• Reduced the amount of Janissaries and Sipahi spawned on all difficulties.
• On Standard difficulty:
  • Settlers lighting the fire are no longer raided.
  • The player now receives the Fortified Outpost upgrade for free.
  • Fort Towers now inflict 50% more damage.
  • Fixed some Janissaries randomly disappearing during the intro cinematic.
• Settlers distribute themselves more evenly at the start of the game. (fewer on wood and more on food/coin).
• You can now only build Outposts, the other buildings are deactivated.
• All Hussars and Alain Magnan are now highlighted after they’re converted to your side, some Hussars and Alain were missing the highlight before.
• Fixed some Sipahi going idle next to the Fort.
• Fixed the Great Bombards rarely entering the Fort. They will now attack your buildings more reliably.
• The UI no longer shows the side objective as rewarding 300 experience as at this point in the campaign you haven’t learned about experience yet. The 300 experience will be invisible, but still be rewarded.
• Fixed the player name of the reinforcements being the same as the civilization name, which is “Alain Magnan”.
• The Fort Walls are no longer interactable, forcing the enemy to focus on your buildings instead.

• The Swiss Pikemen you can set free no longer display an invalid player and civilization name before you take control of them.
• You can no longer incorrectly discover a side objective during the intro cinematic.
• The main objective no longer grants 1 experience. Instead it awards 0 so it’s not displayed at all.
• The secondary objective text has been adjusted to reflect the actual condition, which is is to have 10 Hoop Throwers alive instead of training 10.
• The enemy base is now defended from the start with a difficulty-based army, making it harder to take out this enemy AI.
• The initial Janissaries attacking your base will no longer randomly go idle.
• On Moderate there are now fewer Janissaries attacking your base at the start.
• On Hard The enemy AI now starts with more Settlers and resources.

• You no longer have vision over all water from the start of the mission.
• Changed the movement of your surviving ship during the intro cinematic so that it doesn’t clip into the shoreline anymore.
• Fixed the Fire Ship attacking your Flagship not properly exploding, but instead making unneeded turns before exploding.

• Reworked the intro cinematic:
  • Changed the camera track so that the relevant characters are center stage.
  • Sahin stays in the shot for longer since he’s talking at the beginning.
  • Morgan now faces the units/wagon that also disembark, as he’s speaking to them.
  • There no longer is a 3 second wait between the ship reaching the shore and the units disembarking.
• Fixed units being able to walk through some native settlement buildings.

• The “Native Americans” civilization has been replaced by the actual Aztec civilization in order for the proper to receive a proper name and flag.
• You no longer have Home City access since the start of the mission, since you can’t send anything at that point. You gain access once you’ve built a Town Center.
• The objective Trading Post now remains hidden until Morgan learns its location from Aztec prisoners.
• The optional objective of saving more than 1 Temple stated that you would get extra experience the more temples you saved. This wasn’t actually the case. Now you get 300 experience per extra temple you saved at the end of the mission.
• You can now fail the optional objective of saving more than 1 temple and it will be reflected in the user interface.

• Native Boy unit:
  • Fixed the unit having empty actions shown in the unit stat panel.
  • Can no longer be selected with military selection hotkeys, preventing you from accidentally giving him orders while you want him walking to the village.
  • Unit is removed from the map, once you’ve completed that optional objective. This is done to prevent a map objective marker from infinitely persisting.
• The Church is now also converted to the player after defeating the initial native attack.
• You now need to gather all chests of coin for the side objective to complete, instead of a specific one.
• You now also get a flare on the Cows once you discover the lost herd side objective.
• The little side quest to retrieve the stolen Canoe now has better indicators to tell you where to go.

• The native warriors you can set free no longer display an invalid player, civilization name and color before you take control of them.

• The objective for destroying the base to the east of your starting position is easier to achieve. And once you do, all buildings and units from that player are automatically removed. This has been done so you don’t have to spend time clearing all of it out to get space for yourself to build. You can now instantly focus on the Fountain of Youth instead.
• The base to the east can no longer be attacked from the start of the game, you now need to first capture the Fixed Gun before they turn hostile.
• You no longer have vision over all water from the start of the mission.

• Asian Mercenary Army
• Mediterranean Mercenary Army
• Highland Mercenary Army
• Holy Roman Mercenary Army
• Ship 7 Sheep + 1 Homestead Wagon
• Ship 15 Sheep + 1 Homestead Wagon
• 1 Falconet
• 2 Falconets
• 2 Culverins
• 2 Mortars
• 1 Monitor
• Ship Balloon

• Significantly increased the enemy attack sizes. Before it was possible to win the mission (even on Hard) by being completely absent for the entire duration of the 15 minute timer.
• On Moderate/Hard difficulty:
  • The enemy units now have higher stats.
  • The attacks start to ramp up in strength after 5 minutes instead of 11.
  • You start with fewer Outposts.
• The enemies that spawn to intercept the refugees are more numerous and spawn at places better positioned to actually intercept the refugees.
• The starting Town Center and the Town Center you can acquire by completing a side objective can now be selected together.
• Upon completing the secondary objective of protecting the village you now properly get all units converted to your side. Previously, if you managed to save some specific units they would not be converted since the expectation was that they would’ve been killed. All units are now also properly highlighted upon conversion.
• Your units no longer go into an automatic formation during the cinematic.
• The Cherokee Archers and Horse Archers now have a damage bonus against settlers, making them more effective at taking out the refugees.
• Prevented a case where sometimes the Settlers you had rescued wouldn’t be converted into Skirmishers.
• Picked a more fitting icon for the Native American Chief.

• You now lose vision over your old town after the British take it over.
• The British forces that disembark to take over your town no longer constantly bump into each other while walking towards your Town Center.
• Fixed a timing issue where the British naval shelling announcement played after the attack was already over. The shelling now continues during the voiceover, and a mini-map flare has been added to help you locate the enemy ships.
• The British now actually take over the entire town, before some buildings would belong to a neutral player instead.
• You now win the mission by destroying the British Town Center, instead of clearing out all units/buildings in a certain area.
• Fixed the 2 Coyote treasure guardians in the eastern part of the map getting converted to the red player.
• Changed 4 preplaced Houses so they have the correct visuals.
• During the introduction cinematic your Skirmishers no longer bump into your Town Center.
• The military forces the AI starts with in their town are now based on difficulty.
• The AI will only start attacking once a difficulty based time has passed. Preventing them from instantly rushing you with its starting forces.

