Roadmap

Where we have been and where we are going. Updated as milestones complete.

M0 — Foundation (Complete)

✓ Six doctrine trees, 5 tiers each, all capstones
✓ Hero system: recruitment, ability picks, artifacts
✓ Magic: all five domains live — Arcane, Divine, Nature, Chaos, Necromantic (36 spells)
✓ Faith: sanctification, crusades, divine intervention
✓ Naval units: warships, galleons, transports
✓ Victory conditions: all 7 paths functional
✓ Formation combat effects (11 formations)
✓ Terrain movement costs (per-biome, per-unit)
✓ Dice-based combat with full modifier chain
✓ Combine-style Law/Chaos effects, triple hybrid doctrines, meta-doctrine, ley lines

✓ 3D terrain: extruded hexes, scatter props (trees/rocks), snow caps, water depth
✓ Unit art in 3D — voxel, smooth and modelled detail levels, painted textures and faces
✓ Audio: 74 sound files, crossfading music + ambient, synth fallback mode
✓ Minimap with click-to-navigate, player colors, fog of war
✓ Fog-of-war unit visibility filtering
✓ Camera auto-focus with smooth lerp
✓ Victory screen components (banner, post-victory summary, progress HUD)
✓ Unit selection tray
✓ Road and bridge rendering (InstancedMesh infrastructure layer)
✓ Moat ring around fortified cities
✓ Marketing site (this page) with email signup
✓ A light theme that reaches every floating surface, not just the page
✓ Treaty, marriage and merchant offers wait on the Diplomacy tab after their toast fades
✓ An accessibility pass: labelled controls, live-region offers, reduced-motion fades

✓ Sea market: ships sail and trade, foreign merchant houses make offers, attacking one costs standing
✓ Pirate raids on laden trade ships; fleets sail as one unit (engine)
✓ Treaties you can play: peace, pact, alliance, declare war, with honor at stake
✓ Royal Houses: courts, 68 painted portraits, marriages that bind alliances, AI that weighs them — a preset of its own
✓ Native iPad / iPhone shell in closed TestFlight testing

✓ Royals travel in escorted convoys, by land or by ship
✓ Capture, ransom, hold, execute or release — and pirates and bandits who always ransom
✓ Rescue by spy, by raiding party, by escape

✓ Royals are born, age through four stages of portrait, and die of age
✓ The house mourns; the eldest succeeds a dead head
✓ A dead line adopts a cousin; a childless court adopts too
✓ Births, deaths and mourning run in game years, on a calendar you choose
✓ A marriage may cross a pact, and an accepted marriage seals it into an alliance

✓ A spy watches a named city and reports on that city
✓ Sabotage, poison, assassination — and blaming another house for it
✓ The defence: counter-spies, sweeping for hidden agents, seeing through a frame

✓ A ranked queue with ratings, quickplay, and custom lobbies
✓ An authoritative match server; the clients send intents
✓ Spectators, a replay, and a viewer that runs a few seconds behind
✓ Two-team modes
✓ AI seats with roles, and a token-gated function API an outside agent can drive