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Comrades, today is a glorious day!

Today, the Community items for Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism were finally allowed into Steam. Today, Comrades, the trading cards of prominent Soviet leaders will establish order in this capitalists’ den.


We have added 7 Steam trading cards with key characters from Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism. Be the first to get your hands on all of the Stavka members:

If you collect 7 different trading cards from Spectre of Communism you will get yourself a Kombrig rank:



You have to repeat that to be promoted to a Komdiv rank:



Next in line are:

• Komkor

• General of the Army

• Marshal of the Soviet Union
  

Additionally, if you collect a rare set of trading cards, you will get a special foil badge — Order of Victory:


By getting promotions, you will also gain emoticons and Profile backgrounds granted by the Party to its most ardent supporters.

Another way to get all the goodies is to go to the “Beryozka” store (Point buy shop on Steam). Only top brass is allowed into the Beryozka store, where everything could be bought in capitalists’ dollars, and not an honest man’s roubles. So, you can use Points, instead of trading cards to get whatever Community items you want.

Here is an example of colored and black-and-white versions of a Profile background:




Hold cursor over the icon for more details:

:BigBroIsWatching:
:Communists:
:FinalArgument:
:HighlyUnfortunate:
:NoBrainer:
:SyberianHolidays:
:UnityMakesStrength:
:DogsLife:
:RussianEnergyDrink:
:RussianHospitality:

Let us know in the comments below what you think of the new Community items. Do not worry, the NKVD staff is on holiday today and won’t be reviewing your posts.

With best regards
Starni Games Stavka

A modification of earlier DB-3 bomber models. Despite being far from the best design as of 1941, these long-range bombers did perform several daring raids on Berlin in the summer of 1941, proving to Germans that their homeland could also suffer from war. Overall, more than 6000 planes of different modifications were built.





A twin-engined Soviet dive bomber, Pe-2 is considered one of the best aircraft models the USSR produced during the war. Its production numbers went over 11 000 units built.

The Pe-2 was designed in a prison design bureau (sharashka); Vladimir Petlyakov (head engineer) had been arrested and imprisoned in 1937 for allegedly delaying design work on the Tupolev ANT-42 bomber. Petlyakov was given the task of designing a high-altitude fighter, which he successfully accomplished. However, operational experience in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940 showed that this was not what the Soviet Air Force needed, and Lavrentiy Beria, head of the NKVD and of the sharashka system, ordered that the fighter be redesigned as a dive bomber, with the promise that Petlyakov and his colleagues would be released on its successful completion. The resulting aircraft, the Pe-2 proved to be one of the most successful designs of World War II.

Petlyakov was released in 1940, and was awarded a Stalin Prize in 1941. However, at Kazan, Petlyakov faced increasing difficulties, with many of his trained technicians and machinists conscripted into the Soviet military and sent to the front lines, which adversely affected the aircraft production. He protested to Soviet senior leadership, and was on his way to Moscow in January 1942 (flying in a Pe-2), when he died in an air crash near Arzamas.



We will keep posting new units that will appear for the first time in the Strategic Mind series, so stay tuned!

With best regards
Starni Games team

General!

Our ever-vigilant intelligence service has prepared a news update, for your eyes only!

Here are all of our spy’s key findings.



Our observers report that all Strategic Mind titles now feature a shared downloadable PDF Manual in the following languages: English, Chinese, German, French, Russian. This was one of the features asked for by the community.

Here is where you can conveniently find Manual in your language:




Our infiltrators have uncovered that Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism will soon feature a set of Community items. Right now, they are pending approval.

Our undercover agents in Starni Games team managed to stole a couple of pictures for you to have a sneak peek:



Additionally, if you have somehow missed the Steam Autumn sale, you still have one last day to get an advantage of the discounts for The Pacific and Blitzkrieg.

This is it for this week’s report.

Ever vigilant
Starni Games intelligence service

Hello, guys!
After our last week's post, some of you provided us with your beautiful gameplay screenshots! We are so happy to see your activity, and share your contribution with the community. This time we post not only Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism screenshots, but also the ones from Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg.

If you want to share great moments from your playthrough with the community make sure to add them to our community hubs or send them to our Twitter. We will post regular news reports with the best ones.

So here are our heroes for today's post:

[h3]1. Thanks to svenevil.[/h3]

"How often did I invade Poland already... as Nazi commander. This time my tanks come from the eastern border".


"Russian I-16 fighter squad starting".


[h3]2. Thanks to S.Trench (China)[/h3]



[h3]3. Thanks to Problem Solver (United States)[/h3]



"Russian King Tiger".


[h3]4. Thanks to Sorgsor.[/h3]

"No step Back!"


"Tractor factory in soviet hands".


[h3]5. Thanks to Storm Eagle (Germany).[/h3]



Looking forward to more great community feedback!

With best regards
Starni Games team

General! The Blitzkrieg and The Pacific are on Sale right now! Black Friday weekend is short, so make sure to check it out before 1 December 🎉.

• Save 20% on Blitzkrieg
  

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Have a nice weekend!