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Welcome to the Small Wars Newsletter
Welcome to our third newsletter.
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The PC version of the game was released yesterday on Steam. You can have a launch discount of 10% till next thursday; 28th November 2024. The boardgame can be ordered from the website, the first goods will reach our warehouses in December 2024.
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Release of PC game version
Game Release
After a good Beta testing campaign (thanks to our backers who helped us here, in particular Gary), the game has been released this 21st November. The game is playable on PC only for now, but you can use the Steamdeck to play it (this is a necessary step for the console version later). It is also playable in Multiplayer mode with your friends. The demo is updated, and all our Kickstarter backers and Beta testers who have supported us and received their Steam keys already can use them.
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Mac Version
The MacOS version will come later, as we are gathering now the necessary hardware to make the proper tests before release.
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Future Developments
Steam achievements will also come later, as part of the continual improvement process to the game, as well as other elements (more scenarios, extra features, AI tweaks, ...).
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Crowdfunding
To see more details on the game’s Kickstarter campaign, you can visit that page: Kickstarter Campaign.
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Information on the Game
All news and info that can come later about the game will be posted on Steam, on the Kickstarter page, and, of course, on the game’s website.
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What is Small Wars?
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Small Wars is a new game engine, both on computer and board games, whose purpose is to simulate the petty wars and all kind of asymmetric conflicts.
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The ‘Small Wars’ series of video games and derivated boardgames presents this kind of asymmetric warfare in a fast-paced, turn-based strategic conflict. Each game is based on an historical conflict in which one side has regular forces with superior firepower and resources, but is vulnerable to the mobility, flexibility and speed of the irregular forces of its opponent.
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“You have the watches, but we have the time…”
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– Taliban Commander, to NATO leadership
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Small Wars games feature single player vs the AI, or two-player multiplayer, both locally and online. Each game has a simple, easy-to-use interface, and all games support game controllers for couch gaming on your monitor, TV or Steam Deck. Games normally take less than an hour to complete.
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Each game has a strategic level, where forces are deployed, territory conquered, and supply lines secured or disrupted. It also has a tactical level for resolving battles in varied terrain. Finally, it has a diplomatic element in which allies are recruited or lost, or one side gains advantages over the other.
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To win the game, the regular forces must secure a set of objectives by a certain date ; all the irregulars have to do to win is to stop them. The irregulars are much weaker, but time is on their side.
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The Small Wars game series will cover a number of historical conflicts, including the French and Indian War (the subject of the first game in the series, Small Wars: Mohicans), the Napoleon-era Peninsular War in Spain, the Philippine-American war, the Vietnam War, the Soviet-Afghanistan war, among others.
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Dev blog
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News of Boardgames Shipments
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The game has been fully produced this early Fall and is now in transit in various containers. Unfortunately for us, transit delays in the shipping, with various causes (traffic jams, boats scarcity, stevedores strike, etc…) have made the ETA of the boats later than expected. Here are the news received yesterday from our shippers: Europe: boat ETA is 4th December, …
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Release of the PC version
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After a good Beta testing campaign (thanks to our backers who helped us here, in particular Gary), the game has been released today, this 21st november afternoon, on Steam. The game is playable on PC only for now, but you can use the Steamdeck to play it (this is a necessary step for the console version later). It is also …
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Small Wars: Mohicans is the first game of the Small Wars series.
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Covering the French and Indian War of the mid-18th century, it is based on a popular 1983 Canadian boardgame called Mohawk. Mohicans starts in 1754 and continues to 1760, which historically was the year after the conquest of Quebec by British forces (a founding event in the creation of modern Canada).
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50,00 €
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Manufacturing done, shipping planned for end of 2024.
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Small Wars: Mohicans Demo
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A demo of the PC version of Small Wars: Mohicans is available on Steam. Just go to the Steam page of the game and download the free demo. With it, you can try all the elements of the game, but only until the end of 1755. So it’s essentially the first three turns and the winter phase. This demo is playable in Hotseat and with Steam deck.
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