Military System, District Editing, and Workshop Upload Rework

This April 20, 2026 update focuses on the new military system, district editing, and a rebuilt Workshop upload flow.

Military system and military editor:

• Added a full military unit system. Unit types now affect recruitment tendencies, combat modifiers, land movement speed, and army icons on the map.

• The default set currently includes Infantry, Archer, Shield, Cavalry, and Elite. Different units now perform differently in recruitment, attack, and defense depending on terrain.

• States can inherit military units from their culture or switch to a custom state-specific setup. Cultures can also use the default set or their own custom unit setup.

• Added a new military editor in both the State panel and the Culture panel.

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• You can now edit unit names, multilingual translations, base combat strength, recruitment weight, land speed, icon scale, and terrain modifiers for recruitment, attack, and defense.

• Unit icons support built-in bindings, custom imported images, and optional state-color tinting.

• Military setups can be exported as local military packages and imported from local mods, the Workshop, or other culture setups.

• These settings are now used by normal recruitment, emergency mobilization, combat calculations, and army icon display.

District editing:

• Added a new district layer that lets you group multiple provinces into a single district.

• Districts currently do not have any gameplay mechanics. For now they are mainly used for drawing and organizing the map.

• You can auto-generate districts, manually create or delete them, rename them, add multilingual translations, and edit their colors.

• Added district painting tools so provinces can be assigned to or removed from a district directly on the map.

• The district info panel now shows province count, total population, center province, and the dominant culture, religion, and family inside the district.

• District borders, labels, and color display are now integrated into the map view, with better adjacent-color separation.

• Districts are not limited by state borders, and district data is now saved and preserved as much as possible during map expansion, province splitting, and some regeneration flows.

• Future national strategy related updates will bring more interaction between districts and other systems.

Workshop upload panel rework:

• Rebuilt the Workshop upload panel and reorganized the upload flow.

• Maps, cultures, religions, and military packages can now be uploaded through one unified interface.

• The left side is used to select local content, while the right side is used to edit the title, item ID, description, and preview image.

• Updating an existing Workshop item is now safer and reduces failures caused by entering the wrong item ID.

• Preview images can now be selected manually, and oversized images are compressed automatically to meet Steam limits.

• Upload status, cancel flow, and success or failure feedback have been rewritten and cleaned up.

• Military packages can also be exported locally first and then published to the Workshop through the new panel.

Follow-up plan:

The next major update is planned for June. It will rebuild the economy-related mechanics and connect them more directly to the military system.

The goal is to tie state development, resources, military composition, and war preparation into one larger gameplay loop.