On 26th December 1943, Scharnhorst sortied to intercept one such convoy, but found the tables turned as a powerful British fleet hunted her down.
In the Battle of the North Cape, Scharnhorst put up a brave resistance before eventually being sunk with the loss of 1,932 crew.
Scharnhorst was the lead ship of a pair of battlecruisers commissioned into the Kriegsmarine shortly before the outbreak of WW2.
She played a key role in the invasion of Norway, before later being posted there to raid Allied arctic convoys.
A cool game you can set up using the new custom game rules is a ‘Balkans Thunderdome’,
You can get this by telling the Romanian and Hungarian AI to follow the paths in the picture below.
For added challenge try and survive as Yugoslavia, or Bulgaria in this scenario!
See the reddit thread behind this screenshot here:
Now *that* is a lot of encircled divisions.
What’s the most troops you’ve ever encircled/had encircled?
Credit to u/-BMKing- on Reddit for posting this!
Another week, another great live recording of some Hearts of Iron music from @composerandreas!
This time its the main Soviet Theme. Enjoy!
This weekend, why not give the ‘Crush The Dream’ achievement a go?
This requires you to play as a Communist Britain and then puppet the USA.
What are your strategies for this? Ally the USSR or go your own way?
Got some thoughts on what makes a great strategy game? Let us know! 👇
Here's a couple of subtle but useful mods; they introduce a bit of colour make it easier for you to work out what’s going on with your armies and navies.
Coloured Ship Icons:
Coloured Theatres:
At the start of Hearts of Iron IV, Draug is anchored in Bergen, alongside her sister ships Garm and Troll.
Take note of her in your next Norway game!
Though Draug survived intact, the German ship was scuttled by her crew, who were unwilling to allow their supplies to fall into Allied hands.
After arriving in the UK, Draug served in a convoy escort role until 1943, when she was de-commissioned.
With all major ports in enemy hands, Draug, decided to make her way across the North Sea to England.
Forcing the captured German ship to come with her at gunpoint, she steamed into the ocean.
It wasn't long until they were attacked by a watchful Luftwaffe bomber.
Draug was the lead ship of a class of destroyers made for the Royal Norwegian Navy in the 1900s.
By the time of the German invasion of Norway in 1940, she was obsolete.
As the invasion began, Draug intercepted a German merchant ship carrying military supplies to Bergen.
In 1.6, naval combat has been completely reworked, with two distinct phases to each battle.
If you’re still ‘all at sea’ when it comes to understanding the interface for the new battles, this tutorial might help!
See all the tutorials here:
Now live!
Just a few minutes to go until today's stream, where @Pdx_Da9L and @ceeebie will be running through all the changes in 1.6.1 in a bit more detail.
Tune in at 16:00 CET:
With the release of patch 1.6.1, in today’s Dev Diary @podcat_paradox looks ahead to 1.6.2, and gives us a glimpse into some statistics on Man the Guns.
Without looking, can you guess which new focus tree is the most popular?
Check it out here:
Who loves bar graphs? check out todays @HOI_Game dev diary thats about the patch and statistics
Patch 1.6.1 is here!
We’ve just pushed the button on the first sizeable update for Man the Guns.
1.6.1 brings UI improvements, bugfixes, balance adjustments and more!
All the info you need:
devtrackers.gg
