Wars Across The World News

Naval

• (Naval movement) Entering and leaving a port does not consume Movement Points anymore.
  
• (Blockades) Now only combat units can trigger blockades
  

Air

• (Air movement) An attacking stack can now contains both units with a battle mission and with units with a strategic bombing missions. Bombing units will not participate in the battle, they will remain in the attacked region until strategic bombing has been performed.
  
• (Air Battle) All battle-specific combat factor modifiers are now ignored when a unit fights in the Air domain
  
  
• (Strategic bombing) It is now possible to set the strategic bombing status of units individually. Previously, only stacks containing only bombers could be given a strategic bombing mission. It is now also possible to deactivate strategic bombing for units after is has been activated, including when those units have reached their destination.
  
• (Strategic bombing) Removed bombing animation for bombers sent to regions with no income value - which means that there is nothing to bomb there
  
• (Strategic bombing) An icon is now displayed on units for which strategic bombing has been activated
  

Battles

• (Battle) Amphibious units are now allowed to attack without a leader and to join allied units that have already started a battle - same behaviour as paradrop units
  
• (Battle) The total combat factor modifier (excluding cards modifiers) is now forced into the [-4; 4] range
  
• (Battle) Added new tooltips
  
• (Battle Reports) Added indication that battle took place during a breakthrough
  
• (Retreat) Improved the way AI decides to which region it will retreat
  

PBEM

• (PBEM) Changed the way saves belonging to the same match are ordered, to avoid problems with opponent's computers time zones not being correctly synchronized
  

Various

• (Information Window) Added tooltip for the terrain of the region currently inspected
  
• (Fonts) Lighter use of the game's main font for better readability of some texts (notably in the options screens)
  
• (Localization) Added support for Japanese language. The core of the game and the scenario Malaya 1941 have been entirely translated
  
• (Localisation) Updated some translations
  

Windows and UI

• (Main Menu) Fixed an UI issue happening when the PBEM saves folder contained subfolders that do not correspond to an actual game match
  
• (Main Menu) Fixed localisation of local / PBEM saves tabs
  
• (Summary window) Fixed a bug where the game would not go past the Summary phase, without displaying the summary window. This bug appeared in scenarios where one of the sides initially owns no region
  
• (Summary window) Fixed a bug that caused this summary window to crash when a player does not own any region
  
• (Information Window) Fixed incorrect information displayed for regions containing not-supplied units
  
• (UI) Fixed a bug where human player was not able to do a region selection required by a card played by AI during AI turn (e.g. when the card « Corpo Truppo Voluntari » is played by the AI in scenario Spain 1936, or similar situations in Morat1476 or Fornovo1495)
  
• (Game Scene) Fixed missing tooltip on button opening the description of the current scenario
  

Cards

• (Cards) Improved AI during sieges so that its does not play too much cards on the same siege
  
• (Cards) Fixed bug with siege cards (e.g. such as « Hannibal Rhodos » in the scenario Hamilkar 264).
  

Supply

• (Supply) Fixed bug where the supply status of regions was not computed correctly. This could impact several aspects of the game, such as cards, reinforcements and victory conditions.
  

Movement

• (Naval movement) Fixed bug in scenario Armada 1588 where naval stacks suddenly disappeared from the Map.
  
• (Movement) Fixed bug where a stack without leader was allowed to enter a region with a non-fortified enemy structure containing units. This movement is actually an attack of the structure’s stack, so this is not allowed to a leader-less stack.
  
• (Movement) Fixed bug where air units returning to a carrier boat remained above the naval stack, thus making it impossible to move the stack afterwards
  
• (Movement) Fixed bug where merging two stacks, one of which containing units with 0 MP, would delete those units
  

Battles

• (Battle) Fixed bug with computation of cavalry superiority bonus when the battle involved no cavalry unit in one side and some anti-cavalry units in the other side
  

Sieges

• (Siege) Fixed bug with Terrain’s siege modifier not being applied in the correct direction
  
• (Sieges) Fixed bug where the siege window was not automatically closed during AI turns
  

Victory

• (Victory Conditions) Fixed a bug that prevented some victory conditions to be detected, causing the game to continue while one of the players should have won (e.g. victory condition based on tension index in scenario West Virginia 1861).
  

Various

• (Localisation) Fixed wrong tooltips displayed for camouflage stack button and for turn summary window
  

The May release (ok, we know, it's June and we are late!) is showing up tomorrow, taking the players to the First Anglo-Afghan war, in 1842.

The troops of the British East India Company will attempt to install by force a ruler favorable to their interests in Afghanistan, while the local Afghan Tribes will resist the move.

Will the attempt end in disaster, like historically? Or will YOU, as head of the British expedition, succeed in your mission?

It's now yours to discover in another war in Afghanistan!

With this month's release, we make you re-visit the early Renaissance, during the famous First War of Italy (late 15th century).

• French king Charles VIII invades the peninsula with his modern and strong army to claim the inheritance of the Kingdom of Naples.
  
• Facing him, the Italian League is weak and disunited, but thanks to the patient and wily diplomacy of Alexander VI, the Borgia Pope, it will manage to gather its forces and, possibly, expel the French from Italy.
  
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You can now take command of Knights, Swiss pikemen, Aragonese cabelleros, Condottieres and many other troops to fight for supremacy over the Italy of Michelangelo and Da Vinci.


OTHER NEWS
We also took opportunity of this release to make a large update of all the previous scenarios, with improvements, bug fixes and texts changes.

Today, we shall release the Spain 1936 DLC.

This is the biggest WAW scenario to date, with a massive campaign covering the whole of the Spanish Civil War, from its very begining in July 1936 till its end in 1939.

The game has hundreds of units, a large number of event cards (which you draw at the rate of 2 per turn), a big map covering all of Spain and the Baleares.

Based on the support each side will gather among the population, they will be able to mobilize more or less resources and assets to win this terrible civil war.

Foreign support and intervention is also factored, in addition to economics and politics.

Take control of Spain as the Nationalists, or prevent the 'Fascists' to overthraw the legal Republican government: ¡No Pasaran! (they shall not pass)

Arriba España