Tabletop Tavern news & patch notes

Lots of work on spells this week. Going to be focused on the 1.1 update for a bit but will still push updates for any bugfixes or minor improvements I make

Enemy AI: Smarter Target Priority

- Enemy squads will no longer chase a single fast unit around the battlefield forever

- This applies to melee, archers, and artillery alike. You can no longer "leash" an entire enemy army with one lone skirmisher while the rest of your force sits safe.

- A unit that just shook off its pursuers gets a short window of breathing room before enemies will commit to chasing it again, so kiting is still useful as a tactic, just no longer an infinite exploit.

- Archers and artillery are also quicker to switch their aim to a genuinely closer or more dangerous target, rather than stubbornly firing at whatever they locked onto first.

Improvements

- Slight increase to performance by rewriting the save system. Should stutter a bit less on older hardware

- Reworked the new “sold gear wont appear again” to reset after every shop visit (thanks for the feedback on this one)

- Updated Chinese translations

Bug Fixes

- Fixed bug with Tavern Themes requiring a reload after unlocking by beating Godking

- Fixed a crash caused by entering swamps with a race condition in the code

- Fix to make sure flags rotate even when paused

- Fixed bug with tavern patrons disappearing

- Fix for free camera canvas not showing when hitting tab

Modding: Custom Text & Translations

- Mods can now override any in-game text with a new `localization_overrides.json` file. Rename or re-translate anything the game shows, per language (English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean).

- This includes the names of hero and faction battle bonuses, so custom bonuses can finally have their own custom names instead of borrowing an existing hero's.

- Text you don't translate falls back to the game's built-in wording, so a mod that only covers one language still works everywhere.

Modding Guide Updates

- The example mod now includes every hero and faction bonus as a complete, copy-and-edit reference, so you can see exactly what each hero and faction grants before changing it.

- Added full documentation and a working example for the new text-override file.

- Clarified that faction bonuses use flat values.

Performance Changes

Reworked a lot of the scene loading logic to go a little easier on user’s PCs and not preload the battle scene at all times. The only real noticeable difference is going from main menu → custom battle. Originally the battle was being preloaded to allow snappier load times, but it would max out your GPU in main menu and on the map, which just really doesn't make sense. The battle scene was also being reloaded when exiting battle, so although there is a slight delay now when entering, that delay was previously happening when exiting a battle, so there is no cumulative increase in load times. I’m really thankful for everyone that purchased the game so if this change is not welcome, feel free to lmk in the comments as I will be reading all of them and willing to switch it back.

QoL Improvements

- Unit losses are now shown on your unit cards after a battle

- Cease Fire button now has a gold outline indicating when it is active, along with a new little popup above the squad card indicating that it is in cease fire mode

Bug Fixes

- Fixed an issue where your squads could appear in the wrong order at the start of a battle. Your army now lines up in the deployment UI in the same order you organized it in the campaign

- Fixed an issue where alt tabbing while your character token was hopping on the map would cause it to never fire the event where you would make it to the next node

- Fixed an issue where selling a gear item could let that same item show up again from a newly purchased gear pack (or other loot sources). Sold gear is now excluded from future rolls for the rest of the run.

- Since only Melee Units benefit from \ I removed BloodFrenzy and Rage from appearing as a prestige option for ranged units. Will make a ranged alternative in the future

- Fixed a bug at Campfire nodes where rapidly clicking an option (like Train) could trigger it twice, sometimes granting a unit two prestige levels at once instead of one.

- Fixed bug with new flag posts not being hidden on “Hide UI”

- Fixed bug with units unable to be rearranged if you disbanded the 10th unit ( I seriously don’t know why this was happening thanks for the detailed bug report )

Trait Rebalance

All traits really need to be rebalanced due to the new prestige mechanics so will be looking at them this week to make them more interesting and unique. And as always lmk what you like and what you don’t!

- Blood Frenzy- Now also grants a +20 movement speed bonus while active

Modding Update

Nothing changes for regular gameplay - this update is entirely new tools for mod creators:

- **Unit race reassignment** - mods can now move a unit into a different faction's roster

- **Gear power tuning** - the numeric bonus each piece of gear grants (Arming Swords' Melee Attack bonus, Longbows' Range bonus, etc.) can now be adjusted by mods

- **Enemy army & garrison customization** - mods can now change how strong enemy armies and town garrisons are throughout the campaign, including how often enemies show up already prestiged

- **Economy**:

- Unit recruiting costs, by rarity and by town size

- Gear and consumable prices in the shop

- Card pack prices

- How often each consumable shows up in shops and rewards

- Gold looted from towns

- Bank interest rates

- Gold earned from winning battles and ransoming captives

Implemented limited modding support as more of an integration test between the game, steam, and the actual back end data. If this works well I can expand it to incorporate more values and features in the future! Here is a link to the workshop page where you can browse and sub to other peoples mods. https://steamcommunity.com/app/3337380/workshop/ Mods can be accessed in game from the main menu and uploaded from local files to steam.

I also put together a little tutorial on how to create mods and the stuff that is currently available (currently only overrides for unit stats, heroes and faction bonuses)

https://github.com/Memori-Studios/TabletopTavern-Modding-Guide

Obviously custom units are the biggest moding request so will think more for a solution to that, the current problem is that I use a paid 3rd party tool since Unity does not support animations for ECS. The tool is like $25 but I’d hate to have it as a requirement for making custom units so I need to see if there is someway I can work around it, and maybe make a converter.

Potions can now be applied to initiative roll in battle

Fateshine Elixir (Max Roll) and Rewind Potion can now be used in battle. A new button will appear if you have one in your inventory. Made sure that it will still appear even if autoroll is toggled to give you a chance to use it

Unit Reordering to Reserves is much easier

Dragging units into reserves is now a swaps units instead of shifting them to the left, making reordering units much easier.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed softcrash caused by alt tabbing after a battle while in full screen

• Fixed text on campaign map sometimes being blocked by trees

• Decreased Act 1 final fight difficulty. Was overtuned and way too hard compared to the rest of the game. Still want to increase difficulty but this fight was too frustrating and unfun

• Bertha’s campaign bonus now grants +10 \ instead of +4 \ as that is much more impactful on artillery

• Added the faction name to the faction effect and renamed it from campaign bonus to better fit the true nature of the trait

• Started tracking historical kills for all units. These will now be shown in collections

• Fixed misspelling of "receive" in Rain description

• Fixed a bug in auto resolve that caused prestige ranged units to wildly over perform

• Fixed a bug with save data preventing starting new campaigns

• Removed “Emblazing” From Prestige 3 options on ranged as it only works in melee combat

• Fixed a visual bug where sometimes you would see the Varangian guard icon when units were spawning in

• Fixed issue with Texan BBQ applying bonus to health rather than weapon strength

• Fixed UI Incorrectly stating that large unit’s speed was being set to 0 when entering swamps during rains

• Fixed Hybrid units such as Berserkers being given the ammo prestige bonus

• Added “Backstabbers” trait to Ranged units logic to do 2x damage on flanking hits

• Changed “Scavenge Gear” in the campfire panel to allow selection even if gear items are full

• Fixed issue with gear not reacting appropriately with prestige III unit traits

As with everything, I’m open to feedback so if this does not feel like an improvement I will tweak or change it until it does.

