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Tomb Kings Update Patch Notes and Reworking Bretonnia - January 18, 2018

This massive patch rebalances several units and fixes multiple bugs, including some very worrying ones regarding the auto-resolve of battles. The update also revamps Bretonnia to match the other Old World faction facelifts that came before.

Bretonnia additions

• New skills for Louen Leoncoeur: Fount of Honour, Respected by All, Clarion Calls and Exemplary Conduct
• New skills for Alberic de Bordeleaux: Lead from the Front, Coastal Expansion, Shipping Lanes, Appoint Reeves
• New skills for the Fay Enchantress: Beacon of Devotion, Sacred Duty, Lady of the Land, Secrets of the Otherworld
• New Bretonnia technology: Secure Shores Decree
• New Bretonnia technology: Sewer Cleaning Decree
• New Bretonnia technology: Desert Purge Decree
• New Bretonnia technology: Overseas Diplomacy
• New Bretonnia technology: Support Religious Errantry
• New Bretonnia technology: Encourage Fanaticism
• New Bretonnia technology: Temple Tithes
• New Bretonnia technology: Commission Carpenters
• New Bretonnia technology: Longer Spears
• New Bretonnia technology: Professional Fletchers
• New Bretonnia technology: Siege Engineering
• New Bretonnia technology: Registered Draft
• New Bretonnia technology: Hay Stores
• New Bretonnia technology: Farriers
• New Bretonnia technology: Blinker Hoods
• New Bretonnia technology: Improved Smelters
• New Bretonnia technology: Glazing Kilns
• New Bretonnia technology: Steel Furnaces
• New Bretonnia technology: Master Swordsmiths
• New Bretonnia technology: Regular Tournaments
• New legendary building in Parravon for Bretonnia, High Elves, Wood Elves: Peaks of Parravon
• New legendary building in Salzenmund for Bretonnia, Empire, Wood Elves, High Elves, Dark Elves: Forest of Laurelorn
• New legendary building in Galbaraz for Dwarfs, Greenskins, Skaven: Oathgold Mine
• New legendary building in Galbaraz for Vampire Counts and a Tomb Kings faction: Ruins of Mourkain

Old World Legendary Lord Trait Updates

• Karl Franz:
o +10 diplomatic relations with Empire Provinces
o +2 Leadership
• Azhag:
o +15% Leadership Aura Size
o +8 Leadership Aura Effect
• Grimgor:
o +6 Leadership for Black Orcs in the army
o +5 Armour for Black Orcs in the army
• Thorgrim:
o +15% Leadership Aura Size
o +8 Leadership Aura Effect
• Archaon:
o +10% Physical Resist for Chaos Knight units in the army
o +25% Razing income

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Headline imrpovements:
• Rebalanced the Grand and Vortex campaigns to reduce Dwarf supremacy.
• Improved ‘Dropped Orders’/units responsiveness during battles.
• Increased the length of Multiplayer Campaign objectives (head to head and co-op)
• Improved Skaven units in auto-resolve.
• Added a check-box to the army panel in campaign, so when end-turn notifications are disabled, the notifications for the selected army will still be enabled.
• Battle AI is now less inclined to use deep unit formations (e.g. 5 units deep) and will use more varied and wider formations where appropriate.
• Campaign Battle difficulty modifiers are now applied to the AI correctly.
• Battle AI is now less likely to clump when attacking a high Combat Potential unit or Lord, which used to make them easy to kill with ranged units or by flanking the clumped army.
• Improved the Battle AI outflank analyser to check the number of entities currently in the unit, rather than the initial number. This will prevent the Battle AI from attempting to outflank an already engaged unit and surround single entity units under certain conditions.
• Old World Legendary Lords traits and Bretonnia updates, see above for details.

Technical and Performance improvements

General
o Fixed a bug where the Campaign Map would flicker when the player minimized the game with ALT+TAB while changing graphics settings.
o Fixed a crash when switching between maximum graphics settings and the “out of the box” “high” settings on AMD RX-480 GPU while running the game in DirectX12 (BETA).
o Improved compatibility with the GTX 690 card, removing flickering, black terrain and low performance.
o Fixed a crash that occurs on some AMD graphics cards when changing all graphics settings to their highest, then changing back to recommended settings.
o Added recommended graphics settings for the GT 740 M card.

Campaign technical improvements:
o Fixed a rare end turn crash when an agent was left as the only unit in a force, and dies of attrition at the end of the round.
o FPS performance has been improved when zooming out to max distance on the Campaign Map on some configurations.
o Fixed a Multiplayer Campaign desync in the end turn cycle caused by Campaign AI.
o Fixed a Head to Head Multiplayer Campaign crash in the Vortex Campaign which was caused by the Event Feed.
o Fixed a Mortal Empires campaign crash during the End Turn cycle for the Lizardmen faction.
o Fixed a DirectX 12 bug for SLI users, where the diplomacy colours map overlay and storm seas would flicker in campaign modes.
o Fixed a crash that could occur when alt-tabbing out during load screens.
o Fixed a rare crash that would occur when removing units from an army on an AI faction during the end turn sequence.
o Fixed a crash when a Lord is disbanded after a hero is given the command to embed in the army.
o Fixed an end-turn crash when a lord died and the only other unit left in the army was a hero.

