Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty - Prologue 1939 News

Landsverk L-182 was a unique Swedish reconnaissance vehicle. Quite literally, since only one of its type was ever produced and sold.

The lucky buyer was Finland, who acquired the vehicle in 1936 as part of the attempted motorization of its army. Based on Landsverk's dependable L-180 design and armed with Finnish-produced weaponry, it was a modern enough vehicle for its time. Several more were supposedly on the way, when suddenly the looming threat of the Soviet Union became a clear and present danger, and the young republic had to mobilize everything it had.



Miraculously, this one-of-a-kind vehicle operating in a theater notoriously hostile towards vehicles managed to survive the entire Winter War, and into the Continuation War a year later. Still, like most Finnish equipment at the time, despite its incredibly skilled operators it quickly became morally and factually obsolete. In late 1941, as more and more Soviet armored cars were being taken as trophies, Landsverk L-182 was finally allowed to retire.



In the game

In Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty we highlight the scarcity of the Finnish military equipment. So, you will get only one core Landsverk L-182 unit at the start of campaign and would not be able to acquire more. However, there will be Soviet recon cars BA-10 and BA-10M that you have probably already seen in the previous Strategic Mind titles. These are arguably one of the best early recon cars in the series, since they have a powerful 45 mm gun as well, and could attack early tank models successfully. So, instead of getting more Landsverks, you could try and get your hands on some pretty good Soviet models to fill the needs of your Arny with good reconnaissance cars. The Landsverk, though, is really helpful and plays important role early in the war, when your equipment is the most scrace. It could also remain at your side later in the campaign if you keep the unit alive, level it up, or even assign a hero on it, making it quite powerful instead of being obsolete.

Let us know if you are looking forward to using this unique vehicle in your campaign.

Also, see our previous unit posts:
Vickers 6-ton tank

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With Best Regards from Kyiv
Starni Games team

Hello

The last few weeks were extremely action-packed: we released Ukraine War Stories, Slitherine posted the first Dev log about Headquarters: World War II, we have some news about Spirit of Liberty coming up - and the last 2 weeks were hell in terms of power shortages and internet connection problems, but we keep fighting!

First of all, about the current situation in Kyiv.

Starting last week, there were a number of Russian missile strikes on the power supply system across entire Ukraine. That resulted in scheduled power outages, sometimes disrupting our working process. We decided that this week we would adjust our working schedule to come to work when there are no outages, but there was a new wave of missile and drone attacks and more damage to the power supply. As a result, the schedule was changed - and it is now not suitable for office work - you get only 5 hours in a row. So, we adapted and decided to work from home with flexible hours, until the situation improves, or until we upgrade the power infrastructure at our office. Right now, we have 5 hours of power supply, then 4 hours without power, then again 5 hours of power supply, and so on. The schedule is different for different parts of the city though.

Despite all these troubles we are resolved to overcome them and keep working passionately on our projects.

Headquarters: World War II - Dev log 1


We invite you to have a look at the first Dev log on our upcoming title, published by Slitherine Software. Exploring some core game mechanics in this one:
https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=983611

Ukraine War Stories release

We are really proud that despite the ongoing war in Ukraine we managed to make a free project that covers the first month of the war from civilians' point of view. The release on October 18th was quite successful, especially in Japan which became the top 1 country by the number of players.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1985510/Ukraine_War_Stories/

Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty is back in the spotlight

We will be posting much more updates on our development progress for Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty, starting this week. If you want to support the project - please add it to your wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1474770/Strategic_Mind_Spirit_of_Liberty/


Starni Autumn sale

Do not forget to grab the missing Strategic Mind titles for your collection - the discount will end soon.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16499/Strategic_Mind_Complete_Collection/

More news coming up.

The whole team is really thankful for your support - that helps us keep our spirits high and continue working hard on the upcoming games.

With Best Regards from Kyiv
Starni Games team

Hello

It has been a long time since we gave you an update on Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty. Now, we will be providing regular information about how the development progresses, and what content will be in the game.

Our whole team is located in Kyiv, where we are in the middle of the Russian war against Ukraine. Right now, there are scheduled power outages, so we have to work from home with individual working hours. We try to squeeze at least 8 hours of work per day in between the power outages to keep our development going at a steady pace. Also, it is really hard to gather our English voice over cast in Kyiv, since most people we worked with have left the country, while those who remain in Ukraine are very busy with war-related work. Despite all these disfficulties, we are trying our best to finish the game’s development and successfully release it in 2023.

The script and the narrative for the project was written before the full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, but still, we cannot help noticing way too many historical similarities. The obvious one being large USSR/Russia invading much smaller Finland/Ukraine, who fights very bravely for its people, lands and free will. Both agressors invent many false calims about threats Finland/Ukraine presented as a casus belli. The list could continue for hours… Let us know if you would like to learn more about that.
I think it is really ironic that the dev team known for making a series of wargames covering World War II events now finds itself amidst the biggest war in Europe since World War II.

For future updates on our Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty progress, what are you personally most interested in:
1) Units overview
2) Scenarios overview
3) Historical characters overview
4) More music tracks being made public
5) Similarities between Winter / Continuation War 1939-1944 and War in Ukraine 2022
6) How the dev team copes with the ongoing war in Ukarine
7) Developer’s gameplay of the first few scenarios

Please, let me know what you are interested in the most and we will take that into account when preparing next updates about the game.

The first post on units will be out soon.

Looking forward to reading your feedback

With Best Regards from Kyiv
Starni Games team

Hello!

We are happy to announce a week-long sale event covering all of the Strategic Mind titles. We will also share more information on the Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty development over this week. We hope this would be a great time to finish your Strategic Mind collection if it has missing titles, and learn more about the upcoming game covering brave Finnish troops holding their ground in the face of overwhelming foe.

Strategic Mind: The Pacific - 40%
https://store.steampowered.com/app/991810/Strategic_Mind_The_Pacific/

Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg - 40%
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1200330/Strategic_Mind_Blitzkrieg/

Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism - 35%
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341170/Strategic_Mind_Spectre_of_Communism/

Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom - 30%
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1381850/Strategic_Mind_Fight_for_Freedom/

Save up an additional 20% on top of the discounts above if you get Strategic Mind Complete Collection bundle:
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16499/Strategic_Mind_Complete_Collection/

Support us by adding Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty to your wishlist
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1474770/Strategic_Mind_Spirit_of_Liberty/

Stay tuned for more news about the Strategic Mind series.

With Best Regards from Kyiv
Oleksandr

Hello

We are happy to announce that Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom has won in the Best Strategy Game 2022 nomination at the Games Awards section of the Overcome Film Festival.



This comes to our team as a pleasant surprise and helps us boost morale a bit during these turbulent times, here in Ukraine.

And maybe it is another reason to give Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom another try if you have not completed both campaigns yet.

In any case, we will update you on our Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty progress soon and hope that Spirit of Liberty would Overcome the high bar set by the Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom.

With Best Regards from Kyiv
Oleksandr