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How many of you had this experience the first time loading up Man the Guns?

A neat mod that you might enjoy is 'Custom Rules for All'.

This adds AI behaviour options for all nations with generic focus trees, allowing you even more customisation for your games.

Find it here:

Excellent encirclement or disgusting border gore? Hmmm... 🤔

Credit to u/lodingerror17 on Reddit!

It’s a Friday, which means its time for the weekend achievement challenge!

‘Treading the Narrow Path’ requires you to hold out as the Netherlands against Germany, with the ability to flood your lands.

What kinds of division templates are best for this?

Best quote of GDC so far is "Your alpha will suck. Professional game development is what happens after you realize your alpha sucks"

Best quote of GDC so far is "Your alpha will suck. Progressional game development is what happens after you realize your alpha sucks"

:E

My body is ready #GDC19

Italy set to take the fascist path opposed to Germany, rather!

Time for another Custom Game Rules challenge!

In ‘Roles Reversed’, play as a democratic Germany with the UK, France, and Italy set to become fascist.

This should give you a decent challenge, and experience a lesser-used part of the German Focus Tree!

Axum’s most notable engagement was when she intercepted a British convoy attempting to resupply Malta in Operation PEDESTAL.

In one frenetic overnight engagement, Axum sunk one cruiser, HMS Cairo, and crippled another, HMS Nigeria, as well as the tanker Ohio.

Axum was a Auda-class submarine commissioned into the Italian Regia Marina in December 1936.

She was a part of the growing Italian submarine fleet, which by 1940 was larger than the Royal Navy’s.

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In today’s Dev Diary, we give some updates to the 1.6.2 patch, which will include two new legendary Field Marshals for Finland and Turkey respectively.

Check it out here 👉

In today’s stream, @PDX_Da9L and @ceeebie will be shooting for the Britzkrieg achievement, and aiming to complete it in just 60 minutes of playtime.

Tune in for all the action at 16:00 CET!

Would you like even more options with the naval designer that arrived in Man the Guns?

Well look no further than the
‘Naval Rework Mod II’, which adds a dizzying array of customisation options for the naval side of the game.

Check it out here:

In 1936, the lead ship of the Scharnhorst class is not yet completed, but you can expedite her construction to form the nucleus of your ‘Plan Z’ future battlefleet.

After the battle the British commander, Admiral Bruce Fraser, remarked on the bravery of the German sailors fighting against hopeless odds.