Hello, guys! Some of you probably remember the community vote we held when deciding the historical tracks lineup for the Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom. We think it worked out greatly, so now we are back with the new vote regarding the Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty.

We want to let you participate in the Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty development and help us choose the best tracks that will then be recreated by our partners - Daraba Studio to serve as the game soundtrack.

• We want to select 5 tracks that for sure will be in Spirit of Liberty.
  
• We will most likely pick at least one track from each of the Classics, Marches, and Propaganda categories below.
  
• Note! All tracks we create will be instrumental (no voice). So, while we link some songs for the reference, there will be only tunes in game. Make sure to take that into account when you make your choice. Some tracks might lose much of their value without the voice.
  
• All tracks we link are just the reference and the final tracks we create for the game might differ significantly in the way they are performed and their length.

• Choose one of our community hubs and post your choices there - multiple entries by a single Steam account do not stack.
  
• Choose 5 tracks you like most and rank them. The number one gets 5 points, number two gets 4 points, etc. Example vote:
  1. Jean Sibelius - Karelia - Intermezzo [gets 5 points]
  2. Vapaussoturin Valloituslaulu [gets 4 points]
  3. Njet, Molotoff! [gets 3 points]
  4. Jääkärimarssi [gets 2 points]
  5. Säkkijärven polkka [gets 1 point]
  
• The more points the track gets - the more likely you will listen to it in game.
  
• Steam vote is the key vote, but we will hold other votes on Reddit (or other media) that will serve as a recommendation and hold less power. You can participate in both.
  
• You are encouraged to leave any feedback and/or suggest other tracks that could be added to the game. However, make sure you have stated your 5 choices clearly first.
  
• The vote lasts from 21 July to 1 August. All later entries will not affect the results.

• Jean Sibelius - Finlandia (00:00 — 06:08/09:36):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zg_af9b8c

• Jean Sibelius - Karelia - Intermezzo I (00:00/00:50 — 03:15/04:20):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ryhN5kNFzc

• Jean Sibelius - Karelia - Ballade (08:40 — 10:20):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ryhN5kNFzc

• Vapaussoturin Valloituslaulu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEtyScs6djU

• Pioneerien taistelulaulu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IaUXefAsCU

• Jääkärimarssi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DAgHFjDNtM

• Porilaisten marssi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T9rlQO7xrQ

• Sillanpään marssilaulu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDy6gEyIqzg

• Muistoja Pohjolasta instrumental:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg1I-RYurqs

• Muistoja Pohjolasta with lyrics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeAvJc8zLWA

• Njet, Molotoff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2_0OCwNbg

• Uraliin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9I88CXlmh4

• Kremlin uni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq1N0Sb8aH4

• Säkkijärven polkka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMszu_VgMfY

Looking forward to learning your opinion!

The Community items are finally out! Here is a preview of what you can get on Steam in terms of trading cards and other awards.



To get your first four cards you just need to play for a few hours. You have already received them if you have played the game before. Here are all possible cards you can get:



Game card preview:



All trading cards come with a corresponding wallpaper:





By collecting one set of eight trading cards you can earn a badge and then upgrade it by collecting more sets:



The traiding cards come in two rarities, so by collecting the rare set of cards, you can get a foil badge:





When you collect a set of trading cards you get not only a new badge but also randomly selected items such as Steam profile background and emojis. Here are some Steam profile backgrounds:

Here are all the emojis for you to explore:



Hold cursor over the icon for more details:

:BadLuckSign:
:BernardMontgomery:
:Gurkha:
:Ispy:
:LastAid:
:MusicalPause:
:Parried:
:Promotion:
:SimplyTheBest:
:YourMajesty:

We are eager to hear what you think of the community items - so make sure to tell us.

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Steam Community items for Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom have finally passed the review and will become available tomorrow. We will inform you via a separate announcement with all the details.


We are preparing a list of candidate tracks for the community vote and will present it to you later this week. You will have only one week to vote, so make sure you do not miss the chance to participate in Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty development decision making.


We have recently travelled to another city in Ukraine to take part in our first offline event since the pandemics started. You can read more in our report:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1381850/view/2999942440533300991
Here are some new photos from the Games Gathering 2021 organizers:







TheEdmon continues his Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom playthrough on Insurmountable difficulty!
If he succeeds he will become the first YouTuber to make good progress in the game playing the highest difficulty. So far the record has it as 2 operations in Blitzkrieg. Our team eagerly follows the playthrough curious to know how a Panzer Corps veteran would cope with this new undertaking.

This time TheEdmon takes on the Norway landings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmhTIo_MMX4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hhrjjpWLMM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpSIGK3bOaE
Coming soon

Starni Summer Sale 2021 begins!

If you missed some of our titles in the roaring torrent of great deals of the Steam Summer sale a couple of weeks ago - now is the perfect time to correct that during the first of its name Starni Summer Sale. It offers discounts on all of our titles at once just like the seasonal Steam events and will run 17-31 July.

