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The Battle for Wesnoth for Windows
Lead a fantasy army through turn-based campaigns or multiplayer battles in The Battle for Wesnoth, a free, open-source strategy game for Windows.
- Operating system
- Windows 10 version 1903 or later
- Architecture
- 64-bit
- Download package
- EXE installer
Stable 1.18 branch, not the development branch. Publisher minimums include a dual-core 2.0 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM, 800 MB free disk space and a keyboard and mouse. No 32-bit Windows support for this download.
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What is The Battle for Wesnoth?
The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based fantasy strategy game built around recruiting troops, choosing terrain and developing experienced units across connected campaign battles. It suits players who want story-driven solo campaigns as well as tactical matches against other people. Multiplayer supports Internet games, local networks and hot-seat play on one computer.
Terrain changes a unit's chance of being hit, while time of day changes damage for units with certain alignments. Combat uses hit probabilities rather than guaranteed damage, so even a carefully positioned attack can miss. Campaign survivors can return in later scenarios; units from a standalone multiplayer scenario do not carry into future games.
The linked download is the 1.18.8 Windows 64-bit EXE installer from the publisher's stable 1.18 branch, distributed through SourceForge. It requires Windows 10 version 1903 or later; it is not a 32-bit Windows package. Community campaigns, factions and maps are available through the game's add-ons server, and a built-in map editor supports creating your own battlefields.
What it offers
- Play story-linked singleplayer campaigns and recall surviving veterans in later scenarios.
- Battle other players online, over a local network or in hot-seat mode on one computer.
- Plan around terrain-dependent defenses and time-of-day damage modifiers.
- Download community campaigns, factions and multiplayer maps through the official add-ons server.
- Create custom battlefields with the built-in map editor.
Good to know
- Attacks use hit probabilities; favorable terrain and planning do not guarantee that a strike will land.
- Units from standalone multiplayer scenarios do not carry into future games, unlike campaign survivors.
- This Windows package requires a 64-bit system running Windows 10 version 1903 or later.
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Sources
References used for this listing. Retrieval dates do not indicate hands-on testing.
- The Battle for Wesnoth Wiki — official downloads and license ↗Retrieved
- The Battle for Wesnoth — official overview and system requirements ↗Retrieved
- Battle for Wesnoth User's Manual — stable English manual ↗Retrieved
- The Battle for Wesnoth 1.18 Draconic Invasions Update — official screenshot source ↗Retrieved
- Wesnoth:Copyrights — publisher asset rights context ↗Retrieved
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