The Battle for Wesnoth: A Cross-Platform Open Source Game

wesnoth is an open source turn-based strategy game with a long history of development and translated into several languages. The game takes place in a fantasy universe and the gameplay focuses on the tactical and strategic deployment of units on a map with varied terrain.

The battle for Wesnoth takes place in a fantastic virtual world, where a player or players control a series of characters, each one with its own characteristics especially for fighting until the objective of the stage is met or the enemy is defeated.

Wesnoth Features

Each unit or faction has specific characteristics, so that, you can have an elf archer, with the characteristics of strength and speed, which will hit enemies more forcefully and will move faster than another that is resistant and intelligent, which, even if it does not hit as hard, will have more life points and will need fewer experience points to advance in level.

In summary, the game consists of the following:

• 17 solo campaigns and 55 multiplayer scenarios (or only against the AI);
• More than 200 different units and 7 main factions;
• Very clean illustrations and animations;
• An editor and extension language;
• A large number of extensions (additional campaigns and scenarios) available on the official servers.

Few days ago Wesnoth developers have released a new update reaching this version Westnoth 1.14.

What's new in Wesnoth version 1.14?

In this new version the game interface had some improvements again, of which we can highlight that some windows are easier to use and the use of fonts has been improved.

The appearance of the game has also been improved as many units now have new artwork and animations. New types of land have also appeared and now the villages are illuminated at night.

From a technical point of view, the game now uses version 2 of the SDL library, which should bring improvements in hardware management such as multiple screens.

A new campaign has been added to the game, "Secrets of the ancients." Initially, it was a campaign created by a player and available in extensions. The latter, refined and well integrated into the world of Wesnoth, finally found its place among the official campaigns.

The campaign "Under the Burning Suns »has been redesigned. In particular, the desert elves have new artwork and various game-level changes make them more distinct from the wood elves.

Other campaigns, particularly Northern Rebirth's and Descent into Darkness, have been significantly redesigned, with new maps and tweaks to some existing maps and illustration improvements and portraits of the characters.

Wesnoth's scripting language for creating complex scenarios has undergone several improvements. In particular, Lua version used now is 5.3.4 and the Lua API has been augmented with the ability to write card generators to Lua. The AI ​​configuration is also more flexible.

How to install Battle for Wesnoth on Linux?

Wesnoth is a multiplatform game so that you can find the game within the official repositories of the majority of Linux distributions.

In addition, the game is also in the Steam catalog so if you have this video game platform installed on your system you just have to go to the following link and you can add the game to your catalog and install it.

On the other hand, if you don't have Steam and you don't want to install it, you can install the game with the following commands.

To install Wesnoth on Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives you must open a terminal and execute the following command:

sudo apt install wesnoth wesnoth-music

In the case of ArchLinux and derivatives you install with:

sudo pacman -S wesnoth

While for Fedora and derivatives:

sudo yum install wesnoth wesnoth-tools wesnoth-server

For the other distributions you can look for the installation command here or the binary to install the game on the system is also offered at this link.