Completion Marks
What is it
Section titled “What is it”To the left of the favorite star in the new games list, every defeated card gains a checkmark. This is a mark of your completion.
Mark Colors
Section titled “Mark Colors”Marks progress from worst to best:
- Red: cheats were used. The tooltip names the command of the first cheat used.
- Yellow: an experimental scenario rule was enabled. The tooltip indicates the first such rule.
- Grey: gameplay settings differ from the originals. The tooltip indicates the first modified setting.
- Green: “Completed honestly.” No cheats, experimental rules, or setting changes were used.
If you are playing from a save file created before the marks appeared, the completion history is unknown. Such a game counts as completed honestly: the mark is green, unless the save itself contains cheats (red), experimental rules (yellow) or changed gameplay settings (grey). The tooltip then says that the game’s history is unknown.
Tooltips
Section titled “Tooltips”Hover your cursor over the checkmark (on a phone, press and hold) to read the reason for its color. This hint shows even when “Turn off pop-up hints” is on in the settings.
What Affects the Mark
Section titled “What Affects the Mark”Only gameplay settings affect the color. If one differs from the original game (for the front row, the difficulty and the pursuit, from the install’s own setting), the mark becomes grey.
The following changes are counted:
- “Battle AI strength”;
- “Unit battle participation”;
- “Experience on promotion”, when it is kept (the original resets it);
- “Wide front row in battle (for new games)”;
- “Impossible difficulty (needs a restart)”;
- “Automatically pursue the chosen army”.
Special condition: “Max guards casters” counts only together with the “Maximum” battle AI. “Keep formation after battle” is a convenience and does not count: a default game stays green.
Do not affect the mark (interface settings): Screen, scale, font, minimap, sounds, hints, language, input modes, and keys.
Best Mark
Section titled “Best Mark”For each card, only the best achieved mark and the date it was obtained are saved.
Data is stored in the marks.json file next to settings.json in your saves folder. This file is not part of the save files themselves.
Campaigns
Section titled “Campaigns”The campaign line displays the worst mark among all its cards. This mark will only appear once you have completed all cards in the campaign. Each card within a campaign has its own separate mark. Completing the next card in a campaign is considered a new completion.
Saving Progress
Section titled “Saving Progress”The mark is stored within the save file itself. Loading a save from the same session does not remove an already obtained mark: if cheats or modified settings were used in that session, it will remain red or grey.