• Fixed an issue where executing the Sacrifice to Mathlann would unintentionally spawn multiple Black Arks, leading to spam. The fix ensures that characters are only added to the recruitment pool without spawning, preventing the spam.
  
• Minor adjustments to AI-controlled Black Ark behaviour, improving end-turn performance.
  

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• Confederating minor factions will no longer increase the cost of confederating Legendary Lords in the Great Book of Grudges
  
• Fixed an issue where the Nurgle Plagues button could sometimes become permanently disabled in multiplayer campaigns
  
• Fixed an issue preventing Anvil of Doom characters from performing melee attacks under certain circumstances
  
• Added some missing VFX and audio to Thorek's Anvil of Doom melee attacks, including a fresh new effect where his anvil runes glow brighter when making a strike!
  
• Made Malakai's gun a tiny bit less eager - it now fires its bullets in sequence instead of firing every bullet immediately on the first shot
  
• Added audio to Malakai's third shot in his firing sequence
  
• Fixed an issue where several different Legendary Heroes (I've got my eye on you, Ghoritch!) could spawn at a random character that did not belong to the player
  
• Fixed health bar not filling correctly on unit information panel in campaign
  
• Fixed an issue where Hero character names and icon outline did not match the player's colour
  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer campaigns where the Tomb Kings Mortuary Cult HUD button was locked if another player was Dwarfs
  
• Fixed an issue where Chaos Lords of Nurgle and Chaos Sorcerer of Nurgle variants were missing their Nurgle Authority skills
  
• Fixed the bandits caravan event not triggering
  
• Fixed an issue where some generic combat skills in the Daemon Slayer's skill tree used the hero variants (three levels instead of two that lords usually require)
  
• Fixed crash when loading a saved character in the army setup
  
• Fixed an issue where horde factions could infinitely recruit capped units by creating and loading a save immediately after recruiting them
  

⚠ IMPORTANT

🧱 MOD WARNING

Age of Reckoning

• Grudge targets are now defined based on the factions you share a land border with rather than all "met" factions.
  
  • While the intent remains the same that we want Grudge targets to scale up/down depending on your local situation, we overlooked some issues that were detrimental to the current gameplay if you revealed too much too quickly beyond your own lands. We will continue to monitor the situation with the above change.
  
  
• The second reward bracket (Skruff) no longer provides negative Control and Growth and the first reward bracket (Elgi) has had it's negatives slightly reduced. This should make the system feel less punishing if you only manage to reach the second bracket as it acts more like a neutral stage now.
  
• Age of Reckonings and their subsequent rewards now last for 15 turns (from 10), however we have increased the percentage of grudges required from your local area each cycle to ensure it's still challenging.
  
• Grudge targets now scale based on campaign difficulty.
  
• We have squished the amount of grudges in the world along with how many grudges are gained by hostile actions, while this shouldn't create too much of a gameplay difference as the Grudge Targets will scale to match, it should make swings in Grudge Targets feel significantly less drastic.
  
• Following the number squish, we've reduced the base cost of confederating to 7.5k settled grudges (From 15k)
  
• Additional starting grudges have been added to the world (especially around the Darklands/Chaos Dwarfs)
  
• We fixed an issue with sacking settlements not fully clearing the grudges from the target, allowing you to double dip.
  
  • This fix also fixed an issue where enemy settlements would sometimes display grudges for a different culture (such as "Undead Actions" when the region is owned by beastmen).
  
  

• Base size of Grudge settler army has been changed from 15 -> 10
  
• Added a further +3 grudge settler army size to the "Way of The Clans" technology (for a total of +5)
  
• Added a further +2 grudge settler army size to Thorgrim's "High King" skill (for a total of +5)
  
• The cap for maximum units reserved in your grudge settler unit pools has been reduced from 20 -> 2
  
• The cap for grudge settler units in your army has been reduced from 5 -> 3
  
• Added +1 to the unit cap in army to the warrior guild tech.
  
• Added a further +1 to the unit cap in army to the Call Upon Oaths of Old tech (for a total of +2)
  
• Grudge Settler units are no longer free to recruit.
  
• Added -20% grudge settler unit recruitment cost to the warrior guild tech
  

Frost Wyrm Rescaling

• Armour: 80 -> 110
  
• Bonus vs. Large: 0 -> 25
  
• Max Entities Hit by Splash Attack: 6 -> 5 (this concentrates the weapon strength of the unit on fewer targets, improving its lethality)
  

General Fixes

• Fixed oneshot group vocalisations not triggering, particularly on unit selections and order responses ("Chosen of the Gods!" and all that good stuff)
  
• Fixed 'Channel Magic!' always resulting in a loss of Winds of Magic. They say the house always wins but we're here to make that statement a bit less absolute.
  
