Good day, my fellow orbsters!

I am very pleased to announce the launch of the Armies of Gielinor equipment expansion pack, adding items to your online battles.

This expansion adds many items for you to spend your hard-earned runes on, as well as some prestige coats of arms for the skilled and proud (I guarantee you will want the coat of arms that comes with the highest prestige level).

With your runes, you can kit out your units with new armour, better weapons and wizard hats. Save up, though, and you’ll be able to cast powerful fire spells; duplicate and enhance your units; teleport units around the map; change the map itself; and even summon more than one King Black Dragon.

Don’t think that, just because you can afford new equipment, you’ll always be winning. Equipment is used up when you employ it in battle, and you’ll need to keep an eye on your stocks!

If you’re stalwart fans of the original, you can still set up Rated and Unrated games with a ‘no equipment’ option, for the traditional gameplay you already know and love.

There are also a few minor alterations to existing gameplay:

* Monks and priests now heal 3hp instead of two.
* The King Black Dragon can now attack twice per turn, making it even more deadly.
* The falcon is now a level 2 creature, instead of level 1.
* Spiritual barriers are now permanent rather than depleting as the units within them are damaged.

There are also a few extra features:

* Team chat - you asked for it, and you’ve got it! There’s now a button next to the in-game chat tab to switch between team and public chat.
* The prestige system, which works a little differently to the one in Arcanists, will not take away your units when you buy into it, but will cost runes - lots of runes.
* Members’ options have been collected together into a single section of the main menu (Army Setup).

Mod Shade will be taking over from me now to develop the single-player campaign. He was the mastermind behind the recent Zombie Dawn UK expansion, so expect some devious level designs. I’m starting work on a whole new FunOrb Game, so look out for some Dev Diaries soon…

I hope this update pleases the long-term fans and brings new flavour to the game. Have fun!

Mod NirdGerl
FunOrb Developer