Hello friends, the update 1.0.5 is out!

I hope you enjoyed your summer. I was more busy than I wanted to be, but at least I can release a new update. It brings a new compact map. I've combined your two requests into this one map - a very small map with only a few provinces and then a port of the great old strategy Defender of the Crown, one of several games that inspired Bellfortis. Unfortunately I can't do that one, of course, but the new map is at least inspired by this game. Aside from that, I'm bringing a few changes and improvements to it, also based on your feedbacks.

So what's new in 1.0.5?

• New Defender of the Kingdom map with only 20 provinces.

• New Outlaws faction for Defender of the Kingdom map.

• Governor's loyalty increases or decreases depending on the level of the province and the current mood in the city.

• Governor Loyalty increases when there are more than 5 military units in a province. If there is none, it may decrease slightly.

• If the province defends itself against an attack, the governor's loyalty will increase if there is a governor.

• If a player attacks another faction without declaring war, the other factions may respond by changing relations.

• Fixed the Untrustworthy trait.

• Fixed Dismounted Knights icon and inclusion (in some factions they were mistakenly listed as an archery unit).

• Battle AI: If an enemy has a larger number of archers or catapults, they are more likely to attack with them first with a ranged attack.

• Clouds reacting to the mouse cursor are back! 🙂

• Level 1 and 2 provinces are less likely to build defenses.

• Increased the range of defensive towers by 25%. Oh, you're not going to like this! 🙂

• If you want to trigger a positive political action and your ruler has the Trustworthy trait, your chance to success increases by 5%. But if you have the Untrustworthy trait, your chance decreases by 10%.

• Added the new map Defender of the Kingdom to the Demo version.

Thank you all for your support and feedback. And if you like the game, please don't forget to share a review!

Pavel, Rake in Grass..

Hello friends!

The new update 1.0.4 is out! It's a smaller update, it mainly improves gameplay and fixes some bugs, but I wanted to release it because I want to work on bigger changes that will take a longer time (advertised modding support and new DLC). Also, I need to rest now ːsteamboredː, after two and a half years of developing the game I need a vacation, so you won't hear much from me until the end of August.

What's new in 1.0.4?

• Fixed two newly reported crashes.

• Modified AI behavior - in the later stages of the game and in war, it behaves more aggressively and even more peaceful factions try to build armies. Need more feedback from you to make it better!

• Modified AI behavior - rewritted decision-making on construction.

• Adjusted chances of some political actions (like peace, etc.)

• On higher difficulties, the initial chance of success of an action is lowered (by 10 % on hard and 15 % on very hard).

• If the AI is at war with the player, the AI tries to build an army faster in provinces adjacent to the player.

• Added option to disable killing soldiers with archers of own army to settings.

• Fixed some minor issues.

Thank you all for your support and feedback! It is important to make the game better. I'll be waiting for new reports to see if the AI aggressiveness you've often written about has increased.