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Sound and Fury: A Review of Armored Thunderbolt by Steven Zaloga
Sound and Fury: A review of Armored Thunderbolt: The U.S. Army Sherman in World War II, by Steven Zaloga Fury, the 2014 Brad Pitt war movie, opens with some grim statistics. According to the movie, something like 10 Shermans … Continue reading
The Future of Unity of Command Multiplayer
We recently wrapped up our first official multiplayer tournament – we had a great time. We polled our players for feedback and got some great suggestions for multiplayer in the sequel. I put my games journalist had back on, sat … Continue reading
Development Diary 2 – Objectives
This post reflects my current thinking on objectives fairly accurately, but don’t be surprised if things change a little from this concept. The changes here are intended to make objectives work well within a campaign game, which seems to be the … Continue reading
Unity of Command Tournament Recap
Back in December, we started our first ever official Unity of Command tournament. Players who made it to the semifinals were given Steam codes for the DLCs and the grand prize was a copy of Croteam’s The Talos Principle. It has … Continue reading
Development Diary 1 – No More Wipeouts!
I am diving right into some of the changes to the system we’ll be making for the new game. Please ignore that the game still hasn’t been properly announced, that there are no screenshots yet, and that this is the first time I’m … Continue reading
Board Games and Wargames
Two months or so ago, I was interviewed by Joachim Froholt for his rather excellent piece (in Norwegian) about how wargames are evolving from the tabletop onto computers. The whole piece is worth braving Google translate IMO, however as I still have … Continue reading
Anniversary Post
Unity of Command is now 3 years old. The years went by rather quickly. I remember pushing the button to go live at precisely midnight three years ago. Well, not precisely as we ended up being a few minutes late … Continue reading
Hey Artists, Unity of Command WANTS YOU
We’re looking for an artist to add to our team for our secret new project. In case you’re reading this post because you want to know what that project is, you are welcome, but frankly I’m not going to spill … Continue reading
My Finnish Addon for Black Turn
In 1990 I moved from a relatively luxurious and warm childhood existance under the Mediterranean sun, to a freezing and, to me, unknown country at the north eastern extremity of Europe. Finland was its name and over the next 6 … Continue reading
Designer Notes – Black Turn DLC
Just as emperor Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph river during the Third Crusade, the Germans would eventually be stopped at the Don and Volga in 1942 in their attempt to occupy European Russia. You will know that part of the story … Continue reading