The jousting update - May 3rd 2026

Hello everyone!

This update introduces a new historically based jousting tournament game mode, giving tournaments a more complete and structured format with point based scoring, a leaderboard and a proper tournament setup. (No more killing horses!)

Quick battle tournaments now support manual faction selection for all participants, making it easier to create specific matchups instead of always being matched against the default factions. The tournament equipment era matching is now disabled by default for fresh installs, if you want to play quick battle tournamnets with your custom factions I recommend disabling this setting in the realism options.

The update also expands equipment available in the editors, including new jousting lances that can be setup in the faction editor, new unit bodies and a helmet set inspired by 12th century manuscripts. It also contains a surcoat that displays your factions heraldry emblem by default that has been requested a lot.

Alongside the new content, it also includes a broad set of fixes and improvements both to combat and editor content. including a continuation of the weapon range revamp work.

You can read the full changelog below!

Thank you all for the continued support!

If you have suggestions, bugs or just general ideas for the next update, feel free to join the discord or drop by in the discussions. Always happy to hear your input.

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Full changelog

• Add new historically based jousting tournament game mode

• Add jousting lance styles to faction editor

• Add manual faction selection for all participants for quick battle tournaments

• Add culture flag to equipment and culture system for equipment; will be used in the future to group equipment by region

• Add confirmation for campaign save file deletion

• Add chainmail armor that shows heraldry emblem

• Add more head variations to standard knight unit bodies

• Add unit body for armor with heraldry emblem

• Add early knight unit bodies

• Add early knight full chainmail unit bodies

• Add norman with alt coif unit body

• Add new jousting lance items (Early and Late)

• Add short chainmail surcoat armor with covered mouth

• Add 'phrygian style' helmet set

• Add logic to exclude specialty items from officer unit era matching logic

• Add force season / force weather setting to campaign editor settlements

• Improve officer unit era matching logic

• Disable quick battle tournament era matching by default

• Tweak polearm weapons ranges

• Fix trebuchet fleeing bug

• Fix bug related to portcullis

• Fix bug related to unit movement

• Fix siege tower ramp falloff

• Fix castles not being hidden properly when switching to map view during campaign

• Fix being able to host tournament with not enough contestants during campaign

• Fix campaign tournament contestant count start threshold

• Fix tournament setup logic

• Fix crash related to battle logic

• Fix crash related to tournaments