Technical and performance improvements
Battle

• Fixed a rare projectile crash in battles.

Campaign AI improvements

• Adjustment to Campaign AI to force factions that have just become known / discovered to take on the current attitude towards the player, rather than be neutral.

General battle improvements

• Fixed bug with Celtic Linothorax armour on units in battle.
• Fixed misaligned settlement walls in Tigranocerta city battle map.
• Stopped infantry user triggering "riders into wedge" voiceover during battles.
• Armies moving from a settlement will no longer trigger "move completed" dialogue lines before their move has begun.
• Armenia can no longer use large onagers when defending in a custom siege battles.

General Campaign improvements

• Fixes for seasonal effects and adjustments to income types and amounts from buildings in the campaign so subsistence is more favoured.
• Diplomatic scores have been lowered in general, and It is now harder to make client states.

Usability Improvements
Battle

• Factions are now listed in 2 columns in the Custom Battle and Multiplayer *Lobbies, to prevent the faction list going off the bottom of the screen.
• Fixed a Roman minor port coastal battle map, where units could disembark on an out-crop of land at the edge of the map, and therefore would get stuck and no longer be able to fight the navies in the battle.
• Fix for broken deployment area on port tile near the Dolmens in France.

Campaign

• Faction Trait Icons fix - adjust to newer Emperor Edition colour scheme.

Balancing Changes
Unit Stats

• Increased armour of Foot Companions.
• Increased melee attack of Thracian Slingers, Bowmen, Skirmishers.
• Increased charge bonus of Carthaginian Noble Cavalry.
• Increased damage of longbows but reduced reload rate.
• Increased health of First Cohort and Eagle Cohort.
• Removed square from noble Spearmen and Persian Hoplites.
• Increased range of Nubian Bowmen to 150.
• Increased the health, attack and melee defence of Egyptian Cavalry.
• Increased the health of Thureos Spears by 5.
• Karian Axemen ranged weapon swapped for the same javelins as used by Thureos Spears.
• Increased the attack, armour and health of Mercenary Leopard Warriors.
• Increased the morale and armour of Camel Spearmen.
• Increased the morale of Camel Archers.
• Attack and charge bonus increased for Agrianian Axemen.
• Increased the armour of Thessalian Cavalry.
• Changed weapon of Hippeus Lancers so they do more damage.
• Increased the morale and health of Elite Persian Archers.
• Increased the armour, charge and melee defence of Etruscan Hoplites.
• Increased the morale of Light Hoplites.
• Increased the health of Heroes of Sparta.
• Increased the range of Gallic Hunters.
• Increased the health of Celtic Skirmishers.
• Increased the melee attack, charge bonus and melee defence of Celtiberian Cavalry.
• Increased the melee attack and charge bonus of Iberian Noble Cavalry
• Cantabrian Cavalry have been given higher damage javelins..
• Increased the armour of Veteran Riders.
• Increased the hit points of Horse Runners.
• Increased the armour of Bloodsworn.
• Increased the armour and morale of Spear Wall.
• Increased the morale and melee defence of Night Hunters.
• Increased the melee attack and melee defence of Fierce Swords.
• Increased the range of Dacian Heavy Bowmen.
• Increased the health and melee attack of Dacian Heavy Skirmishers.
• Increased the armour of Thracian Peltasts.
• Increased the morale of Thracian Warriors.
• Increased the health of Tribal Warriors and reduced speed.
• Increased the morale and melee defence of Illyrian Cavalry.
• Increased the morale of Parthian Foot Archers.
• Swapped the shield type of Scythian Royal Skirmishers and Sarmatian Horsemen to one with more armour.
• Increased armour and health of Sarmatian Royal Lancers.
• Reduced the mass of chariots.
• Increased the mass of elephants.
• Increased the attack of Briton Scout Riders to 38*
• Decreased the attack of Hastati to 35

Unit Abilities and Attributes

• Added hoplite wall to Persian Hoplites.
• Rapid Advance for Gorgo's Skirmishers replaced with Rapid Reload.
• Added Frenzied Charge to Mighty Horse.
• Added Frenzied Charge to Illyrian Cavalry.
• Added Hoplite Wall for Noble Spearmen.
• Added Drago to Saka Noble Armoured Lancers.
• All camel units have gained the resistant to fatigue attribute.

Unit Costs and Caps

• Thureos Hoplites cost decreased to 600.
• Illyrian Thureos Spears cost increased to 380.
• Iberian Swordsmen cost increased to 350.
• Thureos Spears cost increased to 560.
• Riders of the Hunt cost decreased to 570.
• (Mercenary) Rhodian Slingers cost decrease to 590.
• Evocati Cohort cost increased to 890.
• Triarii cost decreased to 790.
• Steppe Archers cost increased to 330
• Nubian Bowmen, Hippeus Lancers, Dacian Heavy Bowmen, Mercenary Thracian *Warriors and Illyrian Cavalry cost increased
• Steppe Archers cost increased to 330
• Egyptian cavalry increased to 600.
• Celtic Warhounds cost reduced by 50
• Increased the custom/multiplayer battle cap of Mercenary Axe Warriors to 4.

Unit Availability

• Mercenary Thracian Warriors added to custom/multiplayer battle roster for *Macedon and Athens.
• Mercenary Samnite Warriors added to custom/multiplayer battle roster for Epirus.
• Mercenary Italian Cavalry added to custom/multiplayer battle roster for Syracuse.
• Mercenary Cappadocian Cavalry, Mercenary Skirmisher Cavalry and Mercenary *Syrian Archers added to custom/multiplayer roster for Galatia.
• Mercenary Germanic Scout Riders added to custom/multiplayer battle roster for Nervii.
• Mercenary Veteran Hoplites added to custom/multiplayer battle roster for the Odrysian Kingdom.
• Factional mercenaries for Tylis swapped from Dacian to Celtic units in campaign mode.
• Mercenary Tarantine Cavalry added to custom/multiplayer roster for Ardiaei.
• Cappadocian Cavalry added to campaign and battle roster for Pontus.
• Mercenary Naked Swords added to custom/multiplayer battle roster for Pontus.
• Mercenary Amazonian Riders added to custom/multiplayer battle roster for *Roxolani and Massagetae.

Known Issue

• In the Mac Steam version of the game, some changes to the games options during play will not be kept once the game is restarted.