Gameplay Improvements

Campaign:
o Campaign AI is now more likely to correctly deploy agents in regions owned by a different subculture, in order to apply their negative effects.
o Wood Elf rebels no longer suffer from undead attrition.
o The lake on the Campaign map at Tor Finu has been visually improved.
o In the Eye of the Vortex campaign, the Campaign AI now prioritises attacking closer ritual locations if they can.
o It is no longer possible to ask allied factions to join wars against Intervention Armies and Chaos/Skaven armies which are spawned when performing a ritual.
o The “Load a save game” option is no longer available after failing to stop the AI from winning the Vortex Campaign on Legendary Difficulty.
o The skills affecting stats for Saurus Temple Guards now also applies to Blessed Temple Guards.
o Campaign AI is now more likely to recruit Cold One spear riders, Hydra, Steam Tank and Peasant Mob when applicable.
o Added new traits to the Bretonnian Damsel hero unit.
o The “Night of Khaine” mission has a button which will now correctly take you to the Hero Vraneth location.
o The “Blood Drinker” Quest is no longer cancelled when gaining a Defensive Alliance with the faction that owns Essen while the quest is active.
o “Box of Eerie Noises” can no longer be collected from sea encounters, because it is meant to be crafted only.
o Hero traits for some newly recruited units (e.g. “Lore Keeper” for the Vampire Counts) will now affect the local region where they are recruited as intended.
o Corrected the requirements for the “Marital Prowess” mission.
o The “Greenskin Filth” mission reward has been fixed.
o Fixed a loyalty gain exploit when adding and removing followers to a character.
o The Black Ark can now return to Full Speed stance after moving and switching stance.
o Added a “Hall of Oaths” building chain to the Mount Gunbad settlement in Rib Peaks province.
o Garrison armies no longer gain experience from special buildings, rites and lord abilities
o Malekith’s “Seditious or Sanguine” skill now provides the correct effects.
o Chaos incursion armies are now more likely to recruit additional units.
o Fixed the effect gained from doing the Treasure hunt event “Undead Sentinels”.
o Fixed the requirements for unlocking the secondary skills in the Beastmen Gorebull skill tree.
o The Greenskins and Wurrzag can now build more resource buildings.
o The visualisation for Storms at Sea on the water surface is no longer offset.
o Fixed a bug where the Income and Public Order would not change / update if the player unticks the “Tax Province” feature while on the Building Browser.
o Fixed cases where construction of buildings in campaign would take less time in harsh climates, rather than more time.
o Queek’s objective to “Control Karak Eight Peaks” can no longer be achieved by forming a military alliance with the faction that controls it. He needs to own the settlement himself.
o When capturing Wurtbad as Clan Angrund, the city no longer has two identical “Defence” building chains.
o When Vlad uses Lightning Strike ability, Isabella will no longer be able to reinforce him in battle.
o Removed some construction cost reduction buffs from common buildings to fix an exploit.
o Improved cases where AI factions would offer a non-aggression pact on one turn, and end the pact on the next for no apparent reason.
o The Silver Host faction wont recruit so many corpse carts anymore.
o Added some missing animations for the Reaper Bolt Throwers units in the Black Creek Raiders rogue army.
o The Beastmen “For Gore & Glory” mission has been fixed, so can no longer be completed by recruiting the wrong unit type.
o Skaven corruption will now give extra “Menace Below” charges when intended.
o Fixed an issue where after the Top Knotz faction became a migrating horde, they were no longer able to have any buildings or recruit new units.
o When the Campaign AI Captures Karak Eight Peaks and then allies with Clan Angrund, you will no longer see Belegar Ironhammer travel to stand outside of the settlement indefinitely.
o Fixed some instances where the balance of power would be further in the enemies favour when reinforcements were used compared to without.
o Khazrak the One-Eye’s recruitment cost reduction for Bestigor units has been improved and is now -30%.
o Queek Headtaker’s “Make It-It Better!” mission can now be completed when taking control of a settlement with a Lair already constructed.
o Fixed an issue where the Dragon Cloak of Fryskar could be completed when raiding with an army other than Ungrim’s.
o Research rate is now low-capped at zero and will no longer go negative.
o Disbanded Black Arks no longer count towards victory objectives.
o Reiksfort can now be constructed in Marienburg.
o Fixed an issue where Waywatchers did not get armour-piercing missile damage bonus from the Hawkish Precision ability.
o Skaven will now have the “Great Power” diplomatic penalty.
o When conversing with Settra in diplomacy, players must verbally address him using his entire title-train, regardless of any embarrassment this may cause due to the presence of family members.
o Luminark of Hysh can now be recruited in Saphery and Ghrond.
o Garrisons that exceed 20 units should now prioritise units of higher tier when considering what units to take into battle.
o Improved the accuracy of the auto-resolve balance of power for the Lizardmen.
o Added some missing Greenskin garrison hero characters.
o Wurrzag can once again construct his special Savage Orc building chain
o Savage Orcs resource added to the Floating Pyramid settlement in both the Vortex and Mortal Empires campaigns

Battle
o Queek Headtaker can now use his “Menace Below” ability when entering the battle as a reinforcement.
o Magic missiles, such as High / Dark elf arrows will steer more aggressively towards their targets.
o Improved how large groups of multiple units navigate through destroyed gates in siege battles, in some cases.
o The Skink Cohort (melee unit) will no longer use the wrong idle animation when standing on a wall.
o Army Abilities can now target and be used directly on a Unit Card.
o Improved the Skaven routing in the prelude battle. The enemy AI no longer recovers from routing and stands around idle.
o After winning a battle, when the player chooses to run down the enemy rather than “End Battle”, the battle music will no longer stop playing when using the tactical map.
o Improved Artillery pathfinding in the corners of the playable battle area.
o Reduced the likelihood of the Battle AI sending units one-by-one to attack siege gates.
o The Siege Defenders’ reinforcing AI is now less likely to hold its ground when entering the battle.
o Added collision to a large rock at the edge of the infield in a Lizardmen battle map (lzd_hills_infield_a catchment 04).
o Improved the matched fatal-attack animations for the High Elf Sun Dragon.
o Improved Cold Ones matched combat animations, which could cause certain units to warp around when attacked by them.
o Improved Terradon Riders matched combat animations being misaligned, when attacking certain units e.g. Chaos Warriors or Goblin Nasty Skulkers.
o Improved the animation when the Blessed Carnosaur eats enemy units.
o Added more exit points to some battle maps so units rout in a better direction.
o Routing units are no longer able to attack their pursuers.
o Improved how the “Soul Stealer” special ability miscasts.
o Fixed a bug where Hell Cannons would shoot over the top of their target with certain map topography.
o Improved cases in Chokepoint battles, where the Battle AI would approach the choke point but not engage with the enemy on the other side of it, or stand still on the other side of the choke point and receive missile damage.
o Improved the responsiveness to attacking enemy units on walls when defending a siege battle.
o Improved the Battle AI in the situation where a sieging army has breached a wall with towers, and then attempted to exit the settlement back down the siege towers when a gate was closer / more accessible.
o Fixed a bug where the Steam Tank fatigue would continue to rise when it sat idle.
o Alastair: The White Lion can no longer be dismembered (because he’s a unique Hero).
o Removed the wind-up time from the Wand of Kharaidon spell.
o Units will now more easily rout from The Abyss battle map.
o Fixed a bug where, in some cases, rampaging units could follow routing units outside the playable area.
o Fixed the Black Fire Pass map, where some elements would pop in too obviously.
o Tidied up the collision in the Roq’Ato Free-For-All Battle Map.
o Improved the collision on the Alluvail Plain Chokepoint battle map.
o Removed an unnecessary impassable area on the Bladewind Pass Chokepoint map.
o Tidied up the trees in the Blight Water Chokepoint battle map.
o The “Cannot Move” effect of Net of Amyntok now correctly stops Skirmishers from pursuing their target with an attack order.
o Added collision to an outcrop of rocks across the river in the Frigid Ford Chokepoint Battle Map.
o Improved Terradon movement during melee animations.
o Improved the chances of Eagle / Phoenix units using matched combat animations when melee attacking humanoid units.
o Fixed the speed buff on The “Cavalryman” skill.
o When in dispute with a hirsute brute, apply the boot with a firm DOOT DOOT
o Improved the collision on the Squiggly Beasts battle map and fixed some floating rocks.
o Speeded up the Helblaster fire animation.
o Fixed a bug where the player could put a unit into “Rampage” during a battle, but then break the command by issuing a movement order before they rampage.
o Fixed cases where Rogue Army Great Cannons couldn’t fire in battles.
o Improved the accuracy of Chaos Hellcanons.
o Added collision to the fallen Dwarf statue in the middle of the East side of the Death Pass Deep Battle Map.
o Movement speed is no longer capped in Laboratory mode.
o Fixed some instances where Battle AI would not attack when it was clearly in their favour to do so.
o Fixed a floating water plane in Hel Fenn battle map.
o Fixed an issue where some Wood Elves projectiles would always fall short of their target within Laboratory mode.
o Fixed an issue where an army could stand on top of mountains when sieging Mount Arachnos.
o The Corrupter of the Shadowgrave effect will now correctly die out when the enemy Beastlord Lord has been killed in the Horn of the Wild Quest Battle.
o The enemy Beastmen Lord will now show correctly within the Horn of the Wild Quest Battle.
o Units can no longer be deployed inside a cliff on The Night Glens map.
o Units can no longer be deployed inside a cliff on the Glade of the Lost map.
o Units can no longer be deployed inside a cliff on the Erengrad Siege map when attacking.
o Units can no longer be deployed inside a cliff on the Zoishenk Siege map when attacking.

