- NEW FEATURE: Steam Online Co-Op (Battle Campaigns) - 30 May 2026
You no longer have to face the smoke and cannon fire alone. Starting today, you can team up with your friends to fight through the game's intense Battle Campaigns online via Steam.Key Highlights:Shared Command: Both players have full control over the team’s units on the tactical map. Split your army and coordinate movements.Streamlined Steam Integration: No complicated server setups. Host a match in seconds and invite your allies directly through your Steam friends list.Focused Co-Op Experience: This feature is explicitly designed for the tactical Battle Campaigns, delivering pure, cooperative combat scenarios.How to Host a Co-Op Session:Click the Multiplayer button from the main menu.Select your desired Campaign.Click Host to initialize your room.Open the Steam Overlay (Shift + Tab) and invite your friends directly to your session.Pick your mission, hit ok, and deploy! Once on the fiel…
- The Morale Update! - 12 December 2025
A new update arrives to raise the morale of all soldiers, commanders and governors! THE MORALE UPDATE! Battles are about to get much more dynamic and chaotic in this new update. We've introduced a new mechanic; Morale. Now during a battle there are different factors which affect a unit's morale such as being surrounded by enemies, taking heavy damage, being in a defensive position or another new addition to the game, being near an officer unit. Morale can have a positive or negative impact, increasing a unit's reaction time, speed and more importantly, another new mechanic; Accuracy. Units now have a chance of missing shots when under heavy stress. Another important factor is morale damage. Every unit attack carries morale damage, including melee attacks, with artillery fire dealing a lot more morale damage than others. If units get hit from flanks or rear they will receive a higher mor…
- New playable faction: England - 11 July 2025
Hello everyone! Let's talk about what we've been working on! This update was long overdue, we have finally added England as a playable faction in sandbox mode. In order to achieve this we made an entire new set of 3D models for their buildings and a lot of changes in the code in order to support multiple factions in the future, including the creation of a modular icon system. We also created new and improved icons for city building mode, a better looking unit interface when recruiting units and building ships, now you can see an image of the unit instead of their heraldry. A lot of changes and fixes under the hood were done as well, such as unifying the enemy AI for all base units in the game. -England is now a playable faction in sandbox mode -New building models for England in city building mode -New unit icons for army deployment menu -Added modular icons for units in overworld Other…
- Small fixes and New music. - 20 May 2025
Hello everyone. While testing for the new update featuring a new playable faction, we found some bugs that required fixing immediately. We also added a new song in sandbox mode by our talented composer Anthony Webb. - Fixed a bug where enemy ships AI wouldn't start in a naval battle - Fixed a bug where Maroon enemy units wouldn't spawn - Fixed a transparency issue in slipway building - Added a new song that will play in the overworld in sandbox mode
- Small fix - 29 April 2025
Small fix to a mesh in Pirate campaign map.
- Night Winds Update - 12 April 2025
Patch Notes Day and Night cycle: New ambient light changes during gameplay for increased immersion. Carries on through battles and city management mode. Wind Direction System: This new system implements wind direction which affects ship movement speed and changes as the battle goes on. Randomized Battle levels: In sandbox mode along with a preset of battle scenarios, there is a randomized map which changes the terrain features each time you play it. New UI: A new interface for the overworld city screen. New icons for most of the unit recruitment buttons. New Icons for ships in the shipyard. This is a work in progress as we will continue to implement more icons.
- Night winds update - work in progress - 1 April 2025
Hello! While we've been working on finishing the british faction buildings for the sandbox mode, we have been working on other features as well. We are currently testing this update and will release it in the coming days. The update will feature the following: Wind direction system that affects ships movement: This is something we have been working on for a while and felt the game needed urgently in terms of it being a very important aspect in the age of sail and naval battles gameplay in general. Day and Night cycle during overworld gameplay, city building and battles in sandbox mode. New water shader. Randomized terrain features in sandbox mode battles for more variety. After this update we plan on releasing the british faction update as soon as we finish some details with their buildings. Please join us on our discord channel, let's talk about what you want from FoA Tactics! Thank yo…
- The British are coming! - New playable faction in the works - 27 January 2025
Welcome back Governors! It has been a while and we plan to make up for lost time with new features and more consistent periodic updates from now on. To kickstart this year we are adding the British Empire as a playable faction in sandbox mode, with new residential, administrative and religious buildings, that together with the existing military units will give said faction a coherent visual aesthetic, that emphasizes the red color and white details, this will set it apart from the spanish yellow and terracota that you have come to know. Researching this update has been a lot of fun, it included looking at a lot of heritage sites and even some archaeological reconstructions. If you are a new player or a veteran beginning a new playthrough as the British, consider that this may be a difficult start, due to the numerical superiority of the enemy empires. However the geography of the Caribb…
- Bugfixes - 16 July 2024
- Fixed an issue where workers would not keep their skill level after loading a game in sandbox mode - Fixed an issue where starting a new game on sandbox mode would delete progress from the scenario campaigns
- The City Stats Update - New gameplay mechanic - 26 April 2024
Hello Governors! In this new update we are introducing a new gameplay feature. Happiness and city stats. Now you will have to make sure that your citizens are happy by taking care of their needs: Health, security, religion and entertainment. By constructing different buildings around houses you will increase one of these stats, you have to keep your city happiness at least above half of the required number or you will face the consequences, such as an increased number of bandits in the area. You can see the stat each building will improve by taking a look at the tooltip when hovering over the construction icons. You can also see the area that is affected by selecting a building. We hope that this feature makes the city planning aspect more involved as you now will have to plan carefully where you put the different buildings. Thank you for playing the game. Until the next update, see you…
