By pressing M while in game you can switch the camera mode to a top-down isometric perspective. This mode is meant to add precision to navigation in lush environments with lots of trees and other obstacles. It might be useful in general, as it allows seeing zooming out to seeing all of the map at once. To enhance the experience, we recommend going to the settings while in game, and turning on icons for both chess pieces and buildings. This way you will see a neat display of the piece's icon over its tile. We are currently thinking of enhancing this overview mode, adding some sort of switch for it in the UI, in addition to the M key that toggles it. Perhaps it would also be helpful to show icons instead of trees and other obstacles, but we're thinking about it. Let us know what you think.

As part of this update, we also added two new maps: Ancient Maze and Swamplands.

Ancient Maze

Swamplands

Ancient maze boasts a very complicated layout with many and more elevation changes and tricky approaches to enemy bases. Best played with more action points and higher round limits as moving will take a time. It is a refreshing layout, featuring all of the game modes including the flag options, and meant for up to 4 players.

Swamplands is a relatively simple map with many small bodies of water. Up to five players can compete for whoever destroys the enemies first.