All 42 powers are available from the start, achievement points are a score and not a currency

Villagers use the whole territory of their kingdom instead of a circle around the bonfire

Every worker claims his own tile, so a village spreads over the land instead of piling onto one tree

Workers change trade when their land has no work left for it, and job quotas shrink with the land

A village stops growing past its housing and only takes newcomers when there is room

Villages raise several buildings a month and settle the land they captured

Any profession can be conscripted, recruiting is faster, armies march at half strength

Formation width scales with the size of the army instead of a fixed four

A war ordered by the player raises armies at once instead of next month

With no enemy villages left, armies march on the enemy land that remains

Everyone nearby joins a fight instead of watching a duel

Creatures walk around obstacles instead of turning back

Capture progress waits a year for the army to return instead of resetting the moment it leaves

Ships are drawn twice as large

Panels open in the middle of the screen, with bigger text and their own scrolling with arrows

Fewer tiles are repainted each frame and creatures off screen are skipped