Japan, Prussia, Ladder Season 4, and More

New Civilization - Prussia

Passive Bonuses

• All units have an extra promotion slot
• When you promote a unit, draw a card that grants Charge once per turn
• City buildings give +2 gold

Prussia Unit - Fusilier

• Unlocks a tech tier 4
• 25 strength
• Cost 7 Hammers
• +4 base strength for each allied unit on its hex and neighboring hexes. Applies at the start of a turn.

Prussia Ability - Drill Promotion

• Unlocks at tech tier 0
• Cost 1 Hammer
• Unit gains 20% base strength every turn up to 100%

New Civilization - Japan

Passive Bonuses

• Increase resource storage space by 4
• Increased trade Gold overhead and reduced Gold from selling resources
• Hammers in every city within 5 hexes of capital
• Hammer from Fishing Huts

Japan Unit - Samurai

• Unlocks a tech tier 3
• 12 strength
• Cost 5 Hammers or 1 Iron
• Takes 50% damage when attacking
• Starts with Berserker

Japan Ability - Blessings of the Sea

• Unlocks at tech tier 0
• Cost 1 Hammer
• Add a random water resource to a hex in your territory

Ladder Season 4 Begins

• Ladder rankings reset
• Your best Season 3 ranking can still be showcased using the distinct Season 1 and Season 2 badges

Hegemon Update - Eliminations

• After 4 days of a weekly Hegemon round the bottom half of civilizations are eliminated
• Players fighting for an eliminated civilization can "reroll" to randomly be assigned one of the remaining civilizations
• Player contributions from eliminated civilizations do not transfer to the new civilization

Balance

• City Gold maintenance cost increased slightly
• Roads - length buildable at base cost increased from 4 to 6. Extra cost for hills and forest reduced
• Multiple water resources can now spawn on the same hex

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a Charge effect could be consumed by having a land melee unit attempt to attack a boat
• Fixed an issue where Great Wall could allow a Warship to move onto land
• Fixed graphical stutter that could occur when tech tree panel appears
• Fixed issue where tool tips would no longer show up after game has ended

Misc

• Bot AI tweaks
• Unity Engine updated to 2022.3.62f2