Beyond the open gateA realm waits for its name.
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Preparing your first sight of the realm
One realm begins October 1, 2026
Take the oath.Raise your house.
Kaldmarch is a persistent strategy game where each holding belongs to a real ruler. You begin with one holding, choose where its labour goes, and meet neighbours who are already deciding whether to trust your banner.
Gates open October 1, 2026Every rival is another rulerOne shared European realm
- Begin
- One holding on equal footing.
- Command
- Roads, letters, and marching hours matter.
- Be known
- Your deeds shape a public chronicle.
Founder registration is open
The Founder’s Pack
Before the bell.
Never after.
Join the Founding Roll before October 1 to become eligible for the 2026 Founder’s Pack. It contains permanent cosmetic rewards and grants no gameplay advantage. Claim it when you create your house at launch.
Join the Founding Roll
Until the gates are unbarred
The European realm opens
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When the bell ringsFounder eligibility closes with the countdown.
Inside the Founder’s Pack
Four permanent cosmetic rewards have been revealed
Four rewards now.
More before launch.
Choose a portrait, carry an exclusive title and heraldic charge, and display a legendary honour in your public chronicle. Any reward announced before launch is added to the same pack.
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More rewards are plannedNew additions will be shown here before October 1.
Likeness · Choose one
Founding House Portrait
Choose the portrait shown beside your name when the realm opens.
Legendary honour · Founder exclusive
The First Standard
A permanent chronicle honour for rulers who joined the Founding Roll before launch.
Available only through the 2026 Founding Roll.
Heraldic charge · Exclusive
The Key and Oak
An oak-bound key for the centre of your shield.
Title · Legendary
Oathbound Founder
A permanent title displayed beside your ruler’s name.
RevealedFour permanent cosmetics
PlannedAdditional rewards before launch
DeadlineOctober 1, 2026
Different histories
The same first holding. A different reign.
Your fields feed the masons, your workshops consume timber and iron, and your letters cross roads watched by other rulers. Advantage is built through judgement, cooperation, and time.
Decide where labour goes
Raise stores, strengthen the wall, or prepare soldiers. You cannot do everything at once.
Choose whom to trust
A nearby banner may belong to an ally, a rival, a debtor, or the ruler preparing your next siege.
Become known by your deeds
Rank, heraldry, titles, and illustrated honours show what your house built and survived.
I The living holding
Command through the holding.
Buildings stand where you raise them. Roads expose new work, walls buy time, and workshops determine what can be produced next.
- Build unlock new work and military options
- Store protect timber, clay, iron, and grain
- Grow watch a hamlet become a fortified town
II The contested world
Read the roads before you march.
Scout river crossings and forest routes, then decide which neighbour should become an ally before distance becomes a weapon.
- Scout reveal roads, holdings, and troop movement
- Parley negotiate before banners reach the wall
- March plan departures, arrivals, and support
III The public standing
Let your standing speak first.
Rank is public. So are the portrait, title, heraldry, and honours that show how you earned it.
- Rank compare dominion, warfare, and honours
- Display three earned honours in your chronicle
- Carry one identity into every encounter
IV The lord’s chronicle
Write a chronicle others can read.
Choose a portrait, title, heraldry, motto, and illustrated honours. They form the public record other rulers see when they meet your house.
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A public record of your reign
A reign ends. Its marks remain.
Rankings change. Your seal, diplomatic record, and earned honours remain together in the Lord’s Chronicle, where rivals and allies can read them.
- IYour sealThe name you claimed
- IIYour wordThe choices others endured
- IIIYour honourThe proof that remained
I The first seal
Your house begins at the seal.
Choose a name and heraldry, then raise the holding that will carry them. Neighbours will learn both from what you build and how you behave.
Identity · Heraldry · The founding holdingII The war table
A promise can alter a campaign.
Read the rivers, weigh the marching hours, and decide whose letter deserves trust. Diplomacy can prevent a siege—or make one possible.
Scouting · Diplomacy · Timed commandIII The hall of memory
Your record is more than rank.
Titles and illustrated honours gather beneath your heraldry, preserving the campaigns and achievements behind your standing.
Honours · Renown · A public legacyFour answers to one threat
Choose the hour.
Pay its price.
Each company solves a different problem and leaves another weakness behind. The choice depends on terrain, timing, and what you can afford to expose.
I · Hold
The Wall
Spearmen · Swordsmen
Buy time. Surrender the road.
II · Ambush
The Woodline
Axemen · Longbowmen
Strike unseen. Yield open ground.
III · Pursue
The Road
Scouts · Knights
Arrive first. Spend horses and grain.
IV · Break
The Breach
Rams · Catapults
Open the gate. Move slowly enough to be found.
I The holding
Build for the land you hold.
Guide a muddy thorp toward a fortified market town. Roofs shelter workers, fields feed levies, and walls buy time when hostile banners appear.
- Grounded growthShape the holding around land, labour, and distance.
- Visible industryWatch timber, clay, iron, and grain move through the holding.
- A skyline earnedYour holding changes in the world as every work rises.
II The oath
No lord holds the marches alone.
Build a tribe through promises, favours, and shared enemies. A well-timed letter can save a wall that soldiers would reach too late.
- Living diplomacyNegotiate with rulers who remember previous dealings.
- Tribal purposeCoordinate campaigns, claims, watch duties, and tribute.
- Public identityCarry your heraldry, honours, and chosen title into every encounter.
III The march
War is won before the first spear lands.
Read the roads. Count the granaries. Hide the true host behind a feint, then arrive while enemy support is still beyond the river. Time is terrain.
- Orders in real timeDepartures, arrivals, and reinforcements have a real hour.
- Mixed companiesBalance scouting, defence, speed, and siege.
- Lasting bordersVictories take territory; defeats enter your chronicle.
A house others can recognise
Rule under a name
of your own.
Choose the portrait, title, motto, and heraldry shown beside your deeds. Display three honours that tell visiting rulers what your house has achieved.
“By hearth and oath, we endure.”
Scenes from the marches
Four views of the marches.
See the holding, its labour, the council table, and the road taken by a marching host.
01 / 04The valley awakens
A young holding wakes beneath the castle road.
The Founding Roll closes October 1, 2026
Join the roll
before the gates open.
Enter one email address to record your Founder eligibility. We will generate your redemption code immediately and send the same code to this address. You will create your house when Kaldmarch launches.
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