Voor De Kroon News

Hello Everyone,

This update introduces the campaign objective system.

It allows you to add and customize objectives for your custom campaigns. These objectives are displayed on the paper map during the campaign, where their progress is tracked as you play. This makes campaigns more goal driven.

The system supports multiple objective types such as defeating factions, conquering specific settlements, gathering resources, surviving a set number of turns and maintaining public order. Objectives can also be assigned to specific factions, allowing faction-specific goals within a single campaign.

Legacy campaigns will be automatically converted to a single conquest objective. Adjusted campaign objectives for the default campaign will be added later this week.

The patch also improves file speed for campaign save games. When opening the save window for the first time expect a small hitch (If you already have a lot of saved games), after this the window should be smoother than ever.

Thank you all for the continued support!

If you have suggestions, bugs or just general ideas for the next update, feel free to join the discord or drop by in the discussions. Always happy to hear your input.

https://discord.com/invite/MQXFbqpWpW

Full Changelog

• Add objectives support to campaigns
  
• Add objective manager to campaign editor
  
• Add logic to account for signal instruments with visored and closed helmets
  
• Add logic to randomly open and close visor helmets on non officer units
  
• Greatly improve file performance of campaign game saves
  
• Decrease chance of castle house fire
  
• Fix a couple of small tooltip errors
  
• Fix possible crash related to Castle Creator
  

Hello everyone,

First update of 2026! It's a smaller one, but it adds urban houses for the castle creator and campaign modifiers. You can select modifiers before starting a campaign like unrestricted equipment, unrestricted units and rich starting resources. This will allow you to play around more with the entire feature set of the game without needing to dive into the editors.

Expect a fury of updates this month, as a lot is planned.

Thank you all for the continued support!

If you have suggestions, bugs or just general ideas for the next update, feel free to join the discord or drop by in the discussions. Always happy to hear your input.

https://discord.com/invite/MQXFbqpWpW

Changelog

• Add campaign modifiers: Can start campaign with specific modifiers or cheats to alter gameplay
  
• Add autopaint features to foliage types in castle creator: bushes ensure grass grows underneath, scattering hay will draw mud
  
• Add tournament assets to castle creator under festive category
  
• Add button to fire all unhappy units in a formation
  
• Add finishers for Danish axe
  
• Add urban houses to castle creator
  
• Add new rural house models
  
• Tweak player wounded finisher move logic
  
• Make AI formation lords more aggressive if player commander is not a lord
  
• Slightly tighten player rotation during attacking
  
• Fix potential crash when opening custom factions made with missing DLC pack
  
• Fix player sounds and FX on buffered combo actions
  
• Fix cost and protection level of Frisian Hat item
  

Hello Everyone!

The day after christmas, I hope you all had a wonderful time.

All round update this time with again the focus leaning on combat. It improves several faction editor elements while also fixing some critical issues and adding more weight to player combat on foot. Next to that it contains a variety of additions, fixes and improvements.

It doesn't contain as much as I would have liked, but the holidays slowed everything down a little. Expect things to go full speed ahead after the holidays.

Thank you all for the continued support!

If you have suggestions, bugs or just general ideas for the next update, feel free to join the discord or drop by in the discussions. Always happy to hear your input.

https://discord.com/invite/MQXFbqpWpW


Changelog

• Add small camera effects based on player state
  
• Add more weight to player movement during actions
  
• Add free officer join requests to the player faction during campaign
  
• Add improved faction names widget to faction editor
  
• Add animated warning to enemy formation icons when firing a volley
  
• Add more global combat flow logic to player combat on foot
  
• Add item stats tooltip widget to all items during campaign and editor
  
• Add specific shield taunt animation
  
• Add extra executions to simple two handed animation set
  
• Add visored great helmet 03 with painted variant to customization options
  
• Tweak attack animation transitions, add weight
  
• Automatically hide helmet for a short while when editing any face or hair features
  
• Allow full helmets on sergeant body with coif for customization purposes
  
• Lower charge strength of no saddle horse
  
• Small battle optimizations
  
• Slightly lower arrow bounce chance versus stick chance on shields
  
• Increase faction editor max zoom level
  
• Increase unit XP gain during auto resolve
  
• Increase scroll speed in faction editor dialogs when using controller
  
• Fix enforcement of max targeting distance on siege archers
  
• Fix AI faction management of ranged units
  
• Fix buffered dodge executing even when wounded
  
• Fix AI officers with open visor still using helmet voice
  
• Fix controller movement on horse
  
• Fix faction editor character animation on start
  
• Fix nose clipping on visored helmet 01 with head 02
  
• Fix cloth physics in faction editor
  
• Fix hair boxes behavior with hood bodies in faction editor
  
• Fix shield equipment bug on battle start when using custom sword and mounted
  
• Fix round shield color mask
  
• Fix formation range indicator size
  
• Fix small issue with perfect block followup attacks
  
• Fix crash related to unit banner pool in combination with one flag setting
  
• Fix crash related to campaign AI logic
  

Hello everyone!

It has been a wonderful year with a lot of meaningful updates, strong community interaction and plenty of valuable player feedback. This year introduced the castle creator, the unit editor, the sword editor, the loadout update, expansion of the main campaign map up to Flanders and a stream of improvements across almost every system.

I want to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy 2026.

Voor de Kroon is available with a 30 percent discount until January 5th.

Thank you to everyone who played and supported the game this year! I will see you next year for another year of medieval warfare.

Changelog

• Add subtle screen droplet effect in rainy weather: tied to high quality water setting
  
• Fix combat stances breaking during tournament
  
• Fix stance UI not showing in kampgevecht
  
• Fix falcon mode not showing siege engine icons
  
• Fix falcon flapping to be more smooth
  
• Fix formation officer reports during photo mode
  
• Fix parry repeating when holding the parry button
  
• Fix unit type callout audio not respecting visor open or closed state