• Created a completely new custom AI script for this mission to enable the intended design of you needing to pressure the AI from the south/east to halt the attacks on the north. This attack/retreat logic is now properly functioning Definitive Edition.
• Changed the primary objective from destroying all enemy buildings to all enemy military buildings.
• Your primary objective now switches to destroying the British base after you’ve dealt some damage to the southern or eastern walls, instead of damaging military production buildings inside the base. This ensures you receive the objective right as you begin the siege, rather than halfway through it.
• The map is no longer revealed once your primary objective switches to destroying the British base.
• Changed the condition for completing the secondary objective to ally with the Haudenosaunee: You now only need 1 native ally instead of 2. This better reflects the text associated with this objective.
• The AI no longer has an Explorer, a unit that is never meant to be present during campaigns.
• Your player name is now correctly set to “John Black”.
• The Champion Haudenosaunee upgrade can now be researched.*

• You now start with more Coureurs and some resources crates, to speed up the start.
• There are now some deer in the back of your base, to speed up early game food gathering.
• Changed the intro cinematic so that your units no longer bump into a House.
• Changed the intro cinematic camera so that the end point is closer to the battle taking place on your screen.
• The Trading Post on the west side of your base is no longer occupied by your French ally, allowing you to claim it during gameplay.
• Removed an idle Trading Travois on the trade route.
• Moved the southern treasure away from the cliff to prevent one treasure guardian Wolf from spawning on the cliff while the rest is not on there.
• Your player name is now correctly set to “John Black”.

• The Outpost on the final island is now protected by the AI.
• The intro cinematic establishes that the wood on the map isn’t suited for building ships. As such the AI now no longer has any Docks, and it won’t build any ships either. The only ships that are part of the mission are introduced as reinforcements from outside the map.
• The AI now waits a set amount of time before attacking based on difficulty, resulting in you no longer being rushed minute 1.
• Changed 2 preplaced Houses so they have the correct visuals.

• Reduced the amount of XP required to complete the mission on Moderate to 7,500 and on Easy to 5,000. This is done to match lower enemy spawn rates on those difficulties.
• Removed some enemy units instantly entering your base on hard difficulty.
• Excluded the White Buffalo and Greta from military selection hotkeys to prevent accidental command overrides while they return to the village.
• You now have to walk up to the White Buffalo in order to get it converted to your side, alongside killing the guards. You will now get a flare on the minimap and a unit highlight once the conversion happens to help making you aware of this event and not accidentally lose the White Buffalo.
• Once you discover Greta you will now get a flare on the minimap and a unit highlight to make you aware of this event and not accidentally lose her.
• Once you bring back Greta (warchief’s daughter) she is now converted to the tribe and no longer remains under your control.
• After you herd 5 horses they now not only all path to the bottom of the map, they also disappear once they’ve arrived there.
• You now need to collect all gold crates on the island for that objective to complete, instead of a specific one.
• The Canoe that is meant as your transport towards the island can no longer be killed by the enemy while you haven’t even gotten control of it.
• You can no longer get control of the Canoe without having your own units near it, before if your allied AI walked up to it you would already get control of it.
• Once you discover the Canoe you will now get a flare on the minimap and a unit highlight. This all is to help make you aware of this event and not accidentally lose the Canoe.
• The AI inside the base no longer wanders out of the base to gather/build. This prevents the chief that’s closest to the base attacking the Settlers which then pulls the chief to the base where he ends up dying for no reason.
• The chiefs and their retinue now stick closer to their original location.
• Made the 2 villages on the right side stronger by giving the chiefs better units for their retinue.
• The native units no longer go into an automatic formation during the cinematic.
• The “Great Plain Chiefs” now passively regenerate hitpoints out of combat and have a hero aura glow to make them easier to distinguish.
• Enemy waves targeting the Chiefs now loop continuously and dynamically shift to the next target upon a Chief’s death.
• The minimap icon for White Buffalo and Greta (warchief’s daughter) is now the map objective marker.
• Once you’ve brought back the White Buffalo or Greta (warchief’s daughter) the respective unit now gets removed from the map. This is to prevent the map objective marker from infinitely persisting.

• The AI now waits a set amount of time before attacking based on difficulty, resulting in you no longer being rushed minute 1.
• The secondary objective no longer incorrectly gets marked as completed when a Great Cannon actually escapes instead of you intercepting it.
• The Miners can no longer be selected with military selection hotkeys, preventing you from accidentally giving them orders while you want them working on collapsing the rocks.
• The Miners now use an animation containing a pickaxe when working on collapsing the rocks. They also play an acknowledgement sound once you task them onto the rock bridges.
• The AI’s military will now gather inside its base instead of outside where it actually was within the player’s LOS.
• When a Great Cannon gets killed its retinue no longer starts walking to the bottom of the map where they will remain idle afterwards. The units will instead continue fighting and retreat to the AI’s base to defend.
• The objective markers are no longer blue but white, to increase visibility.
• The secondary objective’s details had false information in it. The text has been completely rewritten to better indicate what to do.

• You no longer get Settlers and Crates if you build your second Town Center, as you did for your first Town Center.
• Enemy AI no longer has an Explorer, as normally in campaigns the AIs don’t have one.
• Enemy AI now starts with fewer Settlers and Musketeers. Before, it started with a great numerical advantage that the first attack was unreasonably difficult.
• Enemy AI now waits with attacking until a difficulty-based time has passed.
• There are now forces defending and attacking the Trading Post sites. Before, the AI wouldn’t bother specifically playing around the trade route, which gave the player the opportunity to just claim them and win while ignoring all the enemies.

• In the “Beaumont the Prospector” cinematic 4 Musketeers no longer take a detour before walking into the Fort and the gate now stops continuously opening and closing.
• The enemy Mexican army is now actually the Definitive Edition’s Mexican civilization.
• The enemy AIs no longer build but already start with bigger bases to compensate. This makes their attacks more consistent and prevents them from building much inside your fort.
• To make the mission a bit easier, the enemy AI now has custom Settler limits based on difficulty and generally has a reduced maximum army size
• Beaumont is now confined to the Fort, preventing him from running out and dying.
• You now lose the mission if you lose your Command Post and have no Town Centers remaining inside the Fort. Previously, you would lose if you lost a specific set of preplaced buildings. This was highly intransparent as rebuilding any of them wouldn’t count, still resulting in loss.
• The outer ring of walls is no longer connected to the Fort walls. This is because otherwise damaging the wooden walls would propagate its damage to the Fort, practically instantly destroying those high hitpoints walls.

• There are now clearly defined areas where you can deliver the food carts to near the native villages.
• Reduced the size of the final army to defeat and made its size more difficult-based.
• Some areas are no longer permanently revealed.

• In the “Back to Florida” cinematic a tree blocking the view of Beaumont was removed. Also replaced 3 Mamelukes standing next to Amelia and Cooper with Hussars as you do not get Mamelukes in the following mission.
• Fixed Amelia’s and Cooper’s movement during the introduction cinematic as they weren’t facing the right way.
• Fixed the map being weirdly revealed during gameplay.
• You now start with a few extra Settlers to speed up the slow start.
• You now also get flares on the native settlements the moment you discover that secondary objective.

