Dear Warlords,
We will be conducting server maintenance during the period of 8 am to 10 am, 9th, Jan (UTC+8). The estimated maintenance time is approximately 2 hours. Warlords will receive 5,000 Bronze Coins and 200 Honour after the server maintenance. Here are the patch note:

1.Important Updates: Freedom Union VS Empire Guardian
Civilization, conflict, war, the world is never tranquil with the invasion of Khan in the North and the turmoil in the East and West, and the city of hero is in danger…Will the Empire fall into chaos? Perhaps it’s the beginning of a brand new evolution.
Throughout various regions of the open world, the imperial land were separated by Houses and Alliances. Under such circumstance, Warlords have to define their own fate.



1) Freedom Union
-Follow the destiny? Take part in other Houses or build your own Houses?
Crown yourself with the honor and glory while conquering the open world and creating your own destiny.



-Warlords who have already took part in Houses and Alliances will join [Freedom Union] by default.
-Solo Warlords can choose to join [Freedom Union], existing Houses or create new houses in N interface

2) Empire Guardian
-Defend the Empire? Vow to guard the dignity of the Imperial Legion and find peace for the open world?



-If Solo Warlords choose to take part in [Empire Guardian] of current region in N interface, they will be distributed in one battalion randomly.
-Warlords who took part in [Empire Guardian] cannot quit within 7 days.

2.Optimizations to the Nobility Titles of Freedom Union



-optimized the distribution of Nobility Titles reward. The reward will be distributed at midnight every Monday.
-Optimized the distribution rule of Nobility Titles, now the Liege can dub or remove other members’ nobility titles at any time. Each Warlord can only receive nobility titles from Liege once within 24 hours
-The Influence of each House will be calculated at 22:30 pm at every Saturday. Nobility titles of other house members will be removed along with the change of Liege’s nobility titles.
-New House Liege will directly get the nobility titles of old Liege
-Warlords will be notified by in-game mail when receiving nobility titles

3.Map Balance Adjustments
1)Riverlands Castle (Siege)
Based on the collected feedbacks and battlefield stats, currently the winning ratio of Attackers is much higher than we expected. Defenders are hard to conduct effective defense. Accordingly, we decided to make the following adjustments to rebalance the battlefield:

-Decreased the game duration from 13 minutes to 11 minutes
-Adjusted the location of Siege Tower by moving it backward by 10 meters
-Removed 2 Culverins and 2 Catapults of Attackers. Swapped 1 Ballista on defenders’ city wall with 1 Culverin
-Decreased the total number of siege ladders at left city wall from 10 to 9
-Adjusted the location of defenders’ left supply point by moving it backward and closer to attackers’ ground


-Added another respawn point for defenders behind point A and point B. This respawn points is binding to Point B, which means it will remain active until defenders lost Points B.


-Adjusted the location of defenders’ supply point (as pictured). It is unable to be captured until the base camp being activated.


-Adjusted the location of supply point in defenders’ base camp by moving it inside the respawn area


-Adjusted the location of defenders’ base camp


2)Territory War Siege Map optimizations
The inner castle structure has been adjusted to optimize the combat experience in the final area.
This adjustment covers all cities using this type of map model, including Sobek, Acheron, Vaja, Burdost.
-Rebuilt wall structure nearby final area to enable passage on top of the wall


-Added a gate at one of the inner castle entrances, which can be destroyed by Warlords.


3)Frontier Camp (Siege)
Based on the collected feedbacks and battlefield stats, currently the winning ratio of attackers is much lower than we expected. Accordingly, we decided to make the following adjustments to create more advantages for attackers.
-Increased the game duration from 6 minutes to 7 minutes.
-Decreased the flag-capturing time from 60 seconds to 45 seconds.

At the same time, two new 8V8 siege map are now available---The Storehouse and Lesser Greenpark Camp

4.Unit Formation Optimizations
We made the following optimizations to improve the formation display and fix some operation issues.
1)Optimized the Line formation for the following pikemen units:
Village Watchmen, Pike Militia, Prefecture Pikemen, Imperial Pike Guards, Black Dragon Pikemen

2) Optimized the Line formation for the following mounted bladesman and lancers units:
Ironcap Scout Cavalry, Prefecture Heavy Cavalry, Dagger-Axe Lancers, Coutiliers, Yeomen, Monastic Knights, Cataphract Lancers.

3)Optimized the Wedge and Column formation for the following mounted bladesman and lancer units:
Prefecture Heavy Cavalry, Yeomen, Fire Lance Cavalry, Rattan Rangers

4)Optimized the Schiltron formation for the following spearman units:
Ironcap Spearmen, Imperial Spear Guard, Spear Sergeants, Black Dragon Spearmen

5)Optimized the Three Ranks formation for the following crossbowmen and arquebusiers units:
Repeater Crossbowmen, Demesne Arbalists, Demesne Crossbowmen, Imperial Arquebusiers, Ironcap Arquebusiers, Demesne Arquebusiers, Kriegsrat Fusiliers, Sea Stag Deathdealers

6)Optimzied the Block formation for the following crossbowmen units:
Demesne Arbalists, Demesne Crossbowmen