III Prestige Rework III

• Prestige bonuses have been re-balanced. The flat bonus to core combat stats (Melee Attack/Defense, Range/Accuracy) is now +5 per rank instead of +10.

• To help offset that, prestige now also boosts Leadership (melee units) and Ammunition (ranged & artillery units)

• New: at max (3-star) prestige, you choose the unit's bonus trait. You'll be shown 3 options to pick from - possible traits include Armor Piercing, Anti-Infantry, Anti-Large, Terrifying, Stalwart, Rage, Armor Sundering, Flaming Ammo (ranged units only), Back Stabbers, Monster Slayer, and Blood Frenzy. This combines a bit of randomness as to which traits are offered so that each play through is not the same while still keeping some player agency in allowing selection of most desired trait. This system can be built upon in the future to allow further upgrades to specific unit

Enemy Armies now contain prestige units

Duke difficulty modifier “Increases the rarity of signature units in recruitment” replaced with “Enemy armies may contain prestige units”. Also replaced Emperor modifier “Reduced gold from sacking settlements” to “Increases the chance and severity of enemy unit prestige.”

This definitely makes the game a good deal harder, listening to feedback etc etc etc but was able to complete a few runs so still beatable.

UI/UX Improvements

Health Bars in battle now show the prestige of a unit, allowing you to better organize your forces and quickly pick out the most threatening enemies. Also added a little gem to the top of legendary units to make them stand out a bit more **v 1.7.13.1 Hotfix**

- Pushed a fix for banners being wonky on "enable cloth simulation" and made sure any archers with flaming arrows get the correct projectile

Renown is now used to purchase upgrades instead of deposited gold

• First off, deposited gold will automatically get converted to renown, so if you maxed out the upgrades you will still have them maxed out.

I have reworked metaprogression to now pay out a new currency: Renown.

I liked the old system, some players liked the old system, but a lot didn’t. In the interest of listening to the community, the old mechanic of depositing gold is being replaced. My vision for the game was to provide a fun experience to players and unfortunately this mechanic was getting in the way.

With the new renown system, you are rewarded for chapters completed with big bonuses for completing Acts. A defeat will result in earning the full gold accumulated so far, but you will miss out on the larger bonuses later in the run. The amount you are rewarded is also now scaled based on the difficulty completed so that it rewards bonus renown on higher difficulties. It now takes 15 victories on the easiest difficulty to fully unlock all upgrades, or 5 on the hardest.

Obviously this is a large change (if a little late) but I want to be transparent and admit when the players make a good point. The reason that I still think it is worth changing is that there will be more upgrades added in the future updates and I want this system fixed before requiring players to unlock those. Let me know what your thoughts are on the new system, and what still needs work.

- TJ

We've begun work on the 1.1 Update with Spell Casting! So we wanted to share some WIP videos and take a moment to fix a few reported bugs.

Sieges

• Garrison will no longer react to damage before the walls have fallen

• All garrison units lose the "protected by walls" missile resistance when a gate falls

Balancing

• Made Act 1 slightly easier for Gruntkin play throughs as buffs to undead made them almost unwinnable

• Increase Boblin's starting army to contain an extras Goblin ScrapShooter and swapped Bogmaw trolls for Dire Riders, also increased starting gold by 1

• Boblin's Hero Ability now sets Common Packs to 5 regardless of difficulty modifiers

QoL Improvements

• Unpausing now returns the game's speed to the previously selected speed

• Kunoichi Unit updated to use female voice lines

• Submitting blank bug reports asks the user for at least a title

Bug Fix

• Fixed game speed buttons sometimes having multiple highlighted at the same time

• Fixed soft crash that occurred when the battle scene was taking too long to clean up

Garrison Balance Changes

• Rebalanced Sieges to be more difficult in later Acts

• Increased Rewards from later Act Sieges

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash caused when breaking a gate Translation Improvements for our Chinese Players

Unit Balance Overhaul

Ranged Units

Damage Reduction of 10% across the board

Buffs

Kitsune Blademasters

Speed 25 -> 40

Golden Saru

Melee Attack 42 -> 40 Health 3200 -> 6000 Removed Anti-Infantry

Royal Cavaliers

Units 16 -> 24

Angels of Death

Units 16 -> 24

Thunderhoof Chargers

Heath 3600 -> 4200

Black Eagle Halberdiers

Melee Attack 32 -> 36 Melee Defense 32 -> 36 Weapon Strength 31 -> 34

Orc Stalkers

Weapon Strength 10 -> 20

Sons of Fenrir

Melee Attack 38 -> 42 Added Blood Frenzy

Boneclatter Spears

Melee Attack 22 -> 27 Melee Defense 18 -> 23

Undead Levies

Melee Attack 21 -> 26 Melee Defense 18 -> 23

Goblin Rabble and Scrapshooters

Speed 25 -> 35

Orc Ravagers, Stalkers, and Impalers

Speed 30 -> 35

Hearthbound Knights

Speed 60 -> 65

Meatgrinders

Added Anti Infantry

Nerfs

Direriders

Melee Attack 35 -> 28

Varangian Guard

Weapon Strength 37 -> 35

Ashwood Militia

Weapon Strength 28 -> 23 Melee Attack 30 -> 27

The Bulwark

Weapon Strength 35 -> 30

Bogmaw Trolls

Armor 80 -> 35 Leadership 60-> 50

Mistwraiths

Leadership 75 -> 60

Nightriders

Leadership 75 -> 60

Foot Samurai

Armor 95 -> 70

QOL Updates

• New Free Cam Mode that allows you to view the map anytime except during battle

• Pressing Escape in the Upgrades/Collection/NewGame Scenes will take you back to the Main Menu instead of opening settings

• Improved Archer Range Drawers to add a gradient at max range and to fade in and out

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Cauldron and Ornate ring interaction not interacting

• Fixed "no translation found" broken text display when hovering over garrison units

• Fixed silent crash leading to unclickable units caused by shift clicking over UI

• Improved UI of +2 sell gear metaprogression bonus

• Fixed destroying multiple gates causing some enemies to turn invincible.

• Fixed some logic that caused bugs if old unused hot keys were pressed

• Changed defensive units in garrisons to now attack enemies if they are too close

Tabletop Tavern has officially passed 100,000 copies sold! 🍻|

Every one of those copies is a player who gave our humble indie game a chance. Besides buying a copy, many of you stuck around and made the community something special. The reviews, the screenshots, the feedback, the support: we see all of it, and it means the world.

It's no exaggeration to say this game and the players supporting it have changed our life. We cannot thank you enough, so instead we'll do what we can to make Tabletop Tavern the best it can possible be!

With the community rapidly growing and bringing in daily feedback we knew we had a long road ahead of us. Since launching on June 11th, TJ has shipped a total of 14 updates pack full of bug fixes, balancing, QOL updates, and implementing your feedback. We've still got plenty of updates coming and a backlog of great feedback & ideas we want to address!