• Changed Bolivar’s Musketeers to Soldados in the “In the Middle of War” cinematic.
• Bolivar no longer has Musketeers and Skirmishers but Soldados and Salteador instead, utilizing the Mexican civilization.
• The village related to artillery no longer has a Barracks associated with it.
• When capturing the village with the Church you no longer get 2 Mills that are in range of enemy Outposts. You now get 1 Mill that has been moved to a safe position.
• You now only get access to your Home City once you free the first village, since after that you can actually send shipments.
• The Imperial Skirmishers upgrade is no longer shown in the Barracks, since you can’t reach the Imperial Age in this mission.
• You no longer keep active vision over the village with the Church after it’s been initially revealed to you, just like you lose active vision over the other 2 villages as well.
• Ensured Bolivar’s starting army moves as a coherent group towards the first village at the start of the mission. This prevents Bolivar from rushing in on his own and instantly dying.
• Slowed down the rate at which Bolivar gets new units slightly.
• The enemy AI who owns a base can now go up to the Industrial Age, instead of being stuck in the Fortress Age.
• The enemy AI now starts with a Market, an Artillery Foundry, and some more huntable animals in its base.
• Slowed down the start of the enemy AI as its first attack armies were excessively large.
• Bolivar’s civilization in the cinematic “The Rebel Leader” is now Mexican, changing the flag on the buildings and the Musketeers to Soldados.

• You now have to stand closer to the campfires to get healed. This forces you to actually go into the caves for healing, instead of just being able to walk by it.
• In the “Inca Pacamayo” cinematic all Inca units and buildings now properly belong to the green player as opposed to sporadic blue units/buildings.

• Changed the introduction cinematic so that Amelia and Ká;nien remain in frame.
• You now start with slightly more hunt inside your base.
• The three temples you need to defend are now actual temples. Before, they were changed into Inca strongholds. These temples now also have a map objective marker and get a flare to help the player understand what they need to defend.
• The initial Inca soldiers are now use their proper equivalents of Definitive Edition’s Inca civilization instead of legacy native versions.
• The Inca ally now also has Jungle Bowman in his army and now consistently defends his remaining temples.
• After you destroy the Russian Town Center this player is now actually defeated and all the attacks from that side cease.
• You no longer get 3 crates worth 300 resources total after destroying the Russian Town Center.
• New artillery now gets spawned every 120 seconds instead of every 250 seconds to prevent the mission solely becoming about waiting for your artillery pieces to arrive.
• Updated the artillery counter to reflect how many artillery pieces you actually have gathered at any given moment.
• Fixed the Fort in the west belong to the Circle of Ossus missing a wall piece.
• Moved 2 Llamas away from a native village in the west as they were actually stuck behind it, rendering them useless to the player.
• The houses of your Inca ally no longer convert herdables, which allows you to properly convert Llamas now.
• Fixed a few Houses inside your base belonging to mother nature, which meant they could get destroyed. They now belong to the allied Inca player.

• The objectives and minimap markers at the start of the mission are now more structured:
  • You’re first guided to the shoreline without Havana being flared yet.
  • Once you land on the shoreline the minimap marker moves to Havana’s Town Center and you get a flare.
  • Only after you’ve built your Town Center do the secondary objectives become available.
• The objective markers are no longer present on the Weapons Caches, since they’re not actual objectives in this mission. Instead, they now appear on the Ossuary and the Fixed Guns, which are the real objectives.
• You can no longer capture the Fixed Guns, they now must be destroyed instead.
• Lowered the intensity and timing of attacks after you get your Covered Wagon, instead of potentially instantly. The Covered Wagon you receive is now also highlighted and you receive a flare.
• The main enemy is now significantly stronger, while your Havana ally has been weakened.

• The Seneca can now train more unit types than just Aenna.
• The Mohawk no longer has a predetermined unit roster. This roster consisted of all Fortress Age units and since the AI started in Commerce Age it couldn’t do anything at the start.
• The War Chief that gets converted to your side is no longer erroneously called “Nathaniel Black”.
• One enemy AI now no longer has an Explorer.

• You now start with a larger army on easy difficulty.
• You no longer get a reduced amount of Settlers on moderate difficulty.
• The villagers you can set free no longer display an invalid player name, civilization name and color before you take control of them.
• The Hessians can now properly attack and on hard difficulty gets a few extra Settlers after 10 in-game minutes.
• Some preplaced units no longer have their name set to “Test”.

• Fixed a bug that would cause the “Fixed Gun captured” voice line to be played while the Fixed Gun would actually be destroyed.

• Trenton will now be controlled by an AI when it’s your objective to destroy the Capitol. Before, the enemy would be completely idle since it had no AI attached at all. This change should make the second part of the mission come alive, instead of encountering only some static forces.
• Extended the city with 1 Town Center, 1 Mill, and 1 Outpost. These are meant to enable an economy for the newly added AI.
• You now get objective markers on the tents you need to destroy at the start of the mission.
• The campfires take much shorter to construct.
• You now get a point to send naval shipments to once you obtain Princeton.
• The Outposts in Trenton no longer belong to the enemy while you’re busy destroying tents, that also have less hitpoints now.
• You now get a map objective on the rearguard units you need to kill.
• You get a few more Settlers on Easy/Moderate now.
• There are no longer 3 enemy Grenadiers standing around in Trenton at the start.
• The campfires you built at the start of the mission are now also transferred to the red player once Trenton gets captured.
• Your Settlers properly appear as European style now.

• You now get a few starting resources based on difficulty, instead of starting with nothing.
• On Moderate and hard the escorting enemy Musketeers for the Fort Wagons now become veteran after 10 minutes of the Fort race starting.
• On Hard the escorting enemy Falconets for the Fort Wagons now become Field Guns after 15 minutes of the Fort race starting.
• Replaced the Forest Prowler in the introduction cinematic with a Native Scout.
• Nathaniel no longer has a higher movement speed than normal during gameplay.
• If you destroy the bridge after the initial timer has passed the attacks from the bridge will now correctly cease to happen on easy/moderate. On Hard this ceasing of the attacks already worked.
• If you destroy Kuechler’s Outposts at the back of the map the attacks from that position will now also cease.
• Burgoyne’s Supply Line now builds his Town Center further back and starts with fewer resources.

• You now start with 225 wood to speed up the stretched out Hut building section.
• You now get an objective marker on the Fort you need to destroy.
• The British can now actually train Settlers.
• The Coureurs des Bois the natives award you for allying with them during the food collecting section are no longer taken away from you after you’ve collected the required 3000 food.
• When you find the scattered Food Wagon, you now also get a flare on that position to help you identify the wagon.