7)Optimized the shield formation of Imperial Javelineers

8)Optimized the hawk formation of Fire Lance Cavalry

9)Optimized the schiltron formation of Imperial Pike Guards


5.System Optimizations
1)Battlefield score optimizations
-Warlords will get certain contribution score when they interrupt enemies capturing the flag and supply points in field battles
-When one point under contest, Warlords inside the point trying to stop opponents capturing the flag will get certain contribution score.
2)Optimizations to Auxiliary units and Mercenary
Auxiliary units and Mercenary have been moved to [Unit] interface (previously [War Scholar] interface)
3)Supply point interact optimization
The interact process of supply point has been simplified, now units, weapons and mounts are displayed when Warlords pressing F to open the equipment interface.
4)Auxiliary units display logic optimization
Now expired Auxiliary units will have sealed mark and will be placed after all other units.
5)Optimized the logic when Warlords right clicking the Signacula to unlock sealed Auxiliary units. Now unlocking process interface will show up instead of unit leveling up interface.
6)Moved the Bodkin Arrows of Imperial Archer to unit skill area, the function of “5” has been changed to “select weapon”
7)Adjusted the unit price of Rattan Ranger’s Kit in Weapon Smuggler’s Shop to 4,200 silver coins.
8)Adjusted the Expedition OfficerⅠquest to earn 1 cakewalk badge in Expeditions
9)Optimized the 3D UI of Focused Fire for Arquebusier units
10)Replace the [professional Rivalry]of Prefecture Guards with [Unswerving](increase blunt defence by 6%)

6.Bug Fixes
-Fixed the bug that Auxiliary units would refresh after server maintenance
-Fixed the bug where Auxiliary unit couldn’t be deployed on the battlefield if the unit was sealed in Warlord’s unit tree.
-Fixed the bug where the block damage of shielded units did not count into the battlefield damage taken stats.
- Fixed the bug where cavalry units, equipped with Legendary Melee Cavalry Doctrine Ⅱ, may get blocked by enemies before causing some damages
-Fixed the bug where the trigger of “A Loyal Bannerman” did not work properly, gaining reputation didn’t count into progress
-Fixed the bug where the trigger of several seasonal week challenges and unit challenges did not work correctly in Deathmatches and training camp
-Fixed a bug where Warlords can complete some field and siege quests in training camp (AI) mode

7.Veterancy Point Description Optimizations
1) Battle Technique
Before: Higher chance of inflicting extra effects.
After: Higher chance of inflicting extra effects when arrows hit enemies. (Poison them)
2) To the Bone
Before: Each level any target poisoned has their attack reduced by 5%
After: Each level decrease damage ability of poisoned enemies by 5%.
3) Underhandedness
Before: Target may take sustained poison damage.
After: Increase poison damage.
4) Marvellous Medicine
Before: Target may be slowed by attacks from this unit.
After: Slow the move-speed of poisoned enemies.
5) Venomous Toxins of rattan vipers
Before: "Poison effects can stack up to 5 times, Changes unit appearance."
After: "Poison effects can stack up to 5 stacks. Changes unit appearance."
6) Venomous Toxins of rattan pikemen
Before: Poison effects can now stack up to 3 times. Changes unit appearance.
After: Poison effects can stack up to 3 stacks. Changes unit appearance.

Dear Warlords,
We will be conducting server maintenance during the period of 8 am to 10 am, 2 Jan (UTC +8). Here are the patch notes:

1.Important Updates: Map Adjustments
1)Riverlands Castle (siege)
After reviewing Warlords’ feedbacks and checking background stats, we found that the winning ratio of attackers is higher than we expected. When the battle coming into the final area, Defenders are easy to be restrained and they have few ways to support the battlefield. At the same time, attackers are also easy to be squeezed into the two long steps heading to the inner city if they are not well organized. So we made the following adjustments:

a.Decreased the number of ladders against inner city walls. Added a new set of ladders connecting the outer city wall and inner city wall



b.Added flaming pitchs upon the stairs aisle of the inner city



c.Decreased the number of plant in the final area



d.Widened the platform on each side of defenders’ tower in the final area



e.Adjusted the location of defenders’ final supply point, making it easier to defend and harder to attack



f.Decreased the number of Trebuchets from 8 to 7

2)Border Fort (siege)
Based on your feedbacks and battlefield stats, we found that the winning ratio of attackers is a little bit higher than we expected. Especially when defenders trying to support their base camp, they are easy to be blocked out of the final area since there don’t have other effective defending routes. So we adjusted the lateral passage structure nearby the base camp by adding a new stair to provide one more path for Defenders to get to the final area.



3)Frontier Camp (siege)
a.Adjusted the player number from 8 (Attackers) vs 7 (Defenders) to 8 vs 8
b.Added 4 Trebuchets for Attackers to deal with the above-mentioned adjustment

2.Auction House Guidance Price Adjustments
Based on the trading data, we have raised the guidance prices of the following items:
Rare Helmet Schematic
Rare Cuirass Schematic
Rare Glove Schematic
Rare Boots Schematic

Warlords can check the adjusted price in the Market.

3.Bug fixes and optimizations
1)Unit bug fixes and optimizations
a.Fixed the incorrect icon and description when Khorchins equipping Mobility doctrine
b.Fixed a bug where Khorchins couldn’t track enemies correctly when using [hunt] skill after equipping “Epic Mounted Archery Doctrine” or “Legendary Mounted Archery Doctrine”
c.Fixed the model distortion when Khorchins equipping with some unit mount attires
d.Fixed a unit challenge of Selemchid Cavalry’s unit challenge, in the filed or siege battle, the trigger of cumulative count of killing generals did not take effect properly
e.Fixed a bug where the [Focused fire] skill of Ironcap Arquebusiers and Demesne Arquebusiers couldn’t response immediately in the process of formation
f.Fixed a bug where the [Unswerving] of Cataphract Lancers did not take effect correctly
g.Fixed the incorrect effect of Imperial Archers’ [Force]
h.Fixed a bug that nodes which increase units’ defence sometimes did not take effect on the battlefield
i.Adjusted the [Improved Supplies] of Khevtuul Cavalry to [Hasten] (Each level increases rate of attack by 6%)

