In a remarkable convergence of history and gaming, the highly anticipated Battle Pack 2 DLC for Combat Mission Battle for Normandy launches today, June 6th, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of D-Day. This latest expansion immerses players in the pivotal moments of the Normandy invasion, offering an authentic and richly detailed experience of one of World War II's most significant events.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/2971350/Combat_Mission_Battle_for_Normandy__Battle_Pack_2/

Get ready to play with three gripping campaigns, eight standalone scenarios, and six master maps. Experience D-Day from two perspectives: command the 1/506 PIR in a night drop and lead the 2/8 IR through the beach landing. Engage in key battles along the breakthrough corridor, facing terrain challenges and enemy resistance. Command the German 17SS PzG and 6FJR in a campaign to reclaim Carentan. Test your tactical prowess in eight standalone scenarios against friends or AI opponents. Explore six meticulously crafted master maps, spanning 63.7 square kilometers, inspired by historical locations.

You can also expand your gaming experience by purchasing the DLC: Commonwealth Forces, Market Garden, Vehicle Pack and Battle Pack 1, discounted for a limited time.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/2298410/Combat_Mission_Battle_for_Normandy__Commonwealth_Forces/

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/2298411/Combat_Mission_Battle_for_Normandy__Market_Garden/

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/2298412/Combat_Mission_Battle_for_Normandy__Vehicle_Pack/

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To celebrate the launch on Steam and Matrix Games, the bundle Combat Mission Battle for Normandy Complete Bundle will be discounted at 10% off for a limited time.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/bundle/31406/Combat_Mission_Battle_for_Normandy_Complete/

Anyone with a copy of the game purchased on Battlefront.com will also be able to redeem a Steam key HERE[www.slitherine.com] using their original game code. If you want to know how to do it, all details can be found here

To celebrate the launch of this new DLC, the entire Combat Mission series is discounted by 50%.

Last but not least, this afternoon we have a stream[www.twitch.tv] on our Twitch channel showcasing the new DLC, don't miss it; D-Day awaits you.

Utah Beach has been seen by many in the past as the ‘easy beach’, with minimal casualties experienced by Allied landing forces. It’s for this reason it is sometimes overlooked in favour of Omaha Beach as the go to Normandy D-Day wargaming experience. True, the landings at Omaha were infamously bloody with 2,500 killed, but Omaha didn’t have an Airborne carpet behind it. When factoring in the US Airborne losses in the Utah area, the casualties experienced was equivalent (or higher by some estimates) than those experienced at Omaha in the first 24 hours of operations. To say Utah was therefore ‘easy’ and a pushover so not worth wargaming is sadly misplaced.

Battle Pack 2: Utah Beach for Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy is aimed to provide a flowing narrative, following the first week of the invasion of Normandy from Utah Beach southeast towards and just beyond Carentan. The focus has been on historically recreating the situation in this part of the war in early June 1944, rather than trying to design perfectly balanced multiplayer or tournament scenarios. It’s the collection of some well-known engagements an Armchair General would like to play on a rainy Sunday afternoon with a glass of whiskey in one hand and cigar in the other.

Getting the Project Off the Ground
The pack, as you will experience it, had a different makeup at the proposal stage that influenced why Utah Beach was chosen. The initial design document was submitted, and Battlefront got back to me saying proposal had more the flavour of a Module rather than a collection of scenarios. Utah Beach and the surrounding area was chosen as the new elements to be incorporated could all be found in historical engagements that occurred in that area between the 6th and 13th of June. A Module-like release wasn’t going to work for Battlefront as they wanted to marshal their resources towards ++redacted++. I mean I was shocked by the news at first, that ++redacted++ existed and that it was going in ++redacted++ thematic direction. However, when you think about it, Space Lobsters was indeed the only way forward from here.

The Combat Mission Modules involve the work from the whole Battlefront team, while the Battle Packs have been largely the efforts of the Beta Testers, creating additional content using the tools at their disposal within a specific game family. A Module’s scenario content is dictated by the forces newly introduced with that release for that time and region. However, this leaves problems if you want to ever go back and ‘fill in the gaps’ that weren’t possible before. Battle Packs provide us with a chance to do that, go back and create historical scenarios that didn’t align with the content in the Base Game release or the modules that came after. In Battle for Normandy’s case this meant we could create content relating to the engagements between the American Forces from the initial release and the German Forces that were added as part of the Commonwealth and then Market Garden Modules.