• Reworked the starting conditions for the enemy AIs. The initial attacks aren’t so large anymore, but the AIs progress better throughout the game now.
• The Tomahawk prisoner you free no longer has an invalid player and civilization name.
• Added static defenses to the first 2 towns.

• The player now has starting resources based on difficulty, to speed up the start.
• You no longer start with a few tents, these are now granted to you the moment you get the Covered Wagon.
• You now get an objective marker and vision over the target British Town Center.
• Swapped the position of the Town Center and the Church in Cornwallis base to make it more challenging to snipe the Town Center in order to win.
• The attack waves from Yorktown won’t stop anymore after a certain amount of time, they will now keep going infinitely.
• The French and British AIs are no longer able to age up to the Industrial and Imperial Ages.
• You no longer retain active vision over the Fixed Gun position after you destroy both of them.
• You now get vision and objective markers on the Redoubts you need to destroy.
• The island in the north of the map no longer has Musketeers and an Outpost on it. This Outpost needed to be destroyed for the secondary objective, but it was so hidden away it made it nearly impossible to even find it.
• Fixed one Outpost not being part of the secondary objective of destroying them all.
• You now get a lot of experience from most of the objectives, instead of 0.

• The enemy camps now actually periodically spawns enemies that attack you instead of nothing happening all mission.
• The enemy camps are now defended by difficulty-based armies instead of one size fits all.
• Weapon Caches no longer have a map marker objective since they’re not your main objective.
• The camps you actually need to destroy do now have objective markers on each set of tents. The three groups of tents per camp are now also further apart so that the new objective markers don’t overlap.
• Rebalanced the initial enemies you face until you get your second Town Center.
• The tent camps are now invulnerable until you get the objective to destroy them. This prevents people from destroying them at the start when they’re defenseless.

• The attacks during the section of the mission where you need to build the Trading Posts have been changed:
  • Smaller on easy difficulty.
  • Now consistently target the Trading Posts.
  • The attacks loop, meaning will not stop.
• Overall made the mission more difficult on hard difficulty.
• The Miners can no longer be selected with military selection hotkeys, preventing you from accidentally giving them orders while you want them to collect gold.
• You no longer retain vision over the Hole in the Wall Gang’s hideout after you’ve completed that objective. One building from the Hole in the Wall Gang’s hideout is no longer invulnerable.
• Once you discover the secondary objective you no longer get an erroneous flare in your base for 75 seconds, instead it’s now a 15 second flare on the actual target.
• Your Saloon is now highlighted when Holme explains you can use it to recruit an army.
• Fixed an instance of Miners not changing ownership to the player after arriving at the Saloon.
• You can no longer build a Town Center since it goes against the custom economic play of this mission.
• If you lose your last Outpost you’re now granted an Outpost Wagon. This gives the player the opportunity to get back a point to send Home City shipments to.

• Reworked the starting conditions of the AIs to make them much stronger from the start. This prevents the mission from being possible to win within 5 minutes.
• Gave the AIs more starting buildings.
• Moved the southern most Trading Post and mining camp towards the west so that they aren’t instantly attacked by the Spanish AI anymore.
• Moved the mining camp east of the southern AI so that it isn’t instantly attacked.
• Provided static defenders for the 3 Barracks that you need to destroy.
• Removed an idle Trading Travois from the trade route.
• Moved many Trading Post sites and Trading Posts so that they’re properly aligned.
• You can now fail the two secondary objectives during gameplay, instead of just not being awarded the experience at the end of the mission.

• You now start with a single shipment available.
• Many enemy buildings no longer start on lower hitpoints.
• The enemy AIs no longer periodically get free units.
• The enemy AIs now receive extra Settlers, on Moderate and Hard, after some time has passed. In this mission the AI can’t train new Settlers on its own.
• Inserted a fourth enemy AI and give it some of the bases of the previous AIs. This base shuffling prevents the AIs from being very spread out and instead function better.
• Removed some locations you had to blow up with a Black Powder Wagon. This allows the AIs to actually move between their bases from the start and function better.
• The enemy AIs now have difficulty-based starting armies.

• You now start with a few more Settlers, to speed up the start.
• You now get active vision of the target Fort from the start of the game, and you will get a flare. However, you no longer have vision over some southern parts of the map.
• The Fort is now controlled by a proper AI.
• You no longer get attacked very frequently by small armies walking along the same path. Those attacks have been replaced by proper larger scale attacks.
• Removed the Trading Post directly below the enemy Fort. This will make completing the secondary objective much more realistic since you don’t have to build next to several towers anymore.

• The enemy AI is now able to train Settlers and thus actually function.
• The optional objective for rescuing the Lakota War Chief now properly awards the stated 2,000 experience instead of only 50.
• The optional objective for rescuing the Lakota soldiers now shows the correct amount of experience that will be rewarded, which is 500 per soldier instead of 350.
• After you save a Lakota Warrior or Chief, he now converts to faction of your ally, signaling that you’ve successfully saved him.
• Fixed one Lakota prisoner not converting to the player freeing him.
• Fixed one Lakota prisoner not granting any experience for saving him.
• Every cage you destroy now causes Chayton to say something about having freed prisoners to alert you, previously two cages would not do this.
• Fixed 2 outlaws on the southern side of the map not being incorporated into the secondary objective to kill them all.
• Holme no longer shows up as your ally at the end of the mission. This was done to prevent the player from killing him, but the player is now prevented from doing so via other means.
• Rebalanced the enemy army that spawns in the final cave protecting Holme.
• Rebalanced the initial attacks and made them more difficult on hard difficulty.