2)System bug fixes and optimizations
a.Fixed a bug where the trigger of Rebel Fighter series quests did not take effect properly after Warlords destroying medium rebel camps
b.Fixed some model collision issues of terrain and stairs in Riverlands Castle
c.Optimization the animation of Vanguard Archers’ [Move and Fire]

The operation team of Conqueror’s Blade: Frontier
January 2, 2020

Dear Warlords,

We will be conducting server maintenance during the period of 6 am to 8 am, 5 Sep (UTC +8). Estimated time will be approximately 2 hours. Here are the patch notes:

1.‘The return of veterans’ activity
Available: from December 26th, 2019 to January 5th, 2020

Rules:
1)For those veteran who didn’t login at all from 12.8 to 12.22, will be awarded for [Returning Veteran's Gift - Encouragement].
You can press [O] to open Activity interface, find Gift Code tag and tap in your redeem code to get reward."
2) Can only get once [Old Friend Awards] for each account.
3) For each character, there is one exclusive Redeem Code, the awards and invitees numbers are bind to the character.
4) Returned account filled redeem code once, will be counted as invitation numbers to the inviter.
As soon as invitees numbers reach 1/3/8/15, inviter will get reward."
5) Invitation Reward will be sent to player character through in-game mails, within 3 days after this activity ends.

Reward:
1)Invitation Reward:
1 Invitees Reward: [Battle-ready - Comradeship], 1 Treatises included
3 Invitees Reward: [Battle-ready - Devotion], 2 Treatises include, 1 Box of Rare Artillery
8 Invitees Reward: [Battle-ready - Friendship], 3 Treatise include, 1 Box of Purple Artillery
15 Invitees Reward: [Battle-ready - Uprising], 4 Treatise included, War Bonnet•Drab Yellow (permanent)，1 Box of Golden Artillery

2)The ruturning gift for ruturned player:
[Returning Veteran's Gift - Encouragement] seven-days login rewards through mails, 7-Day premium account，blood oath (15% gain of Honour, Bronze Coins, Hero XP and Unit XP, lasting for 14 days)

3)[Returning Veteran's Gift - Encouragement]
Day 1: Hand-picked Limited Attire Selection Box （Dragon Shadows sets or Varangian sets, 14-days）, 5000 Bronze Coins
Day 2: 5000 Bronze Coins,2 Box of Uncommon Artillery
Day 3: 5000 Bronze Coins, 10-Battle Unit XP card*1
Day 4: 5000 Bronze Coins, 10-Battle Hero XP card*1
Day 5: 3 Box of Uncommon Artillery, 1 Box of Common Artillery
Day 6: 5000 Bronze Coins, equip forge material*30
Day 7: Treatises *3, optional hero blueprint pack*1

2.Optimizations to S1 weekly challenges
Remove the following weekly challenges：
“Meals on the March I”： Consume 20000 food total while marching on the world map.
“Meals on the March II”： Consume 30000 food total while marching on the world map.
“Meals on the March III”： Consume 50000 food total while marching on the world map.
Added the following weekly challenges:
“Daoshan Dunhai I ” ：use shortsword infantrymen to kill 20 soldiers
“Daoshan Dunhai II” ：use shortsword infantrymen to kill 40 soldiers
“Daoshan Dunhai III” ：use shortsword infantrymen to kill 60 soldiers

Adjustments：
Sharpen the Elite： Upgrade any 4-Star unit levels adjust to upgrade any 3-Star unit levels

3.Weekend Activity
Available: 19:00-22:00, December 28th, 29th
Join match-making battles during this period, you can get 1.5 times Bronze Coins, Hero XP and Unit XP

4.System optimizations and Bug fixes
-The chance of getting [Christmas Stocking] from [Christmas Tree] was increased
-Fixed the abnormal button display when talking with [Town Crier]
-Fixed a bug where Kheshig Mounted Archers sometimes shoot into the air.
-Fixed a bug where Ironcap Arquebusiers couldn’t attack when using [Focused Fire]
-Fixed a bug where units were decelerated after using [Pike Charge]
-Fixed a bug where leadership cap did not take effect correctly when [Carnifex’s set] were sealed
-Fixed a bug that sometimes the eagle eye mode crushed when it has been frequently used during battles
-Fixed a bug where the open world map did not show the correct location
-Fixed some incorrect description of Christmas attire

1. Welcome to Christmas, snow is coming!

During Christmas, the four captial cities will usher in heavy snow, and the vast open world will be covered in snow and ice!



The battles that take place in the open world will also take place in the snow!

2. Random snow weather joined in Match-making

During the Christmas event, all matching battle levels will have a chance to start with snow weather.



To bu noted, all the unit, their movement speed and attack speed will be decreased when fighting in snow.

3. Special event levels-Augolia snow battle

Merry Christmas! Winter is coming, welcome to the Christmas special snow battle!
Let the storm and snow cannon go.



In order to cope with the severe cold, the residents set up a stove, where you cancome to the side of the fire to warm up, my friends! The stove will apply [warm] BUFF to players and the unit which can help you to resist the cold and increase your speed of action!

What's more, both the trebuchet and the mortar cannon are used to load snowballs. Fire snow on your opponents!




When hit by a snowball trebuchet or mortar, a [cold] debuff is applied to reduce movement speed significantly in a short time. Unless you are very [warm] at this time!

