WarLight has just been updated to version 3.08.0! This update adds the Bomb Card to coin games, and adds the ability to play coin games at low-wagers.
Bomb Card
For the first time since 2010, WarLight now has a new card!
The Bomb Card allows you to target an enemy or neutral territory and kill half of the armies on that territory. You can target any territory that’s adjacent to one of your own territories.
If the number of armies is odd, the remaining armies on the territory will round down. So targeting a territory with 5 armies will leave 2, and targeting a territory with 1 army will leave 0. The Bomb Card does not change the ownership of the territory, even when reducing it to 0. Bombs take place after deployments, but before attacks (and also before abandons/airlifts).
Since it kills half of the armies on a territory, it’s most effective when your opponent builds a single large stack of armies. Therefore, when your opponent has a Bomb Card, you should try to keep your armies into separate smaller stacks when possible to reduce its effectiveness. This can have a big impact on a game’s strategy!
The Bomb Card is initially available in coin games, but in a future update it will become available for members to use in all games. Check it out today, in either the Small Earth 1v1 coin game, the Earth 1v1 coin game, or the Four Castles FFA coin game!
Show Armies Killed without Analyze
In no-luck games, the attack/transfer dialog now shows how many armies will be killed:
This allows you to easily drag the slider up and down to more easily determine how many armies to attack with, without having to keep checking Analyze.
5 and 10 coin games
For those who want to experiment with coin games, but at a lower amount, WarLight now offers coin games that only cost 5 to 10 coins to join! These games can be found on the Coins tab, or under the Promoted Games section of the multi-player dashboard. These games are only available to players who hold a coin balance of 1,000 or fewer coins.
No more lobby for Ladders and Tournaments
It’s no longer necessary to click Join Game for ladder or tournament games unless you must choose a color. Games where all player’s colors (or alternate colors) are available will just skip the lobby completely.
Misc Changes
– The “Fast” boot option for multi-day games now means 1 day 10 hours (34 hours) instead of 25 hours.
– Updated the minimum version of Flash required to 11.1.
– The “show more promoted games” link has been replaced with a horizontal listing of the templates available. You can click to expand each template.
– If you join an open tournament, it will now state next to it that you have joined it in the Open Tournaments section.
– Added member icons on the leaderboard and tournament players tab.
– In tournament chat, moved the tooltip that displays the message sent date from the message text to just the name of the chatting player.
– Fixed a bug that allowed scenario distributions to be considered pure skill templates, even when they were not evenly matched.
– Fixed a bug that caused the “territory limit” setting to be hidden in games that use custom scenarios.
– Fixed a bug that caused open tournaments to show “Unread chat” immediately after you joined, even if you had read the chat.
– Fixed a bug that allowed you to close the “Begin” dialog with escape.
Lol, an April fools prank has lead to this.
I noticed the kill x armies about 10 mins ago.
Bomb card doesn’t sound powerful enough! We need a Nuke card!
But the only reasonable effect of a Nuke card would be turning all territories adjacent to the one specified(Including said territory) into wastelands, which is pretty much… yeah.
Siriusly?
Obviously the bomb card needs to be put in the 1v1 ladder.
Finally, a purely offensive card.
Oh, and I can see the number of armies killed without analyze?
My life is complete!
Well, now I can’t play it anymore, because my computer won’t support the minimum version of Flash. Great idea.
If your computer doesn’t support it, man, it’s time of buying a new one. Right now I’m playing from a Windows XP, and I have no problem, so what kind of toaster have you got as a PC?
I’m not rich enough to keep the technological pace. Too bad. I guess I saw it coming. I just find it kind of sad that people can’t have a good machine over ten years, because we always try to invent new things, that make us throw away things that are still working. My computer doesn’t have any problem.
I’m guessing you haven’t looked at how cheap computer parts are now. Check out logicalincrements.com. They list out computer parts ranging from “destitute” to “monstrous.” You don’t need to be rich to have a minimal-level computer.
You can buy a computer for $3-400 that would probably be superior to the machine you’ve got (from the sounds of what you said, anyway).
If you think $3-400 is “rich,” then you’ve probably got a lot bigger things to worry about though.
Have you tried downloading the latest flash player? Or even updating flash player?
Yes, but there is no recent version of it for my computer, and won’t be.
What order do the cards go in? Like do airlifts happen before the bomb card, etc.?
read the blogpost again
“See games where we played together” is broken
card – game changer, i dont like it
somewhere during the past few months you removed the big red notifications when someone invited you to a tournament. Can you reinstate those ??
It’s in the top-right corner of the multi-player dashboard.
I avoid the multiplayer dashboard. My games is better suited to my play. How much longer will my games be available?
notification of tournament invites is missed in my games.
thank you fizzer for all you have created here
So with bomb cards we can have owned territories with 0 armies?
Is the Bomb Card unavailable for those who purchase the Mega Strategy Pack, or is it available for those who purchase the MSP? It is not listed among the cards unlocked by the MSP.
It’s member only.