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Cath'thir is released

Cath'thir is a freeware light strategy game.

For all old westfalen/woe players

If you don't like that non-flat map (default map style), you can turn flat map on from map options. It may be better for old strategy gamers.

Cath'thir server stops working 10.10.2007

Free cath'thir server stops working because there is not enough players for the game. Thank you for all players for playing the freeware game.

After the christmas break 1.1.2007

Cath'thir and war of enlightenment runs normally again after the christmas break.

Cath'thir updated to 1.07 (22.12.2007)

Cath'thir is now updated to 1.07, it does one message bug that may cause crashing.

Cath'thir updated to 1.05 (28.05.2006)

Cath'thir is now updated to 1.05, it does fix few minor bugs and one crash bug in single player game.

Chat'thir changes from Westfalen

Cath'thir will have three (3) mods

Cath'thir mods are fantasy, japan 1584, and 'westfalen' - europe 1618. All mods are somewhat different from each other, even though the basic rules of the game are same in all mods.

Japan

Japan mod is for eight (8) players, it will be first official game for multiplayer games. 8 players makes joining to new games faster and also the game ends faster.

Westfalen

Westfalen mod is for 20 players, even though it's called as 'westfalen' mod, there are some differences from westfalen, but the era of the game is the same.

* Size of Westfalen map is 35x28 provinces, Cath'thir - Westfalen map is 46x33 provinces.
* Westfalen is a game for 19 players, Cath'thir - Westfalen mod has 20 players.
* Cath'thir - Westfalen map is more balanced and even Portugal got 10 provinces in the beginning of the game. (Westfalen Portugal was only 5 provinces).
* Cannons and battles works differently.
* Cavalry can move two (2) provinces in turn and ships five (5) provinces in turn.
* All other changes that comes from cath'thir rules, basic buildings, and so on...

Westfalen mod will be multiplayer game for the veteran players later, when the game gets more players. Every player must get points to hall of fame with japan mod game, before they can join a westfalen mod game. The point of this is to provide good quality westfalen games without quiters.

Fantasy

Fantasy mod is very different from japan and westfalen mods.

There are 18 different races, some races are very different from each others, Even the game is fantasy game, there is no 'magic' in the game. The only reason, why Cath'thir is fantasy game, is because it allows to do random and different map in each game. Also the number of players can be anything from 2-90 in each game.

Current races:
Good: Good human, elf, dwarfs, halflings, angels and merfolks.
Neutral: Draconian, ice giants, artificers, wooden people and goblins.
Evil: Evil human, Abominations, drows, undeads, trolls and orcs.

Each race has 3 different units, warship, tradeship and castle. Warship, tradeship and castle are same to everyone, but those 3 other units can be very different from each others. For example, Draconian's one unit is dragon (flying unit), halflings has burglars (spy), good human has paladins (real killers against evil races) and trolls has stone hurlers....

Each unit has different strenghts and weaknesses, some moves faster, some kills better...

General differences from Westfalen (all mods)

Buildings.

  Port, you can now build ports and each port has a direction.
  Citadels, you can recruit nation's special units in citadels.
  5 Different buildings, each building will give different bonuses for players.

Moving

Some different units can move different number of provinces in turn. Basic ships can move five (5) provinces in turn, cavalry can move two (2) provinces in turn, some flying units in fantasy mod can move even three provinces in turn.

Ordering movings are also little different, cath'thir has no separate movings for ships and land units.

Recruiting and building ships

In Cath'thir you must recruit your armies and ships from the castle size. For example, if you have 10,000 castle, and you recruit 4,000 infantry. You will have 6,000 castle and 4,000 infantry in the next turn. This also means that maintenance of the castle sizes will be heavier than in old westfalen.

Other changes

* Cath'thir will have a single player game.
* Better graphics and some skeletal 3D animations.
* No revolt risk (this has caused some serious problems for new players in westfalen).
* Tax income in foreign provinces is lower. (Because revolt risk was removed).
* Battle code is different and it should be much better.
* Different supply system for army.
* You can write and read messages while watching a map in the game.
* And also some other little changes here and there. Purpose of changes is to improve old rules of Westfalen.
* All units have basic experience level 1-3, you cannot train units, they gain experience level only from victorious battles.

Secret mission

Secret mission is feature from War of enlightenment.

Secret mission is only in normal japan mod multi player games, veteran games don't have secret missions.

Mission means that you must eliminate someone else before the game ends. Your secret mission will be given on list of notes, and it's for yourself only.

* The mission is given before the game starts.
* The mission is individual mission, if you get a mission 'eliminate clan Hojo', it means that no one else gets 'eliminate clan Hojo'. Other players will get other missions.
* Mission is given first from 'hall of fame' points and especiality from the games that players are played in the same game with others and survived to end. If you survive with one player in many games and not die, you will get most likely mission against him. (experienced players). Also it depends how far away nations are from each others, so clan Hojo player doesn't get Clan Uesugi as it's secret nation target so easily.
* If player cannot get mission from hall of fame, then the mission is given randomly to player. (newbies).
* Purpose of missions is to get experienced players fights against eachs others, so they cannot play together in all of their games.
* If you success the secret misson and survive to end of game, you will get points to hall of fame normally.
* If you fail the secret mission and you survive to end of game, you will get only one (1) point to hall of fame, no matter how well you are done in the game. But you will also get 'penalty' in future secret missions, and you will get secret mission against this player again more easily untill your secret mission is succeesed and you are survived to end.
* If you die in the game, nothing happens to you.
* You cannot make alliance to your secret mission target.