• Corrected a collision issue with the Thunderbarge that was causing most projectiles to phase through the balloon
  
• Fixed an issue where certain plague symptoms could disappear/become unavailable when playing as Festus the Leechlord
  
• Fixed an issue where Chaos Lords of Nurgle would not ascend to Daemon Princes when playing as Nurgle factions
  
• Fixed an issue where Chaos Lords of Nurgle would not gain a trait when ascending to Daemon Princes
  
• Pestigors now have 0 recruitment cost for Beastmen
  
• Adjusted Dwarf grape shot to be in line with the imperial grape shot. Curtailing excessive shockwave radius around each projectile.
  
• The Dwarf Dragon Slayer has found his unique axes stashed away under 2000 dead goblins and stopped stealing clothes from the Doomseekers. No wonder he's a Slayer.
  
• Steam Tanks with Helblasters no longer benefit from the Helblaster upgrades in the imperial gunnery school. Units are not intended to double dip in multiple categories.
  
• Fixed the effects provided by Miao Ying's quest item set
  
• Balthasar Gelt's unique skill "Will of the Patriarch" now correctly increases Battle Wizard recruit rank
  
• Fixed Chaos Sorcerer Lords and Heroes missing certain Marks of Chaos upgrades
  
• Fixed the Gunnery School upgrade "Ballistics Plating" not functioning
  
• Reverted oversight causing final transmutation to deal about a quarter the intended damage when not overcast
  
• Fixed the Runesmith skill "Learned Intuition" having a lord's army scope instead of a hero's army scope.
  
• Fixed an issue where some mounts could be stolen post-battle, sorry Bubebolos.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Rot Beast to be available to all players, regardless of ownership. (Consider it a moldy, rotting taster.)
  
• Fix reinforcement popup opening whenever the list of reinforcement updates.
  
• The "Righteous Fury" skill shared by Warpriests and Arch Lector's now provides different effects.
  
  • For Arch Lectors:
    
    • Weapon Strength for flagellants: +10% -> +15%
      
    • Frenzy
  
  
  • For Warpriests:
    
    • Weapon strength for flagellants: Removed
      
    • Frenzy
  
  
• Reduced the number of uses for the "Call of the Wild" amber college ability from 3 to 1.
  
• The Beacon of Dawn Landmark now generates Slaanesh corruption for Morathi and the favoured corruption for all Daemon and Warriors of Chaos factions instead of always granting undivided corruption.
  
• Fixed assembly_kit_example.pack presence in mods folder for Assembly Kit on Microsoft Store.
  
• Cathay - fix Dragon Emperor's Wrath button notification still showing after the action has been performed
  
• Fleshounds of Khorne were playing the wrong vocalisation tags, resulting in vocalisations cutting out - fixed
  
• Fixed campaign conversational VO being able to trigger when multiple panels are open and one of them closes and also stopped the lord/hero panel that appears when selecting a lord/hero in campaign from blocking conversational VO
  
• Fixed an issue where Gyrobombers were still being handled as single entities on the campaign, causing health inconsistencies.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Lord Magistrate's unit card's colours were being tinted the wrong colour depending on your faction
  
• Fixed an issue where unique herdstone settlements (Altdorf, Kislev etc.) weren't using the herdstone battle map when attacked
  
• Fixed an issue where certain event feed notifications had a chance to cause a crash.
  
• Fixed the tooltip in the Greenskin technology tree for Oglok the 'Orrible's trait displaying the wrong effects
  
• Fixed an issue where Khalida's frontend poison attack benefit would simply state "phase name" when hovered over. Not very helpful, Khalida!
  
• The Gate Master no longer misplaces his sword and shield when toggled into melee mode.
  
• Added clearer collision impact sounds for land ship and steam tank
  
• Where an effect applied only to Flamers and Exalted Flamers of Tzeentch (and sometimes Changebringers), it now always applies to Changebringers and Burning Chariots of Tzeentch as well
  
• Fixed the portholes on dragon units being too zoomed in
  
• Fixed an issue where mousing over spell lore selections in the custom battle menu would display the wrong text.
  