Free updates are on the horizon, starting with The Rift of Magic this fall, more factions towards the end of the year, and multiplayer battles in the future.

With all our thanks,

TJ, Jordan, & Marius

We've gotten a lot of feedback and suggestions on how we can improve sieges. This rework is a result of that feedback! Overall we feel this covers most but not all the issues with sieges, so if there any further thoughts/concerns/suggestions let us know and we'll keep adjusting!

Behavior Changes

• Units only charge out of the gate you break, the rest form up at a central point

Village Battles

• Village garrisons now have a single centered gate instead of multiple spread across the wall

• Side walls now angle outward at 45°, giving villages a distinct defensive shape compared to castle garrisons

Gate Changes

• Gates now have increased missile resistance from 25% -> 50% ranged fire is less effective at tearing them down

• Gate ranged attacks now sweep a wider 170° firing arc, covering almost the full front

• Gates now scale in health based on town size (was 750, now 500 -> 800 -> 1200) open to feedback on health

Garrison Defenders

• Army losses penalty application on gate breaking removed

• All defenders gain +10 Leadership throughout the duration of the battle

• All unit types can now be ordered to attack garrison defenders directly

• Units stationed behind an intact gate now have increased missile resistance, making them harder to soften up before the breach

  • This bonus is removed the moment their gate falls

  • A new status icon appears on garrisoned defender squads so you can clearly see which enemy units are protected by the walls

Melee Hit Chance Formula Change

Melee units have been underperforming relative to ranged and artillery for a while now. The core issue was that stat disparities in melee combat compounded too harshly. A defender with even a moderate Melee Defense advantage could reduce an attacker to near-useless hit rates, making melee engagements feel punishing and swingy compared to the more consistent output of bows and cannons.

To address this, I've softened how much each point of Melee Attack vs. Melee Defense affects your chance to hit. Evenly-matched fights play out about the same, but extreme mismatches are less punishing. Will be watching player feedback on Discord and Forums and will update accordingly.

New Formula

Changed difference to add/subtract 2% per level instead of 4%

//The base chance to hit is 35%. // For every point of Melee Attack above the defender's Melee Defense, the hit chance increases by +2% (up to a maximum of 90%). // For every point below, the hit chance decreases by -2% (to a minimum of 10%). int hitChance = 35 + (meleeAttackValue - meleeDefense) * 4 -> 2 hitChance = math.clamp(hitChance, 10, 90);

Kensei's Eye

Bonus reduced to +5 from +10 Fighting enemy armies and required cheesing, which made fighting them miserable

In prolonged combat, every gap in the enemy's guard is found and exploited. +5 \ every 10 seconds, up to +15

Controls Changes

Remapped controls to be more inline with what players expect. I apologize if this messes up your muscle memory but was needed and as a reminder All controls can be remapped in Settings

Ctrl+Click now adds units to selection, or if already selected removes them Shift+Click is now used to queue movement orders

Bug Fixes

Fixed Archers shooting while in melee combat after being charged

Fixed bug where units could become unkillable if they charged while entering a forest or swamp

Fixed bug with bogmaw trolls not being slowed by rain

Fixed bug with attack audio not playing until game is unpaused @unknown-role

Battle Mechanics Update

• Units now properly arrange in rows based on their position on the battlefield, they will no longer cross back and forth over each other

• You can now decrease and increase game speed via hotkeys (that can be remapped in settings)

• \ Double Click on a unit or it's card will select all units of the same type

Tutorial Update

• Added a new tutorial panel to convey all this info to the player.

Unit Stat Changes

Deathhaven Fiends

Gain Backstabber and Outrider 32 attack / 32 defense / 28 weapon strength / 45 speed

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with battlefield speed not pausing correctly if game was paused then settings was open

• Fixed issue with bags not being connected to the model on SerendaelOfNytheria.l

UI/UX

• Clarified Boblin's Drums in the Deep Effect to clarify that it does not stack with other bonuses and SETS the pack price at 5

• Kill count now shown on enemy units post battle

• Total Enemies Slain now shown on final game over panel

• Starting Gold Increase from upgrades now shown on hero panel (Thanks Steve)

• Updated Delete Save Button to now say "Delete All Progress"

• Consumables are now locked when battle results are shown, preventing healing dead units

• Consumable UI now closes if invalid target is selected

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where sometimes the battlefield would miss setting battle phase and it would be stuck in deployment mode and not allow you to attack

• Fixed Rain speed penalty flashing on infantry in the ui, was never applying but moved the large unit check earlier so that it doesn't even try to apply to non large units

• Fixed Ravenhost Deathcry ability being triggered by any ravenhost squad falling, now properly checks teams

• Fixed layering of unit state pop up quick view being beneath the group layer

• Fixed a localization error on consumable slots being full

• Fixed Ravens eye applying to artillery

• Fixed critical failure in the "haunted chapel" Event killing your entire army

• Fixed a bug where if you unlocked the 3rd reserves unit slot upgrade mid campaign your army size would not allow 13 units

• Fixed an issue where unit kills would be falsely attributed to the last unit that hit them, not the unit that dealt the killing blow, resulting in confusion as to how ranged units were getting kills on invulnerable units with tower shields

• Fixed autoresolve not updating simulation calculations when using Health Potions

Boblin gets some love, more bug fixes and balancing updates, and some quality of life updates!

Boblin Buffs

• Player feedback was that Boblin was without a doubt the most difficult hero to win a campaign with, as such his bonus has been changed to provide Goblin Rabble, Scrapshooters, and now Goblin Enforcers (Rare Unit formerly known as Stonegullet Enforcers) to be +6 \ and +6 \. Leadership buff wasn't doing much when they were losing every fight

Battle UI Quick info

• Added "In Melee Combat" icon so you know which troops are engaged and which are just chilling

• Added tooltips on all icons so when you hover over them you know what the mean

Single Units Buffs

• Single Entity Units (Giants, Dragons, Carnos) Can no longer be flanked. They get turned around so much in melee it would trigger all the time and made them much weaker than intended

The Bulwark Tiniest Nerf

• Missile Strength from 14 -> 13

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rotation being messed up for outrider units leading to them dealing flanking damage every time

• Completely reworked how flanking is calculated to make it more accurate, if any issues remain please reach out on discord or submit a bug report but it should be infinitely better

• Reworked enemy army unit generation. Still is random but with some massaging to not have extreme circumstances. Losses should feel less luck based as fighting 6 Rare tier ranged units was, not ideal

• Fixed purge blight description for German and Japanese Translations

• Fixed unit icon for Stegoplate guard to show shield and spear

• Fixed Bushido Discipline ui incorrectly showing +10 melee attack instead of the +4

We know we've been patching almost every day and thats annoying to some. We were aware that we would need to quickly react to feedback when we launched and thousands of players got their hands on the full game for the first time. We're getting very close to a game state that were happy enough with to reduce the patching to weekly soon. Thanks so much for the continuous feedback, bug reports, and ideas!

v1.6.18 Potion Rebalance - Live Now

Potion Rebalance

Changed drop rates to now take into consideration the act number and the specific potion itself. Too many rewinds were appearing across the board and legendries' showing up after the first battle felt unearned. Also these drop rates apply to runewell nectar and the Sanguine Court potion drop post battle. Finally, I shuffled around the rarity based on player feedback so they will be priced more appropriately in the shop.

