- MilOps Blog: Unit Orders - 15 December 2018
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- Patch 20.4.2 released - 28 November 2018
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- Development update - 23 November 2018
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- Development Update - 26 October 2018
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- Unit formations video - 19 October 2018
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- MilOps Benchmark patch 20.4.1 released - 2 October 2018
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- Development update - 28 September 2018
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- Summer break is over - 20 September 2018
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- We have a little surprise - 14 August 2018
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- Multi-player poll on the website - 10 August 2018
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- New BLOG on the website - 4 August 2018
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- GamesCom 2018 - 30 July 2018
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- MilOps Blog: The Combat Model - 22 July 2018
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- MilOps buzz - 16 July 2018
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- MilOps benchmark: what's next? - 13 July 2018
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- Update 3 now available - 6 July 2018
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- New poll on the website - 5 July 2018
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- Website up again - 3 July 2018
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- Update 2 promoted to default - 29 June 2018
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- Update 2 is ready - 27 June 2018
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