Usability Improvements

General
o Removed the incorrectly listed “Life-Leeching” skill from the “Loremaster of Hoeth” unit page in the Game Guide.
o Traditional Chinese subtitles now work with UI scaling above 100%.
o Fixed some instances of inconsistent voice acting.
o Fixed the preview images for user generated Custom Battle maps.
o Fixed the tool-tip on the SSAO option in the Advanced Graphics settings.
o Brightness and Gamma sliders can now be seen to take affect in the game’s front end.
o Fixed a typo in Czech in the Dragon Cloak of Fyrskar quest description.

Campaign
o In Multiplayer head to head Vortex Campaign, when both players gain ritual currency at the same time, the currency “Gained this turn” value on the ritual bar tool-tip will no longer be doubled (/ won’t show both players currency gained).
o The text for Epilogue and Event will no longer appear too long to fit on the screen in certain resolutions, and will scroll when necessary.
o Fixed the subtitles in the Empire factions’ Grand Campaign intro movie in Turkish.
o The name of the Chrace region of Ulthuan is now localized in Spanish (called “Cracia”).
o One of the positive effects of the Temple of Mist (reduces the movement range of local enemy armies by 20%) is now correctly coloured green instead of red.
o Fixed the “Know More” link on the Menace Below ability, when mentioned by the advisor.
o Fixed the localisation for some Vortex Campaign regions in Czech.
o When multiple campaign cutscenes are queued to play subsequently, pressing will now skip all of the cutscenes rather than just the first one.
o Legendary Lord conversational voice over is no longer positioned in 3D space, so it can always be heard, if the player moves the camera.
o In Multiplayer Campaign, when one player attacks a settlement and opened the pre-battle panel, and another player re-enforced them, the first players pre-battle panel would reset. This has been fixed.
o Fixed a harsh edge in the snow texture, displayed in the pre-battle screen in The Palace of Ruin region.
o Fixed a lighting issue where a shadow was being cast in the northern area of the Qatar region without an obvious caster.
o Fixed an inconsistency with the trade icon for “Known Factions” between the Diplomacy panel and the drop-down list on the right of the campaign HUD.
o Corrected some mistakes in the Polish advisor voice over during fly-bys.
o Predicted income now updates when, for example, disbanding a general to remove his upkeep cost.
o Improved how text wraps / fits on the Quest Panel.
o Fixed a link on the “How They Play” text for Vlad von Carstein
o The movement range display (indicating how far an enemy lord at sea is able to attack) is now more accurate.
o The Start and End battle options for Queek Headtaker are now displayed the in correct colour (blue).
o The Reward for completing the “Stave of Ruinous Corruption” quest is no longer repeated on the “Quest Successful!” message.
o Hero and army unit icons no longer remain on land once the army has embarked into the sea.
o The Fay Enchantress (Bretonnia) doesn’t bob around so much in the campaign porthole.
o The “Attitude” displayed during the campaign End Turn sequence now correctly represents the players’ attitude towards the faction instead of the faction’s attitude towards the player.
o Fixed where the text in the Rites window said that the player didn’t have enough warpstone to perform a Rite, which costs zero warpstone.
o The amount of warpstone on the Settlement information tool-tip when playing as Skaven is now more frequently updated.
o Fixed the technologies listed in the Mortal Empires objectives panel in Co-op mode.
o When starting the Mortal Empires campaign as Skarsnik of Crooked Moon, or Wurrzag of The Bloody Handz, the correct Greenskins loading screen will now show up instead of the Dwarfs Loading screen.
o Corrected the tooltip description for enemy territory rite attrition from “Great Incantation of Khsar”.
o Fixed a Multiplayer Campaign bug where the number of turns played would sometimes be displayed incorrectly when loading a saved game.
o When a player in a Multiplayer Campaign is in the building browser and the other player, who is using a Horde faction, moves a lord the game will no longer show a broken version of the other players’ Horde building browser.
o Stopped the Grey Seer lord from moving around so much on the campaign map when placed into Raid Stance.
o Fixed an issue when a previously loaded race’s music could play when loading a save from another race.
o Improved some areas of the shroud on the Vortex map which were incorrectly removing terrain.
o Karl Franz’s idle animation on the campaign map has been visually improved.
o Fixed some instances where tooltips were not displaying correctly for some buildings within the “Damage Buildings” panel.
o A war declared event message is now displayed when an enemy’s ally joins the enemy in war against the player.
o Changed an incorrect reference to Morale to Leadership in one of the Dwarven naval traits.
o Fixed a typo in a Dwarven greeting in diplomacy. Grudge narrowly avoided. Phew.
o Fixed a typo in Heinrich Kemmler’s Loremaster, Lord of Vampires skill description.
o Fixed a gap in the terrain on the Vortex map within the Shifting Sands province.
o The Gorebull skill tree should now use the correct icons.
o Fixed a typo in Balthasar Gelt’s Metal to Gold to Magic skill description.
o Fixed a typo in Helman Ghorst’s Unnatural Toughness skill description.
o The text in the “How They Play” screen for Clan Angrund should now display correctly.
o Fixed a typo in Thorgrim Grudgebearer’s Grudge Against the Elves skill description.

Battle
o Fixed a bug that caused unit portholes to sometime become silhouettes when changing graphics settings during a battle.
o Added cast animations while Dark Elf Sorceress units on Dark Pegasus are flying.
o Fixed the unit portholes in battle when playing with Eyefinity, which weren’t displaying correctly at some resolutions.
o Fixed a bug which changed the fog and lighting in subterranean battles, when the player used the zoom key (“N” by default).
o Fixed the Amber Wizard voice over on the battlefield (he was previously silent in some cases).
o Fixed a typo in the High Elf Princess “Loose!” ability in English.
o Softened the edges of shadows in the far distance on battle maps.
o The intro for the “War Crown of Saphery” Quest battle will no longer be cut off abruptly when loaded through the campaign.
o Improved the melee sound effects when two Squig Herds attack each other.
o Removed some terrain that would appear and disappear depending on camera angle from the Crooked Fang Fort map.
o Fixed an issue with text alignment in Russian and Czech on The Laboratory screen.
o Exiting the Steam overlay will no longer un-pause the game when in battle.
o Corrected a broken texture on Kholek Suneater’s tail.
o Fixed some missing textures on the Orc Boyz’s teeth and hair.
o Female Glade Lords should now play an animation when firing whilst moving.
o Adjusted lava visuals to remove extremes that caused lava to show as either too dark or too bright.
o Lords with long names should now fit correctly in the text box within the post-battle screen.
o Fixed some black textures on some of the Warriors of Dragonfire Pass (RoR) Dwarf units.