Unit Balance

New Unit Attribute Thick Scales

Resists 25% of \ Damage (Might increase lets see how it feels) Added to Black Dragon, Blood Carnos, and Emerald Ancient (Might need to add an appropriate buff to other monsters)

Mistwraiths

Updated Ethereal to now negate 50% of physical damage

Shadelords

Added Ethereal Reduced armor from 85 -> 30 so that they're not unkillable

Stegoplate Guard

Melee Attack 26 -> 33

Bug Fixes

Raise Dead was giving the same units too often so I improved the randomness, should see different combinations now

Fixed an issue with steam not shutting down when closing the game

Fixed Omen of Famine Tooltip not properly displaying 2 gold per empty slot

Clarified Boblin campaign perk SETS the price of common packs to 5, not reduces

Clarified that Northern Looters doubles gold, not loot when sacking towns

v1.6.19 New Elf Faction Campaign Ability - Live Now

Heavensong

Allows you one reroll to change the weather every battle

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where sometimes there would be an unkillable unit that was invisible, preventing the battle from ending

• Fixed issue with skipping gear from the shop not properly incrementing rng and repeating the same item

• Fixed issue where sometimes if you hard quit the game after a battle it would not load in properly

• Fixed Dragons Hoard only applying to Emerald Ancient but not Black Dragon

Changes

• Removed Shielded from Brutes and gave them Thick Scales

• Metaprogression node for doubling rewards from events nerfed to only double gold

UI/UX

• New Gold notification popup on gold change. Added to better communicate things like losing gold on turn end due to difficulty and interest being difficult to calculate

• Added safeguard to prevent withdrawing squads during deployment of campaign battle if hotkey was hit

• Added safeguard to prevent withdrawing multiple squads at the same time during battle. They must now be withdrawn one at a time, which is annoying but prevents any unintended run ending losses from hitting the "U" key by accident while your whole army is selected

• Changed text to clarify that Skrix the Swarmcaller's special ability only triggers after battles, not every turn

Faction Bonuses now apply to enemies in campaign, this should make the game a good bit, harder as requested! Will continue to tweak and balance until the game is in a great state!

Major Bug Fixes

• Fix for when a ranged squad was simultaneously in ranged combat and engaged by melee, the melee-disengage path was unreachable. The squad got ChargeSquad added but could never charge causing weird logic

• Fixed bug with Joseon Hwacha being really, really ineffective

• Prevent Sister Morvayne's Outrider ability from using saved spawn positions of non outrider units in garrison battles

• Fixed issue where if the target died during the disengage window the squad would get stuck and never move

• Fixed Error where units were unelectable and couldn't be commanded if you paused while rolling dice

• Fixed another error when after facing specific enemy comps, the next battle wasnt clearing them from memory causing weird desync errors

• Prevented all status effect icons (such as exhausted and out of ammo) from triggering above gate health bars

Gear Items Refresh

• Removed Enron Accounting

• Tower Shields -> Shielded units invulnerable to \ Attacks

• Buckler Shields -> Melee units gain +6 \

• Jailer's key -> Cost to Recruit from Towns is Discounted (5, 10, 25)

• Omen of famine - increasing to 2 gold per empty armor slot

• The Potato - Sell price increases by 2 gold per turn

Unit Changes

Ashwood Militia

Added back Heavy Shields Melee Attack decrease from 36 -> 30

Cragflayers

Armor 5-> 25

Translation Fixes

German Translation from Iltharion Starpire's Special was incorrect, please let me know if incorrect for any other languages and I will update it appropriately! Also a major Korean overhaul!

We took some larger swings here that are likely going to make some battles harder and some easier, if you encounter an impossible fight or an a run that felt entirely too easy let us know!

v 1.6.16.1 Major Balance Changes

Major Systemic Change

• Armor Piercing's Mitigation of Armor reduced (100% -> 50%)

Specific Unit Stats Ashwood Militia

• Heavy Shields reduced to Standard Shields

• Reduced Health by 20%

Iron Gut Enforcers

• Weapon Strength (32 -> 36)

Sons of Fenrir

• Melee Attack (34 -> 38)

Arquebusiers

• Reduced accuracy (50 -> 45)

Stegoplate Guard

• Added \ to match the model

Dwarves Were ending way too many runs

• Reduced armor of all dwarves by 10

• Reduced melee attack of all dwarves by 2

Auto Resolve

• Reworking cavalry to be stronger and not immediately die in auto resolve

• Fixed bug where sometimes both armies would have zero health

Gear

• Lucky Horse Shoes: Consumables from post battle rewards are Higher Rarity

• Conscription Orders Buff (+4 -> +6)

v 1.6.16.2

Major Bugs Resolved

• Fixed drag to reposition units breaking when mouse was moved only a short distance

• Fixed a bug causing enemy squads to sometimes stand still and not select a new target

• Fixed font making some text unreadable at higher resolutions in Chinese

Balance Changes

• Artillery now deals 50% less damage to other artillery units

• Increased Iron Bank in rarity from Uncommon to Rare

• Removed Stalwart from several Sanguine Court Units as it was a bit redundant

• Leviathans

  • Added Anti-Infantry Trait

• Ashguard

  • Melee Attack 42 -> 44

UI/UX Improvements

• Prevent roadmap displaying on main menu if you have played the game before (used to show every time you opened the game)

• Fixed duplicate bonuses stacking in ui (outriders, stalwart etc)

• Fixed occasional floating objects in battle maps

• Fixed garrison gates being given the charge bonus

• Fixed ammunition not updating in squad info card on left side

• Updated Armor Piercing description to reflect the 50% reduction

v 1.6.14.2 Hotfix

Sanguine Court Campaign Buff Raise Dead

Mechanic changed to give 2 uncommon in act 2 and 1 rare in act 3

Lord Draven Bloodreaver

Buffed Bloodsworn and Bloodsworn Knights gain +15 \ and +(4 -> 8) \

Gruntkin Campaign Buff Endless hordes

Healing increased on end of turn from 20% (listed as 25% but was actually 20%) to 30%, fixed this healing non gruntkin units

Bug Fixes

• Fixed outriders being able to deploy within garrison walls that broke with the garrison wall changes this morning

• Fixed fog reducing range and accuracy by 30 instead of 50%

• Fixed recruits showing that they were going to heal when sacking settlements in auto resolve when they most definitely were not

• Fixed some battle hotkeys being able to trigger when settings menu was open or typing in bug reports

v 1.6.15.1 Hotfix

• Fixed huge issue with battle inputs not being consumed with settings menu open or when application was not focused (ie typing in another window), leading to them triggering once returning to battle

• Fix for incorrect weather on first battle

• Fix incorrect numbers for arming swords in Chinese

• Fix Gruntkin not healing from faction passive in siege battles

• Fix Controls tutorial incorrectly showing space bar as pause instead of p

• Fixed severe bug in campaign map generation causing dead-ends preventing players from progressing

