Freeware Descriptions:

The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures.

Here is complete features (taken from authors site):

  • Build up a formidable fighting force, starting from a single leader and a small amount of gold.
  • Over 200 unit types in six major factions, all with distinctive abilities, weapons and spells.
  • Experienced units gain powerful new abilities as they advance.
  • Several multi-player options available, including internet play.
  • Scores of different custom-designed maps, and unlimited random maps.
  • Hundreds of campaign scenarios available for download via a simple in-game procedure.
  • ´Fog of war´ feature available for a true test of generalship.
  • Sophisticated mark-up language lets advanced users make their own maps, factions or campaigns.
  • Excellent language support – 35 different languages currently available.
  • GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOSX, BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, AmigaOS4, OS/2 & eComStation compatible.

Downloads are available for the source code and other supported Operating Systems at the developer´s website.

What’s New in version 1.6:
Campaigns:

  • Under the Burning Suns: All portraits now have a transparent background (bug #13135)

Graphics:

  • New or updated unit graphics for the Mermaid Priestess and Enchantress unit lines

Language and i18n:

  • updated translations: Finnish, French, German, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish

User interface:

  • Grey game titles out when we’re missing the era
  • Fix a dialog size problem returning invalid sizes (bug #13203)

WML Engine:

  • Increase the map size limit to 1000 by 1000
  • Added an ‘always_display’ key to [advancement] to make it possible to show the advance dialog even with just one option.
  • weapon filters now recognize the id= attribute of specials (bug #13193)

Miscellaneous and bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug #13204: NR: Death event doesn’t re-spawn Malifor as expected
  • Fixed bug #13198: Corrupt replay in MP
  • Fixed bug #13199: Map generation in mp fails when hills and size of hills sliders are at max
  • Fixed bug #13179: Unit’s move have sometimes a jumpy start
  • Stop resetting the alternate default zoom level after each reload

The Battle for Wesnoth 1.6 Screenshot


File Size / OS:

  • 200.99 MB / Windows 9x - ME - 2000 - NT - XP - 2003 - Vista

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