Welcome back to all our warriors out to raid at PAX West. This week, we have some long awaited changes that you'll absolutely love:

This week's changes:

• NEW CHARACTER -The Wolf Priestess: a healer type class with range to deal magic damage from afar.
  
• NEW CHARACTER -The Iron Breaker: a tank class with high block chances to leave your enemies feeling humiliated. Also, a hammer to bash their skulls in!
  
• A MAKEOVER - The Valkyrie now has a new look. A few streamers had compared her to a lovely lady ready to serve "a fancy a cup of tea". *Developers flip the table*. The Valkyrie now looks like a Viking ready to floss your bones with her spear.
  
• Added one new enemy called: the Master Assassin.
  
• While in combat, we added an icon next to your health bar, so that you can see how many move points your crew has left.
  
• Further game balance tweaking with dodge and critical hit chances.
  
• You can also spend Glory to re-roll the warriors in the Great Hall.

Unfortunately, we've experienced some hiccups in development that leaves our friend Linux behind in the dust. If you are a Linux user, we have a post in the discussions board where you can work with us to be help us be a beta tester in preparation of Full Launch.

We noticed a live stream of Iron Tides this weekend happening through Twitch. If any warriors out there have a Let's Play account on Twitch, feel free to add us as CrashWaveGames! We're happy to stop by during your stream and check out what you're up to.

All feedback and reviews are welcome!

Welcome back to all our warriors out to raid at PAX West. This week, we have some long awaited changes that you'll absolutely love:

This week's changes:

• NEW CHARACTER -The Wolf Priestess: a healer type class with range to deal magic damage from afar.
  
• NEW CHARACTER -The Iron Breaker: a tank class with high block chances to leave your enemies feeling humiliated. Also, a hammer to bash their skulls in!
  
• A MAKEOVER - The Valkyrie now has a new look. A few streamers had compared her to a lovely lady ready to serve "a fancy a cup of tea". *Developers flip the table*. The Valkyrie now looks like a Viking ready to floss your bones with her spear.
  
• Added one new enemy called: the Master Assassin.
  
• While in combat, we added an icon next to your health bar, so that you can see how many move points your crew has left.
  
• Further game balance tweaking with dodge and critical hit chances.
  
• You can also spend Glory to re-roll the warriors in the Great Hall.

Unfortunately, we've experienced some hiccups in development that leaves our friend Linux behind in the dust. If you are a Linux user, we have a post in the discussions board where you can work with us to be help us be a beta tester in preparation of Full Launch.

We noticed a live stream of Iron Tides this weekend happening through Twitch. If any warriors out there have a Let's Play account on Twitch, feel free to add us as CrashWaveGames! We're happy to stop by during your stream and check out what you're up to.

All feedback and reviews are welcome!

Thank you for your reviews, comments, and suggestions. We launched Iron Tides on Early Access to connect with you and to help us improve our game. Your participation makes us want to war cry (that's a viking joke), so thank you for joining our raiding party.

Anyway... vikings don't get emotional - let's keep this ship sailing.

This week's changes:

• You can now store your vikings in the Great Hall (thank you Elvoc and Rickytan253 for spear-heading this on the discussions board).
  
• You can shuffle your party of vikings around and prioritize your strongest warriors.
  
• Fixed a few bugs in the level editor (send us a level so we know it works).

We're producing a new character to join your war band. The Wolf Priestess is designed to bring an element of magic and healing into Iron Tides and will be ready for testing at the end of this month. You can help us shape her abilities by jumping on the discussions board and leaving us with a suggestion.

We also want to thank those who are producing videos and submitting their adventure to our social media channels (Facebook and Twitter). A big shout out to NextGen Gamers who made A Very Italian Gameplay video where everything is commentated and described with an accent -- we were greatly amused.

Keep it coming! Thank you for playing Iron Tides.

Thank you for your reviews, comments, and suggestions. We launched Iron Tides on Early Access to connect with you and to help us improve our game. Your participation makes us want to war cry (that's a viking joke), so thank you for joining our raiding party.

Anyway... vikings don't get emotional - let's keep this ship sailing.

This week's changes:

• You can now store your vikings in the Great Hall (thank you Elvoc and Rickytan253 for spear-heading this on the discussions board).
  
• You can shuffle your party of vikings around and prioritize your strongest warriors.
  
• Fixed a few bugs in the level editor (send us a level so we know it works).

We're producing a new character to join your war band. The Wolf Priestess is designed to bring an element of magic and healing into Iron Tides and will be ready for testing at the end of this month. You can help us shape her abilities by jumping on the discussions board and leaving us with a suggestion.

We also want to thank those who are producing videos and submitting their adventure to our social media channels (Facebook and Twitter). A big shout out to NextGen Gamers who made A Very Italian Gameplay video where everything is commentated and described with an accent -- we were greatly amused.

Keep it coming! Thank you for playing Iron Tides.

We welcome new players and thank you for leaving us with a comment or review.

This week we have several new features and tweaks we know you'll enjoy:

• Every battle has a fast forward button that hustles your warriors (and your enemies) to the end of their turn.
  
• In addition to that, enemies are now faster when taking their turn.
  
• Added a new BRUTAL difficulty that leaves you close to death at every battle.
  
• In response to the discussions board: 6 new side quests are now available for completion.
  
• Also in response to another discussion board: the Valkyrie's leap ability now costs 2 Fury instead of 1.
  
• Deathmark and Resist has been nerfed to 25% from 50%. To make up for the change, the duration of the status effects have been extended to 2 turns instead of 1.
  
• There are 2 new battle locations: the Armory and the Citadel.
  
• One new enemy has been added: the Pirate Captain.
  
