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What happens when you combine a dedicated fan base for a game with a developer and publisher that care about the game’s future? A community-based expansion pack supported by said developer and publisher!

Slitherine and Matrix Games have announced the pending release of a community-based expansion to Military History Commander: Europe at War. Grand Strategy 2.0 was created by a community of dedicated artists, programmers, manual writers, and layout experts and is free to anyone who has the original game. The expansion pack is scheduled to be released from the Slitherine and Matrix Games’ websites for both PC and Mac on May 31st.

A pack of screenshots and an in-depth feature brochure have been released showing off the substantial improvements to the graphics and gameplay that this expansion pack represents. Grand Strategy 2.0 took years and thousands of man hours to produce. Some of the biggest changes include:

• Airborne divisions and para-drops
• Cross platform multiplayer support for PC vs. Mac
• German SS and Soviet Guards Elite Units
• Amphibious landings against defended coastal hexes
• Geo-political elements, which include:
  • French armistice (which the axis may accept or reject)
  • Early Italian entry if insufficient allied naval presence in the Med
  • Tension in the Balkans
  • Spanish activation as axis or allied minor ally
  • Turkey activation as axis or allied minor ally
  • Finnish armistice
  • Romanian and Bulgaria surrender and activation as allied minor ally
  • Consequences for allied aggression (e.g., UK invasion of Ireland).



• Canadian, Australian, Polish and Indian Commonwealth units and leaders
• Headquarter units
• More and greater variability of leadership ranging from Army Groups (Fronts), Armies and Corps
• Ferry crossings
• Ability to swap positions of two units of the same service type (i.e., ground, air or naval)
• Reinforcement of sub groups at sea
• Leased air bases (Azores, Iceland, Greenland)
• Malta naval and air bases factor into the interdiction and counter-interdiction of axis supply of North Africa
• Allied Interdiction of Swedish Iron Ore to German
• Scripted construction of Atlantic Wall Fortresses

You can get more information on Military History Commander: Europe at War and the Grand Strategy 2.0 Expansion Pack, as well as check out the screenshots and brochure, on the game’s product page.