• Reduced clipping of the chaos lord of Nurgle's arm and shield
  
• Miners weapons are fixed ( now receiving blood properly )
  
• Fixed some weapons that were appearing too blurred with TAA on.
  
• Fixed the Gate Master and Exalted Hero of Tzeentch Heroes having the wrong "Mentor" skill
  
• Beastment Rewards of dread will now always maintain the same original order instead of changing order based on the cost (this is to avoid an issue where sometimes the rewards will go on a third line instead of maintaining 2)
  
• When playing a battle in multiplayer, battle speeds selected by the other players will now be highlighted.
  
• Fixed an issue where confederated lords that had a loyalty rating (dark elves, skaven) would immediately drop to zero loyalty and rebel if confederated while that lord was in the pool or wounded
  
• Fixed an issue where the Huntsman General's "Experienced Hunter" skill was giving regular empire archers upgraded crossbow bolts from crossbowmen instead of upgraded arrows.
  
• Added modifier preview to buildings that provide factionwide resources (such as oathgold)
  
• Mother Ostankya - fix curses showing in prebattle when reinforcing an ally instead of blessings
  
• Individual entities will no longer attack while the unit is routing. This was particularly pronounced with Katarin on her sled.
  
• Fix a placeholder army ability showing in multiplayer if one player takes control of daemon armies spawned from Malakai adventures
  
• Fix funds field in multiplayer battles not being coloured red when the game version doesn't match
  
• Fixed some abilities and attributes not being grouped together in the expanded view of the unit information panel
  
• Fix war coordination button sometimes becoming active after a quest battle even when having no allies
  
• Fix trade resources appearing as dy_resource after using the Slaanesh dominate mechanic in multiplayer
  
• Fix mount icon in item set tooltip showing as weapon instead of the correct icon
  
• Made Grom's Recipe UI top bar behave like it did in wh2, where it opens the panel when clicked
  
• Fixed a rare crash caused by a lord gaining a mount while the army contains 21 units. (A rare occurrence itself, caused by armies which have lost their lord without replacing them yet recruiting up to fill all 20 slots with units before a replacement returns)
  
• Fix some units in frontend lord selection not showing in the correct order
  
• Fix selecting the 'show only unequipped item' checkbox in magic item panel and then switching to ancillary tab causing the ancillary tab to not filter out equipped items
  
• Added diplomatic relations icon and tooltip to dilemma faction element, so it's easier to tell the relation with the faction from the dilemma (especially useful for dilemmas that give diplomatic relation)
  
• Added stricter controls on rebel faction to prevent them generating invalid characters that can cause further issues.
  
• Fixed Multiplayer Chaos Dwarf Ownership flag.
  
• Fix chaos dwarfs technology notification appearing after all technologies have been researched
  
• Fixed Skrag the Slaughterer has matched combat animation that leaves enemy body on battlefield
  
• Fixed Vampire Coast Raise Dead marker not having a tooltip when attached to a settlement
  
• Fix Visions of the Old Ones unit details tooltip appearing in an odd location that was causing parts of it to go out of screen
  
• Fix corruption preview for agents entering a region not showing increased values from technologies
  