• Fixed Oda Nobukage giving +4 weapon strength instead of +4 melee attack

• Fixed groups being created when settings/bug report panel was open

• Eisenmann Slight Nerf

  • Accuracy 70 -> 65 Range 75 -> 70

• Fixed Ironskin applying to non Infantry Units

• Fixed Gear Sell Tags now disappear when mouse is no longer over gear

• Fixed 2x rewards from events metaprogression upgrade to now only affect successful rolls

More updates, fixes, and balancing! As always keep the feedback and bug reports coming, we're keeping an eye on everything and reacting as fast as we reasonably can.

v 1.6.13.2 Hotfix

• Decreased min font size for unit attributes so some longer stats fit on one line

• Fixed UI bug with Bertha's Blasting Barrels applying to ammunition not missile strength

• Fixed bug with Blasting Barrels only giving additional ammo to artillery and not all ranged units

• Fixed UI bug of player buffs shown applied to town garrisons before deciding action on town

• Added Drakosaur and Sakura towns, I have no idea why they weren't added total oversight on my part but they are now Fixed missing translation on recruitment cards for unit count

• Fixed a bug with unity addressables that were using stale data from old builds, it now clears on load preventing several soft crashes of not loading

• Fixed some incorrect Chinese translations for gear items

v 1.6.13.3 Stability Hotfix

• Comprehensively went through the project and added multiple safeguards for possible crashes on load due to data corruption.

• Also fixed potential soft crash when loading into event nodes (purple books)

v 1.6.14.0 Hotfix

• Fixed Ranged units shooting at retreating foes

• For Siege battles, Enemy Deployment zones now follow the walls

• Act Number now displays with chapter number in the top left of HUD

• Reduced ballistic charts from +20 accuracy to all ranged to +10 since it was better than Raven's Eye which is \ & \ \ units gain +20 \ despite ballistic charts being a lesser rarity

• Rebalanced the final battle for act 1 to make it a little easier

v 1.6.14.1 Hotfix

• Added auto roll for initiative option in settings

• Fixed tutorial having the incorrect description for rain battles

• Fixed Garrison Gates in Siege battles not having their range update visually in fog battles

• Fixed errors caused from code race conditions on Game Over panel

• Updated Act 1 and 2 difficulties to be ever so slightly reduced due to a lot of nerfs to player strats (town recruitment) over the past few days

• Updated Uncommon and Rare Builder have been bumped up to Uncommon Level Rarity

• Updated Alchemist Potion now grants 10 gold from drinking if the metaprogression for increasing sell value of gear by +5 is active

• Updated Buckler shield to clarify it only makes units invulnerable IN THE FRONT (shields do not protect 360)

More fixes, updates, and balancing changes! Sorry for causing confusion around the version numbers, we forgot to add "1.0" for the earlier updates leading some to believe this was an early access release.

While we are rapidly reacting to feedback and have future content updates planned this is definitely a 1.0 release! Sorry again for the confusion 🙏.

Keep the feedback coming! 🍻

v 1.6.12.3 Hotfix

• Fixed "Naginata Onna" icon having a mustache

• Added new hover tooltip that reminds the player of the weather effect on the map node they are hovering over

• Fixed Translation of Silken Reaches being incorrect in Chinese

• Changed Shop icon on legend to better reflect the card shop

• Fixed ballistic charts applying to artillery

• Fixed reserve units incorrectly healing after sacking cities

• Further anonymized bug reports

• Changed keybinding to allow duplicates as for some god known reason Unity wouldn't let you rebind A

• Fixed the translation of "Purge the blight" that incorrectly denoted that a unit prestiges instead of heals

• Fixed misspelling of Guarantees

• Turned off cloud save for the demo as it appeared to overwrite some people's main game saves

v 1.6.12.4 Smarter Formations

• Formations are now smarter, ensuring that your melee units are in front, ranged in the middle, and artillery are furthest back.

v 1.6.12.5 Hotfix

• Roadmap now only shows the first time you enter the game, not everytime you enter main menu

• Removed the check for demo saves as sometimes people open it by accident causing issues

• Added a delete save file button to main menu

• Cragflayers and Berserkers now get melee prestige upgrades

• Fixed units not showing lost health from battle after sacking a town

• Fixed event panel cost required for roll being decreased by an additional 2 everytime you opened it due to the metaprogression

• Fixed cursor now locks to window when full screen

• Fixed exploit of finding out if a hidden node was a battle by the weather tooltip popping up

• Swapped Signature Units of Drakosaur brood as it makes more sense for the beast master guy to have the Kaiju

• Fixed River Trout still healing conscripts to full even after selling it

• Fixed fast double clicking in main menu on options breaking the game

• Fixed an incorrect Chinese Translation (補給線:所有遠程單位彈藥容量提升 50%)

• Fixed unit selection sfx duplicating for each unit shift selected causing the sound to be x times louder

v 1.6.13.0 Hotfix

• Veilpiercers Base Range reduced from 120 to 85. Attack Accuracy reduced from 85 to 73

• Added Kunoichi Infiltrators to Cragflayers and Berserkers who now get melee prestige upgrades

• Added a null check to prevent failing to load into campaign due to steam not correctly downloading some tree assets

• Disabled Unity Analytics as it was causing some connection issues

• Fixed \'s spelling error.

• Added difficulty played to the bug report logs to make it a little easier for me to debug issues

v 1.6.13.1 Hotfix

• Fixed bug with heroes around the table disappearing or showing as pink squares

• Changed recruitment cost of towns to scale with size (10, 20,40)

• Fighting final horde battles with bear spray equipped will now replace the legendary monstrous unit of a faction with a rare if both legendary units are monstrous

• On higher difficulties, instead of hiding the reroll button on events, it now shows a locked blocker to communicate to the player why they cant

• Fixed weather tooltip appearing on non battle nodes

• Added combine and prestige to event rewards like you currently can do on recruit cards Sanguine Court Slight Buff

• Mistwraiths speed 30 -> 50 charge bonus 4 -> 16

• Deathhaven Fiends Melee Attack 30 -> 35 Armor 15 -> 25

More updates and fixes! Keep the feedback and bug reports coming ❤️

v0.6.11.4

Increased bonus applied to enemies in auto resolve slightly on board 2 and 3. Biggest gripe I'm hearing is that its too easy to auto resolve to a win, let me know if this makes it better or if it is too hard. Only increased the bonus by 15%.

