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It’s a really excellent game. Offers a huge spectrum of experience; you can play it very simply at a remove, or micromanage down to supplies foraged from dead enemies. You can FPS control any units. You can capture enemies vehicles that aren’t destroyed and level them up in dynamic campaigns. Great visuals also. Strongly recommend if you like complex RTS and the timeframe.
It's so intricate compared to a game like Company of Heroes, its closest competitor. A flamethrower squad just tried to ambush my supply truck as it was en route to refill my artillery pounding a nearby village. The guy holding it hit a tree and sprayed his entire squad with napalm through the windows of their house, lighting the entire building on fire. One of them dropped an antitank grenade and blew half of them to bits while I shot the rest through a wall with a .50 machine gun. If I had shot a tank round into the wall instead, I could have killed them with wooden splinters and falling furniture.
Yeah somehow all of the mechanics really come together to create these really memorable battles that are far more interesting than just point and clicking unit groupings. I like how you get attached to stuff also, so that losses feel very impactful. Some of the defense missions where I’ve just been hanging g on by a thread, very fun stuff.