Horn of the Warlord

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• Patch Notes·27 Aug 2026Official

  Update 1.7.0 — Resolution Support, Steam Cloud & Battle Improvements

  1.7.0Fixed: The black screen bug when loading a saved game should now be fixed.Added: Support for wider resolutions. The game can now be played comfortably in all modern resolutions.Added: A “Start the battle” button. This allows players to calmly analyse the situation before a battle begins. It solves an issue where players did not have enough time to react to sudden attacks on their regions, especially when the Very Fast option was enabled, which could result in unexpectedly lost armies.Added: Quick Resolve and Start Battle actions can now be configured in key mappings.Added: Steam Cloud saves are now enabled.Changed: Introduced a natural population limit for regions by slowing population growth by 0.1% for every 100 population. Regions can now generally reach only around 4,000–5,000 population. This prevents extremely populated regions with huge recruit numbers, where attacks on such regions were nearly impossible.Changed: Quick Resolve now takes players directly to the Battle Summary screen.Changed: Forest regions, including forested hills, now provide slightly more wood. This should slightly increase the general availability of wood.Changed: Slightly reduced the availability of iron deposits with a size of 3 units.Changed: Missions 3 and 4 now have a few more forest regions.Changed: Optimised code to make AI turns slightly faster, especially on large maps.Changed: Updated the AI economy so computer opponents can spend their money more effectively.Changed: Made the “End Turn” window fully clickable, not just the text.Enjoying the game and updates?If you've been playing Horn of the Warlord and haven't left a Steam review yet, I'd really appreciate it. Reviews help a small indie game like mine reach more players. Thank you for your support!
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• Patch Notes·22 Aug 2026Official

  Update 1.6.1 — Fixes and Improvements

  1.6.1Fixed: Human armies were not disbanded after transferring all their soldiers.Fixed: Option controls could sometimes become unresponsive when the Options screen was opened from the in-game menu.Fixed: Displayed trade prices could differ from the amount of gold actually received or spent. Prices now show the offer for the currently selected quantity, and the same per-unit price is used for the final transaction.Fixed: Enemy army and garrison intel was not restored correctly after loading a saved game.Fixed: Reworked the sound and music volume levels. Low volume settings are now considerably quieter.Changed: Improved battle casualty animations. Defeated soldiers now fall downward, drift away from the opposing formation, rotate in the direction of the blow, and fade out.Changed: Enabled movement cost tooltips when hovering over valid destinations if the selected army does not have enough movement points. The cost is now shown for every valid destination.Added: Map scroll speed option. The full range provides speeds from 0.5× to 3× of the previous default.
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• Patch Notes·15 Aug 2026Official

  Update 1.6.0 — Animated Battles and Visual Improvements

  1.6.0Added: Animated battles. Players can now watch units fighting through simple battle animations, improving immersion and making battles feel more dynamic.Changed: The battle window UI has been updated to support the new animated battle system.Changed: Unit art received small visual enhancements.Changed: Promotion, construction, and upgrade message windows no longer need to be closed manually. These messages now disappear automatically after a short time.
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• Patch Notes·11 Aug 2026Official

  Update 1.5.0 — New Unit Art and Campaign Balance Changes

  1.5.0Changed: Unit art has been updated to better match the game’s medieval visual style and early medieval / Viking era setting. Units now more accurately represent weapons and armour from that period, rather than using heavily plated late medieval knights.Changed: Mission 3 has been made easier on all difficulty levels to create a smoother difficulty curve. The changes mainly affect initial enemy army sizes, population sizes in enemy regions, and fixed iron/gold locations for this mission.Changed: Mission 6 has been made easier on all difficulty levels. Some region types have been slightly adjusted, the starting locations of invading Viking armies have been changed, and the chance of early clashes between the player and AI controlled Vikings has been reduced.Changed: Mission 7 is now slightly more difficult, with increased starting populations and region levels in some of Player 2’s territories.Changed: Royal Guard no longer has the Armour Piercing trait and has reduced defence value. Royal Guard remains the strongest single unit in the game, but players may now prefer hiring 2 Knights instead when they have enough population and food, as 2 Knights can reliably defeat 1 Royal Guard.
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• Patch Notes·31 Jul 2026Official

  Update 1.4.0 — Fog of War, Smarter AI & New Music

  1.4.0Fixed: Armies were getting deselected when one of the sides withdrew from battle.Fixed: Players could not continue bombarding a castle with trebuchets once its defence was reduced to the minimum value, even if some walls were still damaged or intact. Players can now continue bombardment to destroy additional walls, although defence will not be reduced below the minimum value.Fixed: Enlarging the map preview image was not working for scenario and campaign maps.Fixed: Trade pricing is now correctly saved and loaded.Fixed: AI region promotions were not granting all the bonuses received by human players.Changed: Trade prices now change more gradually, with fairer minimum and maximum rates based on each resource’s base value. Markets also recover faster over time, and strong resource production helps prices return to normal more quickly.Changed: Population tax income has been rebalanced to reduce excessive tax income in the late game. Developed regions still benefit from promotion, but their tax growth is now more controlled.Changed: Improved AI army composition to better counter late-game, heavily armoured armies.Changed: Redesigned AI region promotion strategy. The AI now manages its economy more effectively.Changed: Some unit statistics have been adjusted:- Horsemen attack: 15 → 18- Knights cost: 6 → 7- Mounted Knights cost: 8 → 10- Royal Guard cost: 12 → 14Changed: Redesigned some AI behaviours and tactics. Most of these changes affect Normal and Hard difficulty:- The AI is harder to surround and cut off, reducing situations that lead to easy army destruction.- AI armies are less passive. They will try to find better positions, gather recruits, or attack distant regions instead of standing idle in some situations.- AI armies will avoid battles against stronger enemies and withdraw more effectively to better positions.- The AI now better predicts battle outcomes based on collected intelligence and is less likely to attack armies it cannot defeat.- Rebalanced army...
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