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India. At the fringe of the Hellenistic World. In these lands, Alexander the Great fought his last main battle. Here the cultural heritage of Hellas and Persia met Buddhism. Here the blood of many courageous and daring soldiers was spilled along the centuries. This is not a land for the faint of heart.

It is your time to prove your valour now!

We are pleased to announce another Field of Glory 2 public tournament. This will be played using the normal Field of Glory 2 Multiplayer system and our automated tournament system.

Anyone who has Field of Glory II can enter. You do not need to own any DLCs to enter.

Scaling up your Empire: Provinces

One of the common issues for strategy games is moving from a small nation with a handful of things to do per turn to a bigger one with dozens of decisions to make. What was fun and thrilling in the early game, like deciding if you want to build a cattle ranch or a sawmill becomes more mundane. And yet, sometimes for specific reasons, you still want to check, as the wise ruler you are, what’s going on in a precise location.

Many games try to create tools for this reduction in micro-management. But most if not all adopt a ‘forced approach’, where at some point the game tries very hard to make you do things in a very specific way. In Empires we decided that you can eat your cake and sell it too … with Provinces!

Following the rescue of Operation Anabasis, the war between the Cylons and the Twelve Colonies is about to reach its peak. 

There are rumours of a renewed Cylon offensive, of a change in leadership. The war toll climbs, and the Colonial Fleet holds fast. Soon it will be time to face their greatest threat yet.

Tomorrow we are going to release the fourth DLC for Battlestar Galactica Deadlock called Sin and Sacrifice.

It will be released alongside a new free update introducing new features, such as the ships Veterancy option and the music player. This new update is named after its main feature: the Veterancy Update.

One key feature in Empires is how it deals with the progress and decline of nations. This impacts how your empire will evolve in a major way and is a focal point for gameplay.

Practically, these mechanics first act as a limit on simply conquering as fast as possible as it is hard to assimilate your new gains without increasing your decadence. Thus your quickly acquired Empire might be impressive but will probably prove to be ephemeral. The new territories will be unruly, and in turn this can cause large issues for your government and ruler. However, decadence is not just a problem for the over-ambitious conqueror, it will affect almost every nation over time, no matter how grand, making long term stability a real challenge. Once you pass into relative decline, citizen loyalty will drop, civil wars and revolts will become more common making the risk of major collapse very real. 

Among the new features coming with Sin and Sacrifice, the new expansion for Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, there is one which we are very excited about: the new Colonial Fleet Chatter.