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Men of War Assault Squad is an real-time action strategy game where you can control a small WWII Axis or Allied platoon. Generate your troops, plan your movements, flank the enemy and take their strongholds.
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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Men of War Assault Squad in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Retail version of Men of War Assault Squad. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained
Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 4.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next
Downloading Wine
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Extracting
Installed
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Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Downloading Wine 64-bit
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Installed
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Wine 4.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window
Copy DVD ROM
Enter the DVD
Create a folder on the desktop
Copy all the data from the DVD to the folder
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PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name the virtual drive: menofwar
Click Next
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Check all three options:
Click Next
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
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Select Wine 4.0
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
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Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK
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PlayOnLinux Packages (Components, DLLs, Libraries)
Check the following:
Click Next
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
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Note: All packages should automatically download and install
Click Browse
Select "Select another file"
Click Next
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Navigate to the folder on your desktop
Select "setup.exe"
Click Open
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Click Next again
Click Install
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Check "I accept the agreement"
Click Install
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Adobe Reader Install
Click Cancel
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Click Yes
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Click Finish
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Click Finish
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "mow_assault_squad.exe"
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: Men Of War
Click Next
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Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Men Of War"
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine version: 4.0
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Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine
Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure
Click Run to play Men Of War Assault Squad
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Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Securom Activation
Click Next
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Enter the serial number
Click Activate
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Click Start
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Optimization
Click Options
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Click Video
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Adjust:
Click Apply
- Resolution
- Antialiasing
- Fullscreen
- Vertical Sync
- Texture detail
- Shadows
- Texture filtering
- Model quality
- Effects quality
- Bump Mapping
- Specular
- Environment
- Water ripple
- Water shader
- Grass
- Bloom
Conclusion:
Men Of War Assault Squad ran perfectly in PlayOnLinux with Wine 4.0 32-bit and my GeForce GTX 1060. I assume it was running with Direct X 9 capabilities, but I was able to save, load, control all units, pan, zoom, rotate camera and everything else. Unfortunately I'm not very good at these strategy games, so I was only able to play the first level. As you continue playing you gain more missions.
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