Battle Balance

Beastmen

• Recruitment Cost (SP): 650 -> 0
  

• Recruitment Cost (MP): 700 -> 600
  

Daemons of Chaos

• Number of Entities: 40 -> 60
  
• Additional Hit Points: 121 -> 90
  
• Morale: 35 -> 50
  
• Armour: 20 -> 25
  
• Entity Mass: 150 -> 250
  

Dwarfs

• Projectile number: 3 -> 1
  
• Spread: 1 -> 3
  
• Armour Piercing missile damage: 70 -> 100
  
• Base missile damage: 30 -> 50
  
• Penetration: 3 -> 4
  
• Bullet Mass: 20 -> 25
  

• Additional Hit Points: 12820 -> 11320
  
• Melee Defence: 10 -> 4
  
• Armour: 120 -> 90
  
• Projectile Penetration Resistance: 4 -> 20
  

• Additional Hit Points: 14840 -> 12340
  
• Melee Defence: 10 -> 4
  
• Armour: 120 -> 90
  
• Projectile Penetration Resistance: 4 -> 20
  

• Effective Range: 200 -> 240
  

• Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 700
  

• Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 1200
  
• Upkeep Cost: 325 -> 300
  
• Effective Range: 200 -> 240
  

• Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 1200
  

• Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 700
  

• Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 750
  

• Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 600
  

• Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 900
  

• Additional Hit Points: 812 -> 1054
  

• Additional Hit Points: 312 -> 346
  
• Base Missile Damage: 6 -> 8
  
• Armour Piercing Missile Damage: 16 -> 18
  
• Miniminum Range: 10 -> 0
  

• Additional Hit Points: 312 -> 346
  
• Base Missile Damage: 12 -> 14
  
• Armour Piercing Missile Damage: 2 -> 4
  
• Miniminum Range: 10 -> 0
  

• Recruitment Cost (MP): 800 -> 1000
  
• Recruitment Cost (SP): 0 -> 1000
  
• Upkeep Cost: 200 -> 250
  
• Additional Hit Points: 312 -> 346
  
• Miniminum Range: 10 -> 0
  

Empire

• Recruitment Cost (MP): 850 -> 900
  
• Recruitment Cost (SP): 850 -> 900
  
• Upkeep Cost: 213 -> 225
  

• Recruitment Cost (MP): 950 -> 875
  
• Recruitment Cost (SP): 950 -> 875
  
• Upkeep Cost: 238 -> 218
  

• Recruitment Cost (MP): 1250 -> 1075
  

Khorne

• Number of Entities: 40 -> 60
  
• Additional Hit Points: 121 -> 90
  
• Morale: 35 -> 50
  
• Armour: 20 -> 25
  
• Entity Mass: 150 -> 250
  

Nurgle

• Recruitment Cost (MP): 2400 -> 2100
  
• Recruitment Cost (SP): 2400 -> 2100
  
• Upkeep Cost: 600 -> 525
  
• Morale: 85 -> 75
  
• Turn Speed: 60 -> 90
  

• Additional Hit Points: 121 -> 90
  
• Morale: 35 -> 50
  
• Armour: 20 -> 25
  
• Entity Mass: 150 -> 250
  

Slaanesh

• Number of Entities: 40 -> 60
  
• Additional Hit Points: 121 -> 90
  
• Morale: 35 -> 50
  
• Armour: 20 -> 25
  
• Entity Mass: 150 -> 250
  

Tzeentch

• Number of Entities: 40 -> 60
  
• Additional Hit Points: 121 -> 90
  
• Morale: 35 -> 50
  
• Armour: 20 -> 25
  
• Entity Mass: 150 -> 250
  

Campaign Only

• Additional Hit Points: 330 -> 366
  
• Base Missile Damage: 18 -> 10
  
• Armour Piercing Missile Damage: 8 -> 20
  
• Miniminum Range: 10 -> 0
  
• Projectile Velocity: 45 -> 60
  
• Base Reload Time (Seconds): 9 -> 8
  
• Calibration Area: 13 -> 3
  
• Projectile Mass: 3 -> 4
  

Warriors of Chaos

• Additional Hit Points: 4622 -> 4180
  

• Additional Hit Points: 4960 -> 4708
  

• Additional Hit Points: 4622 -> 4180
  

• Additional Hit Points: 4960 -> 4708
  

• Additional Hit Points: 5786 -> 5486
  

• Additional Hit Points: 5786 -> 5486
  

Abilities

Army Abilities

• Number of Uses: 3 -> 1
  

Character Abilities

• Recharge Time (Seconds): 90 -> 120
  
• Initial Recharge Time (Seconds): 90 -> 120
  
• Delay until damage is dealt (Seconds): 0 -> 1
  

• pread: 0 -> 10
  

• Target Intercept Range: 100 -> 30
  

Spells

• Winds of Magic Cost: 16 -> 18
  

• Active Time (Seconds): 20 -> 18
  

• Direct Damage Amount: 133 -> 100
  

• Armour Piercing Vortex Damage: 1 -> 4
  
• Branch damage: removed
  
• Effect Duration: 1 -> 5
  
• Starting Radius: 5 -> 20
  

• Armour Piercing Vortex Damage: 4 -> 6
  
• Branch damage: removed
  
• Effect Duration: 1 -> 5
  
• Starting Radius: 5 -> 20
  
• Expansion Speed (Per Second): 40 -> -20
  

• Active Time (Seconds): 20 -> 18
  

• Direct Damage Amount: 33 -> 133
  
  • This is a reversion to the accidental overwrite of this in 5.0
  
  

