Still smoking: Enormous update for Musket Smoke adds new features

8 of those men aren’t that unfriendly, really, but they’re quite sullen and making the general uncomfortable.

Long-time readers may recall Napoleonic-period tactical-level wargame Musket Smoke, the goriest strategy game in memory — cannons reduce columns of troops to a gooey mess that wouldn’t look out of place in E1M1. We haven’t talked much about Musket Smoke since our man Davy reviewed it back in December, but developer Woodie Dovich has been working tirelessly on the game ever since. A few weeks back he released an enormous 1.5 update to the App Store that added a raft of new features, and he’s still not done.

What Dovich calls the “mega update” added UI refinements, an in-game manual, a major balance pass, the ability to rally routed units, and a whole lot more. Musket Smoke was already a unique wargame offering with its robust morale system, melee locking, and unique artillery modelling, and now it’s even more polished than it was last year.

Musket Smoke is still free to try, with a single in-app purchase to unlock the multiplayer campaign if you like the skirmish mode. You can get a full accounting of all the recent changes on Dovich’s dev blog — he’s already prepping yet another update that will allow elite players access to a special match-making mode reserved for highfalutin’ commanders of their own caliber.

Trailer after the break.