4. Open world Christmas gift

Christmas tree



The enthusiastic city dwellers prepared a rich gift on Christmas tree for Warlords to thank you for unremitting protection and care. When Warlords picking them up in the first three times, you will have a great chance of getting a Christmas socketing full of gift!

Christmas Sleigh (Costume)



Added carriage skin Christmas sleigh ride, available from Christmas Stocking.

5. Christmas Attires

To celebrate Christmas, we have also added new Chirstmas themed costumes to shop.



Christmas Set, 1980



Jingle Bell Set, priced at 1280



Winter Warrior, price 1980

As previously announced, the Season II: Wrath of the Nomads update is due to be released on Thursday 23th December.

(I) The New Season:
Wrath of the Nomads: The Twilight of the Empire
-Through the [F5 Season] button on the main interface, you can enter the main interface of the season;
-Accumulate glory, you can level up your nobility;
-Accumulate season XP, you can upgrade the season level.
During the season, you can get 1000 glory for each season level you increased.



-Nobility can be level up by upgrading the season LV, participating in PVP matching battles, completing weekly challenge, using season item "Shaman’s Scroll" or "Khan’s Edict”;
-On the [Reward] tab, you can view the progression of rewards and hero journey. According to the progression your nobility, you can get various rewards include season-themed cosmetic, special title of the season, and so on.



-Hero journey rewards are automatically unlocked as soon as Wrath of the Nomads is online.
- The upper reward progression can be unlocked by purchase item “Holy Mountain’s Guidance” or “Holy’ Mountain’s Will”

II, New season store:
-In the [F5 Season] interface, you can view the information through the [Season Store] tab;
-In the season store, you can exchange cool stuffs by spend Fangs, the unique tokens of this season.



III. Weekly Challenge Tasks in the New Season
Based on the feedback from warlords in the previous season, we have optimized the challenge types of weekly challenges, enriched more challenge types, including social networking, battlefield performance, participation in open-world games, and participation in daily activities.
At the same time, try to make the task as engaged as possible, so that can more easily complete challenges and gain glory in the common game process

-S1 season offers a total of 10 weeks of challenges with 8 tasks per week.
-Provide 2 refresh charges per week, you can change the tasks you don't like
-Each challenge task provides a wealth of glory rewards, different difficulties, different rewards amount.
-When completing the challenge of the week, you can get additional rewards according to the progress of the progression this week.

IV. Units Challenge
1. Unlock season unit
Different from the previous units tree, the season units requires players to complete a series of challenge tasks. Once you complete all stage of a specific unit challenge, that unit is yours forever.
Players can open the season [F5] interface and select the [Unit Challenge] tab to view the season Units challenges.



2. Rules of season units challenge:
Units challenge opening timeline:
-Tier 3 Units: as soon as S1 season is online
- Tier 4 Units: 7 days after S1 season online
- Tier 5 Units: 21 days after S1 season online

3. Preconditions of different units challenge tier:
-Tier 3 Units: No preconditions, challenges are turned on by default
-Tier 4 Units: After completing the challenges of any 2 of T3 units, start this challenge
-Tier 5 Units: After completing any challenge of any T4 units, start the challenge

The T3 units Challenge has 2 stages, the T4 units challenge has 4 stages, and the T5 units Challenge has 9 stages.
After completing all the stages in a single Units Challenge, players can unlock this season unit permanently

There are 8 challenge tasks in each stage. If you complete any 6 challenge tasks, the challenge in this stage is completed.
In each stage, whenever a task is completed, you will get certain reward, including Fangs, units flags, units cosmetic, units kits and so on.



4. The Units challenges Quick Done
After we the units challenge system for a period of time, the function of Quick Done will be released.
You can quick-complete the units challenge task with sovereigns by using Quick Done function.

Opening time-line:
-2 days after the Tier 3 Season units challenge opens
-3 days after the Tier 4 Season units challenge opens.
-5 days after the Tier 5 Season units challenge opens.-

V. Season Seal
In order to let players have the same starting point at the beginning of the season, and relive the fun of the battle, we have added a season seal system (exception: Free Battles Mode):
The units in [Heroic] and [Golden] era are sealed
The attributes and sets effect of hero equipment are sealed.
All data of sealed units and hero equipment stay unchanged during the sealed time period.
The timeline below show when those sealed will be removed:

2 weeks after season launch, unseal all [Heroic era] units and all attributes on hero equipment
4 weeks after season launch, unseal all [Golden era] units and all sets effect on hero equipment.



VI. Open-World new content

NEW TERRITORY WAR CONTENT
CONQUEROR’S CITY
Conqueror’s City is located on a mountain in the middle of The Borderlands, waiting for real heroes to come and conquer.

It is composed of the inner city and four major gates.

Once the Conqueror’s City opens, when attacking, Houses must occupy any one of the gates first before they can attack the inner city.



CAMPAIGNS:
Take part in new Territory War content by completing objectives for each Stage of the Campaign. You will be rewarded when completing specific tasks for your House.

Stage 1: The Baron’s War:

Conquer the fiefs in your region for the glory of your House.

Stage 2: Crossing Frontiers

Conquer a Border post to open the road into the Borderlands.

Stage 3: Heart of the World

Invade the Borderlands and conquer a fief for the glory of your House.

Stage 4: Conqueror’s Crown

To become world-conqueror, you must overcome the ultimate challenge and take over Conqueror’s City.

Stage 5: Imperial Dawn

Please note, if a Stage in the Campaign has ended, you cannot go back to that Stage to complete tasks and earn rewards. Stages duration is based on Season-Opening times.

LEGION ALLIANCE - NPC HOUSES:
Solo Warlords rejoice, you will now be able to take part in Territory War content by joining up with 1 of the 4 allied NPC Houses in our new Legion Alliance system.

