December 7^th, 2002

Patch for “Strategic Command – European Theater is Now Available

A whole new game! Battlefront.com and developer Fury Software are proud to announce the release of the eagerly awaited final patch (v1.06) for “Strategic Command – European Theater”, a turn-based Grand Strategy wargame featuring the Second World War in Europe. The patch can be downloaded for free from www.battlefront.com, and offers dozens of gameplay enhancements, new features, tweaks and bug fixes and for those with the original game version it also adds full TCP/IP network and LAN support.

Some important changes in v1.06:

- tweaks to how research is conducted:

reduced Industrial Technology effectiveness from 10% to 5%

removal of research chits now acts as a reclamation with 50% cost

research gains in relation to enemy research level

- added South Atlantic/Suez Canal transport loop via new UK Suez port

- added Turkish port at Istanbul

- Soviet partisans now inflict a supply penalty by reducing the strength (variably) of any captured Soviet resource within 6 hexes when they first appear, simulates behind the line supply disruptions etc.

- extended the game's stalemate date to May 7, 1947 (1 extra year from previous versions)

- added TCP/IP play (PBEM and TCP/IP games are interchangeable, see the 'TCPIP Quick How To' guide in the Strategic Command installation directory for further details

For the full patch features list, visit:

http://www.battlefront.com/products/stratcom/download.html

Game Background:

Strategic Command offers 6 major campaigns- “Fall Weiss”, “Fall Gelb”, “Barbarossa”, “Fall Blau”, “Zitadelle”, “Overlord” which begin from 1939 to 1944. Each Campaign can be played beyond historical end of war date and into 1946! Game play is turn based with each turn lasting from 2 weeks to 1 month depending on the season. Designed for replayability and realism, options include fog of war, Free French forces, Partisans, scorched earth, thoroughly implemented features for sea transport, amphibious assaults, strategic bombing, industrial production, research and development, declarations of war, historical and random nation neutrality and allegiances as well as other political mechanisms.

Visit www.battlefront.com for more information and screenshots!  

Company Background:

Battlefront.com is an independent internet-based publisher of superior war and strategy games, among them the award-winning 3D tactical WWII combat simulation series “Combat Mission”. “Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin” has just been released, covering the action on the Eastern Front 1941-1945. Other recently released titles include the operational scale real time wargame “Airborne Assault” and “TacOps 4”, the commercial version of the only official US Army tactical training tool. Additionally, Battlefront.com offers a host of resources for wargamers, including our newly opened Battlefront.com Bookshelf area with rare book titles from The Nafziger Collection, WWII theme poster prints and much more.

Fury Software is a new gaming company that was founded in 1999 by Hubert Cater. Although a newcomer to the war gaming development arena, his mandate has been commitment to quality from day one. Strategic Command is his first major publication and with over 2 years into development, and has been a success right from the start, with a large and active online fan community.