Next update: "Back in Black", featuring free units & 2v2 Attack/Defense

[EUG_PapaYankee]

The seventh free update for Steel Division: Normandy 44, "Back in Black", will be available next week, and will feature 6 new units, 2v2 Breakthrough Attack/Defense scenarios, and more! Let’s have a sneak peek.

Free unit pack
It’s not 4 (like initially planned in the content roadmap), but 6 new units that you will be able to deploy on the battlefield:

Axis:

• 10,5cm leFH-18/40 auf GW Lorraine Schlepper(f) (21. Panzer), self-propelled howitzer
  
• leFH 18M (716. Infanterie), the backbone of German divisional artillery

Allied:

• Sherman IC Firefly (1. Pancerna), a very rare early model of Firefly
  
• F-6C (3rd Armored), the Recon version of the P-51C Mustang
  
• Volontaires (2ème Division Blindée) - partisans & individuals volunteers that joined the “Leclerc’s Boys”
  
• Ox & Bucks (6th Airborne) - Airlanding squads

Keep an eye on our blog tomorrow, more information about these new units is coming!

Free 2v2 Breakthrough Attack/Defense
Well… It’s pretty self-explanatory, right? Since the release of the 4 1v1 Breakthrough Attack/Defense scenarios, we received countless messages asking for 2v2 versions. In “Back in Black”, you will be able to play two of them in this mode:

• Offensive on Cheux
  
• Assault on Colombelles Steelwork

Both will be available in Axis Attack and Allied Attack. If you want to know more about Breakthrough, there is a pretty informative article about it in our blog.

Balancing and more
We also have been working, with selected members of the community, on balancing the game, focusing on adjusting Second Wave's divisions even if the main game divisions will also have some slight changes.

We are also adding a “save game” option to Attack/Defense scenarios, and, as always, fixing remaining bugs.

“Back in Black” will be available next week.

 

[Wulfburk]

awesome!

 

[Alex646]

Axis:

• 10,5cm leFH-18/40 auf GW Lorraine Schlepper(f) (21. Panzer), self-propelled howitzer
• leFH 18M (716. Infanterie), the backbone of German divisional artillery

Ox & Bucks (6th Airborne) - Airlanding squads

Good. Minor buffs for poorest german and english divisions. However, these changes won't make them too attractive...

We also have been working, with selected members of the community, on balancing the game, focusing on adjusting Second Wave's divisions even if the main game divisions will also have some slight changes.

Did you mean balancing of Attack/Defense scenarios divisions too? This mode is nearly unplayable with current arty spam of attackers.

 

[Protosszocker]

What will be the eqiupment of the ox and bucks and will the partisans be inf or recon?

 

[PanzerMan7]

Will attack/defense be rebalanced?

 

[Ddraig5400]

Finally, LeFH 18M and 2v2 Breakthrough, this is great news!

 

[EUG_PapaYankee]

Will attack/defense be rebalanced?

Yes, it will

 

[Herr_Robert]

What interests me the most is the partisan unit. I assume that means the French will have some cheap and expendable infantry.

 

[facmanpob]

Good. Minor buffs for poorest german and english divisions. However, these changes won't make them too attractive...

I don't know, I like both divisions, but 716 does need a decent artillery option.

Now, as for the Ox & Bucks, my only hope is that they say "Hold until relieved" when I click on them!

 

[Dave The Gun]

Großartig!

 

[IronHead]

Don't we already have the Lorriaine? And why is the lefH arty only with 712? Shoud't it be with 316th too?

 

[facmanpob]

Don't we already have the Lorriaine?

21 Panzer and 716 Inf have the Lorraine armed with the sFH13 / L14 gun, which is different to the new unit above. I think the new unit is smaller calibre but longer range.

 

[IronHead]

21 Panzer and 716 Inf have the Lorraine armed with the sFH13 / L14 gun, which is different to the new unit above. I think the new unit is smaller calibre but longer range.

Thank you sir!

 

[HallBregg]

Any plans for buffing the 1st SSB? They fall really hard in B and altough you get good income in C you don't have any particularly flashy toy to get terrain back. I think a few cards of ATG and 25pdrs in B would help this division inmensely.

 

[Herr_Robert]

Any plans for buffing the 1st SSB? They fall really hard in B and altough you get good income in C you don't have any particularly flashy toy to get terrain back. I think a few cards of ATG and 25pdrs in B would help this division inmensely.

I think 1SSB is one of the best "divisions" in team games, and I would say it's OP if anything. 1v1 is a different story, but the way it's designed, I think it's impossible to make it a good choice for that. You are supposed to not get some of the important tools, such as AT guns, until phase C.