Fix for crash caused by race condition from recruiting the same faction of units that were conscripted Buffed the players luck when gambling

Fixed town tooltip being hidden behind units on largest town

v0.6.11.5

Added unit count to recruit cards Fixed controls incorrectly showing T as show unit movement when it is now bound to O.

v1.6.12.0

Fixed bug with Fateshine Elixer not applying to gambling games

Fixed bug with Legendary shop card not being hidden after exiting the shop, causing some players to click on it

Removed two music tracks causing copyright claims on streamers

Fixed bug with merging 4+ units together

Fixes Steam Cloud Saves not applying

Fixed bug with recruiting a unit when full merging with two max prestige units

Reverted the changes to make auto resolve favor the enemy as that felt bad

Slightly increased the strength of enemies for later boards

Fixed Grunkin Passive Translations for French, Spanish, Russian, German, and Korean showing as "ERROR"

Nerfed metaprogression consumable sell price to reward an extra +5 instead of +10

Nerfed "The Bulwark" Dwarf unit, melee attack 32 -> 28, Armor 90 -> 65

We've been live for a few hours and we've already received a wave of great feedback, awesome new community members, and of course bug reports! This the first of many updates to come over the next few days as new issues & feedback are addressed.

v0.6.11.1 Hotfix

• Added Deposit all button to deposit gold panel

• Fixed issue with tutorial popping up after your first run

• Fixed text scaling issue on potion pop up in treasure chest nodes

v0.6.11.2 Hotfix

• Removed anti-large from artillery

• Slightly increased difficulty for board 2 and 3

• Fixed bug being able to recruit a unit to combine with 2 prestige 2 into a prestige 3

• Increased Gate Health by 50%

v0.6.11.3 Hotfix

• Fixed a bug where you could select raise dead or conscript a unit when the recruit post battle cards were up, also fixed the reverse where you could click on conscript and in the gaps between the card hit the recruit button showing 6 units

• Fixed a bug with gold depositing throughout the run being incorrectly overwritten

Chaaarge into Battle! Tabletop Tavern is live

Tabletop Tavern is finally live and to celebrate it’s 25% off during launch week!

What is Tabletop Tavern?

Tabletop Tavern is a roguelike RTS where you build an army from scratch and command them across a brutal campaign. Every run is a fresh battlefield: recruit new units, hunt down rare gear, and stack upgrades into devastating synergies. The choices you make between battles, which path to take, which units to field, what to upgrade, shape the entire run.

Then the fighting starts! Battles unfold in real time on a tabletop battlefield, where positioning, timing, and synergy decide everything. Lock your spears into a wall to break a cavalry charge. Massacre infantry units with a steady rain of arrows. Read the terrain and turn it against your enemy. From tight skirmishes to massive clashes with hundreds of units on screen, every encounter tests your skills.

Every faction plays differently, with its own units, abilities, and identity to master. Lead the elite infantry of the Vikings. Unleash the monstrous trolls and giants of the Orcs. Command the agile Elves, the stalwart Humans, the resilient Dwarves, and more!. Find the one that fits your style of conquest and fight your way through the campaign.

Bundles

We've bundled together with a few games that we really enjoy! Some of these our games from friends of ours and others are highly requested games from our community. So far we've bundled with:

• Master of Command

• The Scouring

• Strategos

• Trench Lord Eastern Front

• SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding

• Teddy's Haven

• D.O.T. Defence

We have more bundles planned but these are the initial few!

What's Next?

While this is a 1.0 launch we have much more planned! Every update and new faction is 100% free. No paid DLC, ever.

Update 1.1: The Rift of Magic (Fall 2026): spellcasting arrives, along with mage units to weave into your armies.

Update 1.2: Banners of War (Winter 2027): the Olympian Phalanx joins the fray, plus a community vote to help decide a future faction.

Multiplayer (coming later): take your armies head to head in PvP battles.

Where we go from here is a road we're walking with you. How multiplayer works, which factions come next, and other updates are decided by the feedback and suggestions the community gives us!

A Massive Thank You

To everyone who wishlisted, played the demo, filed bug reports, and hung around the Discord through development, thank you. Tabletop Tavern is solo built by TJ along with some marketing help from Jordan & Marius. Seeing the community rally around it has meant everything to us. Today's launch is yours as much as ours.

If you have a good time on the battlefield, the single best way to help an indie team like us is to leave a review. It genuinely moves the needle on whether other strategy fans find the game.

The doors are open! Build your army, raise a tankard, and we'll see you on the battlefield.

Cheers, TJ, Jordan, & Marius 🍻

100,000 Wishlists! Let's Talk About What's Next 🍻

We did it. We just sailed past 100,000 wishlists, which means our entire pre-launch wishlist roadmap is officially filled out. To everyone who added the game, told a friend, played the demo, or just lurked along the way, thank you! This number is genuinely a bit surreal for a game by a solo dev.

Wishlist Roadmap Updates

First some brutal honesty. Tabletop Tavern is built by one person, TJ. Filling out the wishlist roadmap was incredible, but it wasn't realistic to ship every single one of those features in time for launch.

A large amount of these wishlists came within the last few weeks, and TJ unfortunately does not consume enough illicit drugs to have multiplayer ready for launch. So to make up for that, all rewards for passing the recent milestones will roll out as FREE updates

What's Coming After Launch

Update 1.1: The Rift of Magic, Fall 2026

Player Spell Casting and Mage Units arrive. Time to start bending the battlefield to your will.

Update 1.2: Banners of War, Winter 2027

The Olympian Phalanx joins the fray, alongside a brand-new faction chosen by you via a community faction vote.

And the big one...

Multiplayer Is Officially Confirmed!

Thousands of you have asked about it or requested it and i'm happy to finally confirm, multiplayer is coming to Tabletop Tavern.

We don't have a firm date or a ton of details to share just yet, but here's the initial plan: PvP battles between customized armies. Build your force, march it out, and see if your tactics hold up against a real opponent.

We'll share more on this down the road and will reach out to the community to help shape what they expect from multiplayer as we develop it, but we wanted you to hear it officially: it's real, and it's in the plan.

Every Future Update Is Free. Full Stop.

We want to be crystal clear about this: every update coming to Tabletop Tavern will be completely free.

That means everything in the roadmap, the spells, the mage units, the Olympian Phalanx, multiplayer; plus every additional faction, feature, and update we haven't announced yet. All of it, free. No paid DLC, no expansion passes, no "premium" factions locked behind a paywall.

You buy the game once. You get everything that comes after. That's the deal, and it's not changing.

Launch Is One Week Away: June 11th

Launch is only week away and we are insanely nervous excited! If you haven't wishlisted, now's the time!

We'll have a launch discount of 25% so consider picking it up during launch week and leaving a review once you've checked it out.

Thank you, truly. We couldn't have gotten here without you. See you on the battlefield on June 11th. 🍻

Good morrow!

It's finally happening. Tabletop Tavern releases on June 11th, 2026 and there's a brand new release date trailer to go with the news.

We can't thank you all enough. You've pushed us past 80,000 wishlists, left 500+ reviews on the demo, and been an incredible community that continously gave great ideas for new features and improvements. We wouldn't be here without you.

If you haven't already, now's the time to wishlist, it really helps a solo dev punch above his weight on launch day and it means Steam pokes you the moment we go live.

Mark your calendars, sharpen your spears, and we'll see you on the battlefield in June. In the meantime come hang out with us on Discord!

May your ale stay full and your enemies distant 🍻 Cheers, TJ

Hey everyone, it's been a busy month at the Tavern. We're closing in on the final Steam build, which means we’re finally shifting from "what's still missing" to "what makes the game feel right." We’ve been reworking units, building garrison battles, improving UI/UX, working on localization, and fixing a number of bugs (most of them found by you).

Let’s get into it!