This feature will be available shortly after Season II’s launch. We will have a more indepth guide explaining this feature in the near future.

NOBILITY TITLE SYSTEM:
Receive new player titles when you fight and capture fiefs on behalf of your House: your titles will even earn you weekly rewards!
Rule of gaining nobility titles
-When your House captures fiefs in any of the four regions, it earns a corresponding amount of Influence. According to your influence，members of the house can dub different nobility title
-When your House captures fiefs in any of the four regions, it earns a corresponding amount of Influence.
Conquering fiefs of the same type in the Borderlands can earn you double the amount of Influence.
The higher the level of the fief, the greater its Influence.
The influence gain will resolved as soon as a territory war period end.
-After resolve，the nobility title of House Liege, at the same time，more nobility title for all house member.
-Influence will be calculated every Saturday evening at 22:30, at which time rewards will be given out the following Monday before 21:59
-Your house will earn influence for occupying fiefs during territory wars.
-Fiefs in the borderlands provide double influence.
-The higher Lv that fief has, the more influence it will provide.
-If house lose fiefs, that house will lose influence at the same time, that may cause decrease of the nobility title from both quantity and quality.
-Who ever occupy the city of heroes , center of borderlands, that house will get the royal title of "Hegemon".
-All nobility title will be reset once the season is over.

Quality of Nobility Title
Hegemon
Monarch（not open yet）
Regent
Royal Councillor
Lord Chamberlain
Chancellor
High Almoner
Captain of Guards
Grand Admiral
Protomystikos
Elector
Justiciar
Lord Lieutenant
High Sheriff
Burgess
Herald
Castellan
Councillor
Mayor
Reeve

Dubbing Nobility Title
All member of the house can press [N] to open [House] interface. Choose [Title] tab to view the details of nobility title information for your house.



Nobility title weekly reward
Liege of the house can dub nobility title until the resolve on each Saturday night 22:30. As soon as nobility title is dubbed, the new knight will get nobility reward directly.



VIII. Major adjustments in the open-world
The Borderlands adjustment
Nysa: Nysa has been transformed into a village and, in turn, nearby resources have been painstakingly cultivated by the villagers, so that the road to the west of the plateau is now free of passes
Karlsbach: the defenders of the city of heroes have converted Karlsbach on the eastern side of the great rift valley into a pass and built a corresponding wall
Sobek: Sobek has been transformed into a city and the surrounding walls have been torn down. Travel from Chenau will now be unimpeded
Acheron: Acheron has been transformed into a city where people who pass through the desert to the chaos will be able to go straight north to the heritage plain

Jastor and Tulapan: during the fierce war, Jastor and Tulapan were completely destroyed, leaving only the ruins left by the war. Fortunately, the archaeology team immediately set out and kept many precious records in the midst of the war. In the near future, the archaeology team will reproduce these destroyed cities in the form of historical records

Unaaagverija adjustment
Bourdourst and tigner: the people of Unaaagverija converted Ratot Var and Vaja into cities and removed the surrounding walls.

The rubble north of Keleti Csarda has now been cleared .

IX. TERRITORY WAR ADJUSTMENTS
1.BATTLE LINES:
The number of battle lines for Cities has been adjusted from 2 to 1.
The number of battle lines for Forts has been adjusted from 3 to 1.
2. WAR RULES:
After Territory War, you no longer need to declare war to enter the battle, but you still need to be in a House to open the battlefield.

XI. Level Balancing
1.Level adjustment
We improve the play experience and level arranging of the intro-part of the game, for players who are new to Conqueror’s Blade, now you should have more fun in the early part.
a.Weapon Training
-We added the mounting training part into this training quest.
b.Units Control Training：
-We changed the units that you are using in this level, now you will use Iconcap Swordsmen and Demense Spearmen to train.
c.Unit Train Squad (Main city)：
-we added range attack training with Ironcap Archers，and anti-cavalry training with Pike Militia

2、Battlefield improvement：Battering Ram Mechanic Improvement
-Whenever the battering ram reach the gate position, the switcher of the gate cannot be interact until the battering ram is destroyed.
-Whenever the battering ram reach the gate position, if the gate is open, the gate is destroyed immediately, after that, the battering ram fall back and destroy itself.

3、Level BUG Fix
-Fix the problem of ladders in Riverlands Castle
–Fix the problem of some pre-deployed artilleries in the level didn’t have bullets limit.

VIII novice guidance adjustment

In order to allow new generals to experience the charm of the battlefield more quickly, we made a major adjustment to the novice guidance:
- greatly streamlined novice quest, now faster to experience the fun of the battlefield.
- optimized experience and related guidance for novice levels.
- after the player completes the weapon teaching level, we will automatically equip the player with the corresponding armor according to the weapon selected by the player.
- greatly increased initial Leadership. Player level 1 now has 400 Leadership and level 30 now has 700 Leadership (originally level 60).
- several units can be obtained upon completion of the novice phase: Ironcap Swordsmen, Demesne Spearmen ,Elite Pike Militia, Ironcap Archers (replacing - the original Denesne Pikemen, Levy Bowman).
- added battlefield guidance during the first game of training camp(AI), Field Battle and Siege Battle.
- due to the adjustment of quest lines, we will reset all quest lines for players below level 15.

XII. System improvement
-The elevation and depression angle of the open world character camera has been enlarged, and you can see more scene content by operating the camera;
-Add a weekly 20 times challenge limitation of the Rebel Camps.