After some back and forth, Battlefront liked the proposal as it would focus on mostly infantry centric engagements, where previous Battle Packs had lent more towards armored and mechanised warfare. Don’t worry, there is still a fair share of tanks to play with. The pack however was very Allied side focused, so the final request was to try and balance it out a bit more in terms of providing some German centric content. This meant the two planned campaigns became three.

A final surprise was the announcement of the Pack’s development to the community then and there, right at the beginning and before anything major had been done inside the editor. This was counter to the usual Battlefront process, but this may map help explain why it seems this one took quite a while.

Some of the print media uses to help. After all these years, the Osprey series still serves as a great jumping off point for any projectMaps, Maps and More Maps
The first major task was to make maps. A lot of maps. The planned scenarios to cover meant most of the terrain between the beach and Carentan had to be created. I’m very thankful that the Combat Mission Beta crew stepped up to help recreate some very iconic locations. In total, Battle Pack 2 contains just under 75km2 of brand-new maps. In comparison (but not to diminish that earlier effort), Battle Pack 1: The Great Swan, was released with around 25 km2.
The maps were mostly completed across the first nine months of development using aerial photography and Allied BIGOT maps from 1944 as source material. Master Maps are now a mainstay of any Battlefront release and Battle Pack 2 is no exception. Most of these maps will be provided in full to allow players to create their own scenarios on the same terrain. Variants will also be provided to include versions with German fortifications as per their historical locations. When you open the Utah Beach map itself and look at the fortifications, please have pity on my poor mouse and keyboard – it took a full weekend just to place all those fortifications in line with their historical locations.

A lot of fortifications...Though we’ve kept the Battle Pack historical, the maps are provided to allow players to do their own experiments and ‘What If’s?’. I encourage players to tinker and maybe replace the Americans with their British equivalents to see how maybe they would have got on at Utah Beach? What would have happened if the US beach landings occurred where intended and ended up in front of a German strongpoint?

The mapping effort for Battle Pack 2Creating the Army
While maps were being created, I also started preparing “Master Unit Files” for each of the formations taking part in the region of conflict. Most Battalions from the 2/506th of the 101st Airborne, through to the 1/919 Infantry Regiment of the 91st Luftlande were created in the editor and tinkered with to try and recreate them as they were on the morning of 6th of June. This allowed the appropriate formations to be merged and imported into each scenario when the time came speeding up development at this midterm stage.
This was especially important for the Germans manning the beaches and inland areas as you had to try and get the weapon systems in place for each company and strong point as close to reality as you can in the Combat Mission 2 engine. We’ve had to make some adjustments, but I think we got pretty close with the tools on hand.

What’s In
When you buy the pack you’ll receive, 8 standalone scenarios, 3 campaigns (2x Allied, 1 x German) and 6 master maps (63.7 km squared), plus fortification and destruction variants for some. There are also some added goodies in the form of mod tagged textures to add some flavour to the scenarios. Uniforms with appropriate patches for the 4th Infantry Division and horizons reflecting the coastline locale.

Airborne forces cross Bridge #3 on Purple Heart LaneBased on tester feedback so far, the players are progressing through the new content and they don’t appear too hard but not too easy either. A common piece of feedback is reporting trouble because they don’t have the right tools for the job. You’ll find yourself multiple times trying to solve a tactical problem, but you just don’t have that heavy artillery or armoured company on hand to help you blast your way through like in other releases. This is partly where I wanted the challenge to really come from, so you are fighting under the same conditions (or as close as possible) to the invading forces in early June. A sense of vulnerability for your poor pixeltrüppen as they try to push forward in those first few days of the invasion.

