

• Wind-up
• Release

Fast attacks no longer jump directly from idle to projectile or impact effects.

Live-Spectator Synchronization and Endings

Improved synchronization and match endings for live spectators.

When joining a battle in progress, Synchronizing Current Battle remains fixed at the top of the screen and continuously corrects its synchronization target until playback truly reaches the current battle state.

Long frames and scene loading no longer leave spectator playback permanently behind.

After a match ends:

• The final battlefield remains visible.
• The return button remains available.

If the spectator connection is lost, Connection Lost is now shown directly on the existing battlefield instead of silently returning to the lobby.

Reinforcement Offer Deployment Lock

Fixed other deployment actions remaining available before resolving a reinforcement offer.

Players must now either:

• Choose one card
• Decline the entire offer

before they can:

• Buy
• Move
• Rotate
• Sell
• Upgrade
• Use skills
• Ready

The card panel can still be dismissed temporarily to inspect the battlefield.

While the offer remains unresolved, and after the player has readied and locked deployment, only read-only inspection is available for:

• Allied groups
• Enemy ghosts
• Both strongholds

If deployment time expires before a choice is made, the unresolved offer is automatically declined.

Flank Deployment Facing

Fixed flank-deployed groups facing outward from the battlefield from some viewpoints.

Both:

• Placement previews
• Already deployed units

now face inward.

Their logical positions and battle rules are unchanged.

Zero-Duration Battle Sync Warning

Fixed battles that already met an ending condition at the exact moment they began sometimes showing a false Out of Sync warning.

These zero-duration battles now use the complete final result and proceed directly to settlement without the false synchronization warning.

Thank you for your continued support and feedback.

See you on the battlefield, Marshals!