Slowly but surely we’re getting closer to the release of Arena, a multiplayer addon to the original and the sequel Battalion: Ghosts. Enough reason for develper Urbansquall to reveal more details about their upcoming games. Last time we reported on the new user-interface and this time we’re shown brand new unit models which improve on several gameplay issues.

Players and the jayisgames review reported it was hard to distinguish whether units were facing up or down at the end of their turn. Since looking up or down didn’t have any influence on the gameplay, the issue is now resolved and units will eather face left or right at the end of their turn.

Furthermore, as more and more units were added during development, it became difficult to tell them apart and there were also a few inconsistencies in the unit designs that hurt the overall cohesion of the unit graphics. Especially the sea units suffered from this problem and they have been given a complete make-over. The screenshot below shows the difference between the old blue ships and the new red ships.