Most of the Purple Heart Lane Master Map. The edge of Carentan can be see in the top centreThose Left Behind
Sadly, releases can’t cover everything. If they did, then project creep would quickly become a problem, and you would never get a release. The boundaries for this pack were from almost day 1 to follow the actions of the 4th Infantry Division on D-Day and the 101st Airborne Division through to the 13th of June 1944. The 13th of June could be considered the end of the beginning for the Normandy campaign in this area of operations once Carentan was secured and a linkup between the American beaches had been made. It felt like a natural end point to focus towards. There are a few outliers however to mix it up a bit further, but like everything, a line had to be drawn somewhere.
The focus with going towards Carentan, as mentioned above, was due to the availability of German formations introduced in the subsequent Modules to the Base Game. Going in other directions meant covering content that had already been undertaken in one way or another. A key aspect in the decision making, and maybe overlooked by some, is a knowledge that some Combat Mission community members had already completed extensive work on making scenarios focusing on the 82nd Airborne’s actions in this time period. There’s no need to tread over old ground. It may seem small, but the time taken for a stock release like this, and a community release are the same given we all use the same tools. Releasing something ‘over the top’ of the Community’s own efforts is never desirable – particularly when it was done well. Saying that, it was somewhat surprising to me at least that the actions leading towards Carentan had never been undertaken and completed by the Community over the past decade.

Some things were ideas but had to be dropped to keep the project manageable. Though they still would have fit with the narrative of the Pack, the following were left on the proverbial cutting room floor for various reasons:

• The fighting at the La Barquette Lock. This one was going to appear initially, but sadly other maps took up more time than expected and we could never get to it properly. Side note, I was working on a scenario and map for this very spot many moons ago when I had a hard drive failure and lost everything. Given the signs this time around I didn’t want to test fate.
  
• The actions of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment and Glider Infantry Regiment flanking Carentan from the north. The focus of the Carentan story is always on the causeway and the 502nd. Reading about this secondary attack I did have an inkling of including their exploits alongside the existing scenarios for that campaign. However, it would have meant an awful lot more mapping and time was marching on. There are several times the Glider Infantry do get to shine in this pack and based on tester feedback, they operate differently to their more popular paratrooper cousins.
  
• The 506th Parachute Infantry on the 7th of June and their advance towards Saint-Côme-du-Mont. There are quite a few small company level engagements to play out here including the lead up to the doomed retreat and surrender of the I./6 Fallschirmjäger Battalion. Sadly, it just would have made the existing Carentan campaign far too long, while adding the material to the D-Day campaign as an end point would have been anti-climactic. Elements of this do survive as a few of the standalone scenarios.
  
• Revisiting Taskforce Raff. The end of the D-Day campaign slots very neatly into the start of the Taskforce Raff campaign from the base game. I did think for a short while do we slot those missions in at the back for the full D-Day experience over the first 24 hours, but it was revisiting far too much and took the attention away from Sainte-Marie-du-Mont objective.
  
• Joining everything up into one super campaign for the zealous lot. It was just too big and impossible to manage both as a designer and for a player. But the idea was there for about a day or so.

I list the above because I’m hopeful the community one day decides to step in and help ‘fill in the gaps’ we haven’t managed to get around to with this release. Alternatively, I’d suggest head south and build scenarios about the fighting around St. Lo and Operation Cobra as there is plenty in that area that the game family is yet to reflect. Okay that last one is a bit selfish on my part as I really want to play that!

Finishing Up
As the testing and tweaking continues, as the typos are found and briefing graphics created, it’s clear that it’s been a long road. The first email sent to Battlefront officially with the proposal was in July 2021. After multiple years of a few hours here, a few hours there, followed by frenzied activity to get things done, the finish line is in sight.
I’m hopeful that Battle Pack 2 provides the Swansong for the Battle for Normandy family after more than 13 years of entertainment. Battle Pack 2 is scheduled for release on the 80th Anniversary of
D-Day, the 6th of June 2024. (Seems kind of fitting).
What’s next? Well, I never thought I’d say this, but I now need to go and research crustaceans, their order of battle and TOE from the 23rd Century. I do wander what has better armor penetration against modern battle tanks, blue lasers or red?

Chad Lennerts

Get ready to commemorate history in the most immersive way possible as we unveil the release date for the next DLC. Combat Mission Battle for Normandy - Battle Pack 2 will be out on June 6th, 2024 - the very anniversary of D-Day.

With Battle Pack 2, players will be transported back to the heroic actions of the 4th Infantry Division and the daring maneuvers of the 101st Airborne Division, experiencing the pivotal days of the Normandy campaign firsthand. From the intense battles of June 6th to the critical junctures leading up to June 13th, 1944, you'll navigate the challenges and victories that shaped the outcome of this historic conflict.

The 13th of June holds particular significance, marking the "end of the beginning" for the Normandy campaign in this sector, as Carentan is secured and a vital linkup between the American beaches is achieved.