• You now lose the mission if you lose your starting Town Center.
• You now have access to Falconet and Culverin upgrades.
• The mission had nearly no difficulty modifiers implemented in relation to Custer’s approaching army and static forces. This made it significantly harder than it should’ve been on Easy and Moderate. The mission now has proper difficulty scaling implemented. Overall the mission has been made harder on hard difficulty.
• The AIs now have starting conditions based on difficulty and can train Settlers.
• The native camp in the east is now accessible without needing to cross the river. The shallow passing north of said camp has been removed and replaced with a river and cliffs. This should make moving around your base much more convenient.
• The cliff near the western shallows now has fewer trees on it so it’s easier for you to put ranged units there and have them be effective.
• The secondary objective to destroy both enemy Town Centers is no longer visible from the start of the game. It becomes visible after you get the objective to defend the Lakota town. The two Town Centers now also have objective markers over them. If you destroy a Town Center the AI it belongs to will now stop playing.
• The secondary objective to destroy all General Custer’s buildings can no longer sometimes fail to be activated.
• The reinforcements that arrive on the battlefield, if you weren’t successful in destroying Custer’s buildings, are now properly mapped to these buildings. One Barracks was not linked to anything, while an Artillery Depot was linked to two reinforcements. There were also several cases of unrelated units being spawned in relation to the building they belonged to.
• There are now outlaws between the player and all the chiefs, before only one chief was “guarded”.
• The original group of outlaws no longer has treasure guardians in it, they are now actual Comancheros.
• The 3 War Chiefs you need to gather are now significantly stronger and no longer show empty attacks in their unit statistics panel.
• There are now 2 extra attacks during the War Chief gathering phase.
• Custer’s Right Wing:
  • There are now also static defenders for the redoubt on Custer’s right wing, previously only the Redoubts on Custer’s Left Wing had defenders. Removed 1 Redoubt from Custer’s Right Wing.
  • For artillery Custer’s Right Wing now only makes Falconets and Rockets.
  • Is no longer able to train Pikemen. This should give the player an easier time using cavalry.
• Custer’s Left Wing:
  • Custer’s Left Wing now primarily focuses on training Skirmishers.
  • For artillery Custer’s Left Wing now only makes Falconets.
• The gold mines that are removed when playing on Hard are no longer precisely the ones that were placed next to Tribal Marketplaces. In order to avoid frustration now only Mines without a matching Tribal Marketplace are deleted instead.
• The 2 optional objectives now both grant 1000 experience.

• Fixed 2 Morutaru overlapping in the opening shot of “The Slow March of Death” cinematic. Also removed gun and arrow sounds during the second part.
• The main enemy AI is now a little bit stronger.
• Your allied AIs will no longer attack, but are limited to support in defence.
• Your 500 gold reward from destroying the Ronin camp will no longer be stolen by an AI’s Settler.

• You now get 12 more minutes on each difficulty to defeat all the villages.
• All enemy AIs are now activated after you get control of your starting town. Before, you had to walk a unit relatively close to the enemy for it to activate at all.
• You no longer discover a secondary objective during the intro cinematic. Instead you discover it after gaining control of the starting town.
• You now get HC access after you gain control of the starting town, instead of from the start of the mission.
• On Easy and Moderate 2 out of the 3 enemy villages are now allowed to attack while on Hard all 3 are allowed to attack.
• The Eastern Clan now has more resources nearby, allowing it to function better.
• Destroying a Town Center while the red Uesugi army is already walking towards it now prevents reinforcements from spawning. Before, if the army had just started walking it didn’t matter if the Town Center was destroyed when it arrived and reinforcements would still spawn.
• The map objectives on the enemy Town Centers no longer disappear when you are given the objective to destroy the enemy army. Since destroying an unvisited Town Center still prevents the enemy from gaining reinforcements, these objective markers will now remain active until the enemy army actually arrives at that town.

• Removed 2 trees that blocked the view of the opening shot of the “A Dead Man’s Pace” cinematic.
• Water is no longer revealed at the start of the game.
• On Moderate difficulty fewer enemies are deleted at the start of the game, making it more challenging.
• The AI now uses more upgrades.
• The enemy AI is now considerably more powerful.
• On Hard difficulty, once you destroy all defensive buildings next to a target Trading Post all walls are now granted to you as is the case on lower difficulties.

• Slightly reduced the amount of units attacking the main gate.
• Enemy Flaming Arrows now spawn at a higher rate.
• Reduced the amount of defenders on the right side of the map for all difficulties. An exception to this are the defences for the imprisoned Naginata Riders, those defences been strengthened instead.
• The main castle gates start less damaged.
• Destroying the Trading Post on the native site on the eastern side of the map now properly stops attacks coming from that site.
• One cavalry raid is now properly disabled on standard difficulty.
• All the walls apart from the gates are now noninteractive, this prevents the AI from needlessly attacking them.
• Removed a gap in the walls allowing units to walk around and come behind the Barracks of Fushimi Castle.

• You now get active vision over the Ishida target area.
• Ishida Army
  • Starts with fewer resources on all difficulties, slowing down their very early buildup.
  • Has a Dojo on all difficulties, instead of 3 only on Hard.
  • Has a smaller starting army on all difficulties as the first attack was too strong.
  • Gets stronger over time, with more resource gathering.
• Daimyo Ishida
  • Daimyo Ishida and Ishida’s Castle are now much stronger.
  • Has an objective marker directly on him after you destroy the Castle, instead of the marker remaining on where the castle first stood.
  • Now stays near the Ishida Castle after it has been destroyed.
  • After Ishida’s Castle is destroyed the extra units now also spawn on standard.
• The Otani Clan forces on Hard now have fewer Hatamoto Samurai.
• The most southern Outpost of the Otani Clan now has 3 more Yumi Archer protectors.

• The enemy AI now has economic limits before you destroy the western Castle. Once the Castle is destroyed all limits are lifted and the AI gets an extra boost.
• After you destroy the Castle west of your base the enemy AI in the east now gets stronger. Previously the AI was always locked to the Fortress Age and a maximum of 10 military units. These restrictions have been lifted to make the mission more challenging.
• On Hard, once the target Town Center has been damaged for more than 20% 8 Iron Flail troops spawn to defend.

• The AI is no longer locked to the Fortress Age and can now reach Imperial Age.
• Moved many of the defending Marathan Catamarans to make naval pathing for the AI possible. This also allows the AI to actually build warships.
• During the opening cinematic you now have a better view of the Indian units coming towards you.

• If you build a Town Center, you now get its starting units.
• Reduced the amount of enemies spawned during the start of the mission on Hard as it was unreasonably difficult, if you didn’t follow a very specific setup.

• Fixed the main objective’s timer sometimes not starting at all.
• If you build a Town Center, you now get its starting units.
• Reduced the amount of guards protecting the prisoners.
• Removed 1 War Hut from the eastern checkpoint.
• The Aztec temple once again appears in the “A New Empire” cinematic. Due to some engine restrictions the camera had to be changed drastically to achieve this.

• Moved the player’s base a bit to the east. This is to increase the distance between you and the Chinese Mutineers. Before, it was very easy to accidentally get into contact with them and have them send their entire army to you early into the mission.
• Chinese Mutineers:
  • No longer has a starting army as otherwise it would instantly destroy your base.
  • Won’t attack in the first 20 minutes after you get your base. Being 1vs2 from the start made the missions unreasonably difficult.
  • Now start with a negative handicap to reduce the difficulty of the beginning of the basebuilding section. After 30 minutes this is removed and they regain their full potential.
• Selecting some native settlements no longer also selects a bunch of other random units alongside it.
• Once you gain ownership of the initial town the resources there are no longer partly depleted based on how long it took you to reach the town.

• You can no longer construct a Native Embassy, since there are no actual Natives to claim in this mission.
• Indian Mutineers:
  • Has a larger small military, making the mission more challenging.
  • Is now always activates after 4 minutes in-game. Before, it could activate much earlier if you accidentally walked somewhere near or destroyed a Trading Post.
• The final voice over is no longer cut off by the mission ending.

