Sunday, August 16, 2026

 Following the release of the Maltese, their greatest enemies have now also arrived: the Algerian Barbary Pirates!

Led by Hayreddin Barbarossa, the Algerians are THE mercenary civilization, and their bonuses include:
- they train outlaws and mercenaries exclusively, both on land and water
- they can train Pirates from their Town Centers to fight and Sailors to gather resources
- they advance in Age with Special (Big Button) technologies from economic buildings
- they have a vast array of unique cards, ranging from free resources to buffing buildings and mercenaries
- they can build Stockades that train prisoner villagers from other cultures to leverage their bonuses:
-- Iberian Prisoners can build Artillery Depots to train European artillery
-- Mughal Prisoners can build Red Forts to defend the frontier
-- Tribal Prisoners can build and dance at Fire Pits for various bonuses

And as usual, the update also includes numerous bug fixes, map changes, new cards for several civilizations, and much more.

@ageekhere has also been busy working on the new Improvement Mod Launcher some more *(and a new AI but more on that later :eyes:)* and now the Launcher can also set what IP the game uses for LAN multiplayer, which should help with things like Radmin and Hamachi.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/improvement-mod/downloads/improvement-mod-manual-install-new
https://www.moddb.com/mods/improvement-mod/downloads/improvement-mod-launcher-new

Thank you for playing!