Dear Warlords,
We will be conducting server maintenance during the period of 6 am to 8 am, Dec 12th (UTC+8). The estimated maintenance time is approximately 2 hours. Here is the patch note.

I. December Map Shifting announcement

Shifted-out maps in December: Kurak Castle, Augolia Wild Battle(Free battle mode)
New maps in December: Riverlands Castle (siege), Emerald River (field battle), Cliff Duel (Deathmatch)
We will open Free Battles mode for new siege and field battle maps.
We will twist the old maps in order to provide more interesting gameplay.

II、Store

The pre-order reward for S1 season “The Wrath of the Nomads”
The Wrath of the Nomads Pre-order Gift pack，price: 680 sovereigns, can only be purchased once for each single character. Open it to get:
-7-days Premium Account
-Bronze*50000
-War Bonnet Drab Yellow*1
At the same time, warlords who have purchased this pack will activate the battle pass reward and receive additional rewards from leveling up on the battle pass, as soon as The Wrath of the Nomads is Online.

III、BUG Fix

Fix the problem the【Lighting Bolt】skill from the bow weapon sometimes could go shoot through weird objects .

Shifted-out maps in December: Kurak Castle, Augolia Wild Battle(Free battle mode)

New maps in December: Riverlands Castle (siege), Emerald River (field battle), Cliff Duel (Deathmatch)

We will open Free Battles mode for new siege and field battle maps.
We will twist the old maps in order to provide more interesting gameplay.

Emerald River



Introduction to Map Tactics

The whole map is surrounded by mountains and divided by central rivers, forming a three-way confrontation structure with different features.



The upper road (point A) is a dam, located at the highest point of the upper reaches of the river; the middle road (point B) is a wide pontoon bridge, located at the central river; the lower road (point C) is a tidal flat with small amount of water, located at the lowest reaches of the river. The road is connected to the middle road by a winding stone staircase with a suspension bridge halfway up the hill. The middle and lower routes are connected by paths on both sides of the river, with a small narrow bridge between them.



The whole map is rich in heights. On the upper road (point A), players on one side can use the winding stone ladder to quickly support upper the road and the middle road, while the other side can attack the stronghold on the opposite road (point A) by crossing the bridge halfway up the mountain.



The middle road (point B) is wide and the two sides around the middle road can use cavalry to charge each other. In addition, the roads leading to the pontoon bridge on both sides are on higher ground, so the range units can also support the combat. The central pontoon bridge can also be a good defensive point for melee units.



The lower road (point C) is relatively flat. The side with the the flag (point C) is a high slope, and the other side is a tidal flat with a small amount of water. The high slope can be protected from long range and close combat units.



Riverlands Castle



Introduction to map tactics

Compared with other siege maps, the overall area scope of Riverlands Castle is not that huge, but it has a distinct sense of height hierarchy. Conflicts on this map are more concentrated than other siege map.





The large flat area of Point A, connected to the side/front walls, the area and the wall of the city formed a distinct "concave" glyph structure. When the battle begins, attackers can attack from front/side walls or the gates. After the attack on the wall, attackers can choose to rely on the height advantage of wall area, to attack the defending team inside the "concave" glyph, also can choose a surprise assault path, claiming the B point flag and its highland area that are connected to the wall, in order to siege defenders who are defending Point A.

In the other hand, the defending team needs to make full use of the structure advantage, mobilize units at the right time and block the attacking force in the two areas.



After taking the flag A of the city gate or the flag B of the high ground, the attackers can begin to attack the castle at a higher elevation. The Flag c of the castle is in a square garden. An attacker can attack the castle from one entrance on the front, or from another entrance on the far side. In addition, in the high wall between the two entrances, you can choose to use the ladder to raid.



Defenders can use the advantage of high castle structure to defend, but because the square is located in a more open place, defenders need to pay attention to the attack of the trebuchet, using the square to hide, and waiting for the opportunity to make the counterattack.



Cliff Duel

Background introduction

Located on the precipitous mountain cliffs, dueling cliff was once one of the most important strategic points of the Great Wall to defend against foreign enemies. Due to the decline of the outside forces and the collapse of the dynasty, there was no repair until abandoned. A few years ago, a mysterious organization used this place as a testing ground for warriors. It was said that only the strongest warriors could survive from this test.



Introduction to map tactics

This cliff duel use deathmatch mode, which that all warrior can only rely on their weapons instead of units. The map is located on a precipitous cliff, and when fighting on the edge of the cliff and the mountains connecting the cliffs, extra care should be taken to avoid falling to pieces. In addition, there are artilleries and explosion kegs in the map, so players on both sides can use these elements to make more diversified combat tactics.





In the center of the battlefield stands the ruins of a beacon tower, which is the commanding point of the whole map. The artillery erected on the top of the monument can suppress most areas of the map and the enemies who try to attack this point.



In addition, you can also choose to pass through the hanging bridge of the edge cliff and the giant wood from both sides of the map to make a roundabout attack on other areas of the map. But in the course of an offensive battle, caution is needed to avoid falling off from the cliff.





There is a cannon located on the two side of the volley rock, which can pose a certain threat to the artillery on the ruins and the enemy encircled by the edge. Controlling this place can effectively balance the enemy gathered in the central area, and waiting for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack from enemy's rear.



There are also many old kegs of gunpowder on the battlefield, small but deadly, which, if detonated by fire, can cause lethal damage to characters in the vicinity.

Dear Warlords,
Dear Warlords, we figured a serious problem currently in live causing abnormal attack speed of range unit and it hurts the fairness of game significantly. We decided to conduct a server maintenance urgently which will be starting at 24:00 pm tonight and lasting to 8:00 am tomorrow. After the maintenance, we will send the compensation by mail with 10000 bronze and 600 honors.

