⚔️ Thermopylae Update Now Available – New Campaign & Massive Improvements

Greetings, Strategists!

First and foremost, thank you all for your incredible patience, support, and passion for this project. This is one of the biggest updates I have ever released, representing a huge milestone and a major step forward toward the final version of the game.

Today, I'm excited to bring you a massive update packed with new content, gameplay improvements, and numerous fixes.

🆕 New Features & Content

🛡️ New Campaign: The Spartan Campaign – The Battle of Thermopylae

Experience one of history's most legendary battles in an entirely new campaign featuring 9 missions, where you'll lead the Spartans against overwhelming odds.

⭐ Hero Experience Persistence

Heroes now retain their accumulated experience between campaign missions. You will no longer lose the experience earned during previous missions, allowing your heroes to continue growing throughout the campaign.

🐘 Improved Automatic Charge System

Chariots, elephants, and camels now automatically attack and charge nearby enemies when left without orders, creating a much smoother and more satisfying experience when using these units.

🚢 Enhanced Naval Combat System

Ships now behave much more intelligently, automatically attacking and ramming nearby enemy units and vessels when idle. They also respond better to player commands, making naval battles more dynamic and enjoyable than ever.

⚔️ Unit Behavior System

You can now assign different behaviors to your units:

• Aggressive

• Defensive

• Hold Position

• Passive

This system gives you much greater tactical control over your armies.

🏹 Manual Battlefield Loot System

Workers can now be instructed to manually collect specific weapons and items from the battlefield, giving you greater control over resource management and army composition.

💬 New Taunt System

The AI now reacts to your actions by issuing threats and contextual taunts, adding much more immersion and personality to your opponents.

Players can also taunt their enemies by entering any number between 101 and 117 in the in-game chat.

🎮 Expanded Match Customization

Two new match options have been added:

• Gold Collection Multiplier: Adjust the pace of the game and tailor matches to your preferred playstyle.

• Nearby Ally Spawns: In team games, allies can now start closer to each other. This system also works on community-created maps, giving map creators more freedom when designing custom scenarios.

🎨 Complete Interface Overhaul

The entire user interface has been redesigned to better match the game's atmosphere and provide a more epic and immersive presentation.

🖼️ New Icons

Added new icons for various buildings, units, and technologies.

🗺️ Map Improvements

• Improved Oasis map

• Improved Archipelago map

• Improved Waterway map

• Enhanced lighting on several maps

🐞 Bug Fixes & Stability Improvements

🌐 Multiplayer

• Fixed approximately 30% of the remaining multiplayer desynchronization issues.

⭐ Hero Recruitment

• Fixed a difficult bug that could drastically reduce hero recruitment costs after a hero had died and gained levels.

🇪🇬 Pharaoh Guardian Ability

• Fixed multiple issues with the Strength of the Nile ability, including strange animations, unintended activations, and excessive triggering.

📖 Campaign Fixes

• Corrected bugs in all campaign dialogues.

• Fixed various issues in both the Egyptian and Persian campaigns.

💥 Stability

• Fixed crashes related to the Spartan, Egyptian, and Persian civilizations.

• Corrected internal errors affecting several upgrades.

⚔️ Persian Immortals

• Fixed a bug causing Persian Immortals to remain as "zombie" units on the battlefield after dying with their special ability active.

This update represents a major leap forward for the project and brings the game significantly closer to its final vision. I sincerely want to thank every single one of you for your patience, feedback, and continued support throughout development.

I hope you enjoy everything this update has to offer.

Lead your armies to glory... the war continues! ⚔️

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