Order of Battle news - what's next, tournaments, and more

Started by Boggit, May 28, 2021, 07:16:35 AM

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Boggit

I've just had some info from Slitherine...

Order of Battle: what’s next for the franchise

*   The game is getting a trilogy of DLCs focused on the Allies. The first expansion of the trilogy: Allies Defiant, was released early this year, and the second one will be officially announced soon.

*   You can sign up here for the Weltkrieg tournament, starting on Wednesday, June 2nd. https://www.slitherine.com/tournaments

*   Order of Battle is also coming to console:it will release first on XBOX One on June 23rd, and soon after that on PS4.

The base game for console won’t be free-to-play, but it will include the full Blitzkrieg campaign (https://store.steampowered.com/app/528620/Order_of_Battle_Blitzkrieg/), this is one of the most popular Order of Battle expansions, which is distributed on Steam as a separate DLC. All the other premium campaigns previously released on PC will be available for purchase as separate DLCs on XBOX starting on June 23rd. 
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Awesome 'what's next' news. OoB is one of my favorite series. Thanks Boggit!


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Boggit

Press Update from Slitherine

Six years after its original launch, Order of Battle: World War II is still one of the most downloaded free-to-play strategy games on Steam. The game has received massive updates and improvements over the years. It now boasts an impressive 1,000 units available, an unparalleled variety of settings and scenarios, and a growing set of game modes that make it one of the most complete World War II strategy games ever created.

Order of Battle in numbers

●     200 total scenarios

●     15 total DLCs

●     1.500+ total units

Order of Battle is coming to XBOX One on June 23rd, and soon after that on PS4.

The base game for consoles won't be free-to-play, but it will include the bootcamp and the Blitzkrieg campaigns, as well as a taste of the first chapter of every other campaign pack. It will cost 19.99$.

The Blitzkrieg campaign is one of the most popular Order of Battle expansions and it's distributed on PC as a separate DLC. It puts you in charge of the German Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe. Starting with the conquest of Poland, the campaign features the defeat of the Franco-British alliance on the western front, the invasion of the Soviet Union and finally the assault on Moscow in 1941.

All the other premium campaigns previously released on PC will be available for purchase as separate DLCs on XBOX starting on June 23rd.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Foul Temptress! (Mirth replying to Gus) ;)

On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

It's kind of silly to investigate whether or not a Clinton is lying. That's sort of like investigating why the sky is blue. Banzai_Cat