0.3.8: new art for every army, new hero abilities and new names

Version 0.3.8 · Released 6 Oct 2026 · Download

The first desktop release since 0.3.4, and the biggest change to how the game looks since it went 3D. The browser version has had most of this for a week or two already.

Highlights

• New art for every army: 105 ground units, 35 flyers, the ships and 96 heroes. More
• New abilities for all 96 heroes. More
• The Lizardmen are now the Kethraki, and a few units are renamed. More
• Shards of Fate: 3D pack opening, a shop, daily rewards and hundreds of new cards. More
• The Forge can place every prop in the game. More
• The desktop app is rebuilt. On 0.3.4 or older, download it again once. Details

Changes

• Your colour on your units: plumes, sashes and shields. Set Unit Colour to Accents & Cloth in Settings to add cloaks.
• Units run when they're moving fast, and walk at a pace that matches their feet.
• Wheels roll on carts, wagons and siege engines. The Catapult, the Demolisher and the Bone Catapult swing their arms when they fire.
• More things move properly: siege beasts walk and fall instead of sliding like statues, the Tyrant Lizard strides and bites, and the Gryphon Rider flies.
• Banners and flags differ by faction, the attack marker is your faction's sigil, and flyers get rally standards in the air.
• Power runes drop from creeps and bosses: 16 kinds, carved in your faction's script. Their numbers may still change.
• Creeps: new models for many of the old camps, plus spiders, drakes, scorpions and shellbacks where the biome suits them.
• More creeps: coast camps, three crewed sea landmarks and a Chest Mimic. The Ancient Wyrm bites now.
• Trees: new pines, and every biome's forests have been redone.
• Settings: a Depth of Field (3D) option, floating text size and font, and a preview that shows what each setting does.
• Custom Games cards have proper art, splash screens and a More info panel.
• Faction pages show each faction's heroes on a stage, and the home page plays the new trailer.

Fixes

• Distant units stand in their idle pose instead of a T-pose.
• Zooming out in 3D no longer greys out the map.
• Units move at their listed speed, in even steps.
• Builders stand clear of the building they're working on instead of getting shoved off it.
• Gold miners walk into the mine's doorway and come back out of it.
• Groups of idle units no longer sway in perfect time.
• Animation fixes: workers hold their tools, archers aim, capes don't tear, flyers fall cleanly and staffs stay off the ground.
• Seventeen music tracks that never played now do.
• The desktop app can't get stuck on "Checking for updates" any more.

Known issues

• Some new units still animate badly in places. Keep reporting them in this thread.
• Six mounted units keep their old models for now.
• Many hero spells still use a stand-in effect.

Adam