Faction Overhaul

Up until now, most unit types would have the same number of units despite their faction or cost. This was tidy on the backend, but it meant a unit of common goblins felt the same as a unit of elite dwarves. Instead we generally want to go for Quality over Quantity when you acquire higher tier units, so unit counts are now diversified across the roster:

• Cheap infantry (goblins, skeletons, etc.) → 84 models, lower individual stats

• Elite infantry (dwarves, Kriegesguard, etc.) → 36 models, much stronger stats

• Some cavalry → 16 models with stronger charge bonuses

• Some monsters → adjusted to 4 or 12 depending on the unit

This allows us to be more flexible with things like melee defense and health without having to keep all units similar across races and rarities.

We’ve also made the following changes to units:

• Armor has been added to all units

• Stalwart removed from Kaiju and Leviathans (redundant with Terror)

• Artillery is no longer classified as a large unit

• Unit icons corrected to actually match weapons: Duskspears (spears), Glyphstone Phalanx (shield+spear), Bloodsworn (halberd), Abyssal Delveknights (axe), and the new Elarion Sentinels (glaives).

• Stat rebalances on Ashigaru Spearmen, Ronin Wanderers, and the two uncommon elf units (now in line with Aerindel Guard)

• Blood Frenzy on Fleshshredder Fanatics actually triggers now, plus a small health buff.

• NEW unit merging allows you to combine selected unit's health if they are the same unit type and prestige

Garrison Battles Now Have Walls

You asked and we delivered! Garrison battles now feel like exactly that, battles inside garrisons.

• Three garrison models depending on town size: villages, castles, and cities all look distinct

• Gates shoot projectiles at your troops while you assault

• Enemies take army losses & morale penalties when a gate falls

• Artillery and melee are best for breaking gates, while small projectiles will struggle, so build accordingly.

Camera Controls

The camera now behaves much closer to what you’d expect if you’re an experienced Total War player:

• Edge movement: top of screen pans forward, bottom pans backward

• Edge rotation on left and right edges

• Edge panning in battle: lower 25% of the screen pans the camera (toggleable in Settings, off by default)

• Mouse scroll only works when the cursor is over the game window.

• Raise/lower camera speed slowed down to match directional movement.

• Map text now fully rotate to match position of camera Added parallax effect to shop scene

Auto Resolve Improvements

Auto resolve now factors in much more of what makes each battle unique:

• Squad attributes like flaming ammo, armor sundering, and terror are accounted for

• Unit leadership matters, units can randomly rout based on it.

• When you lose an auto-resolve, troop health sets to zero to avoid confusion around why you lost.

Treasure Nodes Reworked

Treasure nodes now give you a choice between three gear items instead of a single drop. Lets you start thinking about your build immediately instead of waiting on RNG. New treasure node added on node one. Shop chests are still RNG.

New Stuff!

• Tavern Themes: unlocked by completing Godking difficulty on each race. Models, flags, and tablecloths for now, more decorations coming

• Unit Position Previews: toggle with spacebar

• Third reserves slot that unlocks via upgrades

• Weather and biomes now visible on the campaign map before picking a battle, so you can plan ahead.

• Unit count override in custom battles

• All units unlocked in custom battles

• Second crossing point added to river battles

• Hero Difficulty buttons show Roman numerals for max difficulty completed

• New tooltip on the map showing the active faction effect

• All in-game tips translated, plus a major localization pass on Chinese & Korean! We are currently working on having Japanese, German, French, Russian, and Spanish improved.

Battle Polish: SFX, Visuals, Performance

A meaningful overhaul of how battles sound and feel:

• SFX overhaul: new charging shouts, marching sounds, better range and volume on everything. Whole system rebuilt as object-pooled which helps improve performance and memory

• Total rework of unit rotation: directional facing in combat looks dramatically better

• Idle animations: back-line units now play idles when not in melee; large units skip idles when in melee

• Dust clouds now appear at randomized positions across a squad instead of one rectangle in the middle

• Flags fade out when the camera gets close

• Volumetric fireplace light disabled during battle

• Rain particles reduced ~60% with no visual loss

• Charging SFX properly fades out; marching SFX pauses when battle is paused

• Hover SFX improved across unit cards, map nodes, and the legend (and toned down a few that were way too loud)

Quality-of-Life & UI

• Major rewrite of unit grouping: group UIs darken when not selected, you can rearrange units inside a group, groups display in proper order (1 → 2 → 3)

• Army losses morale penalty increased so battles end a bit faster

• Duplicate keybind notification explaining why it won’t work

• Ironhide description corrected: Melee Infantry gain +4 Melee Defense and +10 Armor

• “The Rogue Company” event reduced from 5 → 4 options to fit on screen

• Difficulty of the first battle on board 2 increased

• Changes to generation of map tiles, increased randomization of treasure and shop map nodes adding player decision making autonomy

• Ctrl+A selects all units

• Camera shake now stops when battles end

• Polished end game panel, upgrades panel, and credits page

• Parallax effect added to the event screen with improved overhead die view

• Meta progression upgrades reworked for the full game

• Second hero per faction unlocks after a victory on the first hero

• Polish to map camera positioning Map Flags now match position of camera on y axis

• New Click out of squad cards deselects them all

• Added the ability to multi select units on the map

• Polished hover highlight feedback

• Prestige button now only shows if prestige is available

Huge thanks to everyone in Discord who keeps reporting bugs, suggesting changes, and keeping TJ motivated to bring Tabletop Tavern to the finish line. Half the changes in this update exist because someone took the time to submit a bug report or provide feedback, so please keep it up!

See you in the tavern. 🍻

Bug Fixes

• Fixed game-breaking bug when moving units around

• Fixed crash from Bloodsworn debuffing an enemy that charged them but wasn’t yet in combat

• Fixed crash from multiple units being destroyed on the exact same frame

• Fixed crash from enemy archer reprioritization infinite loop

• Fixed crash from enemy archers reprioritizing while in melee

• Fixed crash when prestiging units (multiple culprits)

• Fixed crash from a listener not unsubscribing properly

• Fixed possible crash on localization

• Fixed crash on pause

• Fixed Sakura Dynasty campaign battles being unplayable

• Fixed first node always being treasure

• Fixed first node always rolling the same random number

• Fixed Bogmaw Trolls, Necrotic Chimeras, and Treants not playing animations

• Fixed literally all monstrous units (Giants, Trolls, Corpse Claws, etc.) rarely playing attack animations

• Fixed monstrous units not attacking each other

• Fixed units jittering during in-combat rotation

• Fixed direwolves flanking and then standing still

• Fixed enemy archers not re-engaging when their target moves out of range

• Fixed flanking units not attacking (for real this time)

• Fixed cavalry flanking not being intercepted by player units

• Fixed cavalry not playing animations

• Fixed Banryu Bombardiers firing all their ammo at once

• Fixed horses doing flying animations on Nightriders, Blood Knights, Dragon Tachi, and Starstriders

• Fixed Dragon Tachi and Borderland Riders not holding their weapons properly

• Fixed Sylvan Archers using Sunspire Bladelord models

• Fixed Banryu Bombardier recruit card clipping

• Fixed Tokugawa description (now correctly references Emperor’s Arquebusiers); old reroll bonus disabled, will return on a future hero

