HIGHLIGHTS

• Kislev - Based on your feedback and reviews by our Design team, we've made adjustments to balance, building, tiering, and tech for Kislev to improve your overall gameplay experience.
  
• Tzeentch - Kairos Fateweaver has received a number of skill fixes and adjustments.
  
• Balancing & Bugs - a fresh batch of bug fixes and additional balance adjustments, including fixes targeting recent performance issues e.g. stuttering. As always, please report any other issues you encounter through our bug reporting sub-forum.

STILL COOKING

• Mod manager/launcher performance issues.
  
• Issues surrounding the display of enemy movement range previews in campaign.
  
• Court & Orthodoxy becomes significantly more difficult to balance after confederating your opponent.
  
• Reports of support stuck at 100/100 and not receiving boons.
  
• Matriarchal power achievement not unlockable using the new invocations.
  

PERFORMANCE

• Resolved an issue causing potential frame stuttering on certain machines, as well as occasional video frame skipping in the main menu.
  
• Fixed a possible crash on the end battle screen.
  
• Fixed a crash that was occurring when loading the game.
  
• Fixed a crash that would occur when completing the Ritual of Rebirth in the Gryphon Wood during a Wood Elven Co-op campaign.
  
• Fixed a crash when accessing the Ice Court.
  
• Fixed a crash caused by loading a save containing the tier 3 church building from pre-Kislev rework. Any instances of the tier 3 church will be replaced by the middle option in the new building tree for the churches.
  

CAMPAIGN

General // Gameplay

• Devotion adjustments: Lowered the requirement for using Invocations to 25+ devotion. (It still costs 50 devotion to perform an invocation).
  

• The Ice Guard recruitment building has been collapsed into one single building (found at tier 4), providing access to both Ice Guard variants and capacity for Frost Maidens.
  
  • If you had either building constructed in an existing save, they will convert to the new combined building.
  
  
• Kislevite Cultural Capital defense buildings have been combined:
  
  • Watch patrol building chain has been removed.
    
  • All the benefits associated with it have been moved to the City Defences chain, which combines siege benefits with garrisons and devotion.
  
  
• Kislev’s Wall buildings now also generate a small amount of Devotion:

• Significantly increased experience granted by defence buildings for Atamans:
  
  • Major settlement walls:
    
    • 33 – 66 – 100 -> 100 – 200 – 300
    
    
  • Minor settlement walls:
    
    • 40 - 80 -> 100 – 200
    
    
  • Kislev Cultural capital walls:
    
    • 50 – 100 – 150 – 200 -> 100 – 200 – 300 – 400 – 500
    
    
  • Doubled the Experience granted by Resource buildings for Atamans.
    
    • 50 – 100 - 150 -> 100 – 200 – 300
  
  
• Ataman’s Estate:
  
  • XP per turn: 800 -> 1000
    
  • Income modifier: -100% -> -50%
    
  • Additionally, no longer completely disables income
    
  • Starting Supplies for sieges: 300 -> 1000

• Gnoblar Flingers
  
  • Barracks tier 2 -> 1
  
  
• Gnoblar Pigback Riders
  
  • Barracks tier 1 -> 2

• Fixed bugs where Atamans (Atamen?) were lost forever if they were injured in battle or you lost or traded the city that they were based in. They can now be correctly re-recruited.
  
• Gnoblar Flingers no longer start at 10% health in garrisons on turn 1 of campaigns. (They were just out of breath!)
  
• The "Royal Ice Guardians" technology for Kislev now correctly provides upkeep reduction for armies lead by Ice Witches instead of Frost Maidens.
  
• While Yuri's journey certainly is a struggle, we didn't mean to cut his tech tree down to just the "Struggling" category. The rest of the missing prologue tech tree has been restored.
  
• Kislev will no longer generate several outdated missions related to the supporter race and the old devotion system.
  