General AI changes

• AI to respect climates a little more when making an occupation decision
• AI to use normal personalities on normal difficulty (not easy variants)
• Increased AI priority to attack forces
• Defensive personalities behave slightly more defensive
• Minor improvements to general AI strategic behaviour
• AI switch from early to mid-game behaviour earlier (makes AI more active on map and diplomacy)
• AI more likely to declare war on factions that own victory condition regions
• Added AI victory condition regions for a few Mortal Empire factions
• Reduced chance of AI using Request and Offer Join War diplomatic action
• Skaven now included in Great Power mechanic

Auto-Resolver changes

• Auto-Resolver damage output now constant
• Fixed Auto-Resolver producing invincible units in very rare cases
• Fixed Auto-Resolver not counting reinforcements correctly in some cases

Difficulty changes

o Reduced upkeep bonus for AI
o Removed economy bonus for AI (reduced late game scaling of AI economies)
o Increased recruitment capacity for AI based on difficulty
o Reduced construction and recruitment cost for AI based on difficulty
o Removed free technologies for AI and scaled based on difficulty
o Research rate reduced for AI based on difficulty.

Greenskins:
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 Steady low increase of fightiness for AI Greenskins
 Increased recruitment capabilities for Greenskins
 Minor improvements to construction and recruitment

Norsca:
o
 Reduced income
 Reduced financial budget in the early game

Battle changes

• Minor reduction to MD gain from unit rank increases.
• Minor cost increase to unit rank increases.
• Bracing bonus now caps at 6 ranks, previously 7.
• Tower firing rates increased.
• Minor increase in vigour recovery when idle.
• All breath attack cooldown times increased to 60s and damage reduced or shifted from single-target damage to area of effect damage.
• Note that most accuracy changes below are very minor adjustments.
• Reduced the attack rate of chariots when repeatedly colliding with the same target.
• Infantry characters should now be knocked around less frequently than before.
• Flammable units now only -25% flame weakness.
• Category caps: max 9 for missile inf, monsters & beasts, cavalry & chariots. Doomwheels limited to max 2 in Quick Battle.

Unit Balancing

Beastmen
• Bestigor: +50 mp cost, -1 MD
• Ungor Herd: -1 leadership, +1 CB
• Ungor Spearmen Herd: -1 HP
• Ungor Spearmen Herd (Shields): -1 leadership, -1 HP, -25 cost
• Gor Herd: +1 MD, +2 speed, +50 mp cost
• Gor Herd (Shields): +1 MA, +2 speed, +50 mp cost
• Centigors (all): -2 HP
• Centigors Great Weapons: removed splash attacks (reduces inconsistent power spikes in some matchups), +2 CB
• Razorgor Herd: +6 HP, +3 leadership
• Manticore: -0.4 attack interval
• Cygor: -10 marksmanship
• Giant: +410 HP
• Khazrak: -50 cost.

Bretonnia
• Most melee infantry: +1 to 2 HP
• Spearmen-at-Arms (Shields): -25 mp cost
• Men-at-Arms (Shields): -25 mp cost
• Men-at-Arms (Polearm): -25 mp cost
• Foot Squires: +1 speed
• Peasant Bowmen (Fire Arrows): -50 cost, -2 regular projectile damage, +1 AP damage
• Peasant Bowmen (Pox Arrows): -50 cost
• Knights Errant: +3 HP, +2 CB
• Questing Knights: -6 CB, +2 MA, +1 base damage, +2 ap damage, +0.1 attack interval,
• Grail Guardians: -3 regular damage, +4 AP damage, +1 MA, +2 CB, +2 HP, -5 speed, +50 mp cost
• Grail Knights: -3 regular damage, +3 AP damage, -2 MA, -2 CB
• Mounted Yeomen Archers: Minor accuracy buff
• Pegasus Knights: + mass, +4 CB,
• Pegasi (all): +10 ground speed
• Royal Hippogryph Knights: +2 MD, -4 regular damage, +9 AP damage
• Trebuchet: + accuracy, + 10 explosion damage, +5 explosion AP damage
• All artillery crew: +3 HP
• Green Knight: Now armour-piercing. -150 base damage, +120 ap damage. -40 armour. Dolourous Blade redesigned synergise with AP damage profile. -50 cost.
• Louen – Hippogryph +100 cost.
• Alberic: +3 melee attack
• Brt Paladin: -25 cost reduction. -75 cost for Pegasus.

Chaos
• Chaos Warriors: +2 MA
• Chosen (all): +1 HP
• Chosen GW: +2 MA, +2 MD, +2 AP damage, +50 mp cost
• Chosen Halberds: +1 HP (in addition to the +1 above)
• Marauder Horsemen (Jav & Axe): Minor buffs to mobility
• Marauder Horsemen: -25 mp cost, +2 MD
• Chaos Knights (all): +2 HP
• Chaos Knights (Lances): -1 regular damage, +1 AP damage
• Gorebeast Chariot: +2 MA, +2 MD
• Hellcannon: Reworked homing missile parameters (higher accuracy), -15 ammo, roughly -20% reload time and damage
• (The inconsistent damage output of this weapon was very fitting for the faction, but not the most fun to play with. More shots per minute, higher accuracy and less damage make it a bit more predictable while reducing the benefit of using manual fire mode.)
• Manticore: -100 cost, +5 regular damage, +10 AP damage, -0.4 attack interval (the latter applied to all mount variants too)
• Dragon Ogres: +2 Leadership, +2 MD
• Kholek & Dragon Ogre Shaggoth: -2 CB
• Kholek Suneater: +100 cost
• Giant: +410 HP
• Dragon mounts: +100 cost
• Archaon (foot): +15 base damage, +35 ap damage, +2 max splash attack targets.
• Archaon – Dorghar: +15 base damage, +35 ap damage, +2 max splash attack targets. +328 health.
• Sigvald: +40 base damage, +20 ap damage. +248 health. +100 cost
• Chaos Lords (Foot, Chaos Steed, Manticore): +20 base damage, +20 ap damage, +5% health. +100 cost.

Dark Elves
• Black Ark Corsairs: +50 cost
• Shades: +50 cost
• Shades (DS & GW): +2 CB
• Witch Elves: poison speed debuff reduced to -20%, duration reduced by 1s, -3 Leadership
• Reaper Bolt Thrower: +2 speed, +10 range
• Cold One Dread Knights: +4 MD
• War Hydra: +100 HP & Another Takes Its Place +1 max use.
• Dreadlords: Dark Pegasus mount cost reduced by 50.
• Morathi: Sulephet mount cost reduced by 50.
• Malekith – Seraphon: +150 cost.
• Dragon mounts: +100 cost

Dwarfs
• Longbeards: -2 CB, -2HP, +40 mass
• Longbeards GW (all): +1 regular damage, -1 AP damage, -2 HP, +40 mass
• Warriors of Dragonfire Pass: -2 MD
• Ironbreakers (all): +2 HP, +2 AP damage, +70 mass
• Rangers: -2 MD, + acceleration
• Bugman’s Rangers: +4 MA, +4 HP, + charge defence vs Large, + acceleration, +10 mass
• Irondrakes: -100 mp cost
• Gyrocopter (Brimstone): + accuracy
• Gyrobomber & Gyrocopter: Lowered active duration of bomb ability, allowing rapid dropping
• Gyrobomber & Skyhammer: +10 ground speed, Clattergun rebalanced, now it is a small cannon shooting small explosives, improving performance vs inf
• Skyhammer: +50 cost, -5 reload, slight reduction to accuracy
• Grudgethrower: + accuracy, +10 explosion damage
• Organ Gun: +100 cost, – accuracy
• Flame Cannon: +30 range, +10 explosion AP damage, projectile tweaks
• Thane: +50 mp cost
• Unless where mentioned otherwise, all Infantry and Missile Infantry apart from Rangers: +20 mass
• All artillery crew: +2 HP
• Runelord: +50 cost