1、Important feature： Doctrines Bag
We knew that too many doctrines in your inventory would inevitably occupy your rooms and become a pain in the ass. So we make this new Doctrines Bag system to free your inventory.
All doctrines will be stored in the Doctrines Bag, instead of your inventory or personal storage.

All doctrines that you currently have, will be moved into your Doctrines Bag, you can view all unequipped doctrine inside of this interface.

When you enter the game and open your inventory, all of your unequipped doctrines will be moved into your doctrines bag.

From now on, doctrines can not be salvaged at Smith, you can only salvage doctrines at [Salvaging] window from [War Scholar] Interface

Added two tag to The [Salvaging] interface, to show unequipped doctrines and signacula separately.

2、Unit Balance Adjustment:
Viper Bowmen
With the analysis of data from last improvement of Viper Bowmen, we have to admit they are performing well as our design purpose. Low Piercing Armour Penetration and low attack speed restrict its performence，so we made these improvement：
Viper Bowmen : Attack Speed improved 15%
Viper Bowmen: Piercing Armour Penetration improved 20%

Repeater Crossbowmen
Repeater Crossbowmen are not performing well without veterancy bonuses，so we made this improvement:
Repeater Crossbowmen can shoot poison arrows at 25% without veterancy bonuse.

Vassal Longbowmen
Though they have long attack range, but poor firing accuracy limit their performance, so we made this improvement:
Vassal Longbowmen : Firing Accuracy improved 20%

Fire Lance Cavalry
Their melee attack are superior, we also want to see their range attack ability shine, so we made this improvement:
Fire Lance Cavalry will shoot bullets during their normal melee attack, with 20s colddown

Javelin Sergeants
No longer ungroup after throw javelins.

Tercio Arquebusiers
Improve their AI, no longer tend to melee attack enemies with their graceful sword even though enemies are still quite far from them.

3、System Improvement
Improve the Unit Traits display of Imperial Pike Guards，now only show one [Relentless] trait instead of two separate traits. (The actual mechanic and value unchanged )
Deploy map UI improvement, now can view all artilleries easily.
Dasuo Fort adjustment: Cleanup the props around B Flag.
New High Level Military Rank display：After Lv.2360, Military Rank display will change once for each 100 Level.
LV.2360：

Lv.2460：

LV.2560：

LV.3260：


4、BugFIX
-Fix a problem of male short bow shoot arrow from wrong position
-Fix a problem of improper video display at Poleaxe and Longsword&Shield skill tree
-Fix a problem of Javelin Sergeants can not use throw javelin after use Marksmen
-Fix a problem of some doctrines won’t work on Spear Sergeants
-Fix a display problem of Monastic Knight’units veterancy bonuses
-Fix a rare problem of follow order won’t work with Kriegsrat Fusiliers
-Fix a unit behave problem that causing Tercio Arquebusiers repeat sword attack animation
-Fix a display problem of some Military Rank.

Registration requirements:

I.Entry requirements: 15-20 participants per team (0-5 candidates), in-game character level over 100

II.Team name: self-designed. Team name must comply with national laws and regulations

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IV.Registration time: from December 4th to December 6th(23:59)

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Team registration

Registration email sent by the team leader:
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Individual registration

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Ii. Event process:

1. Event time: December 10th to December 17th

2. Competition meta
Full class, full set of legendary weapons unlocked
Max Level Units Unlocked
Provides normal to epic artillery

3. Specific competition system
A: Single Elimination -- Auditions for 16 teams, 16-8, 8-4
The 16 teams will randomly arrange the schedule and announce the two sides. Four winners will be selected through Single Elimination.
B: Double-down Elimination , 4-2,2-1
The four teams that advanced to the championship, eliminated by double losses to determine the championship

Iii. Competition rules:

1. Game version and server: the game will be held on a dedicated game server. Download or access will be notified separately

2. Competition mode: the competition will be conducted in a custom room mode. The entrance of the competition will be entered at the "Sheriff" in the main city (it will be opened during the competition).

3. Rules of the game: a single game will be played in the way of 15V15 classic siege. The two sides will attack and defend each other for 1 game

A: the team that wins two consecutive siege games wins outright
B: if the match is 1:1, there will be an extra field battle of 15V15 (Map: Emerald River).

4. Map selection
A: Siege maps: Kurak, Harbour City, Wall Fort, Valley Fortress, Augolia.
B: Field battle maps: Emerald River (15v15)

5. BP rules: in the same team, each player shall not use more than 2 artilleries, and the revive times limited in 2 as well.

6. Admission rules: enter the room 10 minutes in advance. At the end of the opening time, if the actual number of the team is less than 10, it will automatically lose.

7. Disconnection processing: in the process of loading the map, if there is disconnection of 3 or more players on one side, the game shall be re-hold; otherwise, the game will not be re-hold.

8. Cheating and punishment: it is forbidden to use any third-party auxiliary software to modify the game content, such as the game interface, sound effects, character/units skills and numerical values. If any player violates this rule, he/she will be treated cheater, the team will be disqualified, and the individual will be banned from participating in the any kind of official event forever.