- The Workers Update - 14 December 2023
Hello Governors! We hope this holiday season finds you well. We would like you to meet a new group of fellas who will be joining the you in this update. Meet the workers! Now every worker starts to gain some experience over time on a particular profession related to the place they work in. Eventually becoming experts and increasing the production of that facility. Also depending of the settlement, European, Maroon or Native. You will get an appropriate worker of that race. We hope to bring some personality and attachment for the players to these loyal workers. Be sure to protect them from those pesky pirates or highwaymen. See you soon for the next update where we will focus on the City Building gameplay. Happy Holidays everyone Jaime & Marcelo Balandra
- Multiple armies update is here! - 14 November 2023
This update includes a much requested feature. You will now be able to control multiple armies and fleets. Among a host of other fixes and improvements New Features You will be able to have up to 4 armies and 4 fleets if you have the required gold. Unlocks available from the government screen. Added events that will trigger under some circumstances. Including direct attacks by land or by sea AI cities will launch direct land attacks to enemy cities, including yours. You can now choose to start in a random city from your empire Added disband army button Added city unit cap and a warning when you reach it, Improved UI to show fleet and troop cap accordingly Fixes Remove garrisoned worker from upkeep after building is destroyed by the enemy Fixed a bug where you could lose control of a city after a successful auto resolve victory Fixed a bug where after winning a battle and loading, the ba…
- Devlog 2: Upcoming features - 26 October 2023
Hello everyone. We are very excited to show you the upcoming updates we have been working on, where we will address some suggestions from our community and add some new cool features to the sandbox mode and city building gameplay. OVERWORLD UPDATE First off, one of the main things people have been requesting was to be able to control multiple armies and fleets. We have added this into the game now and integrated it into the unlocks available from the government screen. So now you will be able to have up to 4 armies and 4 fleets if you have the requirements. You can also use the army and fleet buttons to switch between your available units. This update will also feature some events that will trigger under some circumstances. The first of these are direct attacks by land or by sea. Take into account that this is different from the regular attacks that could happen from emergent gameplay.…
- Devblog: A year of progress - 4 May 2023
Before we look into the future development of the game, we would like to take a look at all the improvements we made last year before launching on steam. Taking the game from the earliest demo version into what it became now was a huge undertaking for us, a lot was done in order to ensure the game had enough content at launch in early access. We hope you enjoy this little look of the progress. Additionally, this is an earlier devblog from last year in case you want to check it out as well. We are already working on the next update, where we will look into increasing the frequency of enemy attacks in sandbox mode among other things. Stay tuned!
- Small fix - Trade interface - 29 March 2023
You can now hold the left mouse button in the trade interface to transfer items.
- Field of Arms: Tactics - Update: alpha version 1.62 - 21 March 2023
Thanks to all who bought the game and for the intial feedback we've received. This update is meant to address some of the suggestions made by the community these first few weeks. Here are the patch notes. Improved Camera controls - Added smooth rotation with Q and E instead of fixed rotation angles (this also works when using unit cam) - Added additional zoom controls: Hold shift key + mouse wheel to adjust camera FOV (a lot of people requested increased zoom levels, we hope you enjoy this option) - Added Mouse edge scrolling - Tactical view hotkey: Press T on the keyboard to switch between any zoom level and tactical view - Improved auto routes system Previously you had to click select home city, then click on the city you wanted and do the same for the target city to establish your routes. Now a list with all the cities and towns you own will appear on the same menu you create your au…
- Development Survey - 10 March 2023
Hello everyone! We would like to develop the game you all want to play, so we call upon our players to fill this survey. That way we will know where we should focus the direction of the game. Your feedback is vital to us. Please vote on the next feature you would like to see in the game and share your ideas. Thank you! Survey
- Early access release! - 6 March 2023
Hello everyone, we are happy to announce that we have finally released on early access. We hope that you enjoy the campaigns, the battles, build your cities, manage your resources and expand your empire! This is just the beginning of our journey. We are looking forward to your feedback and your ideas, we are committed to improving the game and make it the game you want to play. Thanks for your support! Jaime Cáceres & Marcelo Cáceres Balandra
- Release Date! - 24 February 2023
Hello everyone, we would like to announce that we are releasing into early access on March 6th. Thanks to all of you who played the demo and are waiting for the game. This release comes packed with two campaigns and 3 skirmish maps for a total of 20 Battles. And most importantly our first iteration of the sandbox mode with a huge overworld and city building. See you soon! Jaime & Marcelo, Balandra
- Sandbox Mode! - 12 January 2023
We are happy to share with you our latest development, The Sandbox Update After a lot of hard work we can finally bring the game closer to our vision of three interconnected layers of gameplay: Overworld: A dynamic world map for you to interact with. City building: Customize cities to your liking by constructing buildings and factories. Battles: Conquer your enemies in land or sea battles. A new Campaign! This update also includes our second campaign, "Here be Pyrates" with 9 new missions to complete. We feel that this complete overhaul will bring a lot of value to the game and expand the playtime considerably. Don't forget to wishlist! Jaime & Marcelo, Balandra