Empire
• Flagellants: +7 MA, -4 base damage, +75 cost.
• Tattersouls: -6 CB, +5 MA, -2 base damage, +125 cost.
• Halberdiers: +1 AP damage
• Greatswords: +2 MA, +1 speed
• Crossbowmen: +1 regular projectile damage
• Empire Knights: -50 mp cost, +4HP, +2 MD
• Reiksguard: -2 regular damage, +2 AP damage
• Demigryphs Lances: -50 mp cost, +12 HP
• Demigryphs Halberds & Altdorf Gryphites: +12 HP, -3 BvsL
• Pistoliers: +1 missile damage, +5 HP, +2 MD
• Outriders (all): slight increase to firing arc
• Outriders: +1 projectile AP damage
• Outrider (Grenade Launcher): +2 HP, +10 range, +1 explosion AP damage, +6 projectile damage
• (Projectile damage on the grenades is a secondary factor as most of the damage comes from the explosion. The damage buff here merely improves the overall damage output against larger unarmoured targets, making the unit a bit more versatile.)
• Mortar: -50 cost, -1s reload time, + accuracy
• Helblaster: fire anim duration length reduced and projectile rebalanced (read: strong buff), +2 speed
• Helstorm: +2 speed
• Steamtank: +15 damage, +25 AP damage, -2 speed, +12 charge speed, +15m charge distance
• Luminark of Hysh: -100 cost
• All artillery crew: +3 HP
• Empire Wizards: reduced mount costs by -100 (except for Amber Wizard Griffin)
• Emp General: mount costs for warhorses and Pegasus reduced by 50.
• Emp Captain: -25 cost reduction -75 cost for Pegasus.
• Boris Todbringer – Pegasus: -50 cost.
• Karl Franz (foot, horse, Pegasus): +40 ap base damage, -20 base damage.
• Karl Franz on DeathClaw: +55 ap damage, -15 base damage.

High Elves
• White Lions: +1 regular damage, -1 AP damage
• Archers (all): -accuracy
• Silver Helms: +1 HP
• Dragon Princes: +50 mp cost
• Great Eagle: -31 regular damage, +31 AP damage , +4MA, +2 MD
• Great Eagle mounted characters: similar shift from regular damage to AP damage
• Ithilmar Chariot: +2 MA, +2 MD
• Eagle Claw Bolt Thrower: +2 speed, +10 range
• Dragon mounts: +100 cost

Lizardmen
• Chameleon Skinks: -2 MD
• Kroxigors: +2 BvsI
• Horned Ones: +2 speed, +2 MD
• Bastiladon Revivivification Crystal: -3 casts
• Terradon: +10 ground speed
• Carnosaur (all): – mass, + hitbox size, +0.2 attack interval
• Skink Chief: -18 blowpipe ammo
• Kroq-gar (Grymloq): Reduced missile resistance to 15%. -5 armour.
• Kroq-Gar on foot & cold/horned one: +7 bonus vs large, +50 cost. +5% health.
• Old Blood (Carnosaur): -5 armour.
• Saurus Old Blood (Foot, Cold One): +50 cost, +5% health.
• Scar-Veteran (Carnosaur): -2 charge bonus, -5 base damage, -10 ap damage, -5 armour, removed Primal Instincts.
• Scar-Veteran (Cold-One): +2 charge bonus, +15 bonus vs. large, +7 base damage, +3 ap damage.
• Scar-Veteran: -150 base damage, +130 ap damage, -5 bonus vs. large.

Skaven
• Doomwheel: +50 mp cost, – charge speed, -3 MA, +10 regular damage, -20 AP damage, collision attack tweaks
• Night Runners & Gutter Runners (Throwing Stars): No longer ignore shields
• Stormvermin (Both): +1 HP
• All artillery crew: +3 HP

Greenskins
• Orc Boyz: +2 MA, -1 MD
• Savage Orc Big Uns & Boar Boy Big Uns: +2 leadership
• Arachnarok Spider: -100 mp cost, missile range increased to 100.
• Giant: +410 HP
• Rock Lobbers: + accuracy
• All artillery crew: +3 HP
• Grimgor Ironhide: +5 armour, +60 ap melee damage, -10 base damage.
• Orc Shaman: -50 cost for boar mount.

Woodelves
• Eternal Guard: -1 HP
• Dryads: -2 HP, -1 MA
• Wardancers (all): -2 HP
• Wardancers (Asrai Spears): + 1MD
• Wildwood Rangers: +2 MD
• Glade Guard Hagbane: -50 mp cost
• Glade Guards (all): +2 ammo, removed magical attacks, +1 HP
• Deepwood Scouts (all): +2 speed, +3 HP
• Deepwood Scouts Swiftshiver: -5 range
• Waywatchers: -1s reload, + projectile speed, +1 HP, +2 MA, +2 ammo, +1 CB, + acceleration
• Glade Riders Hagbane: removed magical attacks
• Great Eagle: -31 regular damage, +31 AP damage, +4MA, +2 MD
• Great Eagle mounted characters: similar shift from regular damage to AP damage
• Hawk Riders: +10 ground speed, + mass, -1s reload, +2 CB, +6 HP
• Sisters of the Thorn: +8 models, -12 HP, +1 regular damage, +50 cost.
• Treekin: -3 regular damage, +6 AP damage, +15% missile resist
• Treeman: Charge Defense vs Large exchanged for Charge Defense vs all, -30 regular damage, +30 ap damage, +15% missile resist
• Ancient Treeman: Charge Defense vs Large exchanged for Charge Defense vs all, -21 regular damage, +21 AP damage, +5 leadership, +932 HP
• Durthu: +932 HP
• Female Glade Lord on Forest Dragon: +10% missile resist (to fix inconsistency)
• Glade Lords (all): +100 mp cost

Vampires
• Cairn Wraith: +4 CB
• Hellsteeds (all): +10 ground speed
• Black Knights: +2 MA, -1 regular damage, +1 AP damage, -0.1 attack interval
• Black Knights (L&B): -50 mp cost, +2 CB
• Verek’s Reavers: +2CB
• Hexwraiths: +4 speed
• Vargheists: +7 ground speed, -3 regular damage, +3 AP damage
• Varghulf: +20 damage, +40 ap damage, +0.6 attack interval, -5 CB, +2 MA, +4 MD, +50 mp cost
• (The overall goal of these changes is for the Varghulf to be able to spend more time in combat / cost less cycle-charge micro. Fewer but stronger attacks per minute make the Varghulf less susceptible to loss of vigour.)
• Corpse Cart: -100 mp cost
• Grave Guard (GW): +3 CB
• Terrorgheist: +15% breath attack damage
• Dragon mounts: +100 cost

Abilities:
o Slightly reduced durations for physical resistance buffs.
o Small balance tweaks to improve abilities that affect melee damage.
o Added wind-up times to abilities that with a damage component to give players a chance to react.
o Adjusted base ability recharge times to 60, 90 and 120 seconds to reduce cost effectiveness of tier 1 abilities and increase cost effectiveness of tier 3 abilities.
o Removed initial recharge from abilities with the exception of army abilities and abilities that rely on initial recharge for a mechanic.
o Rebalanced net spells and abilities:
o Tweaks to durations for all abilities with a can’t move effect.
o Net of Amyntok has had effect radius removed. Upgraded Net of Amyntok now adds 30m Effect Radius instead of doubling duration.
o Tempest now reduces speed by 72% rather than a can’t move effect.
o Tormentor Sword no longer needs to be in melee to recharge. Duration reduced considerably.
o Max 3 uses on Prey of Anath-Raema.
o Max 2 uses on Effagee of da Git.
o Abilities that grant Full Hide and Unspottable now last longer.
o Abilities that modify morale positively last longer.
o Cold-Blooded: doubled duration, halved healing per second to make debuff more meaningful.
o Flash Bomb (Grombrindal): rebalanced as a tier 2 ability.
o Grombrindal Has No Fear: is now free in custom and automatically on Papa Grom.
o Warpbomb and Dark conduit: reduced damage by 13%.
o Mark of KhorneFlakes: Changed to common, cost reduced to 81.
o Hold the Line: Changed to common, cost reduced to 81.
o Removed max targets 3 from Chaos Tomb Blade.

