Community members! In our previous update we showcased missions and maps, this time we’ll focus on the 12 new skirmishes and show you some equipment from the Talvisota expansion.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1911520/Call_to_Arms__Gates_of_Hell_Talvisota/Skirmishes
Talvisota will feature 12 skirmish missions. The Soviet Union, Finland and Germany get 4 skirmishes each. Let’s have a look at the list.
Finland
Skirmishes for Finland are scenarios from the winter war (1) and the continuation war (3).
These are based on historical records and the actual battle locations, but you’ve probably come to expect that from us; and we’ve picked the scenarios that would require you to attack, not defend. We’ve selected the battles of Honkaniemi (1940), Petrozavodsk (1941), Operation Arctic Fox (1941), and the battle of Ilomantsi (1944).
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For the Soviet Union we have picked a set of 4 battles that are quite iconic too. There’s Smolensk (1941) featuring one of the local Soviet counterattacks, then we have Stalingrad (1942) which needs little explanation. We then make a jump to Operation Bagration (1944) and the battle of Seelow heights (1945).
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The set of skirmishes for Germany has some of the well- known names as well. The battle of Moscow (1941) in icy conditions - a stark contrast to Stalingrad, where our skirmish takes place on and around Mamayev Kurgan in the fall of 1942.
The other missions are about the third battle of Kharkov (1943), and the battle of Berlin.
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Equipment
There is a chance that this part contains the biggest surprise for most readers. The Finnish army possessed a very wide range of equipment, and some of it was used exclusively by them. Most of it had either been left over from the Finnish civil war, or bought in the years before the Winter war. Some of it was bought or captured during the war.
By coincidence, the Vickers 6 ton tanks in Finnish service were not the only ones to have been exported from Britain; the Soviet Union ordered the same tank, and the red army developed the T-26 from it.
The equipment that was bought
during Continuation war was mainly German made or weapons that had been captured by them. Germany brought a lot of aircraft and tanks to Finland, largely for their own use; some of the tanks they used there had been captured in France in 1940. These will be included.
To add to the tally there will be a fair amount of unique Soviet equipment too. The prototype SMK tank, for instance, was sent to Finland and fought its only battle there. Likewise, the T-50 tank went into battle in Finland for the first time, and was used on both sides.
Along these lines there will be a lot of unique equipment.
Here’s a short overview of (part of) the Talvisota equipment:
HD Link Besides this there’s much more finished material, but since we don’t want to spoil absolutely everything, we’ll keep a fair share under cover so there’s some totally new things left for you to discover on release.
Up next
The next update will get you up to speed with the way in which we integrate Talvisota and Ostfront. We’ll let you know the status of the (ongoing) beta test and more. In the meantime, you may want to check out
our official Discord server, it has weekly small updates straight from the devs; make sure you don’t miss anything, development is fast- paced at the moment!
Meanwhile, we think that wishlisting Talvisota is the best advice we can give:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1911520/Call_to_Arms__Gates_of_Hell_Talvisota/That’s all folks. Thanks for stopping by, see you on the battlefield!
