13 August 2026 · in development
Nerve, and a cry to steady it
A unit whose nerve breaks is no use to anyone until it gathers itself, so it no longer steps up when you call the line — it waits, and steadies at the turn of the round. For the moments you cannot afford that wait, there is now a Rally Cry: an order that hauls a shaken unit back onto its feet at once, free to fight the same turn. It belongs to the tabletop rules, where nerve is a thing that can break in the first place.
- Shaken units stand aside until they rally, rather than being offered a turn they cannot take
- Rally Cry, a new command order under the tabletop rules: steady a broken unit at once and it acts again
- A slicker way to set up a Quick Battle — sweep the arrows to choose the army on each side, each behind its own battle portrait
- Battles keep their voice with the cutscenes off: the clash of the blow and the cry that follows it, instead of silence
12 August 2026 · in development
An even hand on the sound
Every sound the game makes was levelled to a single baseline, so a spell no longer drowns a sword-stroke and a unit answering the call no longer leaps out over the fight around it. The music and the weather sit where they always have, beneath the action — what changed is that the effects on top now agree with one another.
- Sound effects brought to a consistent level across unit calls, combat, spells and the interface
- Quieter card sounds, so playing a hand no longer talks over the battle
11 August 2026 · in development
Warmasters comes to the desktop — and the name loses its space
There are now native Mac and Windows builds alongside the mobile ones: the same engine, the same campaigns, as a proper desktop application. The Mac build is universal, so one download runs on Apple silicon and Intel alike, and desktop saves live in a file you can back up or sync rather than buried in app storage.
The game is also now Warmasters, one word — which is what the logo has said all along.
- Native desktop builds for Mac (universal) and Windows
- A battle now opens with its card, and nothing moves until you say go — no more landing in a fight and losing a turn while you work out which units are yours
- The Army Book gains a Rules tab — the whole ruleset in short sections you can find mid-turn, showing only the rules actually in play, with one press to read the other set
- An "i" that explains the HUD, for everything the tutorial doesn't cover
- The guided tutorial is now the tutorial: finishing a lesson offers the next lesson rather than dumping you into a battle past every rule you haven't met
- Haptic feedback across the interface, and an audio pass on the menu theme
8 August 2026
Reinforcements, and a spellbook that isn't ammunition
Two rules got their edges filed off. Magic was one-shot per battle, which left a shaman with a single legal spell mute for the rest of the fight — a caster now keeps everything he knows, and the cost is the roll itself. Flanking used to count "the second unit to attack you this round", which meant an archer across the board qualified; it is now what it always should have been — a positional fact, melee only, for a defender pressed from two sides at once.
- Mid-battle reinforcements in warband campaigns: call a unit up from reserve into your deployment zone, once per turn, at full strength. The points cap governs what stands on the field at once, so casualties make room.
- A caster's spells are reusable every activation — fail the roll and nothing happens, miscast and he wounds himself
- Flanking reworked: melee only, counted from the board at the moment of the attack
- Skirmish now sets the stage — pick the battlefield, the weather and the hour, including a new blizzard
- New app icon and launch-screen art
7 August 2026
North of the Kill gets its own ground
The companion campaign stopped borrowing the shared board generator. Every one of its six missions is now built by hand — its own size, relief, gorge and props — so the Frostmarch fights on ground that belongs to it rather than on a field that could be anywhere.
- Bespoke Frostmarch boards, hand-built mission by mission
- Uzgra — the old shaman is now a named unit with his own lore
- Warboss Grulk matters in every mission of the campaign, not just some of them
- Blizzard weather, and casters that ride along with the mob they walk beside
6 August 2026
Take the high ground
The battlefield gained a third dimension. Tiles now sit at three height tiers, drawn as lifted blocks with a real cliff face, and no unit leaps a cliff — you may only step between tiles one tier apart. A raised plateau therefore has exactly one way up, through its step ledge, which turns every hill into a decision about where you make the enemy come at you.
- Height tiers with a step-ledge climbing rule — the ramp is the only road up
- Shooting down onto a lower target is +1 attack die, in both rulesets
- Advanced melee: +1 striking downhill, −1 fighting uphill; melee can't reach across a two-tier drop
- Tutorial rebuilt around it — a new High Ground step in Basic and its Advantage step in Advanced
6 August 2026
Every regiment gets a voice
Unit audio is now wired by event — select, attack, move, death — so each unit type can answer when you call it, grunt when it swings and be heard when it goes down. Twenty-odd voice cues went in across both armies, alongside spell and war-machine sounds.
- Per-unit select lines for both rosters, plus crossbow, cannon and spell cues
- Crossbow bolts now fly flat in the battle cutscene while bows keep their arc
- Mobile: a smaller battle card fan, giving the board back its space
4 August 2026
War machines find their voice
The Catapult now lobs its shot on a real arc, with the firing sound to match, and the whole war-machine path reads properly at a glance. The hex grid outline was softened to a tint so the battlefield art carries the board rather than the wireframe.
- Catapult lob arc and war-machine firing audio
- Ride-along activation — a unit type can be set to activate alongside another
- New gorge tileset and the northern campaign map for North of the Kill
3 August 2026
Drawbridges, traits and a much longer tutorial
Battlefields gained moving parts. A trigger tile — a lever, a winch, a drawbridge — transforms other hexes while your side holds it: stand a unit on the lever and linked river hexes become a passable ford. Step off, or lose the lever, and the water closes again.
- Trigger tiles (drawbridges), marked with a lever badge on the board — and an enemy that knows how to use them
- Advanced faction traits: the Horde's fearless mob versus the Kingdom's disciplined shield wall
- Stealth units — hidden from the enemy until spotted, with clear indicators for your own
- Tutorial expanded with Battle Magic, War Machines, Cover & Terrain, Drawbridges, faction traits and veterancy
2 August 2026
A lighter build and a better battlefield
A hard optimisation pass more than halved the art payload with no visible loss — the difference between a download people take on mobile data and one they don't. The card fan stopped collapsing on short screens, and the roster flow was rebuilt around how people actually pick an army.
- A much smaller download, with no visible loss of quality
- Hidden walls and building overlays for denser, more readable maps
- Roster rework, gold-hex loot and magic pricing
- Card and spell presentation polish
2 August 2026
Warmasters, first light
The first build: a hex-tactics wargame with a pure rules engine, a card-driven activation deck, two armies, seeded dice and a native shell for iOS and Android.
- A deterministic rules engine with seeded dice, full event logging and save/load
- Basic and Advanced rulesets, switchable per battle
- The Iron Betrayal (13 missions) and North of the Kill (6 missions)
- Campaigns, Skirmish, Quick Battle and the Command deck
