Warhammer Age of Sigmar Storm Ground Update 1.3 Patch Notes – August 25, 2021

Warhammer Age of Sigmar Storm Ground update 1.3 (August 25, 2021) is now available to download on PC (Steam). According to the official Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground patch notes, the latest update added a lot of balance changes, UI Improvements, and changes to the campaign/multiplayer modes. Apart from this, Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground patch 1.3 also implemented ultrawide monitor support

Previously, a big update was released with various tweaks and fixes.

Unfortunately, since the last patch, players are facing a number of issues with the game. Today’s Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground patch 1.3 will solve a few of these problems.

Check out more details below.

What is new in Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground patch 1.3 notes?

• Unit Editor has been redesigned to combine Wargear and Skills.
  
• You can now rotate a unit in the Unit Editor.
• Implemented larger “unit action remaining” markers.
• Controller Cursor no longer snaps to the hex center.

• Campaign starting warbands have +1 unit available per difficulty.
• Two new encounter types: Survive and Protect.
• Added a dialog skip button.
  

• Two new maps added to the rotation: The Lower Bole and Drowned Man’s Journey.
  The Lower Bole
  
  Drowned Man’s Journey
  
• Fungal Cliffs map now has a new layout.
• Added a Tutorial to Multiplayer.
• Increased Earned Experience for all players.
• Added XP rewards to players who lost in turns 1, 2, and 3.
• Added a turn timer. You will now get visual and audio warnings when your turn has 30 seconds remaining.
• Multiplayer Faction Progression now includes more random items than before.

• Ultrawide Support: In game maps now have a custom camera supporting 21:9 resolutions. Front-end screens will remain centered in a 16:9 resolution.
  

• Fixed the issue of units talking over each other.
• Fixed over 60 bugs related to missing and broken SFX.

Maggotkin of Nurgle

• Corrosion and Poison now last 2 turns by default.
• Disease ignores armour but only lasts 2 turns instead of 3.
• Blightkings base health increased from 5 to 6 and base Armour increased from 0 to 1.
• Rotbringers now have reduced base damage, from 3 to 2.
• Transmit Disease now requires you to not have moved before activating.
• Corruption now has a cast range of 4 increased from 2, and a reduced cooldown by 1.
• Feculent Gnarlmaw – Base aethyr cost reduced from 4 to 3 and base cast range increased from 3 to 4.
• Nurglings – Seed of Corruption has been moved to an off-hand ability and they have disease bomb by default.
• Calcify now has an increased cooldown from 2 to 3.
• Replaced Second Nature property with Tireless, so while you can still charge after using, you can’t use other abilities.
• Debilitating Aura now leaves a lingering debuff for 1 turn that is refreshed every turn
• Great Corruptor now applies the effects of adjacent corruption whenever you take ANY damage instead.
• Fixed Corrosive items dealing too much / inconsistent damage when more units were involved.
• Fixed Layer of Sick (+1 armour when using Joyous bile) only lasting until end of turn.

Nighthaunt

• Overrun can only be activated once per turn.
• If you have a 2nd skill of Overrun it will grant the Fall Back passive after Overrun has been triggered.
• Fall Back – Dealing any damage will refresh the unit with Relentless (allowing them to move and use abilities again), but they will deal 0 damage with ALL abilities, but Into the Mist has 0 Aethyr cost.
• Arcane Claw’s range is lowered from 5 to 3
• Lady of Ashes will now be healed when she retaliates in melee with Healing Winds
• Myrmourn Banshees – Increased base summons from 1to 2 in multiplayer .
• Ethereal now ignores taking/dealing damage from basic ranged attacks.
• Summoning Wisps now costs 1 less Aethyr and the cooldown has been lowered by 1.
• Blazing Step skill (leave spectral flames on ground) now lasts 1 turn instead of just end of turn.
• Fixed Chainghast Solitary skill.
• Chainrasp Endless Horde skill can now be correctly equipped 3x.
• Nighthaunt weapons that say they rend armour will now work correctly.
• Lowered range of Chains of Burden (AOE Legendary) from 4 to 3.
• Enhanced Summoning Skill (Knight of Shrouds) now only grants +1 summon range to wisps instead of +2.

Stormcast Eternals

• Zealous skill has been separated into 2 separate cards, 1 grants -1 cooldown to main hand weapons the other grants -1 Aethyr cost to them.
• For each copy of Zealous you had, you will receive an extra card for -1 Aethyr (E.g. you have 3 of them, you will keep 3 for -1 cooldown and gain an additional 3 for -1 Aethyr).
• Tireless skill no longer grants +1 movement with a single stack. Grants+1 movement for each additional stack (e.g. if you have 3, you will get +2 movement after casting an ability).
• Decreased cooldown of Challenge by 1.
• Fixed a bug where Challenge couldn’t target ranged units that were channeling in order to interrupt them. Now if they will be interrupted but won’t attack back.
• High ground bonus is reduced from 2 to 1 damage.
• Lightning Rod is no longer buffed by stacks of Frenzy.

General

• When knocked into Endless Spells or Alchemic Transmutation, you take 3 bonus damage for a total of 4 that ignores armour instead of being instantly killed.
• By default, all traps have a cast range of 2 instead of 1.
• Base cost of traps except Violent Growth cost 0 Aethyr instead of 1.
• Many traps had their cooldowns lowered.
• Blitz will no longer allow you to execute 2 charges AND an ability in the same turn, regardless of order of execution.
• Blitz no longer allows you to execute a charge and then a damaging ability without its stack being removed.
• Deflect now blocks basic ranged attacks by default
• Barriers no longer last forever.
• Fixed a bug where you could cast barriers for free when your unit had no other moves.
• Fixed environmental hazards escalating their damage over time.
• Fix for Layer of Sick (+1 armour when using Joyous bile) only lasting until end of turn
• Auto-dispel no longer works on Endless Spells
• Units can no longer pass through Grove of Renewal or Feculent Gnarlmaw.
• Fixed a bug where hazards like fire could deal extra damage when summoned on a unit occupying a hex containing other props. This damage didn’t preview correctly, which would have caused confusing results.

Download and play free Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground update 1.3 on PC.