Hello,
Sorry for not making an update post last month. Last month was pretty hectic I did an internal beta testing and took a short break of 2-3 weeks.

I am working on EOD since last August full time daily working on the game for 8-10 hrs exhausted me which result in burnout. Thatswhay I decided to take a short break in May to recharge my batteries.
After internal beta testing results were not promising for me. The game feels rough around edges and consists of game threatening bugs. I could have released the game and with the label of "Early Access" made some excuses and promises update etc. but doing such things are not worth it. I set some standards and I am not releasing the game without matching it. I am well aware of my limitations and not expecting to release a masterpiece or something but releasing a broken game in the name early access is not something I want to do as it will not represent efforts, I put in the game last year.


Animation Update

In past blogs, I explained the swordplay system sword is controlled from the input of the mouse and it will rotate with the mouse direction but In past system animations were static that means if you move the mouse in left direction animation system will play left targetting animation but with the new system and introduction of ik, animations are much flexible. The player can target a specific part of an enemy body like legs.hands.neck, head etc. Which gives different tactical options to both Ai and players.

Hello there, Sorry for the late update I am sick since last 2 days making hard for me to post announcement or even use computer.

With Tactics manager player can set tactics for every single soldier to whole group of soldier.

Formation

Here is small video moving 500 soldiers on battlefield to set formation

First you need to set position of of whole unit like in Rts games. Each unit max consist 1000 soldier.

For Ai after lots of research I set on five main formation according to which Ai sets Up his army.

• Hammer & Anvil
  
• Frontal Attack
  
• Flanking Double
  
• Flanking Single
  
• Bull Horn

There are many things Ai consider before selecting any strategies but main is availablity of certain units like fast moving units for flanking or comparing army size of army for bull horn.From this well basically next strategy node is decided individually for every soldier like ex if ratio is 2:1 for opponent unit then soldier ai will try to form group of 2-3 and attack single individual soldier, Same goes for archers unit they always maintain some distance form their target unit.

There are many things Ai consider before selecting any strategies but main is availablity of certain units like fast moving units for flanking or comparing army size of army for bull horn.From this well basically next strategy node is decided individually for every soldier like ex if ratio is 2:1 for opponent unit then soldier ai will try to form group of 2-3 and attack single individual soldier, Same goes for archers unit they always maintain some distance form their target unit.

The basic things in tactics are pretty much self explanatory but in next blog I will explain them even further also I will improve Ui panels once I become's healthy:)

Edit: I wrote about how 1v1 combat works here Also I captured a few small snippets to understand how it works for video blog here is one Hitbox Note that it is still half baked I am going to add a few things before release and sheer size of battle(thousands of soldiers runtime) it is difficult for me to simulate realistic physics I need to sacrifice something.
Video captured in editor and video capturing software also working so it reduces performance bit.