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General! Our ever-vigilant intelligence service has prepared a news update, for your eyes only!
Here are all of our spy’s key findings.

[h2]Starni Games insides - Strategic Mind series update incoming[/h2]

We keep working on an update for all previous Strategic Mind titles. It scheduled for this week and will include the following:

• Korean localization for Spectre of Communism
  
• Ukrainian localization for Blitzkrieg
  
• Reworked and new tutorial operations (5 land and 3 naval)
  
• Bug fixes
  
• Game mechanics fixes
  
• Various quality of life improvements, such as: detailed unit cost calculation hint, Overstrength available hint, additional terrain info (Line of sight and Combat penalty), etc.
  
• Visual fixes and polish

More details in the changelog, when the update is out. Additionally, we want to record and a brief video explaining the key changes and fixes.

[h2]Strani Games newsletter will finally go live soon[/h2]

Some of you might have already subscribed to our newsletter and wondered “why aren't there any letters?”. We want our newsletter to be a meaningful and valuable source of exclusive content and information. So, we took our time and prepared an exclusive set of Strategic Mind wallpapers for our newsletter subscribers only. Now the wallpaper pack is almost ready and we are set to finally fully launch our newsletter this week. We plan to use it wisely and send you only meaningful information and exclusive content when we have it.

If you have not heard about the newsletter before - you can be among the first ones to sign up. Just follow the link below: https://mailchi.mp/starnigames.com/game-menu


[h2]On a humorous note[/h2]

During the game development, there are always some inside jokes and memes. Some of them, like the “Excellent Vickers machine guns” have been picked up by the community as well. However, most are buried forever in our office and Discord channel. So, we decided to share some of it with you.

“When you have just finished yet another community post and moved on to the technical localization for the game”:

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Subscribe to our YouTube channel to help us grow the number of SUBS. And do not forget to wishlist Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom.

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Bombsight with an improved stabilization. It increases the accuracy of bombing.

[h2]Last week recap[/h2]

[h3]New Tutorials Incoming, Hitler Learns Ukrainian, and More[/h3]



Look through the previous weekly report, if you have not seen it yet and want to catch up:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1381850/view/5412739698172998010

[h3]Units in Fight for Freedom #17: Tortoise - a British Heavy Assault Tank/Gun[/h3]



Have a look at the prototype British assault gun available in the US campaign:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1381850/view/5412739698176089641

[h3]Story Trailer - Release Date Announcement! Strategic Mind Titles Update[/h3]



Check out the latest trailer and release date for the 'SM: Fight for Freedom':
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1381850/view/3077623826453953709

[h3]Community Screenshot Vote Result[/h3]



We got some great screenshots on our Discord channel - come and see the best screenshot vote results:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1381850/view/3077623826460469251

This is it for this week’s report.
Ever vigilant, Starni Games Intelligence Service

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Hello, guys! Last Saturday we have asked your help to choose the best community-created screenshots by Fegelein, that we will add to the Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism store page. Here are the top three screenshots according to your votes:

- 4 votes:



- 3 votes:



-3 votes:



As the votes were spread very evenly among these three screenshots, we decided to add all three "winners" to the Store page. You can already find them here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341170?utm_source=steam_news&utm_campaign=community&utm_medium=web

We would like to thank everyone who participated in the voting, And, of course, we are grateful to the author of the screenshots Fegelein for his contribution. We often have to pick the best dev team created screenshots for the Store page and that is not that easy: one has to have a keen eye and an artistic touch to make really good ones. Often times it takes a while to create them and then several team members - 3D artist, game designer, and marketing manager - would discuss it together to choose the best ones. Oftentimes, something is amiss and we have to scrap lots of screenshots before we find decent ones. That is why we are really happy to see clearly talented community members who take the initiative to create unique content within our games and share it with the rest of the Strategic Mind community.

Have a good weekend!

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Hello, guys! Today, we are proud to announce that Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom will be released on 21 May 2021.

“We are happy to announce the release date for Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom. When we started working on the Strategic Mind series back in 2018 our goal was to cover all major powers in WW2, and now we are finally close to that goal.” - says Ihor Tymoshenko, the CEO of Starni Games.

