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Back to News Listing Battle Academy Is Updated to 1.7.0

Posted: Monday, January 16, 2012 by Sean Drummy

Type: Press Release

Some tweaks, changes, and unit balancing to get this hailed title ready for the Operation Sealion release!

Slitherine and Matrix Games are happy to release the comprehensive 1.7.0 update for the Battle Academy series. The update includes a sizeable list of minor bug fixes and some other optimizations plus a bunch of unit balance changes. The update comes just before the highly anticipated release of Battle Academy – Operation Sealion, the latest exciting expansion to the series that lets the player battle over the supremacy of Britain by embarking on the hypothetical German invasion plan called Operation Sealion!

The update is available for download from the Matrix Games Battle Academy Downloads Page or by running the in-game auto-updater.

About Battlefield Academy

Approachable, absorbing and visually impressive yet detailed, Battlefield Academy aims to revolutionize the strategy games market with a blend of intuitive design and compelling game play driven by cutting edge technical innovation.

Inspired by an original online game concept devised by the BBC, the game has more than 30 battles in a range of theatres of war from the North African desert through D-Day to the to the snowy Ardennes mountains where the Allies battled to repel the final German offensive.

The team at Slitherine worked with Professor John Buckley, Military Historian at the University of Wolverhampton and a keen wargamer himself, to make sure that the strategy, tactics, scenarios and available firepower of the battles fought in WW2 were turned into realistic AI behavior, powering expertly crafted battles.

Get the update here. The update is comprehensive and will bring all previous version of BattlefieldAcademyto 1.7.0. Get more information on Battlefield Academy from its official product page.

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