Don't miss the chance to take part in historic events with this great deal on Panzer Strategy! Save the day and save 85% off the full price. Get the game before July 31:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/769950/Panzer_Strategy/

🎁 Don't miss the opportunity and save up to 40% on Strategic Mind Franchise:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/991810/Strategic_Mind_The_Pacific/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1200330/Strategic_Mind_Blitzkrieg/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341170/Strategic_Mind_Spectre_of_Communism/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1381850/Strategic_Mind_Fight_for_Freedom/


https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16499/Strategic_Mind_Complete_Collection/

Last week we travelled to another city in Ukraine - Odessa to our first offline game conference since the start of the pandemics.



We have participated in the Indie Blast competition with the Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom and had a free demonstration space thanks to that. For 2 days anyone interested in our projects or cooperation with us could come to our desk and discuss any topics or just play the game and give us feedback.



Our CEO and Founder Ihor Tymoshenko and Lead Game Designer / COO Oleksandr Sienin gave a joint talk about our company's path, financial results, and valuable lessons we have learned the hard way. The audience was very pleased and even surprised by the level of transparency and frankness we have shown throughout the talk, as few companies are ready to share all the sensitive information about them due to various reasons including NDAs.



Overall, we are very happy that we decided to spend these few days among like-minded people and had lots of interesting discussions.



There will be an even bigger from the same organizers in Kyiv - our hometown in December 2021, and we are looking forward to going there with everyone on the team who would want to participate. We plan to showcase Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty there.

Hope you have enjoyed our short story.

Have a good day!

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We have decided to release a separate free app with the early stages of the Spirit of Liberty campaign in Q4 2021, while the full game will be released in Q1 2022. More information can be found here:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1381850/view/2999942440536491555




The Steam community items set still undergoes a review process. You can find some preview in the last weeks report.


Our partners from the Klabater team are now finilizing preparations console release of both Strategic Mind: The Pacific and Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg later this summer. Our team looks forward to playing our games on console :). XBOX released is also planned further down the road. Stay tuned for more news regarding our first console release.


We keep track of any new cool videos about the Strategic Mind series on YouTube. This time we have a real treat for you guys, since the TheEdmon has started a Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom playthrough on Insurmountable difficulty. If he succeeds he will become the first YouTuber to make good progress in the game playing the highest difficulty. So far the record has it as 2 operations in Blitzkrieg. Our team eagerly follows the playthrough curious to know how a Panzer Corps veteran would cope with this new undertaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmP4PinHGSM

Hello, guys! How is your summer going?

Right now we are hard at work on the Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty and there is more news to come about the project soon. While you wait, we offer you to have a look at the latest community-created screenshots of the Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism. Make sure to rate up this post to thank all of the authors for their works 👍.

To share great moments from your own playthrough with the community - add them to our community hubs or send them to our Twitter or Discord server. We will post regular news reports with the best ones.

Hello, guys!

We have two pieces of news for you today, as it goes: the good and the bad one.

We will start with the bad one. Due to a number of reasons we decided to extend the production time and plan the Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty release for Q1 2022, so it is not coming this winter holidays. We want more time to polish the game and do not want to rush the release, as we have barely made it in time with Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom.

The good news is that you would not have to wait all this time to start playing the game. We decided to release a fully free separate app called Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty Prologue 1939 that will allow all wargame fans to enjoy the early stages of the game for free in Q4 2021. No catch, no in-app purchases.

We want to share the Strategic Mind series with as many wargames fans on Steam as we can. So, support us by adding this free Prologue app to your wishlist bolstering our promotion efforts and making sure that you would not miss the free Prologue release.

✔ Add a free Prologue app to your wishlist:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1683420/Strategic_Mind_Spirit_of_Liberty__Prologue_1939/

Have a good weekend!

Only 3 days left before the Summer Sale ends. Don't miss the chance and save 85% on Panzer Strategy:

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/991810/Strategic_Mind_The_Pacific/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1200330/Strategic_Mind_Blitzkrieg/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341170/Strategic_Mind_Spectre_of_Communism/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1381850/Strategic_Mind_Fight_for_Freedom/


https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16499/Strategic_Mind_Complete_Collection/

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We have prepared and sent for review the Steam community items set, so hopefully it will be out next week. Here is some of the artwork that will be there:














All our games throughout the upcoming Steam event. It will be a great opportunity to get your hands on the titles you still miss in your collection. We will provide more details soon, so stay tuned.



This weekend we will travel to another city in Ukraine to participate in the Games Gathering 2021 Odessa game conference. We will share the details of our participation with you next week.

👉 Learn more about the Game Gathering 2021 Odessa.



We have fixed a couple of issues and plan to update all games of the series next week with these improvements.



Here are the two latest Developer’s gameplay videos that cover Battle of the Bulge. We think those could be quite helpful and instructive. Next week we will upload the Battle of Dunkirk scenarios from the UK campaign.


Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xiHO80aFFk
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJGV1Q2bLk4
Have a good weekend!

Ever vigilant
Starni Games Intelligence Service