Hello commanders,
We hope you are well! With the recent release of GROUCHY behind us, it’s high time we dive into our divisional housecleaning again.
Before we continue, we want to express our thanks for the great (and constructive) feedback the community has been giving to the Eugen team. We are set on continuing to improve both Army General and WARNO as a whole, from bug fixes to crashes to updating weapons, stats, and balance. Keep the comments and support coming!
And now, let’s check out what’s in store for some of the NATO divisions. And, keep reading to find out more about the upcoming online tournament organized by the excellent War-Yes community website.
Let’s go!
Housecleaning Part V Explained
Why “divisional housecleaning”? We want to ensure that each division is up to scratch on the battlefield. We also wanted to better differentiate the divisions on each side, from armor composition to adding (new) or removing units.
Our intention is for each of the WARNO divisions to have a unique “personality” with better-defined advantages and drawbacks.
All the divisions previously talked about (see the list below) are already updated n WARNO.
- ”House cleaning” Part 1, featuring the Soviet 35th Guards Air Assault Brigade, NATO’s U.S. 8th Infantry Division and Territorialkommando Süd can be encountered here.
- Part 2, dealing with NATO’s U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, the U.S. 3rd Armored Division, and Warsaw Pact’s Kampfgruppe der Arbeiterklasse Bezirk Erfurt can be checked in this DevBlog.
- ”House cleaning” Part 3, featuring the Soviet 39th Guards Motor Rifle Division and 79th Guards Tank Division and East German 4. Motorisierte Schützendivision, are detailed in this post here).
- Milestone GROUCHY also included the updated West German 5. Panzerdivision, 2. Panzergrenadierdivision, Territorialkommando Süd, and to the British 1st Armoured Division, which you can read about here.
Housecleaning Part V detailed
We’ll be passing the magic wand over the U.S. 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), French 11e Division Parachutiste, and UK 2nd Infantry Division today.
24th Infantry Division (Mechanized)
This American division was a bit too good for our tastes, with a quite generous slot distribution compared to other battlegroups. We didn’t overhaul the 24th too much, just a few tweaks to curb its power.
This means:
- Removed one 1-point TANK slot.
- Changed one 1-point RECON slot into a 2-point slot.
- Removed KIOWA WR.
- Replaced (a very cramped!) M151 MUTT with a M35 truck as a transport option for FIRE TEAMS.
11e Division Parachutiste
Once pretty powerful, this division lost some of its splendor in subsequent rounds of updates and changes. The French paratrooper division was also a battlegroup with one of the most limited slots distribution, missing some compared to other formations. In this round of divisional housecleaning, we gave it the “airborne treatment” (removing the FOB, see below) plus update some categories.
- Removed the FOB.
- Changed one 2-point INF slot into a 1-point one.
- Changed one 2-point HELO slot into a 3-point slot.
- Added one 2-point RECON slot.
- Added one 2-point AA slot.
- Removed one card of ERC-90 SAGAIE.
- Added one card of (new) ERC-90 SAGAIE PC (command variant).
- Added one card of (new) ERC-90 SAGAIE RECO (recon variant).
- Added the PUMA HET flying jammer (already delivered with GROUCHY).
Another change that will affect not only the 11e Division Parachutiste but all other airborne divisions (so U.S. 82nd Airborne Division and Soviet 35th Guards Air Assault Brigade):
- Added one card of non-Forward Deployed AA MANPAD teams with helicopter transport.
2nd Infantry Division
The United Kingdom’s 2nd Infantry Division is the one formation in WARNO that, arguably, will receive the biggest facelift. With Airmobile, Territorials, West-German Jäger, Heimatschutzen, ... this division was (like US 8th ID once) a jack-of-all-trade without a real personality. Especially not considering its function as BAOR’s light and airmobile screening force.
In real life, the formation didn’t have a single tank (not even Scorpion or Scimitar light tanks, their role being taken by Fox armored cars). The ones currently featured in-game are all from local attachments. We will only keep the British 3rd Armoured Division one with its CHALLENGERS, and we will remove the Heimatschutzbrigade 53 and their older M48A2Gs.
