Do we have a bag full for you lads today or what!!! With the Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy - Commonwealth Forces module going into Release Candidate mode today, we are opening pre-orders immediately. We also have a couple dozen new screens, AND some new books in the Battlefront Bookshelf collection. Here's the scoop:

Pre-Order CM:BN Commonwealth Forces!

You have the option to choose from two different packages, the CM:BN Commonwealth Forces Module (for $35 pls S&H), and the CM:Battle for Normandy + Commonwealth Forces BUNDLE (which includes all you need to play, i.e. the module and the base game, in one package), for $65 plus S&H. Pre-order customers receive both the download AND the physical goods in the mail and SAVE $10 in the process.

The Module and the Bundle are available for both platforms, PC and Mac OS X. If you are buying just the module, then the platform you choose for the module (PC or Mac) must match your base game version.

We expect the module to be released in 4-6 weeks from today. Hardgoods will be mailed out within 1-14 days after release. If you preorder the bundle, you will not be able to download&play the base game until the module is released (sorry). If you want to play the base game right away, consider preordering just the module and purchasing the base game as a download or download&mail delivery. For the latter, you'll still save $9-$19 on the Shipping!

[ Click here to preorder Commonwealth Forces now! ]

New Commonwealth Nafziger Books on the Battlefront Bookshelf!

We've got a couple of awesome new books on the Battlefront Bookshelf, fitting the new Commonwealth Forces module! British and Commonwealth Armoured Tactics in WWII and British and Commonwealth Motorized Infantry Tactics in WWII are both (edited) reprints of 1943 tactical pamphlets and contain a treasure trove of information about the tactical employment of commonwealth armour and infantry formations in the field. Seriously, these are better than any How-To guide!

We have free previews for these two (and all the other Nafziger books) available:

[ Click here to flip through "Commonwealth Armoured Tactics" now ]

Recent world events in Syria make Combat Mission: Shock Force, with its hypothetical invasion of Syria by a NATO task force, more current than ever. Michael Peck from Foreign Policy magazine thinks so, too, and has written a feature including Combat Mission: Shock Force today.

The Syrian Invasion

Would a NATO tank war against Bashar al-Assad’s army end up like the Iraqi mess?

The question is what price can the doomed dictator extract, and it is there that a game like Shock Force is illuminating. ... Maybe the Assad regime would prove to be a paper tiger. But don't count on a blitzkrieg on the road to Damascus.

[ Click here to jump directly to the Foreign Policy magazine article ]

Now here's a Christmas present for you!!! The brand new free DEMO for Strategic Command WWII Global Conflict GOLD is available for download right now, and packed to the brim with gameplay!

The free demo includes 2 campaigns as a small sample of what the full game offers:

• 1939 World At War campaign limited to 10 months of playing time - This is the main global campaign covering the entire war from start to finish. Players will be able to wage war across Europe, the Atlantic, North Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
• 1948 World At War campaign limited to 4 months of playing time - With the Axis powers soundly defeated, the Western Allies' alliance with the USSR and China becomes fractured as ideology now trumps previous allegiances... This is World War III!

Multiplayer modes, saving and unit purchases are disabled in the demo but the campaign is playable against the AI as either side.

[ Click here to download the new GOLD demo now ]

It's here! Strategic Command World War Two Global Conflict GOLD is the brand new expansion to the original SC WWII Global Conflict game of grand strategy and global world dominance in the 1940's.

SC WWII Global Conflict GOLD boasts dozens of major new features, changes and improvements to the original game (such as a new interface and fast AI), as well as 4(!) new major campaigns, 4 entirely reworked campaigns (to include the new features), and a whole lot more!

SC WWII Global Conflict GOLD is available via download for only $25, as well as via mail delivery ($25 plus S&H) and both (includes download AND mail delivery for only $35 plus S&H). If you don't own the base game already, we offer an attractive Bundle as well, of both the base game and the GOLD extension in one pack for only $45.

Downloads are available immediately, and physical goods will begin shipping out of our US and EU locations within the next days. (EU customers: NO duties or taxes!)

[ Click here to buy the SC WWII Global Conflict GOLD expansion now! ]

And if you want to try before you buy (which we fully support here at Battlefront.com), then we will have an updated GOLD demo out for you soon. While you wait, don't miss the drama of the ongoing After Action Report that's unfolding right now in the discussion forum; the beta testers are at it again!

[ Click here to jump directly to the After Action Report ]