Spells:
• Adjusted recharge times. Tier 1 spells have around 20% longer recharge times and tier 3 spells have 20% shorter recharge times on average.
• Soulblight & Upgraded power cost -1
• Dweller’s Below & Upgrade power cost -2
• Piercing Bolts of Burning changed to fully armour-piercing and increased projectile damage to increase damage against high hit point entities (and overkill basic infantry). Think of the spell now as an elite-killer.
• Flame Storm: increased radius to 10m. Adjusted damage down to balance vortex to new radius.
• Flame Storm Upgraded: Replaced radius increase with more damage.
• Fate of Bjuna: +1 power cost.
• Savage Dominion: Summoned Cygor unbinds 20% faster.
• Plague: -1 power cost.
• Plague Upgraded: -2 power cost.

Modding

• Added functionality for modders to dynamically load scripting mods to avoid mod conflicts with these types of mods.
o Technical Details:
You can now place a “mod” folder inside any of these 3 pack file directories:
 script/campaign
 script/campaign/main_warhammer
 script/campaign/wh2_main_great_vortex
Placing a .lua script file inside a folder named “mod” in any of the above folders will have it be loaded and the game will attempt to run any function inside the script file that has the same name as the script file.

o Examples:
Creating a script file in this path “script/campaign/wh2_main_great_vortex/mod/mymod.lua” will have this script file be loaded when in the Vortex campaign, the game will then execute a script function inside this file that is called “mymod” if it exists.
Creating a script file in this path “script/campaign/mod/cool_mod.lua” will have this script file be loaded when in any campaign, the game will then execute a script function inside this file that is called “cool_mod” if it exists.

The Reprisal Update and The Laboratory - December 14, 2017

Today's patch sees the Reprisal Update leave beta at last, adding the Foundation Update from the first Total War: Warhammer to the sequel's Mortal Empires mega-campaign. On top of that we've got The Laboratory, a custom battle creator sporting such fun options as turning off gravity, increasing explosions and making units bigger. Awesome stuff. This'll be the last patch of the year for Warhammer II, so make it count.

• Foundation Update Integration

• Warriors of Chaos design changes (see original Foundation Update notes for details)
• Wood Elf followers
• Empire Startpos overhaul (full province ownership at start of campaign)
• New skill trees and campaign effects for Old World Legendary Lords

New Additions

• 5 New skill-tree skills for Helman Ghorst
• Immortality skill added to Old World characters
• Bordeleaux now begins at war with Mousillon (yay!)
• Plus a handful of bugfixes

• Bugfixes added to Reprisal Update:

• Added more colour-blind support to UI elements.
• Vampire Counts can now raise dead in the New World.
• Improved artillery ability to target siege walls in certain cases in battle.
• The Campaign victory objective Ensure ‘Archaon is in a wounded state’ while playing as the Bloody Handz no longer reverts to incomplete if a save file is loaded.
• Rogue armies now spawn correctly while playing on Legendary Difficulty.
• Fixed a bug where any number of heroes could be recruited after unlocking the Engineer’s Workshop, Gromril Forge or Mustering hall as Ungrim.
• Added an effect to Lord Skrolk’s Plaguelord skill at tier 2 to allow recruitment of Plague Priests in all provinces.
• In Multiplayer Campaign, the defeat screen will now show correctly when the other player wins the campaign.
• The Thirteenth Scheme Rite now correctly gives Heroes 13% increased success chance.
• The Cloud save option is now greyed out in Multiplayer Campaign save menu, because they are not supported there.
• Wood Elves can now Confederate in Multiplayer Campaign with other Elf factions.
• The Runefang Quest Battle for Karl Franz has been fixed in Multiplayer Campaign.
• Beastmen siege equipment no longer shows as Empire Siege equipment on their unit cards.
• Fixed a progression blocker caused by the “Life in the Lagoon” dilemma.
• Fixed a progression blocker / soft lock during the AI’s turn in Campaign.
• Improved how water on the battlefield is handled when changing the resolution scale. Water will now not appear as incorrectly opaque at lower scales.
• The Engineering Student Ancillary is no longer removed from the lords’ inventory list once unassigned (applies to new playthroughs).
• Dilemmas will no longer appear abruptly alongside advice (conflicting with each other).
• Fixed a bug where moving the camera on the far-right side of the Mortal Empires camping map would cause the screen to render as black, until the camera is moved away from – that location.
• Cold One Chariots now have blood when in prolonged combat.
• Fixed an audio bug where the explosion sound of a bombardment impact wouldn’t trigger in some cases.
• Settlement defence tower levels will now be effective in battle.
• Improvement to Campaign AI to capture more settlements being targeted.
• Improved the Death Wind Globadiers unit texture.
• More variation to the music when fighting rogue armies in battle (previously only Chaos music was playing).
• The Cold One mount on the campaign map will no longer make death vocalization sounds while idle.
• Improved the Def Bolt Thrower destruction animation.
• When entering the final Vortex battle as Morathi, the correct voice will now play (Morathi’s instead of Malekith’s).
• Improved a clipping issue on one of the Chaos Chosen shoulder armour variants.
• Improved the audio when a Skink Cohort javelin unit engages in melee combat.
• Improved the audio on the Saurus spear and shield jumping attack.
• Added more campaign selection vocalizations.
• Brayherds no longer suffer attrition at all times due to not owning a home region (they are a Horde which cannot own a home region).
• Heinrich Kemmler’s Cloak of Mists & Shadows quest will now trigger correctly.
• Grombrindal’s event effects have been fixed.
• Added a button to access the Total War Academy to the games main menu (top left).
• Fixed a bug where the player could incorrectly construct 2 gate defences at the Dwarven settlement Wurtbad.

Patch "Mortal Empires" - October 26

The first update for Total War: WARHAMMER II contains a host of changes, tweaks, improvements and fixes, as well as the massive Mortal Empires combined campaign. 

