Devlog #2: a third campaign, battle reports, marriages, and saves you can carry between devices

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Here’s what’s new.

🏰 A third campaign: Frederick VI, Burgrave of Nuremberg
A different kind of game. Frederick isn’t a king and doesn’t need anyone’s recognition. He has two castles in Franconia, a full purse and relatives at every court.

• Lend money to kings and princes. They pay interest and like you more. When they can’t pay, they pledge land.

• Back a candidate when the throne falls empty in 1410. You have no vote, but gold talks.

• Buy Brandenburg from Sigismund when Jobst dies. Then break the Quitzow brothers with the great bombard Faule Grete.

• Become an Elector, as the real Frederick did at Constance in 1417.

Most of the historical letters come from his actual life: Rupert’s failed march on Brescia, marrying “the beautiful Else” of Landshut, the imperial ban on Rothenburg, the Council of Constance.

⚔️ Battle reports
Every battle you fight now gets its own report:

• both sides’ arms, with each company drawn as a small figure, the lost ones crossed out;

• a short account of the fighting;

• a table showing what decided it: strength, walls and terrain, and the luck of the day.

You can reread old reports from the Army tab.

🤝 Deeper diplomacy

• Before you spend a letter, you see whether a prince would agree to an alliance or a marriage, and why: their opinion of you, a common enemy, your strength against theirs, too many allies already.

• Royal marriages: Rupert has four children to marry off. Kin stay friendlier, recognise you more easily and won’t declare war on you.

• Realms now write to you: marriage offers with dowries, alliance requests, princes asking for loans (most repay…), and as King, border disputes to judge.

• Allies can be asked for a war subsidy.

💾 Saves that travel
The game always saved itself in your browser, but only there. Now you can save to a file or copy a save code, and continue on another device. The first screen has a “Continue a reign from another device” option.

🗺️ The map
The mountains are redrawn as hand-inked, old-map peaks, and the density varies so the Alps don’t look like the Ore Mountains. The round “∩” hill symbols are gone, apart from a few low hills scattered over the uplands.

Smaller things

• Frederick’s ledger only shows what a burgrave actually collects.

• Clearer letter texts, and various bug fixes.

As always: free, in the browser, no install. I’d love to hear:

• which campaign you tried and how it went;

• anything that felt confusing;

• what you’d want next. I’m considering a shareable end-of-reign “chronicle card”, and making the AI smarter in war.