I’m happy to announce new Alpha of the game!

Alpha 9 changes and improvements:

• Three major gameplay mechanics:

• Wildlife (aggressive animals and dens)

• Early army (militia can be trained in Camp)

• Morale to affect warrior’s attack

Content

• More great music by Juan I. Goncebat

• New fight and death sounds

• New scripted map Walkers (survive Walkers waves)

• New scripted map Into the Swamps (by Klassix)

• New skirmish map Horseshoe (with aggressive wolves)

• New skirmish map Borders (by Klassix)

• New campaign Orthalm (3 missions, by DarkianMaker)

• New terrains (yellow grass on dirt, coarse gravel)

• Diagonal transition for mountains/flat terrain

• New temp house models (by Icomatix)

• House building animation for 2 houses (with help from Dah)

• New palm trees

Improvements

• Simplified gold production (no coal required)

• Increased unit walking speed by 25%

• Reworked AI setup and presets for skirmish

• Changed defence position setup in MapEd

• Tweaked AI to handle food production better

• Tweaked AI to handle offense better

• Tweaked AI to handle defense better

• Increased max stone volume up to 6 in one tile

• Gold and Iron ore can be placed on any mountain type now

• Fixed AI iron mining

• Improved iron mining rate

• Lots of smaller improvements in MapEd

• Lots of gameplay bugfixes and smaller improvements

As usual – this is still Alpha, there are likely a lot of bugs, flaws, incomplete features, broken mechanics and such. Please report them and also your thoughts on what should change and why.