Fortress siege
- Coastal Siege Cannon: manually aimed volleys can now target the enemy fortress. Bloodwater Bay's Fire Everything! salvo already reached the walls — now your own aim does too, and volleys still stack, so a full turn of gold can go straight into them.
- Coastal Clipper: Bow Cannon can now hit the enemy fortress.
- Merchant Coast starter: City Barricades steps out, Coastal Siege Canon steps in — a gold sink that actually ends sieges.
Bards: the song rotation, on demand
- The Now Playing pill expands into a full song-rotation panel: every unit's instrument, ring-ordered from the current song, with Ready / Used / Revealed status per row.
- Opponent rows sit above yours, and each side shows whether it can still cycle its song this turn.
- Press N to open it. Arrow keys and D-pad navigate; every row shows its full card on hover or focus. Collapsed, the current song stays as chips on the phase bar.
Operate, explained
- The Operate keyword explained nothing ("contributes to vessel Operate scaling" — thanks, codex). It now says what it does: Operate units crew La Gloria de Oro — she gets +1 ATK for each one, and her cannons cost 1 less Gold to fire for each one. Behavior unchanged, words fixed.
Tooltips where you needed them
- Secret badges show real tooltips — the full card for your own and revealed secrets, and a sigil-backed mystery card for enemy face-downs.
- Scry, discard, and library-search sort tiles show the full card on hover.
Fixes
- Songspire Keep now deploys its Songspire Tower free at the start of every gauntlet fight, as the card promises. It was only firing in regular matches — run players have been drawing the Tower as a normal card since it joined the Bards starter on Day 5. That is now fixed.
- Winning with Technotic Flare's lethal hit no longer strands you behind an unanswerable choice popup after the game ends. (This one earned an Alt+F4 in the wild. Sorry.)
- Right-clicking during a card drag cancels it cleanly instead of freezing a ghost card over a dead board.
F12 Steam screenshots (desktop)
- F12 now takes a real Steam screenshot from the desktop build — it lands in your Steam screenshot library like any other game.
- A camera flash confirms the capture.
- The plumbing behind this (and the Steam overlay) is our own Tauri plugin, published open source under MIT: tauri-plugin-steam-overlay-surface on crates.io. If you are shipping a Tauri game on Steam, it is yours to use.
Seven days, five patches, still building from your reports. If a card, a
keyword, or a tooltip confuses you, that is a bug — tell us and it gets the
Operate treatment. Back to the Tavern!
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