Roadmap

When you can play

For each milestone we give the quarter we expect it in and the range it may move within. We will release the game when it is ready, not by the calendar.

• estimate: Q2 2027

  Closed testing

  A small group of players tries the demo: the convoy, the wagon fort, battle and supplies in a single scenario. We will announce sign-ups in the news. Range: Q1 to Q3 2027.

• estimate: Q1 2028

  Public demo on Steam

  The demo, reworked after testing, open to everyone. The game gets its own page on Steam. Range: Q4 2027 to Q2 2028.

• estimate: Q2 2028

  Early Access on Steam

  The Hussite campaign in its first epochs, a first version of free play across the region, and historical battles for both sides. The game keeps growing with players’ feedback. Range: Q1 to Q4 2028.

• estimate: Q4 2029

  Release 1.0

  The whole Hussite campaign through to 1436, a campaign for the Catholic coalition and a finished free play mode. Range: Q3 2029 to Q4 2030.

Four phases of development

We build the game from the core outwards. Each phase stands on the one before.

• phase 1

  Convoy and wagon fort

  One scenario as the Hussites: the march, the camp, raising the wagon fort, battle, repairs and supplies under enemy pressure. This becomes the demo.

• phase 2

  Campaigns for both sides

  The story of a Hussite field community and the campaigns of the Catholic coalition. One battlefield, different troops and different goals.

• phase 3

  Free play across the region

  A regional map with towns, villages and castles. Trade, alliances and rivals pursuing their own goals.

• phase 4

  All of Bohemia

  A larger map, more sides and smarter opponents. Multiplayer comes only after the 1.0 release.

Campaigns in north-west Bohemia

The campaigns lead below the Ore Mountains and to the Elbe. Between 1421 and 1426 towns here were stormed and defended, and the two sides took turns on the attack. Some places you will come to know from both sides of the walls.

The Hussite campaigns begin at Chomutov. For every place we gather period sources. We speak of the violence of the time seriously and embellish nothing.

• 1421

  Chomutov

  One of the gravest events of the war: in March the Hussites stormed a strongly Catholic town and many of its people were killed.

• 1421

  Kadaň

  A royal town on the Ohře, taken by the Hussites in the same campaign as Chomutov.

• 1421

  Bílina, Duchcov and Osek

  A summer raid through the country below the Ore Mountains, in which Bílina fell and the war also reached Duchcov and the monastery at Osek.

• 1426

  Ústí nad Labem

  The united Hussite armies besieged the town and in battle defeated the army that came to its relief.

Chomutov in the Hussite Revolution

Until 1411 Chomutov belonged to the Teutonic Order. King Wenceslas IV took the town over when the Order, weakened by its defeat at Grunwald, could not pay a royal levy. In 1420 King Sigismund pledged it to Vilém of Házmburk, a staunch Catholic lord. Together with Most, Chomutov became a bastion of the anti-Hussite north-west.

On Palm Sunday, 16 March 1421, the united armies of Tábor and Prague took the town by storm. It ranks among the bloodiest events of the Hussite Wars. The Prague garrison held the plundered town only until late August. After the defeat at Most and news that the Hussite garrisons at Kadaň and Mašťov had been massacred, it withdrew to Žatec ahead of the second crusade.

New settlers slowly repopulated the town. In 1426 the Hussite captain Jakoubek of Vřesovice took Chomutov and held it until the end of the revolution. The town gradually recovered. In 1441 the Saxon town of Zwickau ordered forty pavises from its shield makers, and Chomutov was granted the right to hold an annual fair.

Based on a text by Jiří Šlajsna (Regional Museum and Gallery in Most) from the Chomutov Regional Museum’s series marking the 600th anniversary.

Campaigns of the Catholic coalition

As the coalition you defend towns against the Hussites and lead the army of the crusade.

• 1421

  Most

  The town withstood the Prague siege, and a relief army defeated the Hussites in the field.

• 1421

  Kadaň

  In the summer the army of the crusade took the town back, and the Hussite garrison was killed.

• 1421

  Žatec

  The army of the second crusade besieged Hussite Žatec, but the crusade fell apart before the town fell.

Hinterland and more sides

Teplice, Louny and Karlovy Vary will mainly be places of trade, supplies and negotiation.

With more sides comes the clash between Hussite factions near Hradec Králové in 1423.

How to read the roadmap

The roadmap shows a direction, not a contract. Whatever testing shows to be weak, we will rework, even if it costs time. If a date moves, we will say so in the news and update this page.

All of Bohemia and multiplayer have no dates yet. We will announce them when they are close.