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.



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.

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 4.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Extracting

Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



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



PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install



Click "Install a non-listed program"



Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next



Name the virtual drive: menofwar
Click Next



Check all three options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next



Select Wine 4.0
Click Next



Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7



Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK



PlayOnLinux Packages (Components, DLLs, Libraries)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next



Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Click Browse

Select "Select another file"
Click Next



Navigate to the folder on your desktop
Select "setup.exe"
Click Open



Click Next again

Click Install



Check "I accept the agreement"
Click Install



Adobe Reader Install
Click Cancel



Click Yes



Click Finish



Click Finish



PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "mow_assault_squad.exe"
Click Next



Name your shortcut: Men Of War
Click Next



Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next



PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Men Of War"
Click Configure



General Tab
Wine version: 4.0



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



Close Configure

Click Run to play Men Of War Assault Squad



Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Securom Activation
Click Next



Enter the serial number
Click Activate



Click Start



Optimization

Click Options



Click Video



Adjust:

• Resolution
• Antialiasing
• Fullscreen
• Vertical Sync
• Texture detail
• Shadows
• Texture filtering
• Model quality
• Effects quality
• Bump Mapping
• Specular
• Environment
• Water ripple
• Water shader
• Grass
• Bloom

Click Apply

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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