GENERAL

• RELEASED Mortal Empires
• RELEASED Blood for the Blood God for WARHAMMER II
• FIXED multiple crashes
• FIXED multiple MPC desyncs
• FIXED multiple localisation issues in multiple languages

CAMPAIGN GAMEPLAY

• ADDED Siege defence tower projectile upgrades for WH2 factions to defence buildings
• ADDED additional Dilemmas that will trigger when your Dark Elf or Skaven Lords are very high on loyalty. Also, added over a dozen magic items that are specific rewards for Dark Elf and Skaven high-loyalty dilemmas
• ADDED functionality for tutorial notifications to respond to Esc key presses to dismiss/acknowledge them
• ADDED multiple new buildings: 

  • Empire

    • Castle Reikguard (Altdorf)
    • Imperial Palace (Altdorf)
    • Imperial Academy
    • Roads and Toll Gates

  • Greenskins

    • Big Fort (Black Crag)
    • Dork’s Rock (Black Crag)
    • Chaos Troll Lair (Erengrad)
    • Raiding Caches

  • Vampire Counts

    • Major reshuffle of recruitment buildings
    • Terrorgheists and Wraith units have separate recruitment buildings
    • Awakened Battlefield
    • Blood Keep (Nuln)
    • Fortress of Merovech (Mousillon)
    • Drakenhof Court (Drakenhof)

  • Dwarfs

    • Karaz-a-Karak Airport (Karaz-a-Karak)
    • Bugman’s Brewery (Karag Dromar)
    • Grand Underway Junction (Karak Eight Peaks)

  • Wood Elves

    • Elven Court
    • Elven Healer
    • Ability to fully occupy Lothern
    • Ability to construct a variant of the Everqueen’s Court in Gaean Vale
    • Office-related buildings are now restricted to a specific Athel Loren settlement

  • Most races

    • Buildings to exploit the new resources
    • Merged resource-based unit upgrade effects into resource exploitation buildings

• CHANGED Morathi and Malekith’s skills to spread the owning faction’s corruption, instead of starting faction’s corruption. This means that if Morathi is confederated to Malekiths faction, she will not continue to spread Chaos corruption
• FIXED multiple region borders that were preventing factions from being able to trade with one another, especially if their capital was on an island
• CHANGED the difficulty of the final battle when initiated by the AI (by them completing their fifth ritual). The battle will now feature an additional army led by the race’s other Legendary Lord
• CHANGED Black Arks from being part of the army upkeep penalty. Black Arks now do not factor in to the Supply Lines modifier
• FIXED Blessed Units not receiving the effects of certain Technologies, Skills or Astromancy stance
• IMPROVED – breaking treaties will now have a stronger immediate effect on affected relationships
• IMPROVED campaign AI intervention army decision-making for which sites to siege. Now more likely choose the non-primary Ritual locations if closer to them
• IMPROVED campaign AI logic for building up existing forces instead of creating new ones
• IMPROVED campaign AI occupation decisions for main targets when temporarily distracted by other objectives
• IMPROVED ambush help page information
• IMPROVED behaviour of advice when a dilemma is triggered
• IMPROVED calculated strength of Lords versus lower quality infantry. They were too strong before
• CHANGED “Piracy” event to not trigger if player owns Sartosa region
• CHANGED diplomacy to allow peace to be made between races in the Vortex ritual race after the campaign has been won
• CHANGED max number of traits a character can hold to 30 from 20
• FIXED a bug where entering a battle with heavily damaged units often resulted these units getting wiped out after autoresolving the battle even if they didn’t suffer any losses during the battle
• FIXED a case where Rebel armies would assault a settlement repeatedly rather than making the decision to raze it
• FIXED a soft lock which would occur when the player reached 10 turns left of the final ritual at the same time as another faction triggers the final battle
• FIXED agent success chance modifiers sometimes being applied to own heroes as well as enemy
• FIXED an issue in the diplomacy AI where the player’s treachery rating wasn’t considered correctly and this made some parts of diplomacy exploitable
• FIXED an issue with the AI proposing peace right after entering a war with the player
• FIXED cases where embedded Heroes would be selected at the end of the player’s turn and then immediately unselected
• FIXED cases where followers would disappear after unequipping them from a character
• FIXED cases where unique items could be awarded via random events (e.g. Encounters at Sea)
• FIXED Cave In Achievement not unlocking when player completed requirement in game
• FIXED Legacy of the Great Necromancer Achievement not unlocking when player completed requirement in game
• FIXED Encounters at Sea sometimes spawning in unreachable locations
• FIXED Lords recruited from Black Arks after achieving a Vortex Campaign victory not gaining any additional levels that should be granted
• FIXED Mazdamundi AI skill selection to prefer his unique skills more
• FIXED missing effects on some ancillaries/followers
• FIXED missions being issued while the issuing character was not available
• FIXED pre-battle camera scene not working correctly when the player was reinforcing an AI ally with their Garrison force
• FIXED public order and tax exemption on fortress gate regions resetting when the region changes owner
• FIXED Skaven tech to increase new Lords Loyalty not affecting Lords already in the selection pool
• FIXED some cases where the AI would repeatedly ask for almost the same deal
• FIXED targeting intervention forces for missions requesting the player to make an alliance
• FIXED units garrisoned in a settlement that is affected by Plague not receiving the Plague attrition

BATTLE GAMEPLAY  

• FIXED cases of units dropping attack orders (and therefore not pursuing fleeing enemies)
• FIXED units in guard mode stopping attacking if current melee enemy Rampages
• FIXED Screaming Bell being incorrectly marked as a small unit. It is now correctly considered a large unit
• ADDED 7 new Free-for-All maps
• IMPROVED Dragon breath targeting versus dispersed multiple entity units
• IMPROVED battle AI usage of spells in many cases
• IMPROVED flying unit ability to chase down routing units
• IMPROVED the playable area and deployment zone sizes on Troll Country FFA
• CHANGED Army losses morale penalty to not trigger in FFA battles. This change keeps players involved in the match for longer.
• CHANGED Faction banner colour for enemy in Dwarf Gouger quest battle to improve readability
• CHANGED Liber Bubonicus quest battle time limit. Added 3 minutes.
• CHANGED unit spawning (e.g. Verminitide) behaviour. Stops cases where the spawned unit would swarm single entities and gain excessive attack frequency
• FIXED a case of attacking Siege AI not properly attacking when there is no siege equipment
• FIXED a corner wall piece in a Dark Elf city where siege towers would fail to dock
• FIXED a scripting issue which would cause the AI enemy army in the Rod of Corruption quest battle to not correctly respond to artillery fire
• FIXED a staircase in Lothern Siege battle map which would cause chariots to spontaneously combust
• FIXED an exploit where you could cast some spells repeatedly for free if giving a move order during spell wind up. YUKANNADUZAT!
• FIXED battle difficulty not applying correctly when chosen on campaign select screen
• FIXED being able to bypass some Army Ability restrictions by casting on the Unit Cards
• FIXED Bombardment spells not being counted correctly towards Free-for-All player scores
• FIXED Bombardment spells sometimes not exploding on collision with certain terrain
• FIXED defending siege AI reinforcements sometimes not being handled correctly by AI
• FIXED enemy units sometimes rallying in intro battle when they shouldn’t
• FIXED CA Cinematics Team’s obsession with slaying High Elves. May require further testing…
• FIXED magic missile spells from bound items casting exploit if owner was a non-wizard Lord
• FIXED Siege tower fire rates being too fast
• FIXED some bound Vortex spells being able to be casted on walls when they should be restricted from doing so
• FIXED some cases where defender reinforcements would not arrive in siege and minor settlement battles
• FIXED some missing collision on obstacles in a few battle maps
• FIXED rebirth effects not triggering properly if unit was routing

