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<title>Battle for Wesnoth 1.6</title>
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<h1>Battle for Wesnoth 1.6 Release Notes</h1>
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<p><em>March ??, 2009</em>. Once again it's time for that epoch-making event,
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a Wesnoth stable release. The Battle for Wesnoth team is proud to release
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version 1.6 of <em>The Battle for Wesnoth</em>, a <a
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href='http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html'>Free</a>, turn-based
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strategy game with a fantasy theme and roleplaying elements. The game is <a
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href='#download'>available for download</a> now for Windows, Mac OS X, and
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various GNU/Linux distributions.</p>
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<a href='#game'>What's New in Wesnoth 1.6</a>
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<li><a href='#players'>For Players</a></li>
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<li><a href='#campdev'>For Campaign Developers</a></li>
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<li><a href='#download'>Download</a></li>
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<li><a href='#more'>More Info</a></li>
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<h2 id='game'>What's New in Wesnoth 1.6</h2>
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<p>We have many new features for your delectation this time around,
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including a new mainline campaign, two new multiplayer scenarios, and
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another refresh of the user interface.</p>
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<h3 id='players'>For Players</h3>
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<p>There is a new mainline campaign, <em>The Legend of Wesmere</em>,
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with new gameplay features including (in one scenario) the ability to
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use the game AI as your commander for an allied side, setting its
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objectives as you like.</p>
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<p>Multiplayer has two new maps, 4p <em>Underworld</em> and 4p <em>A
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New Land</em>; existing maps have been revised and updated.</p>
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<p>Almost all mainline campaigns now use a different method of carrying
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over gold from scenario to scenario: the amount of gold retained is now
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40% instead of 80%, but it is added to the minimum starting gold of the
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next scenario instead of only replacing it if higher.</p>
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<p>Many mainline campaigns have improved storyline prose and new
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cutscenes or epilogs. Several have improved and redrawn campaign
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maps. All now have dates in the Wesnoth history timeline and almost
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all have journey animations on their campaign maps. The history and
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geography of Wesnoth have been developed in more depth and detail, and
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more campaigns now include references to events in that overall
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history, adding depth and richness to the narration.</p>
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<p>The game graphics have been improved, with a whole new range of
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unit portraits in more realistic styles. Many more units have full
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animations and team coloring. Forests get more variety with graphics
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for spring/summer, fall, and winter deciduous forest terrains. There
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are new village graphics for human cities and primitive tribal
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areas.</p>
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<p>There is a new basic terrain type, coastal reef, which gives most
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land-based units slightly higher defense than in regular shallow water,
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and 70% defense to most water-based units such as mermen and naga.</p>
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<p>Our composers have added three new original background tracks:
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<em>Heroes' Rite</em>, <em>The Dangerous Symphony</em>, <em>Suspense</em>
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and <em>The Deep Path</em>. Also, the game now plays special music clips
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for victory and defeat events.</p>
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<p>The game interface has continued to evolve, especially in making
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more dramatic use of portaits. Unit recall dialogs now display useful
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information about your veterans' traits. Addons now display their
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category when you browse them on the download server.</p>
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<p>The multiplayer server can now be logged onto using the username and
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password of a Wesnoth forum account. However, registration and logging
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in using an account is not required and one can continue to use an
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unregistered username.</p>
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<p>The multiplayer lobby has been improved to allow easier management of
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the friends and ignores list by double-clicking on the player list.</p>
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<p>Sadly, one user-visible feature had to be removed. The
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gamma-correction slider is gone; crash bugs in the SDL implementation
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behind the feature made it too dangerous.</p>
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<p>New game translations include Arabic, Croatian, Friulian, Latvian,
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Macedonian, and Marathi. Existing translations have been extensively
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updated and revised.</p>
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<h3 id='campdev'>For Content Developers</h3>
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<p>The map editor is much improved. It can be started from within the
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game now. You can toggle overlay displays of terrain codes and map
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coordinates while editing. The editor can handle multiple maps in a
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session, and you can take screenshots of full maps. There's also a
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new interactive editing tool for animated journey tracks.</p>
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<p>There are several new core units available everywhere: Troll Shaman,
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Royal Warrior and Dread Bat.</p>
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<p>Less visible changes include improvements in the game AI, including a new
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formula-based AI that allows more flexible setting of objectives and an
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improved pathfinding algorithm. As usual, WML has grown more powerful
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with many new tags and attributes to extend the range of what
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campaign authors can do.</p>
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<p>The support for writing Python AIs has been removed because the
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feature opened a serious security hole; we hope to build a
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functionally similar feature, possibly using a different and safer
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extension language, in 1.7.</p>
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<div class='visualClear'></div>
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<h2 id='download'>Download</h2>
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<p>Battle for Wesnoth is made available under the <a
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href='http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html'>GNU General Public License</a>
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(GPL). Source code is available from <a
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href='http://www.wesnoth.org'>wesnoth.org</a> where you will also find
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instructions for <a href='http://wesnoth.org/wiki/CompilingWesnoth'>building
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from source</a> on a range of different operating systems. Ready-to-go
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packages are also available for most popular operating systems,
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including Linux and Windows and Mac OS X.</p>
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<a href='http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wesnoth/wesnoth-1.6.tar.bz2?download'>Source code</a>
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<strong>
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<a href='http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wesnoth/wesnoth-1.6-windows.exe?download'>Wesnoth for MS Windows</a>
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<strong>
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<a href='http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wesnoth/Wesnoth_MacOSX_1.6.dmg?download'>Wesnoth for Mac OS X</a>
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<p>You can get up to date information about downloads at the <a
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href='http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/Download'>downloads page</a>.</p>
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<p>If you downloaded previous versions of the game, you might be interested in
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downloading the <a
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href='http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/Download_Xdeltas'>xdelta</a> files only.</p>
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<h2 id='more'>More Info</h2>
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<a href='http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/wesnoth/tags/1.6/changelog'>Full Changelog</a>
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(English, very long)
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<li><a href='http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/wesnoth/tags/1.6/doc/manual/manual.en.html'>User's Manual</a></li>
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<li><a href='http://www.wesnoth.org'>Wesnoth Official Website</a> (English)</li>
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<li><a href='http://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.0'>Wesnoth 1.0 Release Notes</a></li>
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<li><a href='http://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.2'>Wesnoth 1.2 Release Notes</a></li>
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<li><a href='http://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.4'>Wesnoth 1.4 Release Notes</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>This page is also available in the following languages:</p>
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