Age 53 — The Age of Havoc

Changes in brief

Avian
- - 30% attack times
- Defensive Specialist Strength +1
- - 10% attack gains
- Elite Unit: Drake (7/4, $650, 6.5 nw)
- Spell book: Clear Sight, Town Watch, Fanaticism
Dwarf
- - 25% thievery effectiveness
- - 50% food consumption
- Elite Unit: Berserker (6/5, $700, 6 nw)
- Spell book: Vermin, Quick feet
Elf
- Spellbook: Mystic Aura, Clear Sight, Pitfalls, Amnesia, Reflect Magic, Mage's Fury
Faery
- - 50% thievery effectiveness
- Offensive Specialist Strength -1
- Elite Unit: Beastmasters (3/8, $1000, 8.0 nw)
Halfling
- - 1 extra stealth per tick
- - 10% Population
- -20% birthrate
- Soldiers: 2/2
- Elite Unit: Brutes (5/6, $500, 6.25 nw)
- Spellbook: Animate Dead, Town Watch, Quick Feet, War Spoils, Aggression
Human
- - 20% magic effectiveness
- Spell Book: Greater Protection, Fountain of Knowledge
Orc
- - 25% gains
- - 10% building efficiency
- - 50% thievery and magic damage (on offensive operations)
The Undead
- -50% Offensive losses on attacks you make
- - 20% science effectiveness
- Elite Unit: Ghoul (9/3, $1000, 7.0 nw)

The Merchant
- +40% Income
- -50% Money Losses on Plunder Attacks
The Sage
- - 20% Science effectiveness
- - 20% Book Costs
- -20% Research Time
- -75% Losses on Learn Attacks
The Warrior
- - 50% bonuses from honor
The Tactician
- -50% Land Losses when Ambushed
The Cleric
- Lost "Troops losses on attacks or defense converted to soldiers"

A new theme and front page update will be applied. This new theme will be set as default but players can revert to a more classically styled theme via the account settings option.
Purchasable game items, such as invites and taunts, have been moved to their own area within the game.
Fortified stance will be limited in duration. After 4 days you will be moved into Normal stance with the normal restrictions of any stance change.
Explore costs will increase more drastically the more you explore.
Construction and raze costs will be reduced significantly at larger acres.
A war win chart has been introduced.
Mages Fury has been changed to now modify magic offensive and defensive efficiency by 20%, up from 10%.

Bonuses: +20% Building Efficiency; Free Building Construction; Can use credits to raze buildings
Spell Book: Vermin, Quick Feet
Penalties: -25% Thievery Effectiveness; +50% Food Consumption; Can't use Accelerated Construction
Elite Unit: $700

Bonuses: +2 Mana Recovery / Tick in war; +1 Defensive Specialist Strength; +30% Spell Damage (Instant Spells)
Spell Book: Mystic Aura, Clear Sight, Pitfalls, Amnesia, Reflect Magic, Mage's Fury
Elite Unit: $600

Bonuses: +1 extra stealth per tick; -50% thief cost; +10% Population; Espionage operations are 100% accurate in war
Spell Book: Animate Dead, Town Watch, Quick Feet, War Spoils, Aggression
Penalties: -20% birthrate
Elite Unit: $500

Bonuses: +25% Gains; Earns Elite Credits
Spell Book: Fanaticism, Aggression, Bloodlust
Penalties: -10% building efficiency; -50% thievery and magic damage (on offensive operations)
Elite Unit: $800

Bonuses: -50% Offensive losses on attacks you make; Converts some Specialists into Elites on successful land attacks; Spreads and is Immune to The Plague; No Food Required
Spell Book: War Spoils, Nightmares, Chastity
Penalties: -20% science effectiveness
Operation Access: Basic Thievery Operations Only
Elite Unit: $1000

Bonuses: +40% Income; -50% Money Losses from Plunders; Immunity to Income Penalties

Bonuses: -30% Explore Time and Costs; -30% Building Construction Time and Costs; Immunity to Droughts, Storms, the Plague and Dragon effects; Each Acre generates 4 Bushels / Tick

Bonuses: +20% Science Effectiveness; -20% Book Costs; -20% Research Time; -75% Losses on Learn Attacks; Every 4 Acres produces 1 Book / Tick

Bonuses: +15% Enemy Casualties (on attack or defense); -15% Your Military Casualties (on attack or defense); 10% more OME in war; +50% bonuses from honor

Bonuses: Gain 30% more Specialist and Building Credits; -15% Attack Time; -30% Military Training Time; -50% Land Losses when Ambushed

Normal: No effects
Aggressive
- +10% Combat Gains
- -10% Attack Time
- +30% Military Wages
- +10% Military losses
Fortified
- -50% gains hitting in (slides in over 24 hours)
- -25% Military training time and cost
- +25% draft speed
- -25% Construction time and cost
- 4-day maximum duration
- -50% gains hitting out
- +100% Explore costs
- No Paradise spell available
- Science limited to Active

Ceasefire
- Prohibits attacks, spells, and thievery operations
- Annuls the Hostile Meter
- End Of War Ceasefire lasts 12-96 Utopian days
- +300% birth rate
- Combined with War relations
- War and Ceasefire relations can be cancelled separately
Normal: No effects
Unfriendly: Unlocks Unfriendly/Hostile/War spells and thievery operations against the other kingdom
Hostile
- +10% Combat Gains
- Increases Conquest networth range
- Offensive spells cost 2% mana
- Offensive ops cost 2% stealth
- Enables monarch bonuses:
  - +10% defensive military strength
  - +10% defense magic
  - +10% defense thievery
War Immediate Effects
- Annuls the Hostile Meter with everyone
- -10% Attack Time
- Enhanced Massacre destroys buildings
- +10% Combat Gains
- Offensive spells cost 2% mana
- Offensive ops cost 2% stealth
- Enables monarch bonuses:
  - +10% defensive military strength
  - +10% defense magic
  - +10% defense thievery
War Penalties
- +100% Exploration Costs
- No Paradise spell available
- Science limited to Active
War After 12 Hours: -20% Attack Time
War After 24 Hours: -25% Military Losses; -25% Military Training Time; no distance penalties for attacks; -75% gains and effectiveness for operations to and from other kingdoms