UI

• FIXED hidden Skaven armies being visible by toggling on the Character names UI option
• CHANGED UI for swapping between lores if your caster had multiple. This is to avoid overlap with army abilities.
• ADDED spacing to Legendary Lord select images to denote races differentiation better
• CHANGED Enemy Army colour in MP battles to be red rather than pink
• CHANGED predicted public order overlay to work off only 3 colours which shows if public order is going up, down or remaining neutral
• FIXED “Enemy siege lifted” event in event list missing icon
• FIXED 3D banners sometimes being visible for garrisoned armies when in zoomed out strategic view
• FIXED a case where MPC players had access to interventions when it was not their turn
• FIXED a UI issue where only the Commandment button would be visible after closing the Rites panel if the Settlement panel was previously selected
• FIXED adding skill points in some cases resetting the scroll back to the left
• FIXED assembly kit downloaded map not being auto-selected in MP lobby
• FIXED ‘can trade’ icon in Known Factions list displaying incorrectly if you could trade but currently were not with a faction
• FIXED dilemmas sometimes appearing again after the player had already responded
• FIXED double clicking a ruin in strategic view revealing Skaven presence by opening the faction diplomacy screen
• FIXED error message that would show when trying to join a Multiplayer Campaign lobby for a save game you did not previously take part in
• FIXED Event message not being generated when losing a Lord or Army during end turn
• FIXED exiting out of diplomacy after offer an is rejected putting camera back in overview instead of where it was previously
• FIXED incorrect reason given for not being able to perform rites when the player’s capital was not available
• FIXED missing image in the Spells Browser for Skink Priest Avatar
• FIXED Murderous Prowess UI not flashing for duration of ability active state
• FIXED pressing the Home key during the post-battle camera scene allowing the camera to navigate away
• FIXED Quick-save UI button being disabled in the pre-battle screen when the player is reinforcing an allied AI army attacking an enemy settlement
• FIXED resource UI bar appearing during end turn after retreating from a battle
• FIXED Settlement pre-battle options refresh for attacking player if another player is reinforcing them and selects a pre-battle option first
• FIXED Softlock if opened rites panel whilst on the call-to-arms screen
• FIXED the displayed upkeep value for units sometimes displaying incorrectly once recruited
• FIXED Unit banners for flying units sometimes being missing when entering the tactical map mode in underground battles

VISUAL/GRAPHICS

• ADDED the ability to disable post-process sharpen in Advanced graphics options
• FIXED video playback having issues with High refresh rate monitors which would make the game unplayable when running at very high refresh rates (144+ Hz)
• ADDED default graphics quality preset detection for AMD VEGA GPUs
• CHANGED level of post-process sharpen effect to be weaker
• CHANGED WH1 race ship models to all use larger variants like WH2 races
• FIXED visual glitch that would occur with water if resolution scale was set below 100%
• FIXED visual noise glitch in SSAO
• FIXED cases of Lords in pre-battle scenes being too large and colliding with each other
• FIXED multiple minor animation glitches
• FIXED Spearmen unit in Tor Elithis Rogue army T-Posing
• FIXED White Lions of Chrace models having black spots on fur when camera was further away from them

AUDIO

• ADDED some new UI Sound Effects
• FIXED Audio being muted during end turn sequence camera pans
• FIXED Campaign music sometimes not blending between tracks correctly
• FIXED Music slider not affecting campaign music
• FIXED occurrences of campaign map audio not updating correctly when corruption took hold of a region

BATTLE BALANCING

General Balancing changes

• Rampage tweaks (kicks in 5% of HP lost later, reduced duration by 10s, tweaked pause between repeated rampages)
• Tweaks to rear attack melee defence modifier
• Reduced MP cost of melee lords on foot and horses by -50

Skaven

• Warpfire Throwers -50 cost, +5% reload speed
• Night Runners (Slings) +1 dmg
• Night Runners:  reduction in accuracy
• Night Runners (all) -5 hp, -5% physical resistance, -4 melee defence
• Gutter Runner Slingers +1 dmg
• Gutter Runners Slingers (Poison) +1 dmg
• Gutter Runners:  reduced projectile accuracy
• Gutter Runners (Poison): reduced projectile accuracy
• Gutter Runners (all) -5% physical resistance, -3 hp, -4 melee defence
• Death Globe Bombardier +2 dmg, +4 AP dmg, +1 explosion dmg, +2 explosion AP dmg
• Hellpit Abomination +5 BvsL, +3 MA, tweaks to attack animation preference
• Warp Lightning Cannon – accuracy (minor tweak)
• Doomwheel -100 HP
• Plague Priest on Plague Furnace: +100 mp cost
• Skavenslaves: more salt added to diet; now 25% more delicious

Lizardmen

• Terradon with Fireleech Bolas +10 range, projectile tweaks
• Horned Ones -100 cost, -5 armour, +14 HP
• Kroq-Gar – Horned One: +5% HP
• Slann Mage Priests and Mazdamundi on Palanquin +25% missile resistance

High Elves

• Swordmasters -2 MD
• Phoenix Guard -4 MA, -1 Speed, tweaks that will slightly reduce damage output
• Silver Helms (all) +2 CB, +2 dmg
• Tiranoc Chariot -2 missile dmg, +2 missile ap dmg
• Dragon Princes -2 HP
• Sun Dragon +4 MD, more breath attack damage
• Moon Dragon +2 MD, slightly more breath attack damage
• Black Dragon +2 MD
• Lothern Sea Guards (all) +2 MA
• Flamespyre Phoenix +2 MA, +3 leadership, +4 CB
• Frostheart Phoenix +2 CB
• Great Eagle +5 ground speed
• Eagle Claw Bolt Thrower -25 hp on artillery piece
• Tyrion: +45% flame resistance
• Tyrion – Malhandrir: increased mass to match heavier hero warhorses
• Tyrion: +10 weapon strength, percentage of ap damage increased to 45%.
• Tyrion: Added Foe Seeker ability for multiplayer

Dark Elves

• Reaper Bolt Thrower -25 hp on artillery piece
• Dark Riders Xbow +50 cost
• Black Ark Corsairs Handbow -2 ammo, projectile tweaks (amounts to a minor nerf)
• Black Ark Corsairs (all) -1 HP
• Cold One Knights -0.1 attack interval
• Executioners -2 MD, -10 armour
• Black Guard -10 armour, tweaks that will slightly reduce dmg output
• War Hydra +5 CB
• Death Hag – Blood Cauldron: +100 MP cost

Special Abilities and Spells:

• Improved ability tooltips to contain more information about damage type
• Adjusted medium breath template damage by -10% (Wind Blast, Pestilent Breath, Sunfang)
• Added recharge in melee and removed max uses for Sunfang
• Comet of Casandora and Black Ark Cauldron explosions now reach their max radius (=slightly more damage)
• Adjusted Warp Lightning explosion damage by -23%. Reduced Warp Lightning cost to 5
• Adjusted Wake of Fire explosion damage by -33%
• Fate of Bjuna power cost increased by 1
• Crack’s Call power cost reduced by 1
• Cracks’s Call Upgraded power cost reduced by 1
• Apotheosis can now target self
• Liber Bubonicus limited to max 2 uses
• Fiery Convocation: reduced power cost by 1
• Death Frenzy & Upgraded: Removed charge bonus stat effect. Increased duration to 21. Reduced power costs by -1 and -2 respectively
• Flame Storm & Flame Storm Upgraded: Increased vortex movement speed to 4. Reduced power cost of regular by -1
• Snare Net: Removed additional charge speed reduction, reduced speed reduction to -18