Command Your Warriors - Combat & Tactical Orders Update 0.51.0

Hello, chieftains!

Update 0.51.0 puts your village's defence in your hands. Select your warriors, give direct orders, organise patrols and position archers in watchtowers. Pause the action to plan your response, then watch your orders unfold.

Warriors are now full-time soldiers

Archers, axe fighters and shieldmaidens leave civilian jobs to serve as a dedicated fighting force. Healthy, trained and equipped warriors stay on duty around the clock, without interrupting their watch for household food or fuel hauling, meals or sleep.

Training, equipment, ammunition and wounds still matter. Prepare your troops before relying on them, keep your archers supplied and give injured warriors time to recover.

Without a direct order, warriors gather and hold at their barracks' rally point, or at their own barracks if no rally point is set. Your direct orders take priority.

Command the defence

Send warriors to hold a position or attack a selected landed raider. Assign archers to completed watchtowers. Each tower has two archer places; an active garrison order reserves a place. Archers physically climb into position and descend when leaving.

Choose Loose formation, Battle line or Column to arrange your warriors' destination positions. Set patrol routes with 2–16 reachable land waypoints, and choose Hold position, Pursue or Retreat if hurt to guide their response. Retreating wounded warriors travel for care and return to duty after recovering.

Use P for tactical pause: move the camera, assess the threat and issue orders while the action waits. Control groups make it easier to return to the troops you need, and queued orders let you prepare several steps ahead.

Quick controls

• Left-click a warrior / left-drag: select one warrior or a group.
• Shift-click / Shift-drag: toggle a warrior in your selection or add a group. Selection stays active until another world left-click changes it.
• Right-click ground: move and hold. Right-click a landed raider to attack, or a completed watchtower to garrison selected archers.
• Shift + right-click: queue up to 16 additional move, attack or garrison orders.
• Ctrl + 1–9: save a control group. 1–9: recall it. Shift + 1–9: add it to your selection. Both the number row and numpad work.
• P: toggle tactical pause. Formation, patrol and stance options are available in the military command interface.

Your village carries on

Existing saves remain supported. Military orders, queues, control groups, patrols, stances and tower assignments are saved with your village.

After loading, check your worker allocations: warriors now serve full time and no longer fill civilian jobs. Worker counts, job eligibility and available-job reporting are more accurate, with safer handling of cargo and equipment from older saves.

This update also improves CPU efficiency, fits inspectors more comfortably into small viewports and adds English, German and Russian text for the new controls.

Thank you for your feedback. Hold the shore, chieftains!

DevSanja