Hexarchy

Civilization Specific Units

• The first attack that would kill the Immortal instead reduces it to half strength.
  

• Starts with extra promotion slots
  
• Builds a fort when fortifying
  

• Build with gold
  
• Reduced gold supply cost
  

• Attacks twice
  

• Mounted unit that can claim hexes
  

• Starts with Vanguard
  

• Can melee attack and ranged attack
  
• Starts with Woodsman
  

• Flank attacks do bonus damage and splash damage
  

• Mounted ranged unit
  
• Starts with Vanguard
  

• Shoots over terrain that normally blocks ranged attacks
  
• Ignores enemy terrain defense bonuses
  

Civilization Passive Bonuses

• 50% reduced unit supply gold cost
  
• 50% reduced city upkeep gold cost
  

• +1 extra build per turn per city
  
• +1 hammer yield on hexes with a road
  

• +1 gold for all resources sold
  
• Holy Sites give +2 culture and +2 gold
  

• +1 hammer from mine, workshop, forge, lumber mill, and warehouse
  
• Shuffle cost reduced to 1 gold
  

• Can adopt multiple civics of the same type
  
• Adopting a civic gives 4 gold
  

• +2 culture per city
  
• Easier for border growth to steal an enemy hex
  
• +50% damage from artillery units
  

• Get 3 gold and 2 culture when killing an enemy unit
  
• Get +1 Victory Point when killing an enemy unit
  

• +2 food on all city hexes
  
• 50% reduced unhappiness yield penalties
  

• Wonder gold cost reduced by 100%
  

• 25% chance to gain 1 hammer when selling a resource
  
• +1 gold yield from water tiles
  
• Borders expand more quickly over water tiles
  

Tech Tree Changes

• Many things moved in the tech tree. Most techs now have fewer cards
  
• New techs: Animal Husbandry, Mining, Architecture, Astronomy, Logistics
  

Balance Changes

• Units spawned on Barracks are immediately mobilized so they can move that turn
  
• Settlers no longer immune to ranged attacks
  
• Harbor gold increased to 2 and now immediately gives bonus resources when built
  
• Courthouse maintenance reduction increased
  

Misc

• Culture can steal hexes from enemy players
  
• Culture can grow a city's borders multiple times in a turn
  
• Simple culture overlay toggle
  
• Shuffle disabled in daily challenges
  
• Can select your "preferred civilization" for multiplayer games
  
• Various AI changes
  
• Tech tree panel improvements
  
• Multiplayer game start countdown no longer skips seconds
  

Bug Fixes

• Fix that should address some recurring multiplayer disconnect issues
  
• Other minor fixes
  

Misc

• Cities can now build a unit and a building each turn. Warehouse and Forge add an extra build of both types to the city.
  
• Added a Shuffle button that shuffles your discard pile back into your deck immediately for 4 gold
  
• Slight empire-wide reduction in the percent chance of a We Love You effect each time one is triggered
  
• Maneuvers now also gives a 1 turn movement bonus in addition to ignoring zone of control
  
• Added custom multiplayer game setting for announcing the game code on Discord
  

UI

• Cursor changes when there is a player order being processed
  
• Researching a card now always requires a separate click on the card the player selects to add to their hand
  
• Added crude display of current game settings to game code panel
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where you could start a road on an enemy city
  

Misc

• Wonders are now built on hexes outside of cities
  
• New menu system (work in progress)
  
• All single player skirmish settings are available in private multiplayer games
  

New Settings

• Bot Difficulty (take "hard" and "insane" with a huge grain of salt for now. More AI improvements to come)
  
• Bot Aggressiveness
  
• Disable bots (multiplayer only)
  
• Fog of War
  
• Always Mobilize (except Settler)
  
• Require 3 hexes between cities
  

Multiplayer Stats

Misc

• Changing the resource icon size in the menu will now update the size of the icons as you change it
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in multiplayer where an eliminated player could hang the game for the remaining players
  
• Fixed an issue where you could click a Citizen token behind a card in your hand
  
• Fixed an issue where resource overlay icons could show up on top of the fog of war
  
• Resolved most issues with the resource overlay not updating on events
  

Misc

• Added a menu option to keep the resource overlay on between turns
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where canceling a card play could lead to the UI being frozen
  
• Fixed a graphical glitch where a card could be partially dissolved
  
• Fixed an issue where a Citizen would sometimes be immediately dropped after being picked up
  
• Fixed an issue where Citizen slots would not appear if a Settler hex is selected
  
• No longer says "Invalid Order" when placing a Citizen back in its original slot
  
• Fixed a bug where a Charge that kills a previously unseen unit could cause the UI to hang
  

Ranged Attacks

• Archers, Crossbowmen, Catapults, and Cannons can now attack from a distance
  

Immediate Single Player Moves and Attacks

• In single player, move and attack orders will now execute immediately
  

New Content

• Vanguard Promotion - permanent charge
  
• Shield Wall Ability - immune to ranged attacks this turn
  
• Bread and Circuses Ability (replaces Legacy) - fills city happiness to half and gives food
  

New Art

• Lots of card art has been updated
  
• New music tracks
  

New Tutorial

• Now split into 3 levels
  
• Introduces concepts at a slower rate
  
• Limited tech tree
  

UI Changes

• Can now drag cards to play them
  
• Right click now issues Move and Attack orders
  
• Tech tree panel has been redone - now shows which cards are in your deck, destroyed, and which wonders have been built
  
• Hold shift or alt while mouse wheel scrolling the tech tree to scroll horizontally
  
• Buttons that now let you toggle between automatically distributing and selling excess resources when your turn ends
  
• Holding ctrl while clicking a resource stack picks up the entire stack
  
• Hexes you can reach in one turn are highlighted when selecting a unit
  
• Popup in bottom right shows what resources you're spending to play a card
  
• Hammer and resource counts change based on the cost of the card you're playing
  
• When researching a tech, cards that you'd be able to play this turn are highlighted
  
• Cards in your hand are only highlighted if there is a valid target for them
  
• Units that need orders have their icons highlighted on the map
  
• Various other new UI cues
  

Other Changes

• Mine, Pasture, Fishing Hut now gather resources immediately when built
  
• Added Firewood card to base deck card - only for burning
  
• Building a lumbermill immediately adds one Firewood to your hand
  
• Charge can now trigger twice in the same turn
  
• Units only have zone of control when fortified
  
• Slavery disabled
  
• Unit line of sight changes
  
• Many bug fixes