Crusade- now with 2.5x more demagogues!
Orcs- added a Slasher unit alongside the Ogre, still at Ironworking
Pirate Coves - can now be built in ocean, take a bit longer to mature, and have an extra maturation beyond pirate port!
Dragons - Breath Fire and Roar now more powerful. free blitz and waterwalking.
War Elephants - Strong vs Melee, weak vs recon.
Recon- scouts now get 100% vs animals, hunters get 75% vs animals, rangers still get 50% vs animals. Beastmasters start with Subdue beasts and Subdue animals.
Animal Mastery- no longer requires Ironworking, slightly more expensive tech
Nox Noctis - MUST be esus state religion to build. still built the same way (requires Den of Lies)
Chalid- requires Religious law -and- Fanatacism, reduced to 1 move
Kuriotates- early game bonus lowered, mid-late game bonus increased
Blind- now promotion applied. Elementals and Spirits are immune. there is a Shadow 3 counter-spell. (incidentally, Druid's entangle wasn't changed at all)
Druid's entangle may be unchanged ... but the forces of good an evil got a little boost.
Judecca enters the fray on the side of the Veil, at 300 base hammers, at 70 AC
Elijah joins to but a stop to Judecca, at 500 base hammers, requiring the Order holy city and state religion.
level 8 Priors can now become Patriachs ... powerful leaders of the Order state religion. (currently called Patriachs due to mis-spelling :/) however, only 1 Patriarch can be in play per team.
Sidar, master spies, fading into the mists, are officially 10x sneakier. at level 6 sidar units gain the Shroud ability instead of Wane, removing the invisibility of enemy soldiers. (only castable within borders). If sidar stay of the neutral alignment, they can run the Isolationism civic beginning with Feudalism.
Isolationism-> an extra +1 science to specialists, +100% experience within borders, no foreign trade routes, +20% war weariness, +20% GPP points
Hippus -> Arcane units gain horselord (art to join us in a future patch), @ Horsebackriding a new civic Pastoral, which boosts Pasture yields. As well, level 8 horse archers can upgrade to Hippus Lords at Feudalism. Needs a house of lords though, which requires 3 courthouses and a stables in the city.
Calabim -> Vampires are 6 str +15% vs melee, but with access only to body spells. With Sorcery level 6 vampires can upgrade to Vampire Mages, which start with death 2 and a few other spells ... and who are of the Adept unitcombat. Vampire Mages are the classic 5 strength. All vampires cost 200 hammers, currently. may change with testing. Added the "Soldier" unit at Ironworking, to help fill the garrison, and aid the vampires as their cannon fodder.
Soldier unit is 120 hammers, 5 str, and +20% city defense. (no reason to lower the cost of soldier due to governor's manors)
So now, it costs 26 exp worth of Population to become a mage. All other vampire units (brujahs, etc) start out with death 2.
Also, vampire mages can only upgrade into Archmages or Vampire Lords.
Sheaim -> Os Gabella gains Spiritual trait, Planar Gates are cheaper, and more useful. Sheaim have a UB for Prophecy of Ragnarok ... and it is
well worth the hammers. Pyre Zombies are delayed till sorcery, and their blast only takes a unit to 95% damage, not death. However, the Sheaim's mastery of skeletons has vastly increased ... skeletons now cost NOTHING to field into the fight, and cost no war weariness as well.
Death Axe is the Axeman UU for sheaim ... 50% chance of creating a skeleton from their opponent's remains.
Stigmata is now the "race" of sheaim, all sheaim units gain Stigmata promotion. With entropy 1, sheaim arcane units can join the Demon race.
Eaters of Dreams and Liches are both Immortal. (may change with testing, we will see ^_^ )
Amurites-> arcane line is boosted. Adepts can use bronze weapons and may upgrade along any unitcombat. Mages can use Iron weapons, Archmages can use Mithril weapons, start with 6 strength, and starts with Enchantment 3 and Twincast.
Strength of Will -> now teching to SoW on quickspeed is not always a waste! instead of waiting 30 extra turns or so for your best mage to get to level 6, now the
very first person that techs to SoW will gain a free level 1 archmage!
Illians -> all Illian units can flip frostlings over to the Illian way of life. Snow now gives +1 commerce along rivers.
Doviello -> can build Doviello Camps and Scrapyards ... from the beginning of the game. Doviello is probably the only true "rush-civ" of FFH, and is still very much in that position. However, now they can take some time to build up a hammer based economy before pushing forth the tides of war
Also, at level 6 and Warfare, Lucian can gain the Hero promotion and Strong promotion. So save that sucker!
Magic -> now, no more pre-req requirements. If you have channeling 3, you can buy any tier-3 spell you have the mana for.
Esus -> Added Spy units and State Alchemists
Monks -> built earlier, possible upgrades via "Oaths" which require level and tech
(in future patches, combo spells may provide incentive for buying those other promotions would normally be skipped over ... hopefully we can provide a magic system that is fun and varied!
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and much, much more!
