Lunar New Year is the perfect occasion to add a couple new localizations. Chessboard Kingdoms is now available in Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Latest update also brings many new fixes and rather big suprises.
New pieces
Three new pieces were added to the game, expanding our unique features, mainly the building and siege aspects. You can now build Trebuchets and Siege Towers via the Workshop and Engineer.
Trebuchet is much like the catapult, but has a bigger range. This is balanced by the requirement of having to be in the siege mode in order to shoot.
Siege Tower is our most unique and interesting siege unit yet. Other units can be stationed inside and once the siege tower docks to a wall (or other obstacle), units can exit on the other side.
Settler unit is now available from our newest building piece, Tavern. Tavern also adds 2 new housing slots.
Animations
Lots of work is being done on animations for all our units. It is work-in-progress. As of this update, roughly half of all humanoid units are animated. Kings, engineers, knights, western pawn and wizard, rook,- are all animated for testing. More coming soon. Siege weapons, including the new trebuchet and siege tower, are all animated.