• The British India Company inside the Fort now poses more of an offensive threat.
• You no longer get attacked by a Falconet at the start of the game on hard.
• Gameplay starting is now properly synced with the automatic camera movement ending.

• Removed 1 Rocket from the final area.
• Fixed the Dragoons in the second area stopping their patrolling after one circle.
• Removed one Weapon Cache at the very end of the mission on Hard, since the accompanying Elephants do not exist on Hard as a difficulty modifier. Thus the Weapon Cache served no purpose and would only confuse the player into thinking they can release another stampede.

• The timer for the first wave now takes 4 minutes instead of 2 and slightly reduced its size.
• The British India Company can now only attack after the third wave has been defeated to prevent too much early aggression.
• Reorganized the British India Company’s base slightly.

• Moved some Houses away from the western Algiers Fort wall so as to not confuse the AI which would attack them over the gates.
• All wall pieces (excluding the Gates) from the Algiers Fort are now noninteractive, this is to not confuse the AI which would needlessly attack them.
• Completing the secondary objective of destroying the Powder Stores now properly removes artillery from all AIs. Before, it left Falconets trainable from the Forts and only removed Culverins.
• When destroying a Spanish Fort the adjacent Towers now get automatically destroyed as well.
• On Hard, the AI’s belonging to the 4 Spanish Forts can now train more military from the 15 and 25 minute mark onwards. This will make their attacks grow in strength as the game goes on.
• Moved away the Outpost that was next to the fleet you’re meant to destroy. This Outpost was frustrating to deal with while also needing to destroy the fleet.
• You no longer have upgrades visible that are inaccessible due to Age restrictions.

Single Player:

• On Hard, the AIs belonging to the 4 Spanish Forts now get more resources from the 20 minute mark onwards. This will make their attacks grow in strength as the game goes on.

Co-op:

• Shipments for player 2 are now also blocked until the naval blockade has been lifted.
• Converted 1 Dock and 1 Galley from player 1 to player 2 in order to help with clearing the blockade.
• Freeing troops now consistently also gives player 2 new troops instead of only sometimes.
• On Hard, the AIs belonging to the 4 Spanish Forts now get more resources from the 15 and 25 minute mark onwards. This will make their attacks grow in strength as the game goes on.
• After you capture the Estates the second player now receives Settlers that are also standing on an Estate and gets converted to that player’s side.
• Replaced Hire Mediterranean Army (III) With 1 Falconet (infinite, III) for Player 1.
• Added 600 Coin (infinite, I) for Player 1.
• Fixed the mission icon of TEAM Cavalry Scouts for Player 1.
• Added Topçular (III) to the deck of Player 2.

• Starting boats now have sounds.
• The Qashliq Fortress meant to attack the player from inside the Fort is much stronger.
• On Easy, the camp from which the raids are coming now has fewer Outposts defending it.
• On Moderate, more of the Tatars’ units are instantly removed from the map.
• Qashliq Fortress now trains Tatar Archers instead of Cavalry Archers.

Single Player:

• You now properly get rewarded the entire village you were meant to protect after you destroy the camp from which the raids were coming.
• Your Russian ally now purely builds Streltsy. Before, it would sometimes also make Cossacks if it ended up having a Stable.
• The attacks from the raiding camp get stronger after a certain amount of time. Before, this was always 10 minutes, now it’s 20 minutes on Easy and 15 minutes on Moderate, Hard remains 10 minutes. The amount of extra units spawned once this timer runs out has been toned down a bit so that your ally doesn’t instantly lose.
• On Easy, more of the Tatars’ units are instantly removed from the map.
• Replaced Frontier Defenses with the Russian equivalent.
• Fixed the icon border color of 2 Falconets and the counter on Blockhouse Cannon.

Co-op:

• Replaced starting Musketeers for the co-op player with proper Rekruts.
• Fixed the unit counters on Polar Explorer and 7 Cossacks for Player 1.

• Technologies of unreachable ages are no longer visible.
• You now get a secondary objective which explains how you can reach the Fortress Age.
• Sir Francis Drake no longer displays an empty Crack Shot attack in the statistics panel.
• Docks now repair ships three times as fast. This should reduce the downtime where the player is waiting for the navy to be servicable again.
• Fixed Offshore Support card description.
• Turned 1 Galleon (II) into an infinite card.

Single Player:

• All Privateers from capturables and shipments are now of the same type.
• The Barracks in the southern pirate base was moved to a more visible position.

Co-op:

• Player 2 now gets a Barracks at the northern pirate base.
• Fixed the unit counter on TEAM Scout Infantry for Player 2.

• You now get access to your Home City after you’ve captured the Fort.
• Wall pieces, excluding Gates, from the French Fort are now noninteractive to prevent confusing the AI, which would needlessly attack them.
• Capturing the Fort automatically restores any destroyed Outposts.
• You can no longer hear the loss sound while you’ve already won, and vice versa.
• Captain de Contrecœur no longer has an empty attack shown in this statistics panel.
• Fixed some units showing seemingly random player colors, not matching with any player in the game.

Single Player:

• You no longer have to destroy 3 Outposts to free the Lenape.
• The Fort now has less units on Easy.
• Some units all across the map are now deleted when playing on Moderate, before Moderate had the same static forces as on Hard.
• Fixed 2 Falconets card icon border color.

Co-Op:

• Increased Fort defence timer from 20 to 25 minutes.
• Moved some buildings from the Shawnee village (north) to prevent British attacks from accidentally targeting them.
• Captured native villages (apart from Lenape) will no longer be actively attacked.
• The boat landing parties on the French economy now appear later.
• Fixed a bug where players received fewer upgrades on Easy than on Moderate; both difficulties now award proper tech upgrades.
• Implemented proper difficulty scaling for attacks, before half of the attacks were the same size regardless of chosen difficulty.
• Reworked all attack timings and sizes.

• The Choctaw objective works with both the Black Powder Wagon from the Town Center and the one you can capture.
• The Black Powder wagon you can capture no longer displays an invalid player and civilization name before being captured.
• General Jackson’s second ability now has a description.
• You must now destroy the British Town Center in order to win, instead of all military buildings. This objective now also has visual indicators to make you aware of it.

Single Player:

• The “Protagonist” field now correctly shows “General Jackson” instead of no text being shown at all. This is visible while selecting the Historical Battle.