• Fixed floating sword above the battlefield

• Fixed triangles under units rendering through flags

• Fixed selected/hovered triangles fading correctly on pause

• Fixed attack arrows appearing correctly on pause

• Fixed missing background image on final battle gear rewards

• Fixed dragging a unit to a full reserves bench (first reserve now goes to deployed)

• Fixed buttons on the rewards panel staying highlighted after click

• Fixed battlefield camera not rotating when switching to enemy spawn in custom battles

• Fixed group UI not updating on squad destruction

• Fixed Gear name in loot battlefields being overwritten with “Collect Loot”

• Fixed unit renaming not working

• Fixed camera moving while renaming units

• Fixed unit card position bug from rapidly dragging units between deployed/reserves

• Fixed Supply Lines appearing to apply to all stats instead of just ammo

• Fixed Omen of Famine not accounting for gear slots locked by meta progression

• Fixed starting gold not being reduced by units bought before campaign start

• Fixed unshielded units being placeable in defensive stance

• Fixed town sack options running off the card

• Fixed hotkeys triggering when game wasn’t focused (i.e. while typing in Discord)

• Fixed stat coloring inconsistencies

• Fixed UI strings using “arrows” instead of “projectiles”

• Fixed missing armor sundering translations

• Fixed misspelling of “Forest” in city tooltips

• Fixed text scaling on the Starting Gear button

• Fixed UI scaling on the new reserves slot at ultrawide resolutions

• Fixed faction music not loading on resumed campaigns

• Fixed alert for available upgrades appearing when none existed

• Fixed Godking difficulty not triggering on 4 completions

• Fixed health bar numbers appearing inside reordered units

• Fixed map node outlines only showing on flags

• Fixed double-reserve healing upgrade setting healing to zero

• Fixed prestige credit infinite exploit

• Fixed prestige crash when army was full

• Fixed inability to add troops to starting army

• Fixed enemy strength scaling 2x as fast on manual battles

• Fixed enemy scaling on garrison battles

• Fixed Treasure chests panel showing during gear claim

• Fixed outriders’ saved spawns appearing behind castle walls

• Fixed tower shields not applying against heavily shielded enemies

• Fixed Gates appearing under “Special” in custom battles

• Fixed custom battles breaking when entered multiple times

• Fixed attack SFX playing when a unit was commanded to attack

• Fixed SFX spam when reordering units

• Fixed tablecloth textures

• Fixed bushes/trees missing read/write access for scaling

• Fixed units getting stuck in trees in forests and swamps (navmeshes removed)

• Fixed saved formations spawning new units in a pile to the left (now spawn back row)

• Fixed bug where holding alt, repositioning, right-clicking to cancel, then left-clicking would move units outside the allowed zone (genuinely don’t know how this was found)

• Fixed bug going from move command → attack command

• Sanitized usernames from log files

• Fixed exploit of returning to menu before selecting units to recruit/conscript

• Fix for reordering units while enemies are spawning in

• Fix Ronin wanderers recruit too rotated

• Fix bug with prestiging units causing errors

• Fixed archer attack arrow not hiding when units run out of ammo

• Added clearer notification to archer cards when out of ammo

• Buffed sanguine court starting armies

• Fixed archer range not toggling the same way unit position triangles and attack arrows were

• Fixed some backend dev tools

• Fix for recruiting from cities not filtering out signature units

• Slightly reduced difficulty of later boards

• Changes to generation of map tiles, increased randomization of treasure and shop map nodes adding player decision making autonomy

• Fixed a bunch of map textures that were rendering in low res

• Fix bug with unit not being available in collections

• Fix prestige text for artillery

Hey everyone,

This update is a big one. A lot of the work over the past weeks has been under the hood, but it should have a very noticeable impact on performance and how battles play out!

Lore Update

We’ve started rolling out the new lore we shared during Next Fest.

• Added faction and hero lore to the Collections Panel

• Each faction now includes both a faction overview & hero-specific lore

This is just the start. More lore will continue to be added and expanded. Some of the lore is a tad outdated due to us switching out units as you'll see below. We'll update it again soon!

Performance Overhaul

The most common negative feedback we got during Next Fest was performance. We heard you loud and clear and have been focusing heavily on reducing memory usage and improving performance across the entire project.

Benchmarks

Build Size

• 8.5 GB → 5.6 GB

RAM Usage

• Main Menu: 7.58 GB → 1.97 GB

• Empty Battle Scene: 8.19 GB → 2.07 GB

• Full Battle (15v15 Iron Legion vs Green Tide): 8.34 GB → 2.72 GB

• Map Scene: 9.57 GB → 2.58 GB

FPS (RTX 3080)

• Battle Scene: 67 FPS → 102 FPS

This was primarily aimed at improving performance on lower end hardware, so seeing gains on high end systems as well is a nice bonus.

Full Project Overhaul

We’ve been deep in a full project-wide optimization pass. This means going through every texture, model, and asset in the game. While doing this we identified several assets that were extremely unoptimized and either updated or replaced them.

• Example: Jomsvikings alone were 3x the size of the entire Drakosaur Brood faction

New models completed:

• Jomsvikings

• Fleshshredders

• Ironguts

Still in progress:

• Oni

• Bloodsworn

• Several Dwarf units

Events Update

Events now provide much larger rewards to make them more interesting and inline with missing out on the rewards from a battle. Cleaned up the UI to clarify the success/failure outcome of each choice

Enemy AI Overhaul

Army Behavior States

Aggressive

• Default behavior

• Always active at river crossings

Passive

• Triggered when the army has artillery

• Breaks when:

  • Player gets close

  • Player deals damage

Delayed Passive

• 25% chance to trigger regardless of composition

• Holds passive stance for 10 seconds before switching

Flanking Improvements (Cavalry)

• Starts in back row

• Flanks wide left or right

• Direction randomized if only one cav unit

• Will not perform wide flanks at river crossings

Combat Behavior Improvements

• Defensive Stance

  • Shielded units losing combat will switch to defensive mode

• Fire at Will (Archers)

  • Triggers when army drops below 25% health

Target Prioritization

Artillery

• Targets first unit in range

• Will reprioritize to ranged units if they enter later

Archers

• Targets first unit in range

• Will switch to unshielded targets if current target has shields

Large Unit Targeting

• Non-cavalry prioritizes enemies without anti-large

Gameplay & Logic Fixes

• Enemy archers now charge into melee when out of ammo

• Improved guard mode logic to prevent idle units in combat

• Fixed archers:

  • Charging wrong targets

  • Breaking out of melee incorrectly

Bug Fixes

• Fixed unit stats overflow issue for Bulwark unit

• Fixed missing textures on campaign map

• Fixed withdrawing hotkey triggering when opening bug report panel

• Fixed tutorial icons (guard mode / cancel swapped)

• Fixed campaign loss bug when:

  • Completing battle

  • Exiting to main menu

  • Crashing at end of battle

Final Note

This update was more of a foundational one. Less flashy on the surface, but it sets up Tabletop Tavern for long term success. As always, keep the feedback coming!

See you in the tavern. 🍻