We focused the 2nd Infantry Division more on its “Britishness” and airmobile aspects. its 24 Airmobile Brigade was divided into two “heliborne” airmobile battalions and one “motorized” airmobile battalion equipped with Saxons, which we are now representing with separate AIRMOBILE and MOT. AIRMOBILE squads, each with its specific transport, weapon loadouts, and unit organization.
The changes:
- Removed all West German units, making the division “fully British.”
- Removed one 3-point TANK slot.
- Removed one 1-point AA slot.
- Changed one 3-point RECO slot into a 2-point one.
- Changed one 3-point AIR slot into a 2-point one.
- Added (new) ROVER 101FC supply truck.
- Added (new) ROVER 101FC prime mover for the L118 howitzer.
- Added CHINOOK HC.1 as a transport option for the L118 howitzer.
- Restricted AIRMOBILE and AIRMOBILE LDR. to LYNX transports (but not AIRMOBILE GUN GROUP, being identical in heliborne and motorized battalions).
- Added (new) LYNX AH.1 MK.1 [RKT] with rocket pods as transport options for AIRMOBILE, AIRMOBILE GUN GROUP and AIRMOBILE LEADER.
- Added two cards of (new) MOT. AIRMOBILE with SAXON transports.
- Added one card of (new) MOT. AIRMOBILE LDR. with SAXONs.
- Replaced PIONEERS with (new) AIRMOBILE PIONEERS (which already have been featured in the latest GROUCHY milestone).
- Restricted AIRMOBILE PIONEERS to LYNX transports, but with the addition of the CHINOOK HC.1 as an extra option.
- Added one card of ROVER MILAN 2.
- Added two cards of (1x) M270 MLRS with cluster ammo. These were among the first ones delivered to the BAOR in Germany in 1989.
Electronic Warfare planes
The EF-111A RAVEN returns! This will happen in the next patch. Once improperly used as a SEAD plane with anti-radiation missiles, we removed it and reworked the plane. The updated EF-111A RAVEN will be found with the 8th Infantry Division (Mechanized). Now completely unarmed, it will fly over the battlefield with:
- An impressive 60% ECM.
- SEAD planes’ optics, meaning it will spot enemy radar SAM from afar.
- The new EW trait. This trait projects an area of effect, inflicting a 20% accuracy penalty to all radar SAM. See it as the RAVEN projecting some of its ECM, and disrupting enemy signals.
The Soviet counterpart, Su-24MP [EW], will soon be added to the 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division.
WarYes Tournament
One of our favorite community-powered websites - WarYes is organizing a WARNO tournament. The DEFCON 2 tournament, hosted by War-Yes, features top players from the WARNO community battling it out, as well as games cast by some of WARNO’s most well-known content creators, and a prize pool that has already reached a whopping $1000!
Check out all the juicy deets on this dedicated DEFCON 2 2v2 Tournament Page here.
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And, the pièce de résistance: some Eugen devs will join the online team 2v2 battles. So, don’t hesitate, create a team, get battling, and sign up for DEFCON 2!
Milestone GROUCHY features
The major milestone GROUCHY has brought the new Army General mode to WARNO, with the first (small) campaign, BRUDERKRIEG playable now in single-player. Cooperative and Versus will come in the future.
GROUCHY delivered the following new:
- Army General’s four tutorials.
- The first small Army General campaign, BRUDERKRIEG. This is an “extra” campaign on top of the four Army General coming to WARNO.
- A brand-new urban map, HESSE.
- Tank Rework and divisional “house cleaning” Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
- New vehicles and unit Traits: Electronic Warfare helicopters with the Jammer trait.
- New configurable map ambiance.Players can choose which lightning setting they prefer for the map in the game creation lobby.
- Major SFX pass, including:
- Tracer rounds for machine gun, flak, autocannon, etc. will have their correct NATO/Warsaw Pact specific colors.
- More compression effects on explosions (read: shockwaves).
- Reworked and optimized MLRS smoke trails.
- Reworked and optimized airplanes and helicopter flares.
Until next week
That’s all for this DevBlog. Until the next one!
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See you on the battlefield, commander!
