Ho, ho, ho, commanders!

Welcome back to this very last WARNO DevBlog of the year. We’ll have some exciting news about Nemesis #5, some other bits and bops, and also share with you some early holiday season greetings before the Eugen team retires for the Christmas holidays!

Onwards.

Nemesis #5 Release Date

First up is Nemesis #5 - Southern Flank. We have a confirmed (yup, hold on ‌to your hats) release date, which will be January 6th, meaning the second week of 2026. We need to finalize the last details and make sure that the Strike Team has had a good chance to play around with the DLC’s two new divisions. They will also be allowed to stream it soon!

Nemesis #5 - Southern Flank keeps the SOUTHAG theme, focusing on two new battlegroups in the southern reaches of the West German front, near the Austrian border. The DLC features the Spanish División de Infantería Mecanizada «Guzmán el Bueno» n.º 2, or Mechanised Division No.2 "Guzmán el Bueno" for NATO, and the Czechoslovakian 2. Motostřelecká Divize, or 2nd Motor Rifle Division fighting for the Warsaw Pact.

You’ll get to play with an arsenal of new units, from light M47E2 tanks, GUERILLEROS commandos, OBÚS 105/26 REINOSA howitzer and L-10D3 300mm MLRS, to POHRANIČNÍCI mountain warfare border guards, SU-7BKL ground attack aircraft, and R-330T TARAN recon vehicles.

XM-477 SLAMMER

The Nemesis #5 will also see a (by that time slightly belated) Christmas gift in the form of an extra unit for the existing US 101st Airborne Division: the XM-477 SLAMMER (see more information here[medium.com]). This is a great example of a repurposed weapon, or “how not to let unused helicopter rocket pods go to waste”!

This particular weapon system was invented and tested by the armorers of the 101st Airborne, and was made up of six 19-rocket Hydra pods slapped together on a makeshift towed MLRS. It was envisioned to boost the firepower of the division’s airborne troops once feet were on the ground. Being unique to this division, it will in WARNO come with the Airlifted trait.

This new weapon will become available when Nemesis #5 - Southern Flank releases in the new year!

Until The New Year

This Christmas break means that we won’t be back until the week of the 5th of January. When we return, we will give you an updated roadmap for all the cool things coming to WARNO in 2026!

And not only that, but we’ll also do a showcase of the new deck creation UI as soon as possible, including new division descriptions (the scribes have been hard at work).

From the whole Eugen Systems team: we wish you happy holidays and all the best for 2026!
Don’t forget the vibrant WARNO community. Check the latest news on the Steam News page or visit the Steam Forums. Get together with other players on either the excellent Discord server[discord.gg], Reddit page, YouTube or our Instagram[www.instagram.com].
As always, see you on the battlefield, commanders.

Commanders!

Gather round! The results for the hotly contested Nemesis #6 vote are in.

As always, we salute the WARNO community’s unrelenting propaganda and psy-ops efforts in swaying the ballot. And what we liked even more was that we all kept the vote calm, cool, and collected. A well-played mission!

So, without further ado, let’s see which Nemesis option can be crowned the winner…

Nemesis #6’s Winner

With thousands of votes cast, the clear victor of Nemesis #6 is… wait for it… Nemesis #6.2 - The Magdeburg Counterstrike!

The full breakdown of the vote:

• Nemesis #6.2 - The Magdeburg Counterstrike came out ahead with 52,48% of the vote.
  
• Nemesis #6.3 - School’s Out! hit second with a respectable 29,75%.
  
• And Nemesis #6.1 - The Mountaineers came in last with 17,77%.

So, that makes it official: Nemesis #6.2 - The Magdeburg Counterstrike will be released for WARNO as one of the future Nemesis DLCs!

Nemesis #6.2 - The Magdeburg Counterstrike will now enter Eugen’s design and production pipeline. The DLC’s release will be when it is ready (no fixed date yet).

Meanwhile, the other two Nemesis options will - for the moment at least - be shelved. Perhaps we will dust off the ideas for a run-off vote later down the line or cannibalize some divisions for other offerings.

Nemesis #6 - The Magdeburg Counterstrike

Nemesis #6 - The Magdeburg Counterstrike will feature two armored-centric battlegroups (both number #1!) with NATO’s US 1st Cavalry Division and the Soviet 1-ya Gvardeyskaya Proletarskaya Motostrelkovaya Diviziya or 1st Guards Proletarian Motorized Infantry Division.

Find more details below:
https://eo.steamhost.cc/news/app/1611600/view/621061805456752699

New units and weapons to be featured in Nemesis #6 - The Magdeburg Counterstrike:

• The US 1st Cavalry Division will bring such units as the M2 BRADLEY IFVs (in various configurations), CAV. TROOPERS fireteams, the M109A2 (GLCP) firing laser-guided shells, the upgraded M1 MOD main battle tank, plus British CHALLENGER MK.2, M3 BRADLEY CFV recon vehicles, M3 ETAS, anti-air M2 BRADLEY BSFV, and YCQM-121A PAVE TIGER Electronic Warfare drones.
  
• The Soviet 1-ya Gvardeyskaya Proletarskaya Motostrelkovaya Diviziya features up-armored T-72 URAL-1, as well as a few T-72AV fitted with reactive armor, plus towed MT-12R RUTA (radar-guided) 100mm anti-tank guns, MT-LB ATAKA missile tank destroyers, the R-330T TARAN, a MT-LB-based SIGINT vehicle, the rare PERO UAV, MiG-25PD interceptors, and the YaK-28PP Electronic Warfare-capable plane.

A Short Roadmap Update

Before we leave you to mull (and likely heatedly discuss) today’s Nemesis #6’s results, a short update on a couple of other WARNO-related things first highlighted in the Roadmap (see below).
https://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/games/1611600/announcements/detail/807959368541667351

• Nemesis #5 - Southern Flank. We have finished modelling all the units, and we are now busy polishing and giving them their final lick of paint. As we speak, the two divisions are already being tested by the Strike Team.

• LANDJUT: We are now fully engaged in the production of all the new models for this upcoming WARNO expansion.

WarYes is back!

And now for something a little bit different, but nonetheless equally important. WarYes, your favorite community-managed tool for all things related to WARNO, is back with some funky new upgrades and looks.

WarYes is reloaded with a new UX and several updated features. Head honcho Toucan has, for the past month, been busy reworking the website to make it much easier to use and maintain, while also updating its visuals. Authentication is now done exclusively via Discord, meaning no more pesky separate accounts and logins. You are now able to access the website via https://waryes.com (no more typos!).

WarYes now also has a table view to see all the units in WARNO. You can sort, filter and compare, as well as configure which fields are visible, plus column order and width. Nice!

There’s also a new Unit details page that is much easier to read.

And the same goes for the Weapons page.

Unit comparison also received a major overhaul. Comparisons now show in a table rather than just showing unit cards. You can pick what fields you want to compare and even compare multiple weapons.

Toucan also improved the compact summary view of decks. There are a heap of smaller, detailed reworks and changes under WarYes’ hood, but they are too many to list. Regardless, make sure to check out all the changes of the newly revamped WarYes yourself.

Until Next Time

That’s all for this DevBlog. We’ll be back soon!
Don’t forget the vibrant WARNO community. Check the latest news on the Steam News page or visit the Steam Forums. Get together with other players on either the excellent Discord server[discord.gg], Reddit page, YouTube or our Instagram[www.instagram.com].
See you on the battlefield, commanders.