• Removed one layer of the enemy walls.
• Enemy walls are now destroyed once the gates are breached.
• Replaced outdated towers and various units with authentic Ethiopian equivalents.
• Made minor changes to the allied base like adding Abuns for healing.
• Applied minor adjustments to eye candy and cliffs.
• Fixed the 2 Organ Guns card not sending any units for Player 1.
• Polished the intro cinematic so players always start with identical soldier counts.
• The enemy tower (main objective) is stronger to make it a worthy final target.
• The Emperor’s army will now arrive without issues.
• Visibility issues between players have been resolved.
• Optimized enemy attack lanes to alternate waves rather than clustering on one path.

Co-op:

• Expanded Player 2’s deck with additional gunpowder options while removing an unreachable Industrial Age card.
• Also increased the number of enemy village defenders.

• The AIs have been completely rebalanced.
• Army upgrades and Tower upgrades are now on a timer instead of randomly sprinkled in by the default AI.
• Moved player 1’s starting Granaries a little bit so that 2 Fields now nicely fit between them, instead of only 1.
• Moved both players’ starting berries so that, if you don’t gather them, the starting Granaries can still be effectively used for fields.
• Fixed the broken ranged attack enabled by the Fula Marksmen card.*

Single Player:

• Your ally now starts with a few Fields.
• Fixed Tokens of 500 influence card icon border color.
• Fixed 1 Town Center Builder visual unit counter.

Co-op:

• Fixed the missing unit counter of Fulani Invasion for Player 2.

• The players get a Livestock Market Cart since the preplaced Livestock Markets could get bugged.
• The food crates next to player 1’s Town Center correctly belong to that player now.
• Players no longer have access to Mercenary Artillery.
• All units, belonging to enemy AIs, that are part of the first section of the mission are now properly removed once you get to the base building section. This prevents the enemies from starting with an army whose sized depened what the player did or didn’t skip in the first part. This will also fix the issue where the player would almost instantly face a massive attack.
• Rebalanced the AIs starting conditions during the base building section.
• The AIs no longer start with an explorer.
• When an enemy is defeated its towers, gates, and units are also removed.
• Ensured that players get tribute for taking down an enemy player.
• The Somali Alliance Age-up option has been removed for all ages due to the naval and trade route focus irrelevant to the mission.
• Doing the Livestock side objective now removes all fences around them.
• When the second part of the mission begins, some Cattle spawn in previously explored locations.
• The Palace objective only fires if one of the human players is in the Commerce Age.
• Stockpiles:
  • The enemy response army to the first Stockpile is smaller.
  • The enemy will now also respond to the second Stockpile being attacked.
  • More defenders were added to the first Stockpile.
  • Fixed the Stockpile objective marker.
• Made the rewards for objectives more consistent for each one.
• Allied Abuns start with Book of Axum and Mission Fervor researched for easier healing.
• The enemy Mountain Monasteries are destroyed upon resigning.
• All mines can have Mountain Monasteries built upon them.
• Removed the Native Sudanese Villages.
• Tigray now only spawns Sebastopol Mortars on hard difficulty.
• Cannons and Cannon Boats spawn for the enemy players to help defend their Palaces against player cannons. The amount of cannons depends on the difficulty level. On Easy, no Cannon Boats spawn.
• The first two dialogues are adjusted so they fire earlier.
  • First dialogue at the beginning of the mission.
  • The second dialogue after reaching the village.
• The timers on the cinematics have been slightly adjusted to make it shorter.
• The mines beneath existing Mountain Monasteries will reset once they are captured to avoid them getting depleted.
• The Mountain Monasteries are now more centered on the mines.
• Rotated starting Granaries and Fields so it’s easier to place additional Fields nearby.
• Removed 2 Hippo treasure guardians that had no treasure to defend.
• Made small adjustments to the terrain and eye candy objects.
  • Removed trees from the top of cliffs.
  • Removed or opened up some of the cliffs.
  • Created more open spaces.
  • Improved eye candy placement.

Single Player:

• The ally is no longer active in the first part of the mission in the northern part of the map.
• Cattle captured by your ally now properly change to your ownership.
• Increased Mountain Monastery build limit by 4.
• Removed some of the initial builder carts.

Co-op:

• Increased Monastery Mountain build limit by 2 for each player.
• Improved balance of difficulty triggers for both players as the co-op player was heavily disadvantaged.
• The co-op player now has proper line-of-sight of defeated enemies.
• Changed which Mountain Monasteries switch to which player.
• Units from the Ethiopian Village are removed in the second part of the mission.
• When player 2 arrives in the village at the end of the first part of the mission, the game will continue. Before, this only happened when player 1 was in the area.
• The AIs can now also attack player 2 reliably.
• Fixed the visual counter and card icon of Aristocracy for player 2.
• Fixed the card icon of 12 Gascenya for player 2.

• The player now has a second politician option to choose from when aging up to Industrial Age.
• The player can now build Houses.
• Mosques now use the Moroccan design.
• You can no longer get the final Trade Route upgrade as rails and trains were inappropriate for the mission’s timeframe.
• Level Design:
  • The bottom part of the map is no longer accessible as it’s all cliffs now.
  • Several Portuguese Outposts were moved into more strategic areas.
  • The Trade Route runs from the Moroccan to the Portuguese camp rather than at the bottom.
  • The towns were altered to be more open, have fewer Houses, and have more consistent rewards.
  • The area around the puppet Sultan has been altered.
  • The passage east next to the Moroccan camp is no longer blocked by rocks.
• Heavily reduced the static guardians belonging to the Portuguese Army while playing on Easy, and removed some while playing on Moderate.
• The amount of towns you have to take is reduced to 2. The town behind the Portuguese Army no longer counts as part of the objective and can no longer be captured.
• Town defenders are more numerous.
• The middle objective marker in the Portuguese Army camp now disappears when all nearby Portuguese production buildings are taken out, rather than all of the Portuguese production buildings.
• Outpost defenders are more numerous when closer to the Portuguese camp.
• On Hard the Portuguese will send more soldiers.
• Fixed the Outpost Wagon reward on the cliff.
• Some of the units rewarded by the initial objective have been changed.
• The cinematic camera tracks were shortened.
• Reworked when and what upgrades the enemy players get, overall they get more upgrades.
• Fixed the missing icon TEAM Cavalry Scouts, the missing counter for Argan Tree Planting, and the incorrect position of 5 Settlers in the Home City of Player 1.

Single Player:

• The player no longer gets the second camp.

Co-Op:

• Player 2 now starts with a hero of their own.
• Player 2 now starts with regular units rather than mercenaries and natives.
• Player 2 now starts with equal population to player 1 and now gets houses when the town center is also granted.
• The reward for capturing the puppet Sultan now works properly for both players.

