We'd like to thank everyone that's supported Supreme Ruler The Great War. We've been very pleased with the community response and it has encouraged us to continue working on updates. We had hoped to do the next update before the end of the year, but it seems that won't happen.
We would however like to give everyone a little something to hold them over until the next update. Users can now go into Steam, right click the game in the list, view properties and find a beta tab. An insider build can be selected from the pull down list. This will give you access to what we're currently working on - a new sandbox for SRGW, a fictional 1914 sandbox.
Since I don't have the opening message working yet, here's the description;
We hope to have this sandbox and an update to the game engine ready by early January.Franz Joseph died 3 months ago and Franz Ferdinand has become Emperor. As such, the events at Sarajevo never happened.
Ferdinand took the throne with some very clear ideas in mind. Determined to avoid war with Russia and concerned about the impact of Serb, Bosnian and Croat resistance, he enacted a radical solution. Serbia and Montenegro were granted their disputed territories and a colony of Croatia was created to grant the Slavs a degree of self determination, or at least the appearance of such. Specifically favoring the Croats over the Bosnians, Ferdinand hopes that internal tensions can avoid anti-colonial sentiments in the territory while still providing economic advantage to Austria-Hungary.
These actions have created a notable shift in power. Germany is furious at its former ally but has no justification to act. Romania is angry that their territorial claims continue to be ignored. France and Great Britain support Austro-Hungarian efforts to maintain the peace. Germany, still concerned about the growing Russian power, now looks for new allies. Italy is envious of Austrian power and continues to eye the Albanian territories while dealing with unrest in Africa.