- An aircraft now returns to the nearest friendly airport instead of always its original home, so a plane rebased to a forward airfield can strike targets beside it; the browser mirrors the rule.
- A pillage's popularity cost is an instant shift that drifts back, not a generation-long grudge. Popularity and approval read the base opinion, while the grudge stays as the diplomatic memory.
- Doubled aircraft range: the fighter's effective reach is now 25 tiles and the bomber's 50, with missionRange raised to match.