Don't miss your chance to be a part of this epic journey. Combat Mission Battle for Normandy - Battle Pack 2 launches on June 6th, 2024. Victory awaits.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/2971350/Combat_Mission_Battle_for_Normandy__Battle_Pack_2/

Dear partecipants,

we wanted to take a moment to express our sincere gratitude to each and every one of you who participated in the Grand Tournament series. Your enthusiasm, skill, and sportsmanship have made this event truly special, and we hope you enjoyed the streams, videos and articles we made for these tournaments

You know, for every competion there must be a winner, and here are the final results of the Grand Tournaments on Battle for Normandy, Cold War and Red Thunder.

Based on your remarkable performances in the Grand Tournaments, we are thrilled to announce the participants drafted for the Grand Invitational. These players have demonstrated exceptional skill and will be competing in the next level of our tournament series on Combat Mission Shock Force 2.

• Cargol
  
• Tyrandar
  
• lawran
  
• sohzaz
  
• MeatEtr
  
• Jackal2100
  
• AtlasActual
  
• Fizou
  
• MHerm
  
• Andrew Kulin
  
• Dawntaker
  
• Artkin

For the first time in the history of our Combat Mission tournaments, players will fight for a coupon prize pool. The amount of money will be given based on your final placement:

• Top 1: $60 Coupon
  
• Top 2: $50 Coupon
  
• Top 3: $40 Coupon
  
• Top 4-8: $20 Coupon (each position)
  
• Top 9-12: $10 Coupon (each position)

The Invitational Grand Tournament will start on March the 5th at 10.00 GMT.

The tournament will feature 3 different scenarios with 40-days round length:

• Round 1 : Wadi Armor Clash
  
• Round 2 : Into the Valley
  
• Round 3 : Ambush Alley

For this event we have prepared a series of contents for you:

• Round 1 and round 3 will see Richard Yorke and XTRG fight each other in a 1 vs 1 on our Twitch channel to showcase the scenarios.
  
• For round 2, UsuallyHapless will create one of his cool videos.

Last but not least, a big shootout to George McEwan (George MC), one of the greatest scenarios designers that created a lot of new content from scratch.

Once again, thank you for making the Grand Tournament series a tremendous success. We look forward to seeing the drafted players showcase their skills in the Grand Invitational.

The final round of the Battle for Normandy Grand Tournament is approaching, and the scenario you are going to face is called "No Exit". It depicts a fictional Company-level meeting engagement near an Autobahn interchange in Summer ‘45.

Once again, "Usually Hapless" has created a video about the battle, offering tactical advices and explanations regarding the situation, terrain, ORBATs, capabilities, strengths, weaknesses and multiple courses of action for each side.

In you haven't noticed, we have extended the rounds 2 and 3 of the Grand Tournament by 10 days, to ensure that every player can fairly finish their match.

In case you missed, a couple of days ago we released a video about the third round of the Red Thunder Grand Tournament.

The Grand Tournament is coming to an end, good luck and have fun, soldiers.

The Grand Tournament[www.matrixgames.com] for Combat Mission keeps going, yesterday we also streamed Cold War[www.twitch.tv], where we featured the mission you'll face in the second round. As happened for the first round, today we will have another video full of tips and tricks for all of you that have registered to fight in the Battle for Normandy Tournament.

“Usually Hapless” showcases the scenario, “Barkman's Corner”, the battle is set on the 27th of July, Barkman’s Panther was repaired during the night but before he could link up with main unit, the PanzerGrenadiere asked for his help.

During the video you’ll see the scenario, situation, terrain, ORBATs, capabilities, strengths, weaknesses and multiple courses of action for each side.

Have fun and good luck for the tournament, soldiers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TaRPxN3m4g

Just a few days left until the start of the Combat Mission Grand Tournament. After showcasing you the first round of Cold War in stream[www.twitch.tv] and Red Thunder in a video by Usually Hapless, today it's Battle for Normandy's turn. We have prepared a very interesting article, written by Mark Goddard, military and Wargaming expert. to keep you informed about the real history behind these historic battles. We’ll talk about the battle you are going to play in this first round, the battle of Isigny Sur Mer. We’ll also include details on what occurred at Hill 192 and St Lo to get the whole picture of what happened.

