Greetings, commanders,

Version 0.614 changes how you recruit and how often you can deploy, reworks armour weight, and gives scouts a better chance.

Recruitment

• Recruits now have an affinity that limits each zodiac sign can recruit them.
• Each month brings 2 new candidates of the month sign's element and 2 of its modality.
• Taurus, Aries, Cancer and Leo now have a higher chance of starting with a man-at-arms in roster

Campaign

• You can now only launch 2 missions per month. The mission dialog shows how many are left.
• The forge now allows 3 armour upgrades per month (was 2).
• Researching a bundle without owning its book now costs double.
• Fixes to failed map generation that could result in auto defeat

Armour weight

• Heavy encumbrance penalty reworked: starts one point earlier, but now only costs 1 Movement. Overloaded costs 2 Movement and 1 Melee and Ranged Skill.
• The warning before you deploy only lists Overloaded knights.

Scouts and archers

• Scouts start with Craft 3, and every scout starts with one of Field Medic, Reveal, Backstab, Ambush or Runner.
• Scouts and archers have more health at every class level.
• Three new perks. Ambush: bonuses against enemies that did not see you coming, or that are Distracted. Runner: more Movement and sprint when not Heavy. Anticipation (also for archers): better ranged defence against long shots.
• Scouts and archers in older saves are brought up to the new values.

Battles

• Enemy assassination target won't be used by their escort as "meat shield" anymore
• Fix to spotting vision being inconsistent at night
• Fix to The battle map's fog sometimes reapparing on discovered tiles.

Fixes

• Level-ups no longer show the same stat, perk or skill in all three offers.
• Fixed new class level erasing a sign bonus to health.
• Your settings, including AI thinking, are now kept across updates.

May the stars watch over you.