Vae Victis

About this game

Overview

Welcome to Vae Victis, the minimalistic turn-based strategy game where you choose your faction, build your army, and crush your enemies to expand your empire. With intuitive turn-based combat, this game is easy to pick up but hard to master. Quickly form defensive lines and rapidly attack to claim victory!

Campaign

Start as a small kingdom and work to build a successful empire. Expand your borders while keeping a close eye on your enemies, who are always looking for an opportunity to strike. But war is not your only challenge; managing your economy and people is key to your success.

Multiplayer

Go head-to-head with your friends in custom battles and surprise them with your cunning Celtic archers, strong Roman swordsmen, or Hunnic cavalry maneuvers.

Custom Battles

Not in the mood for a full campaign? Start a custom battle, set your army and enemies, and deploy your strategy for a quick, intense battle.

Key Features

• Intuitive Turn-Based Combat
  Most turn-based combat systems are slow and clunky, however in Vae Victis the combat is fast and dynamic. Quickly form defensive lines and rapidly attack!
  
  
• Factions
  Choose from a variety of factions with their own special abilities and units to provide a twist to your strategy!
  
  
• Units
  All units are created to fit their faction, with buffs and nerfs based on the factions' abilities. Making each battle unique.
  
  
• Dynamic Combat
  Battle outcomes take into account a myriad of factors from unit position, to unit health to special abilities making each situation unique.
  
  woe to the conquered

Latest news

• Patch Notes·11 Aug 2023Official

  Tutorial Update & Hotfixes

  Hi everyone! You may have noticed a few updates were sent out this week. Here is the change log for everything that was fixed/added. - Added Tutorial/Guide at the start of the campaign - Fixed re-calling units by selecting through the UI - Fixed next-turn campaign button disappearing after losing first city and reloading campaign - Fixed UI blocking issue for low resolution displays - Performance Improvements when a large amount of rag dolls are on screen If any bugs/complaints come up please make a report and I will address it ASAP. With that being said, thank you all for a successful launch week!
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• Announcements·3 Aug 2023Official

  Vae Victis is now out!

  Excited to announce that Vae Victis is now out on steam! (1 day early) If you find bugs, balancing problems, or need help please make a post in community discussions. I will be working around the clock to help! Thanks to everyone who has supported the game! I hope you all enjoy!
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• Announcements·30 Jul 2023Official

  Roadmap & Release Plans

  Hi everyone! With the excitement of the upcoming release I think it is an appropriate time to discuss the Release plan and road map for Vae Victis. Also if anyone is interested I made an official guide that outlines Unit statistics, factions, battle calculations and more: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3012033422 Release Plan Release is slated for this week on August 4th! Although I don't expect many I'm sure someone will find at least one bug so the plan is to work on hot fixes around the clock for the first few days. They will be prioritized as such: -Game breaking bugs -Multiplayer Exploits -Highly prevalent bugs -Single player Exploits Multiplayer although thoroughly tested there are many edge cases that could have been missed, you should expect to be able to play through multiplayer games without a hitch but there might be some game breaking bugs or exploits (if you try hard enough). I will be working very hard to get these patched ASAP upon release. Reporting bugs here will ensure I see them and I am able to fix them, expect bug fixes to be sent out within 24 hours during the first 2 weeks of launch (Dependent on severity): https://steamcommunity.com/app/2420820/discussions/0/ Road Map Although the game is completed I plan to add a few updates: Game Balancing will be the first planned update, this will be the first update which will happen once the community comes to a consensus on what seems over/under powered within the game. General Abilities, currently there are only 3 abilities within the campaign I plan to expand this to 5 dependent on what is most heavily requested (you can make requests here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2420820/discussions/1/) Units, I plan to add in 2 more units to the game, again this is dependent on what the community requests most. Factions, currently there are no plans to add more factions however if requested I will plan to add more to the game. Any additional functionality will be added if heavily requ...
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• Announcements·25 Jul 2023Official

  August 4th Release!

  Hi everyone! Release is coming up on August 4th so mark your calendars! I'm excited to share that all feature implementations are complete including the Campaign, Multiplayer, and Custom Battles. Multiplayer however may have edge cases upon release resulting in bugs or failures. However you should still expect to be able to play multiplayer games from start to finish. I will be rapidly working on hot-fixes during release. So please don't hesitate to report bugs if they are found. Regardless the current build of the game is stable, feature complete and ready for release!
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• Announcements·17 Jun 2023Official

  Private Playtest and Development Updates

  Hi everyone! We will be doing a private playtest leading up to release. If you would like to join (you and a friend will get a free copy of the game and of course pre-release access!) please join our new discord server: Click here to join! Our numbers for this play test are obviously restricted, however the number of participants will vary so if you are interested in a free copy and getting a voice in how the game is developed please join the server. As for development progress the following has been completed: - Campaign mode and UI has been finalized - Battle upgrades have been added (special boosts for your units can be applied) - LOTS and LOTS of bug fixes in anticipation of release.
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