• Fixed a bug in Post Battle screen where mass visual artifacting would occur subsequently filled with black space covering the area.
  
• Added a cost element on tooltips for provincial devotion rituals.
  
• The ritual buttons in Kislev's Province Invocations UI are now correctly disabled when Devotion is spent for a Force Invocation and falls below the required threshold.
  
• Kairos' "Gaze To The Past" skill now correctly applies to the 4 lores aligned with his past head.
  
• Minor adjustments to Kairos' skill tree:
  
  • added -25% cooldown reduction for all spells to "Prescient Cant"
    
  • added "Fires of Change" lore passive to "Dwell in the Present"
  
  
• The "Court Agent" trait for Ice Witches and Frost Maidens now gives +2 ice court support per turn.
  
• Kislev will no longer randomly gain and lose access to Invocations in Gates, Forts and Bastions (these settlements do not have Public Order or Devotion.)
  
• The Kislev technology "Common Cause" is now correctly limited to units that are between rank 0 and rank 3. (Sorry Regiments of Renown, you're way out of this league.)
  

UI // UX

• Added a scrollbar to the available Atamans list in the Atamans Overlay so that it displays persistently and not only on mouse hover.
  
• Fixed Victory Conditions strings in the Victory Conditions panel that were missing localisation.
  
• Fire resistance and Fire Weakness now follow the new visual pattern we implemented in 6.1 with positive values appearing green and negative values appearing red when looking at the tooltip for a unit.
  
• Fix issue on the Unit Info panel where the Hero Details toggle button did not align correctly with the frame.
  

BATTLE

General // Gameplay

• Added some more technology support for Akshina Ambushers.
  
  
  
  • Troll County Pathfinder now provides +10% range for Akshina Ambushers.
    
  • Akshina Ambushers now benefit from Praag Veterans for +2 base missile damage
    
  
  
• The 'Leather Treatment' technology now also applies to Gryphon Legion units.
  
• The ‘Dwarfen Anvil’ technology now also applies to Horse Archers.
  
• The ‘Breechloaders’ technology now also grants +10% range for affected united.
  
• Common steel Orthodoxy Boon
  
  
  
  • Recruit rank bonus 5 -> 3
    
  • Added Kislevite Warriors to affected units

• The past and Future Kairos in the "Staff Of Tomorrow" quest battle now have spellcasting again. (Past Kairos and Future Kairos both now also only use spells associated with the past or future head!)
  
• Knights of the Brazen throne have now been issued their extra beefy Skullcrushers, changing their mass 1500 -> 1800 to match the 6.1 Balance Patch Notes that accidentally contained this change before it was made.
  
• Fixed an issue where units with the Fire Whilist Moving ability could engage units outside their range if the unit was moving backwards or towards them.
  
• Gorbad Ironclaw no longer takes penalties for being in a forest while on foot. (He's large and in charge, but not that large).
  
• Lore of Hags is now affected by spell intensity modifiers (Omen of Spirits is exempted, to prevent it recursively increasing its own intensity).
  
• Several minor adjustments to RoR units that were not in parity with their regular version:
  Sisters of the Singing Doom (Witch Elves) // Melee attack +1
  
  
  
  • Bightscab's Plaguepack (Plague Monk Censer Bearers) // Melee attack +1
    
  • Pit Fighters of Hell's Deep (Rat Ogres) // Melee attack +1
    
  • The Frozen Heart of Winter (Elemental Bear) // Leadership +10
    
  • The Mordheim Balewolves (The Things in the Woods) // Melee attack +4 // Melee defence +1
    
  • The Holy Wardens of La Maisontaal (Battle Pilgrims) // Melee attack +1
    
  • The Siren of Red Ruin (Bloodwrack Medusamelee) // Defence +1
    
  • Da Big Un (Rogue Idol) // Melee defence +1
    
  • The Fireborn (Dragon Princes) // Melee defence +1
    
  • Heralds of Khorne's Fury (Bloodcrushers of Khorne) // Leadership +5
    
  • Maws of Savagery (Skin Wolves - Armoured) // Melee attack +1
    
  • The Tithe (Zombies) // Leadership +5

⚠ IMPORTANT

🧱 MOD WARNING

• Fixed crash related to loading files in mods containing uppercase characters in their names
  
