The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures.

Features:

• Build up a formidable fighting force, starting from a single leader and a small amount of gold.
• Over 200 unit types in six major factions, all with distinctive abilities, weapons and spells.
• Experienced units gain powerful new abilities as they advance.
• Several multi-player options available, including internet play.
• Scores of different custom-designed maps, and unlimited random maps.
• Hundreds of campaign scenarios available for download via a simple in-game procedure.
• ´Fog of war´ feature available for a true test of generalship.
• Sophisticated mark-up language lets advanced users make their own maps, factions or campaigns.
• Excellent language support – 35 different languages currently available.
• GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOSX, BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, AmigaOS4, OS/2 & eComStation compatible.

Downloads are available for the source code and other supported Operating Systems at the developer´s website.

What's New in version 1.6.1:

Campaigns:

• Sceptre of Fire: Fixed a crash at the very end of 'Caverns of Flame'

AI:

• Fixed incorrect handling of poisoning attacks when suggesting best attack in user interface
• Fixed bug #13295: made enemy_units formula return only those units which are not incapacitated (for example, it now ignores stoned units )

Editor2:

• New feature: exporting of selection coordinates to system clipboard

Engine Changes:

• better detection of images fiting in a hex, should heavily reduce CPU usage

Graphics:

• New portrait for Orc Grunt, Dwarf Fighter (alternative), Goblin Spearman, Ogre/Young Ogre, Trapper, Ranger
• Added two new snow mountain variants

Language and i18n:

• new translations: Icelandic
• updated translations: British English, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Dutch, German, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish

Multiplayer:

• Fixed missing faction column and misplaced player's name column (but faction column is still missing if the host uses 1.6.0)

Multiplayer server:

• Implemented automatic saving of game replays.
• Implemented the adminmsg command to allow players to send messages to currently available admins (FR #9218)

Miscellaneous and bugfixes:

• Fixed an infinite loop issue when no music tracks could be loaded
• Fixed compilation with -D_GLIBCXX_PARALLEL
• Fixed handling of floating-point WML constants on localized Windows (impacts "submerge" animations and AI settings)
• Fixed a bug with auto-stored WML variables not being restored correctly
• Fixed a crash when sighted event killed the attacked unit
• Limit the maximum length of the mp command dialog as workaround for bug #13333 (This workaround is only implemented for Windows and Mac)