[h2]Free Demo Update[/h2]
We know that you have been waiting for it, and want it to released as soon as possible, so to make your wait more pleasant we will update the Free Demo for the game on 8 May 2021 - Victory in Europe Day - so that you will be able to play the first operations of both UK and USA campaigns for free with sound and cinematics. We hope that it will keep you occupied until the full release comes on 21 May and will be a great celebration of the civilized world victory in WW2.

[h2]All Strategic Mind series titles update[/h2]
Additionally, all our previous Strategic Mind titles are getting an overhaul to be compatible with the upcoming Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom - which includes upgraded tutorials, bug fixes, and other quality of life improvements. The update is planned for the last days of April.

[h2]Let’s turn May 2021 into a wargamer’s holiday![/h2]
We hope that we can turn the preparations for the release into a true wargamer’s holiday with lots of stuff going on both in terms of news about the upcoming Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom and in terms of the content available to you throughout the next month.

[h2]Community support matters[/h2]
Please, let us know your thoughts in the comments! We have already implemented lots of features based on community feedback and will keep doing so to the best of our ability. Thus, you can be sure that your voice matters and all you need to do is give us meaningful feedback and wait for us to implement your suggestion. Together we can build the best wargame possible.

[h2]Do not miss it[/h2]
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Tortoise A39 was designed late into the war to combine extremely heavy armor planting with a gun powerful enough to wreck Panther at a 1 km range. It had both things British tanks were often lacking - armor and firepower. Yet, one cannot have it all. It lacked mobility and with a monstrous weight of 80 tons, it could only reach a maximum speed of 19 km/h on good roads. This shortcoming rendered it nearly useless for future operations and only 6 machines were built that proved otherwise fully functional and quite powerful.



Tortoise did not see much action in WW2 and was considered far from ideal design. Still, its armor and firepower were more than formidable.





In the alternate history portion of the US campaign you will be able to acquire this powerful assault gun from your British allies and use it in your army to fight the Soviet renowned heavy tanks. Although not suitable for swift breakthroughs, it could help you gradually punch your way through the powerful Soviet units. having both high defense and attack it lacks in the Movement points department.



Would you still use Tortoise?

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General! Our ever-vigilant intelligence service has prepared a news update, for your eyes only!
Here are all of our spy’s key findings.

[h2]Starni Games insides - new tutorials[/h2]

We keep working hard on the upcoming Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom. VO is being recorded, historical music tracks are going through some final polish, cinematics are in the making, both campaigns are going through playtesting, and so on. We are working remotely for now, as the lockdown was extended in Kyiv. Additionally, we have reworked all 5 parts of old tutorials, keeping their content but making sure they work smoothly, as there were some unresolved technical issues with them. On top of that we reworked the Naval combat tutorial from scratch and now have a 3-part naval training, making it a total of 8 tutorial operations. Right now they undergo final polish. We had to redo all the VO as some lines have changed, and we had to have the ability to update it more often, so we had to change the narrator due to this reason.

We are preparing a large update for all previous titles in the series and it is scheduled to hit Steam next week.

[h2]Fight for Freedom and Blitzkrieg will get Ukrainian localization[/h2]

A while ago we had announced that Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg will feature Ukrainian localization, but it was seriously delayed. Now, we are finally confident that it will be delivered with the next update, and Hitler will finally learn to speak Ukrainian ;). We are also happy to announce that Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom will also feature Ukrainian localization! This may not sound like a big deal to the major part of the audience, but we are really happy every time we get to announce additional localization.

[h2]Last week recap[/h2]

[h3]Studio news, Polish localization, and more[/h3]



Look through the previous weekly report, if you have not seen it yet and want to catch up:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1381850/view/3118154955735565370

[h3]Developer’s Diaries # 14: Creating cinematics soundtrack[/h3]



We have shared some of the tracks from cinematics in Fight for Freedom:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1381850/view/3055105194059905981

[h3]Units in Fight for Freedom #16: US strategic bombers[/h3]



B-17, B-29, and B-36 are waiting for your keen eye:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1381850/view/5412739698158214494

[h3]Help us to choose new community-created screenshot for the game store page![/h3]



We got some great screenshots on our Discord channel - so help us choose the best one for the Store page:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1381850/view/5412739698161449703

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