Update 0.61!

06 Aug 2026Developer post

⚔️ Army Plans & Combat

Order reach now scales with the arrow you actually drew instead of a tiny fixed distance
If an order genuinely can't be carried out anywhere, your other fronts return to their normal advance instead of standing still forever
The HUD now warns you when an order is not being carried out anywhere
Arrows pointed at the sea no longer stay active forever and command wars declared long afterwards
Armies line up along the full width of the arrow's jump-off line instead of stacking on a single point
Army advantage matters more — total army dominance is now worth up to x2.2 (was x1.75)
Hard terrain (forests, hills, marshes, mountains) is around 15% faster to capture
National exhaustion no longer weakens your attacks. Instead it makes the army far costlier to maintain (up to x4 upkeep) and drives revolution risk and capitulation — tooltips now explain this properly

Completely rebuilt War Report. Every figure is a two-sided comparison bar: war score, manpower losses, equipment losses, occupied land and exhaustion — you read who's ahead from the shape of the bar
Clear progress toward capitulation, with the 75% rule explained
The peace button now tells the truth: dictating terms is free, and it no longer advertises a 25 diplomacy cost on wars that were about to open the conference for nothing
Every stat has a tooltip explaining what it actually measures
The report now fits on short screens and small windows
Peace conference claims are painted as smooth, contiguous regions instead of the scattered "noise" you got with several co-belligerents
Allies who contributed nothing no longer take a seat at the table — they no longer cut your own claim to a third for nobody's benefit
Allied turns at the conference are much faster, and you now get a moment to actually see what each ally took

NEW: Starting Diplomacy editor. Before the game begins, set up alliances, wars, vassals and relations directly on the map — drag from one country to another, or arm a tool and click
Reworked Release Country menu. Draw the new state's borders on the map yourself or hand over its whole homeland; a live footer shows what you're giving away and what you keep
Improving relations now costs 6x more diplomacy
Buying influence through the finance office costs 30% more
Vassal integration costs 20% more in gold and diplomacy
Taking land from your own puppet now costs twice the liberty desire — you can no longer quietly strip a vassal to the last province for free

Fixed: artillery, tanks, aircraft and ships could silently drop to zero production. Infantry lines were spending the entire recruit budget first, leaving nothing for anyone else — while steel, fuel and parts piled up unspent. Every line now gets a fair share of the recruits
New warning when you don't have enough soldiers to crew your equipment
The production bottleneck report now reads the real recipes, so it warns the countries that are actually starved

A country's economy now reflects its good land, not its empty land. Deserts, tundra and mountains no longer cancel out a nation's productive core
The USA, Australia, Algeria and Saudi Arabia recover the worth of their heartlands; uniformly poor nations stay poor
Starting army sizes were rebalanced the same way — Russia no longer starts stronger than the USA and China combined

NEW: Clean Run mode. Achievements only unlock in a clean game — no cheats, no sandbox, no observer mode, difficulty Normal or higher. On by default
Turn it off freely to play with cheats; the achievement list simply stops moving
A badge on the achievements screen always tells you whether achievements are being awarded right now — and if not, exactly why

Reworked menu: a map legend showing held vs. missing land, requirement chips, live progress, and a confirmation screen before you proclaim

NEW: Country Pool. Save countries from any scenario into a global library, complete with flags, and paint them onto any map
Import every country of a scenario at once; replace borders or only add land
Sea lock, blink intensity slider and a live preview of what will change
Fixed a crash when saving on exit
Improved reference/tracing layers
Flags in custom and modded scenarios are now found reliably

Scenario select rebuilt. An era timeline rail for jumping straight to any scenario, full keyboard navigation, and previews that stream in instead of freezing the menu for several seconds
Reworked country select screen
New in-game console (~) for sandbox and debugging
Save/Load and Mod Manager fixes
Everything above is fully localized in all 14 languages

Thank you for all your feedback and support. ❤️
We're continuing to work on Age of Clicks, and there's more on the way!