• Players can no longer garrison units inside of US Navy ships (allied player).
• You can no longer see upgrades that are impossible to get due to Age restrictions.
• The units on the island now properly spawn off-screen during the cinematic after clearing the island. Each player will always start the next part with 8 Marines and a Naval Officer.
  • The rogue Marine that randomly changed color has been removed.
• Enemy patrols and Outposts/Forts that the player can encounter in the initial stealth part, are now revealed. They are no longer revealed during the final escape.
• Removed and moved several assets that could potentially lead to pathing issues.
• Removed one of the Outposts in the bay and replaced it with some land units.
• Removed some Treasure Ships.
• Added a few camels on the map.
• Added minimap flares when a player gets too close to the bay’s Outposts (not all Outposts, just the ones that are relevant).
• Reworked the naval defenders and patrols.
• The stationary ships now have a proper color.
• Created two safe spaces within the bay where your ships can recharge their ability.
• Removed mechanics that would prematurely end the mission if the player performed too well or too poorly.
• Corsair ship:
  • Players can no longer garrison units inside of the Corsair Ship. This avoids these units from getting deleted in between the different parts of the mission.
  • Modified the behavior of the Galleys defending the Corsair ship in the initial capture scene (part 1). They will only return to the Corsair when they are too far away from it.
  • The timer on the Corsair ship and Rowboats has been increased to 45 seconds. This should make sailing to the USS Philadelphia a lot less painful.
  • The dialogue about the Corsair ship almost dying no longer plays during the final escape (part 4).
  • Adjusted the HP threshold for the dialogue that mentions that the Corsair ship is almost dead.
• Defending USS Philadelphia section updates.
  • Lowered the amount of attackers on all difficulties.
  • Replaced Berber Arquebusier and Corsair Pirates with other units like archers, spearmen, and cavalry.
  • Fixed several bugs regarding the Fixed Gun.
  • The Fixed Gun can now shoot the barricade that blocks the passage.
  • The Gunpowder Stores now destroy the Outpost as intended.
  • Moved the Naval Shipment spawns to reduce the risk of certain shipments not sending due to limited space (part 3).
  • Reduced the amount of land defenders at the USS Philadelphia.
  • Adjusted naval attack waves and increased the time in between attacks.
  • Moved one of the attack spawn points from the right side of the USS Philadelphia to the left side. This is to make the benefit of doing the side objective to destroy the harbor more obvious.
  • Adjusted the ‘Rescue the Crew’ side quest in various ways:
    • Ensured that the way to liberate them is consistent for all by either killing all guards or destroying the Stockade.
    • Half the troops will now go to the co-op player and will no longer depend on the co-op player going to the location. All Stockades divide the units equally among the players.
    • Some of the Marines were replaced with Sharpshooters.
    • Some Stockades now have fewer defenders, while others have more, depending on the reward.
    • The Stockades that grant buildings are now arranged more logically and avoid attack paths. The Stockade left near the docks gives a Sloop to each player, the Stockade right near the coast gives a Barracks to each player, the Stockades further south now each grant a tent with 10 bonus population to each player.
    • Moved/removed the flags so it’s more consistent and provides more clear visual feedback to the player.
• Player 1:
  • Replaced Naval Training and Marine Volunteers card icons to better reflect effects.
  • Fixed Overseas Weapon shipments researching an already researched tech.
  • Corrected the Rowboat Marksmen card icon border.

Single Player:

• You now get 2 extra Rowboats during the part where you need to reach the USS Philadelphia.

Co-op (Player 2):

• New Jersey Seaports replaced with TEAM 400 Food, 400 Wood, and 400 Coin.
• Fixed Virginia Oak not affecting all of the ship types that are available to players.
• Fixed the icon border color of the TEAM Tripoli card.

• After freeing all the towns on one side of the river the AI on that side of the river gets stronger.
• The AI can no longer start a Trade Monopoly.
• The AIs can now only go up to Imperial Age after 30 minutes have passed.
• The AIs now have different amounts of Settlers on different difficulties.
• The AIs now destroy their Towers after they’re defeated.
• The AIs are now defeated after you destroy both their Fort and Town Center, those 2 buildings now also have a dedicated objective marker.
• Increased the amount of resources the AIs get on Moderate/Hard.
• Both AI’s bases now have a Gate next to the Trade Route, so their units can walk between both bases more easily.
• Both AIs are no longer allowed to build on their own (apart from Outposts), instead they start with a few more buildings they would want.
• Enemy AIs start with their artillery disabled, upon capturing the second villages do the respective AIs gain access to artillery. The player then has cavalry to counter it.
• The Northern Royalist Army will now exclusively make Falconets and Culverins for artillery.
• The Southern Royalist Army will now exclusively make Falconets and Mortars for artillery.
• When a player captures a town all converted buildings are now properly highlighted. Before, some were missing.
• Players can no longer get access to Falconets before freeing the third village via Forts.

Player 1:

• No longer has an incorrect build limit of Haciendas of 2, it’s now the regular 7.
• Changed Peasant Rally card icon border color to better reflect its effects.
• Added 1000 Coin and Artillery Combat.

Co-op:

• Player 2 no longer has access to Padre upgrades in the Cathedral as this player can’t get a Padre in this mission.
• Added a Factory shipment to the deck of Player 2.
• Upon capturing the second village the respective players get 2 Chinacos.

• Starting conditions for all players and AIs now have more difficulty-based modifiers.
• American Army:
  • The first river attack on the Canadian player is not as strong anymore.
  • Attacks with fewer units early on and grows stronger over time.
  • Can now more reliably gather resources.
  • The Town Center is now in the center of the town instead of on the edge. This makes it more challenging to destroy and win the mission.
  • Static forces belonging to the teal AI are now removed based on chosen difficulty.
  • Will now only be able to go to Imperial Age from minute 30 onwards.
• The Haudenosaunee player (either AI or human) has one extra gold mine near his base.
• During the intro cinematic the British units no longer have a graphic showing at their feet.
• The War Cry ability of the Lenape native soldiers now takes significantly shorter to cast, making it more viable.
• Player 1:
  • Fixed the unit counter on Fort George’s Reinforcements and changed its card icon to better reflect its effects.
  • Fixed Captain Runchey’s Company card icon to better reflect its effects.
  • Added 6 Sharpshooters, 7 Sharpshooters, 2 Congreve Rockets and 7 Hanover Allies to Deck.

Single Player:

• The British troops you can receive from exploring the bottom left of the map will now always be given to the human player.
• Your Haudenosaunee AI now functions significantly better, and will actually help and no longer steal native settlements from you.

Co-op:

• The Haudenosaunee player will now be periodically attacked as long as the secondary objective “Retake Queenston Heights” hasn’t been completed.
• Player 2
  • Replaced Excellent Leadership card icon to better reflect its effects.
  • Fixed the unit counter on TEAM Scout Infantry visual.
  • Added Crates of 400 Food, 400 Wood, and 400 Coin as well as TEAM 300 Food, 300 Wood, and 200 Coin to the deck.