Mark is an officer himself, and is a history enthusiast, keen wargamer and wargaming expert. We hope you enjoy this first article, as well as the tournament, which you can sign up to here[www.matrixgames.com].

Mark’s first article has been included below, we hope you enjoy it:

Breaking out: The battle for St Lô Jul 7 -19 1944:

Overview:

St Lô was a key objective for US forces following the initial Normandy landings. A vital German support hub it radiated rail and road networks across the area. Until this hub was captured, German forces could continue to harass US forces and conduct resupply across the front lines. As General Patton stated “Take St Lô and we will be in Paris within two weeks”.

The capture of St Lô fell to the 29th, 30th and 35th Infantry Divisions as part of XIX Corps. Opposing them was the German 352nd Infantry Division and the tenacious and highly trained 3rd Division of the II Fallschirmkorps (Parachute Corps).

In order to set the conditions for the assault on St Lô, several key sub objectives had to be accomplished, including the capture of Isigny Sur Mer and Hill 192.

Capture of Isigny Sur Mer:

The capture of Isigny Sur Mer was the one of the first steps beyond the beaches and the advance to St Lô. Its capture would also enable a crossing over the Vire river to link up US forces from Utah and Omaha beaches. The task of taking the town fell to the 175th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division, supported by the Shermans of the 747th Tank Battalion. In preparation for the assault, a major bombardment was conducted on 8 Jun resulting in the town being over 60% destroyed. It was into this smouldering ruin that the 175th Infantry Regiment advanced at 0200 on the 9th Jun. The town was defended by the Ukrainian soldiers of Ost-Bataillion 439, 352. Infanterie-Division, who used snipers in the ruins to effectively slow the US advance. House to house fighting ensured over a five hour period, but by 0700 the US forces were consolidating their positions. While still reorganising, a rapid German counter attack was conducted at 0800 but the 3rd Battalion of the 175th Infantry Regiment beat it back. Over 200 German and Ukrainian prisoners were taken that day. The road was now open for further advance and limited resupply into the town's small port.

Capture of Hill 192:

The US forces continued to adavnce towards St Lô over the next 2 days but were now faced with the capture of Hill 192. It formed a ridgeline along the St Lô – Bayeux highway dominating the area and allowing effective German precision artillery support. Once captured it would allow a commanding view over St Lô, enabling US artillery and air support to be bought to bear. The planned strike by 192 P-47s to set the conditions for the 2nd Infantry Division attack was abandoned due to bad weather. Instead it fell to the infantry, supported by the 741st Tank Battalion, to assault the hill. Over 25,000 artillery rounds were fired that day to suppress and kill the German defenders an average of over 300 per 105mm gun.

Taking St Lô:

With the road and ridge secured, the 29th Infantry Division begun their attack on St Lô on the 15 Jul The 1st Battalion of the 116th Infantry Regiment advanced too far ahead and become cut off 1000m short of the town. They held until 17 Jul when 3rd Battalion linked up with them, advancing with bayonets fixed, through dense vegetation, to avoid detection. The Regiment called in the 'arsenal of democracy' utilising Air Dominance and US Artillery Fire superiority to disperse the German troops. By Jul 18th the 116th Infantry Regiment had reached the Madeline River forcing the Germans to fall back to Rampan. With German resistance faltering the assault on the city passed to Task Force 'C' commanded by General Norman Cota which formed up on the St Lô – Bayeux road. The Task Force consisted of M8 Greyhounds of the 29th Recce Squadron, Company A of the 175th Infantry Regiment, a platoon of M4 Shermans from the 747th Tank Battalion, M10s of B Company 803rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, observers for the 227th Field Artillery Battalion as well as elements of the 29th Military Police.

Task Force 'C' begun the attack at 1500 on the 18 Jul, after the 115th Infantry Regiment secured high ground to the city's North. As it approached the city it was met by German anti tank guns which were neutralised by the 29th Recce Squadron who advanced into the city before being forced by rubble to dismount. Fierce house to house fighting occurred accompanied by close combat in the rubble choked streets, but by 1900 key intersections and vitally the bridges over the Vire river were secured. The Germans had been surprised by the rapid and audacious Task Force 'C' advance. Between 7-22 Jul US forces suffered over 11,000 casualties including over 3,000 dead, however finally the roads deeper into France were open and Op COBRA, the encirclement of German forces could begin.

