Fall of an Empire

Hi everyone, I've got a new update out now in beta. Faction selection is now on a 3d tabletop map, you can split armies again after merging them, and I've gone through a lot of the recent bug reports and sorted them out.Cheers, Joe Faction selectionNew games now start on a 3D tabletop with a paper map and banners at each capital.Click a capital name in the sidebar (or on the map) to zoom the table onto that settlement.MilitaryYou can split a player army or navy from the Units tab. Select the companies you want, and they form a new force at the same location with their share of supplies, morale and veterancy. The original commander stays with the original force.Personal Guards, levies, rebels, foederati, embarked armies, and fleets in port, on blockade, or carrying troops cannot be split.Player armies and navies can be renamed from the sidebar, the same way settlements can.The military sidebar header now shows the force's identity, current order, supplies and commands as labelled rows instead of unmarked icons.Forced march says why it is locked, including while garrisoned, and unlocks again once the army leaves the settlement.Armies next to a friendly settlement refil

Hi all!I'm finally ready to release 2.05 and it is out of beta (with quite a lot more changes added since the beta began). The main feature in this patch is the personal guard, and I've also spent a lot of time rebalancing things, fixing bugs, improving performance and getting the game looking as good as it can (for instance, it now has much better lighting and more realistic rivers). From here I'm going to start work on the two major expansions that I have planned - I'll keep you all updated with more information and dev diaries on these two.Cheers,JoePersonal GuardForm a Personal Guard from the Military screen.Choose companies when founding, replace them later, and track recruiting per company.Imperial courts get a larger guard (double the normal household roster).The guard is named after your ruler.If the guard is wiped out, you can re-found it.Guard composition has its own screen rather than sitting in the general formation template list.The tutorial walks you through founding and using the guard. For the Kyrnos war you get a proper field army and fleet instead of relying on the guard alone.Food production and logisticsFood is reworked around Grain, Meat, an

Hi all, I've just released patch 2.05 to beta. You can access it by right-clicking the game in Steam -> Properties -> Game Versions and Betas and enabling the beta. It's mostly bug fixes but there are a few new features and some graphical improvements as well.I'm going to leave this in beta for a few days and do some testing of it, if there are any issues I'll patch them before it's fully released.VisualsImproved the graphics a lot by increasing the strength of the sun and adding grass meshes and proper rivers that cut into the terrain.Added HDR adaptation.Characters and politicsHistorical ruler battle records now appear correctly.Character epithets are now localised.Culture and religion population groups now have proper names.Province succession rules are enforced correctly.Fixed cyclic liege-subject relationships.RebellionsRebellions now have distinct movements with their own demands.Army Mutineers demand higher army funding.Orthodox Rebels demand lower religious toleration.Rural Rebels demand lower taxes.Urban Rioters demand enough food to end a local shortage.Rebel demands are shown in the faction screen.Rebel factions now receive more distinct na

Hello all,The new Provinces and Modding update is now live. It's the biggest update in the game by far, with roughly a third of the whole game's work gone into it. My goal with this update was to make the game moddable, more fun and more replayable, and fix up the main annoyances that players were having. To do so I took the step of entirely redoing the UI from scratch - literally every single screen and UI component has been done from scratch, which also makes it entirely moddable. I've also added the ability to play as other provinces - this is something a lot of people have been asking for, so now you're able to play as any province in the Empire and work your way up to Emperor, playing your way up the power blocs from the other side and building up a force of allies to fight a civil war. There have been a ton of other changes - such as a new battle screen with more control for the player, a redone tutorial, localisation fixes, visual improvements, bug fixes and a ton of new systems and interactions for you to work with.I've released a new demo for the game as well, so that new potential players get the chance to see what they think of the game before bu