05.11.2025

• Content update for 1.16.0.
  
• New faith added: Tabitism, of the Scythian religion. Works similarly to Heraionism, in that if you have the Scythian religion, Amazons recruited or generated via event will be of the same faith, so long as it's acceptable to the Amazons.
  
• In a near-future update, it will receive some small amounts of nomad-flavored content to make it comparable to Tengrism. Currently, you can add a lesbian doctrine to the faith in a similar manner to Heraionism.
  
• Holy sites of Heraionism have been reworked along with Tabitism, Tabitism now has the steppe holy sites that Heraionism used to have, while Heraionism regained Sparta (one of Hera's favored cities) as a holy site. Both now have five total holy sites.
  
• Many reworks to how Scythian culture interacts with various Amazon decision, events, realm formation, etc.. Basically, trying to make Scythian culture behave mostly similarly to Amazonian culture.
  
• New decision: Reforge Scythia, available to Scythian nomads. Allows you to start a big war to settle Scythia, fighting everyone who has counties in the region in a big war. If you win, you claim the Western Pontic Steppe region, seizing all the county/duchy titles therein, and form the realm of Scythia as a settled character. You may choose tribal, feudal, or clan as your government, provided you meet some appropriate prerequisites.
  
• New decision: Adopt Scythian Nomadic Ways. Allows you to settle in a county occupied by a herder as a Scythian adventurer. If such land is paying tribute to a man, you will have the choice to defy them and receive a powerful modifier for doing so (but making yourself a tempting target), or become his tributary, losing a lot of status in the process (and some of your Amazon courtiers).
  
• Bookmark character Taumuriya has been reworked and is well-positioned to make use of the above decision, with an advanced start and Amazon warriors to aid her.
  
• Various other small other fixes and changes. Amazon Hoplites have seen a strength increase (with stats comparable to cataphract archers), and hetairoi have had a cost increase.

Updates
04.29.2025

• Initial compatibility update for 1.16.0. Very little new content has been added, but of note:
  
• Scythian Legacy has been reworked to match the steppe tradition rework.
  
• Two new Amazon regiments have been added: hippeis and cataphracts, both of which are exclusive to nomadic rulers.
  
• -Hippies have statistics comparable to Ayrudzi.
  
• -Cataphracts have stats comparable to other unique cultural heavy infantry, though half size with roughly double strength.
  
• New culture added: Scythian. A hybrid of Amazonian and Ancient Scythian culture. Somewhat placeholder for now, but should work with most Amazonian content. Considered an Amazonian culture.
  
• For now, Amazonian realm creation is disabled for nomadic rulers. This is temporary, I definitely want a nomad Scythia to be possible.
  
• Bookmark character Taumuriya now has Scythian culture.
  
• Reworked Warrior Queens dynasty perk. Now grants Stalwart Leader lifestyle perk to all adult women of the dynasty. Still also grants Matriarchal Conquest CB.
  
• Minor rebalance pass on hippotoxotai men-at-arms, they now have stats comparable to heavy horse archers but are slightly cheaper and have less harsh terrain penalties.

04.14.2025

• Hopefully the final update to prepare for Khans of the Steppe. One bookmark has been removed, as Taumuriya has been moved to the duchy of Alania while Deidamia has been removed as bookmark character (technically Deidamia still exists and is even selectable through 'play as any ruler', though she is now in Odessa). The two characters had some overlap as "steppe" characters and I decided to just have one for now.
  
• Minor revision to Castrate Kin interaction; skips the event if you are not administrative.
  
• Lesbian Marriage doctrine no longer uses on_actions to put most AI female rulers that follow the faith in lesbian marriages. That behavior is still retained with Lesbian Divinity and Sapphic Exaltation doctrines.
  
• Many tweaks, such as revising the icons for Amazon regiments and adding some new regiments to the code that are not currently usable in game except via console, and renaming references to Scythian culture to "Ancient Scythian" in preparation for Khans of the Steppe.

• Minor tweaks and fixes.
  
• Amazonian men-at-arms can now only be recruited by women. Men can still increase the size of regiments if inherited.
  
• Now a total of five bookmark characters. Only Lydia is recommended, the other four are essentially placeholders. If you wish, however, you can play them as normal adventurers.

Minor update to restore non-English localization, and allows gaining of commander trait XP from some Amazon-related events.

New Bookmark character: Lydia of the Amazons. Lydia starts with a small army of Amazon Peltasts and some extra buildings and upgrades. Think of her as a "quick start" character if you just want to jump into the game, no mussing around with character creation and a somewhat advanced start so you get your game rolling faster. Requires Roads to Power DLC as she is an adventurer whose camp starts in Athens, leading the Spears of Athena Swords-for-Hire band.

Updated for 1.15.0. No real mechanical changes, though Amazons will have a small amount of randomized XP in their commander traits.

• Rebalance pass on Amazonian men-at-arms regiments. Amazon regiments now have half size but their strength has generally been increased. Peltasts and toxotai have not been made much stronger but other regiments have approximately doubled in strength to account for their size.
  
• Removed Tunis and Sparta Holy Sites for Heraionism. Now has Argos and Samos as Holy Sites. Bonuses added for these holy sites.
  
• Special buildings have been added to these holy sites.

• Update for compatibility with 1.14.0. I won't be around much the next few days so if there are issues please report them, but it should be in a playable state.