Unit Abilities

• Base Missile Damage: 75 -> 50
  
• Armour Piercing Missile Damage: 175 -> 125
  
• Radius: 5 -> 4
  

• Base Explosion Damage: 75 -> 15
  
• Armour Piercing Explosion Damage: 15 -> 75
  

• Recharge Time (Seconds): 1 -> 30
  
• Direct Damage Amount: ~50 per second -> ~150 per second
  

• Recharge Time (Seconds): 1 -> 30
  
• Direct Damage Amount: 0 -> ~50 per second
  

• Duration (Seconds): 6 -> 4
  
• Delay until damage is dealt (Seconds): 0 -> 0.75
  
• Armour Piercing Vortex Damage: 2 -> 4
  
• Explosion Force: 50 -> 200
  
• Starting Radius: 4 -> 0.1
  
• Expansion Speed (Per Second): 1 -> 100
  

• Delay until damage is dealt (Seconds): 0 -> 0.75
  
• Explosion Force: 50 -> 200
  

• Duration (Seconds): 6 -> 4
  
• Delay until damage is dealt (Seconds): 0 -> 0.75
  
• Armour Piercing Vortex Damage: 2 -> 4
  
• Explosion Force: 50 -> 200
  
• Starting Radius: 4 -> 0.1
  
• Expansion Speed (Per Second): 1 -> 100
  

• Duration (Seconds): 6 -> 4
  
• Delay until damage is dealt (Seconds): 0 -> 0.75
  
• Explosion Force: 50 -> 200
  

⚠ IMPORTANT

🧱 MOD WARNING

• Fixed occasional crash when taking over a settlement where multiple factions had hostile slots (such as Cults, Garden of Morr etc.)
  
• Fixed missions failing to generate when they had an agent reward, if the home region of the player was under siege, causing the game to softlock and preventing the end turn cycle from ending.
  
• Upped the maximum infections gained post-battle from 37 to 100. (We'll continue to review both the conversion rate and the maximum going forward.)
  

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🧱 MOD WARNING

• Fixed a soft-lock occurring in the prologue after Turn 5 when the tutorial was enabled
  

• A crash can occur when Vampires take a settlement with a Garden of Morr in it – If you currently experience this issue in your campaign, and don’t want to wait for our next Hotfix, we have found that you can temporarily work around the problem by razing your own Settlement before any Vampires arrive. We’ll be looking to address the issue next week so that you don’t have to do that!
  

WHAT’S NEXT

What issues are we looking to address in later updates?

• Grudge Targets scaling out of control as the player meets new factions (specifically as the player meets new factions across the world via things like quest battles and alliances.)
  
• Players feeling too rushed by the 10 turn cycle
  
• Players struggling to get out of the lower tier brackets where they would receive debuffs rather than bonuses.
  
• Some Dwarf factions have easier starts than others when it comes to hitting Grudge Targets.
  
• The influx of free units and the summoned grudge settler army has a disproportionately massive effect on the early game.
  
• In the late game, massive stockpiles of grudge settler units build up in the pools of participating factions, causing constant instant and free replenishment for losses.
  

What are we looking to do to address these issues?

• We are looking to change how we calculate your met factions when determining Grudge Targets to instead look at factions you share a land border with rather than just any met faction.
  
  • This change will still allow Grudge Targets to scale up/down depending on your local situation, but it won't get out of control after simply meeting new factions across the map.
  
  
• We will be removing the control/growth penalties from the 2nd Age of Reckoning bracket (Skruff) and slightly lowering the debuffs from the 1st (Elgi).
  
  • While we don't want players to always hit the higher rewards each cycle, we also don't want them to struggle to get out of the negative brackets. By making the 2nd stage (Skruff) act more like a neutral stage rather than a second negative one, it will hopefully alleviate the pressure of needing to clear at least 50% each cycle to simply get out of the red.
  
  
• We are looking to increase the Age of Reckoning durations to 15 turns from 10
  
  • By giving players a longer duration we hope it gives them a bit more freedom to take that 2-3 turn movement to a new target that might have more grudges rather than feeling like you always need to rush to the next closest enemy because you don't have enough time.
  
  
• We will be adding a few more starting grudges to the world where appropriate
  
• We will be reducing the size of the spawned grudge settler army, but allowing you to increase it more via techs.
  
• Grudge settler units will no longer be free to recruit, but adding some recruitment cost reduction in midgame techs.
  
• We're reducing the maximum grudge settlers reserved in the pool, and reducing the cap of grudge settler units that can be in each army at the start of the game, but adding more capacity to the tech tree.
  

When do we expect these changes to arrive?

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