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We return with another WARNO - SOUTHAG unit preview. Four more divisions will have their showcase of particularly interesting or noteworthy new units. In today’s DevBlog, it’s the communists’ turn!
Let’s go.
A Little Showcase
The Eugen team is still hard at work putting the finishing touches on WARNO - SOUTHAG. While we don’t have a confirmed release date yet, we are working hard to complete and deliver it to you as soon as possible!
And we've got a new video to show off the good work. Check it out below!
Here are the divisions featured in today's video, along with their most impressive units:
19. Motostřelecká Divize
- PRAM-S: Versatile mortars with ATGM capability.
- BPzV RECO: State-of-the-art armored recon vehicles.
- Mi-17Z2: Helicopter used for electronic intelligence (SIGINT) and jamming roles.
- JESTERKA 30mm: Heavily armed anti-air vehicle with 30mm cannons.
- T-72: Main battle tanks in various Czechoslovak configurations.
1. Tanková Divize
- SVO: Specialized demining vehicle using short-range thermobaric munitions to make minefields (or enemy units) go boom!
- RM vz.51: Classic MRLS with 32 tubes of 130mm rockets.
- SHPz: Special forces reconnaissance squad equipped with assault rifles, sniper rifle, machine gun, and an anti-tank weapon.
- TU-143: High-speed reconnaissance drone.
- T-72M-E3: One of the latest variants of this venerable main battle tank variant, built under license by the Czechoslovakians.
303. Tanková Divize
- ZALOZNICI (T21): Large reserve infantry squads equipped with the T-21 recoilless rifle.
- SD-100: A locally modified tank destroyer (from World War II!) trying to prove that classic designs might still pack a punch on a late Cold War battlefield.
- OT-62D: Armored personnel carrier in various battlefield configurations. This one mounts a recoilless gun.
- OT-65A VYDRA and OT-810D: Versatile armored vehicle family in transport and recon roles.
- Mi-4B: Cheap attack helicopter, equipped with machine guns and rockets.
31-ya Tankovaya Diviziya
- 9A51 PRIMA: Heavy rocket artillery, firing 122mm rockets with cluster munitions.
- T-72B: A much-improved variant of the main battle tank representing some of the latest Soviet advancements, including a new tank gun and additional appliqué armor.
- BMAN: Specialized recon vehicle, used to mark positions for follow-up air strikes. Equipped with 80mm and 90mm HE and NAPALM rockets, smoke and (the first Soviet vehicle to do so) fielding the Electro-Optical Dazzler trait.
- RT RAZVEDKA: Recon squad providing electronic intelligence (SIGINT).
WARNO - SOUTHAG Expansion
WARNO - SOUTHAG is WARNO’s second expansion after WARNO - NORTHAG and showcases the fighting in southern West Germany near the Alps and on the Czechoslovakian frontier.
In the southern reaches of Germany, the Warsaw Pact with the Soviet Central Group of Forces, bolstered by the communist Czechoslovakians, battles against a counter-attacking NATO SOUTHAG command led by France, with American, West German, Canadian, and reinforcing Spanish troops.
- 2 new Army General campaigns, including Holding Attack and Closing the Trap.
- 4 new Operations, such as Delayed Retribution, Glory or Attrition,Hydra
- 10 new Divisions, featuring Canada, Spain, and Czechoslovakia as new nations. These include NATO’s 1st Canadian Division, the Spanish División Mecanizada «Brunete» n.º 1, the French 6e Division Blindée Légère and Division du Rhin, plus the West German 1. Luftlandedivision. The Warsaw Pact features the Czechoslovakian 1. Tanková Divize, 19. Motostřelecká Divize, and 303. Tanková Divize, while the Soviet Central Group of Forces deploys the 31-ya Tankovaya Diviziya and the 17-ya Gvardeyskaya Tankovaya Diviziya.
- New voice acting.
- New units and models.
Until Next Week
That’s it for this one. We’ll be back soon, commanders!
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See you on the battlefield.