Polish from the front lines. - Sound now plays with the silent switch on, and comes back after the lock screen - The battle pauses when you leave the app - Tap a unit to see why it's holding fire - no target, out of range, or a friend in the way - The squad bar shows how many men each squad has left - Field gun crews no longer block their own gun - The training card can be folded away so you can see the battle - Results show the moment a battle ends, and a back-swipe asks before leaving - Purchases: clearer messages for retries, Ask to Buy, and restoring - Multiplayer: smoother movement for the other player's units, and a notice if your opponent leaves

Smoother, louder, more realistic. TRAINING - New to Any War? A short guided battle teaches you to select squads, move to cover, fire and take the objective. Find it any time under How to play. REALISTIC COMBAT - Soldiers spread their fire across the enemy instead of all aiming at one man - Most shots miss, and you can see where they land - Nobody fires through his own men - rifles, machine guns, cannons and tanks hold fire until the line is clear - Hand-to-hand fighting is slower and more deliberate PERFORMANCE AND SOUND - Much smoother on large battles, especially Gettysburg and Chateau Gaillard - A new sound engine: every era's weapons now play reliably, with distance and stereo A NEW LOOK - Redesigned battle controls with room to see the fight, including in landscape - A briefing when each battle opens and an after-action report when it ends - Fixed a rare crash in the medieval battle

A new look, closer to the classic tactics games: - Soldiers in period uniform who walk, kneel to fire, go flat under fire, and fall where they're hit - Realistic ground, sharp at any zoom, with real snow at Bastogne - Muzzle flashes, tracers, fireballs, drifting smoke, lasting shell craters, tank tracks and burning wrecks - Musket smoke hanging over Civil War battle lines - Medieval battles you can see: sword cuts, spear thrusts, sparks and dust in the melee, and arrows flying in volleys Better battle sound: distant fighting now sounds distant, plus ricochets, distant artillery and capture calls. Try Anywhere on Earth free for 7 days. Nothing is charged automatically. Fixed: Redwood Outpost could not be won because a river cut your troops off from the objective.

Defenders now start on the ground they hold. When you defend, your line begins on the objective instead of at the map edge, so the enemy has to come through you. Fixes Civil War and medieval battles that ended on the clock with no shots fired and no sound. Chateau Gaillard rebalanced: the castle is fully on the map, the woods are broken into usable cover, and a creek with two crossings shapes the approach.

Anywhere on Earth: fight on any real place. Search or pan the world map, frame your ground, and the battlefield is built from that spot's real buildings, woods, roads and hedges. A one-time unlock; the six historic battles stay free. Also in 1.1: - New app icon - Refreshed battle list and store screenshots