9. The company reserves the right to interpret the rules of the competition

IV. Event Reward
Champion Award: collection of fashion optional gift box (30 days), S1 theme official peripheral, Endless Frenzy Flag, S1 season battle-pass, Treatise*5, Blacksmith gift*5, official interview

Runner-up award: collection of fashion optional gift box (30 days), S1 theme official peripheral, Endless Frenzy Flag, S1 season battle-pass, Treatise*3, Blacksmith gift*3, official interview

Top 4 (3-4) awards: collection of fashion optional gift box (30 days), Endless Frenzy Flag, S1 season battle-pass, Treatise*2, Blacksmith gift*3, official interview

Top 8 (5-8 winners) rewards: Endless Frenzy Flag, Treatise*1, Blacksmith gift*2

Full attendance team award: the team completed all the games in the schedule, then all the players will get: selected streaming platform battle flag + Treatise*2+ blacksmith gift *2+ blue artillery optional *3

Post-season pioneer award: generals who participate in this tournament and have at least an appearance record will receive: Treatise *1+ Blacksmith gift *1+ blue artillery optional *2

From the double-down semifinal, we will start streaming the tournament at official streaming room, and at the same time, we will launch live activities in the streaming room and the community. The reward pool includes: S1 theme official peripheral, S1 season battle pass, S1 season weapon fashion optional gift box (7 days), Customized battle flag (permanent), and live viewing package

V. Sign up to fight!
SE post season competition
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Dear Warlords,
We will be conducting server maintenance during the period of 6 am to 8 am, Nov 28th (UTC+8). The estimated maintenance time is approximately 2 hours. Here is the patch note.

1.Map Adjustments
1)Dasuo Fort
After reviewing your feedbacks and having internal tests, we found that Dasuo Fort was still imbalanced with relatively low win ratio of attackers. It was hard for them to capture Point B and C after taking control of Point A. We’re guessing that it is caused by the following reasons:

a)Complex internal layout of Dasuo Fort
b)After attackers capturing Point A, there was only one route for them to get to the nearest supply point. They will suffer a huge loss attacking this supply point even with the help of several ranged units.
c)It was hard for them to continuously attack Point B and C without taking over the supply point.

So we made the following adjustments:
Added a stairs at the starting point of city wall, making it easier for Warlords to get to the supply point. Warlords who capture the city wall in advance may have a better chance to take over the supply point then quickly support the battles between Point A and Point B.



2)Allenburg
After reviewing your feedbacks and having internal tests, we found that there were two main issues when attackers trying to capture Point B:
a)Stairs were too narrow for attacking
b)Attackers have few attacking routes when attacking Point B

We made the following adjustments accordingly:
a)Widened the stairs from city wall to Point B
b)Added a new attacking route connecting the city wall.



c)Added a stair and a set of ladders on the northeastern side of internal castle’s city wall.



d)Widened the stairs from city wall to Point A



2.Unit Balance Adjustment: Imperial Pike Guards
Imperial Pike Guards were underperforming on the battlefield due to the fact that they couldn’t effectively restrain high-tier cavalry units with relatively low damage. So we made the following adjustments:

1)The advancing of Imperial Pike Guards have damage bonus. They will cause more damage when advancing into relatively low move speed units. Greater speed difference will bring higher damage.
2)The advancing of Imperial Pike Guards now have extra damage to charging units.
3)Health growth for each level was increased by 42 points.

3.Artillery Balance Adjustments
Currently, large artillery (Trebuchet, Battering ram and Siege tower) would receive too high damage from Culverin (higher than eastern Cannon), resulting in attackers couldn’t take advantage of these large artillery in some western maps. So we made the following adjustments:

Decreased the Culverin’s damage dealt to large artillery (Trebuchet, Battering ram and Siege tower), city gate and city wall, similar to the damage of Cannon with same-quality.
(The damage dealt to heroes, units and small artillery will remain unchanged.)

Besides that, added a notification when the artillery being pushing forward. If Warlords click on an artillery that has already been used, there will be a notification icon showing that it is unavailable now.



4.Important Updates: Auction House Activity (For one week only)
1)Black Friday Promotion
All Hero Attires are discounted by 25%
All Weapon Attires are discounted by 25%
All Mount Attires are discounted by 25%
All Unit Attires are discounted by 25%
All Unit Flags are discounted by 25%

2)New Attires:
New Hero Attire: Varangian
Discounted price: 1780 sovereigns, 10% off its usual price of 1980 sovereigns



New Mount Attire: Windblown
Discounted price: 1780 sovereigns, 10% off its usual price of 1980 sovereigns



New Unit Attire: Northern Wilderness
Discounted price: 270 sovereigns, 10% off its usual price of 300 sovereigns



5.Newly-added Season Career Interface
Now Warlords can check your territory war stats during Season Eve by pressing P and find “Season Career” in Career interface.



6.Bug Fixes
1)Unit Bug Fixes
a)Fixed the incorrect charge animation of Cataphract Lancers and Dagger-Axe Lancers
b)Fixed a bug that in some circumstances, the visual effect of cavalry charge didn’t play correctly.
2)Miscellaneous Fixes
a)Fixed a bug where the weather icon didn’t display correctly in deployment interface
b)Fixed a bug where Spear heroes couldn’t use Q to dismount when using “Full Tilt Charge”
c)Fixed a bug where weekly quest retrieval could retrieve wrong weekly quest reward chest.
d)Fixed the abnormal Season Eve Homepage in Traditional Chinese version due to the lack of localization.

7.System Optimizations
1)Unit Optimizations
a)Optimized the scatter formation for all cavalry units.
b)Optimized the visual effect of cavalry charge, making it more obvious in bright scene.
c)Slightly increased the height of Iron Reapers, making it more in line with the historical prototype.
d)Optimized the dispersed formation of Iron Reapers with more regular layout.

2)System Optimizations
a)Optimized the UI when units forming up, making it more obvious in grassland.



b)When Warlords expanding the stable, Horse Trough could be purchased with just one click and then take effect automatically.