To celebrate Home of Wargamers, we are really excited to announce the first Combat Mission Grand Tournament. The tournament will start on September 25th at 10.00 GMT.

Join the Combat Mission Grand Tournament here[www.matrixgames.com].

The tournament will feature 3 titles of the Combat Mission series: Battle of Normandy, Cold War and Red Thunder. Every game will have 3 rounds with 3 different scenarios:

• Combat Mission - Battle of Normandy
  
  • Round 1 - Buying the Farm - Elements of the 29th Infantry Division advancing near Isigny. Allied attack.
    
  • Round 2 - Barkman’s Corner - 27th of July Barkman’s Panther was repaired during the night but before he could link up with main unit PanzerGrenadiere asked for his help.
    
  • Round 3 - No Exit - Fictional Company-level meeting engagement near an Autobahn interchange in Summer ‘45.

• Combat Mission - Cold War
  
  • Round 1 - Valley of Ashes - US vs Soviet meeting engagement at dawn.
    
  • Round 2 - Recover and Attack - M1 tank recovery. US attack.
    
  • Round 3 - Civil War Within - 1080 - There has been an underground movement in Ukraine to break away from the Soviet Union, but it’s out in the open now, and it has led to war.

• Combat Mission - Red Thunder
  
  • Round 1 - Dawn Patrol - Reinforced Soviet Infantry company probes the German lines. Allied Probe.
    
  • Round 2 - Delaying Action at Ogledow - Armored action on the west bank of Vistula. Allied attack.
    
  • Round 3 - Where Forefathers Fought - Guards Rifle Battalion, accompanied by tank, attacks weakened German battalion in the village. Allied attack.

To make the Combat Mission - Grand Tournament the most engaging experience possible, we will share, for every round, valuable resources that will help players to plan the perfect strategy. These include: insightful editorials by Mark Goddard, military Officer, history enthusiast and wargaming expert, that explain the historical context of some of the key battles to gain a deeper understanding of their strategic significance; strategic videos by Usually Hapless, where he guides players through optimal strategies for tackling each round; live stream sessions with Gamer_1745 where he recreates one of the maps from each round.

To take part in the Combat Mission - Grand Tournament, players do not have to participate in all the 3 tournaments in the 3 different titles. For example, a player can decide to play just the tournament on Combat Mission - Cold War and still have the possibility to be one of the winners of the Grand Tournament.

As a matter of fact, for every tournament, the top 4 players will be drafted for a Combat Mission - Invitational Grand Tournament starting later this year.
If one or more players will be in more than one top 4, the following player will be drafted based on the ranking of the tournament where the player has the lower position. For example, if a player arrives 1st in the Combat Mission - Battle of Normandy and 4th in the Combat Mission - Red Thunder, the player who has arrived 5th in the Combat Mission - Red Thunder will be drafted for the Combat Mission - Invitational Grand Tournament.

Before joining the tournament, please take a moment and carefully read these instructions that are specific to all Combat Mission Tournaments:

• Because of the way that Combat Mission’s original “play by email” system works, both game files have an in-game field for password protection of the file. This field should be left blank. For the US side the password has been selected before the battles were sent and that field is to be left blank. You can use a password for the Russian side but it isn’t needed because the Tournament feature handles protection from cheating without using the in-game system.
  
• The Tournament will have you playing 2 individual battles where you are playing both sides of the same battle. If you get into the game before your opponent, you will see 1 game turn to play. If your opponent has gotten there first then you will see 2 turn files and each turn thereafter should have 2 files.
  
• Once a tournament begins, you will receive the files in the "Saved Game and PBEM" drop menu under Automated PBEM++ In Progress. You will receive email notifications when your opponent has sent you turns.
  
• You will need a Matrix username and password to play any tournament (or PBEM++ battle). If you don't have one already, you can get one here.

We are proud to announce our new Home of Wargamers live event, which will take place on September 12th at 5 pm UK time.

Join us on our Twitch channel to know more about our biggest franchises. You can set a reminder here[www.twitch.tv].

We will talk about a lot of important updates for some of our Matrix Games best sellers and coming soon games, such as:

• Modern Naval Warfare
  
• Nuclear War Simulator
  
• Command Modern Operations
  
• Flashpoint Campaigns
  
• Rule the Waves 3
  
• Strategic Command
  
• Combat Mission
  
• Valor & Victory