Demo 0.3.2 - Patch notes — Sword & Banner Playtest Steam update #2596216

Balance Lord loyalty is an economy now. Summoning a lord spends a little goodwill and each stretch under your banner wears him down; shared victories...

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Sword & Banner Playtest (4957080)
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Published
14 August 2026 - 14:20:49 UTC
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Balance Lord loyalty is an economy now. Summoning a lord spends a little goodwill and each stretch under your banner wears him down; shared victories pay for the campaign, and sworn vassals rest back toward readiness at home. Sacking or burning a lord's own fief angers him personally, past what his court records. Summon-and-dismiss cycling no longer farms loyalty up; it just burns it Horse archers reworked into skirmishers. Mounted archers and wolf skirmishers now carry a horse bow with a third of a foot bow's reach, and they ride a wide sweeping circle at the edge of that reach, loosing on each pass instead of pelting from a safe standoff. Their horses also cannot turn on a coin any more; they dodge only roughly, so spears, charges and committed chases connect Battle Units placed in the deployment phase start on Hold Position. Your line stands where you put it when the battle opens inst...

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