Conquest of Elysium 5, changes from previous version

For thoses who are familiar with the previous version, here is a list of some of the changes from Conquest of Elysium 4 to the new version.

Classes

• Five new classes: Scourge Lord, Cloud Lord, Kobold King, Monkey Maharaja and Raksharaja
• Most old classes also have new rituals and units

Independents

• 2 new indpendent factions: Celestial and Empire
• Different independent factions will fight more with each other
• Pirates ports will build ships that can raid ports owned by players or the Empire
• Guard Towers spawn Empire soldiers that fight against both players and the wildlife
• New types of monster lairs that can spawn monsters

World and map

• New planes: Sky, Celestial, Primal and Aztlan
• New world generation algorithm, making more interesting geography
• New improved map graphics
• New terrain tiles
• Ships and sailing
• Names for major features like ports, guard towers, castles, cities, etc.
• Overrun, kill small (less than 5 units) inferior forces without a combat
• New random events, some apocalyptic in nature
• Possible to prevent many events before they happen as the instigators are spawned during world creation

Combat

• Battle map terrain, e.g. vegetation in forests and buildings in villages
• All battle terrain features have their own stats and can be destroyed
• Units can interact with terrain by e.g. draining life from vegetation or animating the trees
• Many new fortification layouts, different for different type of forts
• New permanent battle afflictions
• Some afflictions like Battle Fright can affect a units preferred deployment rank
• Equipping a magic wand will also affect the preferred deployment rank
• Some units can burrow down at the start of a siege to appear inside the walls later on
• Smarter setup for siege units
• Ambushes more deadly, commanders are likely to be attacked at the front of the column
• Battle statistics shown for battles if Battle Reports are enabled
• Player units can also ambush enemies

Trade

• Number of town points determines number of offers from mercenaries and merchants
• Merchants can offer magic items for sale
• Dump unwanted resource at a lower price and earn more gold

UI improvements

• Multi-turn movement paths
• Auto recruit
• Info on tiles
• Improved Transfer Units screen
• Dates shown when loading old games
• See trade and corpses directly from map screen
• See what repeat rituals are active directly from map screen
• Huge armies shown as a stack of counters on map screen

Monsters

• About 500 new monster types
• Many new special abilities
• Units with desert move can move quickly through deserts
• Floating and flying units can fly over sea squares
• Flying units will get tired if they cannot land
• Berserking units can continue fighting on negative HP

Rituals

• More than 100 new rituals
• New resources to pay with: Lifeforce, Kobolds and Goblins

Magic Items

• More than 100 new magic items
• New types of magic items like Magic Maps, Teleportation Scrolls and one use Potions.
• Magic booster items available for most magic paths

Music

• New epic music by Adrian von Ziegler
• One unique tune for each class

Network

• New official server that offers an easy way to run your network games
• Old way of running network games is still available
• Possible to give magic items to allies
• Optional turn timer

Modding

• Steam Workshop support for easy installation of mods
• More modding commands, enabling modders to do more advanced mods than before
• Map editor can be used to edit the other planes as well

Technical

• CoE 5 is now 64-bit only, enabling larger games with more units and players than before
• Performance improvements to enable larger game to run more smoothly
• Many improvements to the AI players

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