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I noticed many unit descriptions mention the faerie, like here in the description for elves:

… their magic has some strong connection to the faerie …

What are the faerie? Is it simply a magical force, or something else? Are they a race, as in AtS and IftU? If so, what do they look like? If it is...

I used to play this game on Mac a LOT, but this is my first attempt since switching to Windows nearly four years ago. I'm playing 1.17.6 on the hardest level, and it's kicking my ass.

I'm on turn 22 having killed off the first two sets of subsidiary undead forces, and I'm about to trip the meeting...

The newest release of the development series, Wesnoth 1.17.17 , is now available. Check the forum thread for a list of the most notable changes in this version, as well as the more technical full changelog for enthusiasts and content creators.

The source code, Windows, and macOS packages are...

Am stuck with a new ability that I'm trying to implement

A unit has an Ambush ability (id=vr_trapping).When an enemy moves next to it, the enemy is slowed

My problem is, that I can't figure out how to make sure that the unit only traps enemies while it's invisible.
For now it traps while on...

The newest release of the development series, Wesnoth 1.17.16 , is now available. Check the forum thread for a list of the most notable changes in this version, as well as the more technical full changelog for enthusiasts and content creators.

The source code, Windows, and macOS packages are...

(1) What difficulty level and version of Wesnoth have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) What did you think about the dialog and story?
(4) What were the major challenges you faced?
(5) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
(6) What...

(1) What difficulty level and version of Wesnoth have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) What did you think about the dialog and story?
(4) What were the major challenges you faced?
(5) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
(6) What...

(1) What difficulty level and version of Wesnoth have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) What did you think about the dialog and story?
(4) What were the major challenges you faced?
(5) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
(6) What...

(1) What difficulty level and version of Wesnoth have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) What did you think about the dialog and story?
(4) What were the major challenges you faced?
(5) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
(6) What...

(1) What difficulty level and version of Wesnoth have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) What did you think about the dialog and story?
(4) What were the major challenges you faced?
(5) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
(6) What...

(1) What difficulty level and version of Wesnoth have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) What did you think about the dialog and story?
(4) What were the major challenges you faced?
(5) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
(6) What...

(1) What difficulty level and version of Wesnoth have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) What did you think about the dialog and story?
(4) What were the major challenges you faced?
(5) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
(6) What...

(1) What difficulty level and version of Wesnoth have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) What did you think about the dialog and story?
(4) What were the major challenges you faced?
(5) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
(6) What...

(1) What difficulty level and version of Wesnoth have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) What did you think about the dialog and story?
(4) What were the major challenges you faced?
(5) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
(6) What...

(1) What difficulty level and version of Wesnoth have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) What did you think about the dialog and story?
(4) What were the major challenges you faced?
(5) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
(6) What...

(1) What difficulty level and version of Wesnoth have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) What did you think about the dialog and story?
(4) What were the major challenges you faced?
(5) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
(6) What...

Hi all, we are going to be playing Modern Combat tomorrow at 8:00 AM PST. Modern Combat is a mod project we have been working on, with stellar results so far. Modern Combat converts wesnoth into current year with missiles, tanks, planes, war-crimes, etc, with unique factions leaders. Including...

For who's may not yet aware, DMLabs relatively recently released a Wesnoth spin-off called Pixel Tactics.

Here's the Link:

Wesnoth 1.16.9 is now available. This is a maintenance release for the stable 1.16.x series and, as such, it delivers an assortment of bug fixes and other improvements over previous releases in this series. Check the forum thread for a list of the most notable fixes and changes in this version....

For now, we know almost everything about the west of Irdya (I mean between Aethenwood and Lintanir including Wesnoth and Heart Mountains) but what happened in the far North? (I mean far far from Wesnoth itself) is it remain in the north or it affect Wesnoth even indirectly?
In my campaigns, not too...

Hi all,
I'm playtesting a scenario where one ai side has multiple leaders with different recruits.
Additional leaders are created within and have extra_recruit set.
Side recruit is not used ( recruit= ).
I'd like to control how one leader recruits, it has extra_recruit=Troll Boulderlobber,Troll...

The newest release of the development series, Wesnoth 1.17.14 , is now available. Check the forum thread for a list of the most notable changes in this version, as well as the more technical full changelog for enthusiasts and content creators.

The source code, Windows, and macOS packages are...

I noticed that there is a list of names for villages in the name's generator. Is there a way to give villages names automatically (like we do with units)?

Im Abschlussdialog sagt Ethiliel Ich werde den Menschen und seine Mannen zu Mebrin führen - er kann entschieden...

Dort sollte entscheiden stehen.

Es ist kurz vor 1 am morgen, Wiki-Konten können derzeit nur durch die Administratoren persönlich erstellt werden und ich habe absolut keine Ahnung...

So this is an incomplete idea I just had: mainline campaigns add-on tree .

So, say we have 6 core campaigns of Wesnoth.

What if, after someone (a genuinely new player that is) has played through these, additional campaigns related to the main storyline are unlocked ?
For instance, that thing...

I present you Connect6, a tabletop tic-tac-toe-like game, implemented in Wesnoth. It's described in although rules are very simple: on the first turn the first player places one unit on the board. After that each player places two units per turn. The goal is to create a line of 6 or more units....

The newest release of the development series, Wesnoth 1.17.13 , is now available. Check the forum thread for a list of the most notable changes in this version, as well as the more technical full changelog for enthusiasts and content creators.

The source code, Windows, and macOS packages are...

I created an Era with Mainline Campaign Factions like Outlaws and Quenoth elves.
I also added Units and Advances for Units from the Mainline Campaigns.

I created this Forumpage for Bugreports or to remind me of missing Stuff :)

I'm happy to formally announce that Wesnoth has joined Software in the Public Interest (SPI, as an associated project.

What this means is that SPI is now the legal entity responsible for keeping track of money donated to Wesnoth as well as Wesnoth's trademark rather than Wesnoth Inc. This was done...