• Tweaked the way deployment is done so that it feels more intuitive.

Thank you to the streamers and let's players of the world who take the time to play Iron Tides. We're always happy to cross promote your channel through our Facebook and Twitter feeds - please get in touch with us at support@irontides.com

Don't forget to like and follow us so that you can participate in our current (free) contest!

COMMUNITY PROGRESS

• 93,031 Enemies Defeated
  
• 15,411 Raids Completed
  
• 641 Vikings in Valhalla

Thank you for joining our community and playing Iron Tides.

We welcome new players and thank you for leaving us with a comment or review.

This week we have several new features and tweaks we know you'll enjoy:

• Every battle has a fast forward button that hustles your warriors (and your enemies) to the end of their turn.
  
• In addition to that, enemies are now faster when taking their turn.
  
• Added a new BRUTAL difficulty that leaves you close to death at every battle.
  
• In response to the discussions board: 6 new side quests are now available for completion.
  
• Also in response to another discussion board: the Valkyrie's leap ability now costs 2 Fury instead of 1.
  
• Deathmark and Resist has been nerfed to 25% from 50%. To make up for the change, the duration of the status effects have been extended to 2 turns instead of 1.
  
• There are 2 new battle locations: the Armory and the Citadel.
  
• One new enemy has been added: the Pirate Captain.
  
• Tweaked the way deployment is done so that it feels more intuitive.

Thank you to the streamers and let's players of the world who take the time to play Iron Tides. We're always happy to cross promote your channel through our Facebook and Twitter feeds - please get in touch with us at support@irontides.com

Don't forget to like and follow us so that you can participate in our current (free) contest!

COMMUNITY PROGRESS

• 93,031 Enemies Defeated
  
• 15,411 Raids Completed
  
• 641 Vikings in Valhalla

Thank you for joining our community and playing Iron Tides.

We're experiencing high volumes of support emails and comments from our discussions board; we are doing everything we can to respond in a timely manner.

Thank you for your patience - we've implemented a new game build with hot-fixes addressing some of the topics we've been reading about:

• A new cool down has been implemented for the Bomb Throwers.
  
• Another pass on game balancing has been issued (it is now easier to level up your vikings. Please see the discussions board if this is still an ongoing problem for you).
  
• We fixed a freeze bug that only occurs in Norhaven.
  
• Re-did our intro text to be more concise and to the point.
  
• More custom music has been added to the experience.

We appreciate the additional press and let's play videos from online publications and streamers. Needless to say, we're on the hunt for more! If you would like to join our war band and help us spread the word, we're more than happy to connect with you. Please send us an email at support@irontides.com.

We're experiencing high volumes of support emails and comments from our discussions board; we are doing everything we can to respond in a timely manner.

Thank you for your patience - we've implemented a new game build with hot-fixes addressing some of the topics we've been reading about:

• A new cool down has been implemented for the Bomb Throwers.
  
• Another pass on game balancing has been issued (it is now easier to level up your vikings. Please see the discussions board if this is still an ongoing problem for you).
  
• We fixed a freeze bug that only occurs in Norhaven.
  
• Re-did our intro text to be more concise and to the point.
  
• More custom music has been added to the experience.

We appreciate the additional press and let's play videos from online publications and streamers. Needless to say, we're on the hunt for more! If you would like to join our war band and help us spread the word, we're more than happy to connect with you. Please send us an email at support@irontides.com.

Thank you for playing Iron Tides. This will be the first of many announcements as we hope to launch this game with your input as our guidance. At the moment, we've been deep in development and reading your discussions. Here's a shout-out to the Vikings who have left us a review and are talking about the game.

We also want to praise our Kickstarter backers for helping us get this far and welcome new warriors from Steam. Stay ruthless!

• Thanks to the discussion board, we were able to isolate a strange saving issue which we believe has now been fixed.
  
• After reading additional reviews, we've included an adjustable difficulty setting: EASY, MEDIUM, HARD. This can be found in the OPTIONS menu. For the record, the game will always start on HARD.
  
• We've added new tunes to jam out to during your sailing adventure.
  
• We refined our level-editor so that you can try making your own levels! *Note, this will become relevant as we draw closer to full launch*

Throughout our future updates, we will be hosting contests which can also be found on our Kickstarter page and our website. We are doing this because we are a small team and we rely on the support of the community. Getting your friends to play our game and leaving us with a review (good or bad) is the first step. We're engaged and ready to listen to you all the way to Full Launch, and are giving back to our fans where possible.

We hope you'll take a minute to help us spread the word!

Thank you. :)

Thank you for playing Iron Tides. This will be the first of many announcements as we hope to launch this game with your input as our guidance. At the moment, we've been deep in development and reading your discussions. Here's a shout-out to the Vikings who have left us a review and are talking about the game.

We also want to praise our Kickstarter backers for helping us get this far and welcome new warriors from Steam. Stay ruthless!

• Thanks to the discussion board, we were able to isolate a strange saving issue which we believe has now been fixed.
  
• After reading additional reviews, we've included an adjustable difficulty setting: EASY, MEDIUM, HARD. This can be found in the OPTIONS menu. For the record, the game will always start on HARD.
  
• We've added new tunes to jam out to during your sailing adventure.
  
• We refined our level-editor so that you can try making your own levels! *Note, this will become relevant as we draw closer to full launch*

Throughout our future updates, we will be hosting contests which can also be found on our Kickstarter page and our website. We are doing this because we are a small team and we rely on the support of the community. Getting your friends to play our game and leaving us with a review (good or bad) is the first step. We're engaged and ready to listen to you all the way to Full Launch, and are giving back to our fans where possible.

We hope you'll take a minute to help us spread the word!

Thank you. :)