• Fixed issue where game was being flagged as modded when no mods were enabled
  

⚠ IMPORTANT

🧱 MOD WARNING

• 🏰 Full Kislev overhaul! Sally forth your Atamans, balance support with Court & Orthodoxy and enjoy a refreshed tech tree
  
• 🔮 Build your own spell lore with reworked Fragments of Sorcery for Kairos Fateweaver
  
• ⚔️ Two new free units! The Nan-Gau Grenadiers for Cathay and Gnoblar Flingers for Ogre Kingdoms
  
• 🛠️ A plethora of QoL changes, including an improved unit ability list UI
  

⚠ IMPORTANT

🧱 MOD WARNING

• Azhag now has access to his missing spells ‘Spirit Leech’ and ‘Aspect of the Dreadknight’
  
• AI with multiple reinforcements are now less idle in battle, attacking the player rather than waiting for all reinforcements to arrive
  
• Camera movement is faster and more responsive on the Campaign map (particularly noticeable in late-game scenarios)
  

PERFORMANCE

• Fixed a rare VFX-related crash that occurred during battle.
  

CAMPAIGN

General/Gameplay

• Fixed a bug where Nurgle factions did not receive Infection rewards when sacking or razing a settlement.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Blood Pilgrimage mission was completed when recruiting any unit, instead of only the specified ones.
  

Skill Tree

• Fixed a bug where Azhag didn’t start with access to Spirit Leech and Aspect of the Dreadknight.
  

UI/UX

• Enhanced performance when moving the camera on the campaign map, particularly noticeable in late-game scenarios when most of the shroud is uncovered. This improvement ensures smoother and more responsive camera movement, providing a better user experience.
  
• Fixed a bug where the 'Undo assigned skill points' button remained clickable in the Character Details panel when switching to the Details tab.
  
• Fixed a bug where the 'Collect income' checkbox in the UI was not displayed properly.
  
• Stuttering when rapidly hovering over different unit cards in the Campaign and Battle UI should now be reduced.
  

BATTLE

General/Gameplay

• Fixed a bug where, when repositioning ranged units in a different direction, they clumped together and got stuck.
  
• Fixed an issue causing The Forbidden Fens vegetation VFX to appear red.
  

AI

• Fixed a bug where the attacking AI remained stationary for too long during battles with multiple reinforcements, waiting for all of them to arrive instead of attacking the player.
  

Animations

• Adjusted the maximum number of splash attack victims the Terracotta Sentinel can hit with its attacks.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Terracotta Sentinel’s weapon visibly snaps while transitioning between animations.
  
• Fixed an issue where Ushabti Great Bows would not show the proper equip/unequip animation when switching between ‘turn’ and ‘melee attack’ animations.
  
• Bonebreaker and Terrorgeist mounts now use their matched combat animations against Cathayan units.
  

UI/UX

• Fixed a bug in Skirmish mode where the AI stats modifier would reset as the player navigated away from the relevant menu.
  

MULTIPLAYER

• Fixed a bug that occurred in a multiplayer game with Golgfag, where the Mercenary Contracts mechanic stops working after Save/Load.
  

AUDIO

• Added missing audio to water features on the Greed Grove battle map and to some corruption pools on the campaign map.
  
• Fixed an issue where the SFX of the floating pyramid during the Black Pyramid end-game scenario sounded low quality.
  
• Fixed an issue with environmental audio on the Thundering Falls subterranean battle map.
  
• Fixed an issue where the SFX for sinking ships would include human voices for non-human factions.
  

⚠ IMPORTANT

🧱 MOD WARNING