Command troops by either using group control RTS style'point and click' commands or by using the direct control feature for individual units, providing a more realistic and precise style of play. The choice is yours.

Use the fully interactive environment, tools and equipment around you to complete your objective, the way you want to complete it. Maximise the effectiveness of your squad by assigning tasks relevant to their individual skills. As long as you keep your men alive, you can do whatever it takes to secure victory... nothing is pre set.

The cunning AI means that the enemy will attack information; retreat if necessary; look for cover; ambush you, and even flank you. Think on your feet or your mission will end in a hail of flame and bullets.

With four campaigns covering the Russian, German and Allies, you'll be spoilt with choice for weapons, vehicles and men.
 
Russian Campaign – Katyusha 
The place - The Ukraine
 
May 1942
After weeks of bitter fighting, Russian forces of the 38th South-western Army managed to break through German defence lines to the north and south of the city Kharkov – their objective, to remove the enemy.

However, they were weary and failed, and German Commanders counterattacked. Two Russian detachments in the south became cut off, in grave danger as the Germans threatened to encircle them, their only line of communication to Soviet command lay along a narrow corridor in the vicinity of Chepel Village…

May 21st
An advanced guard of German motorised infantry stormed into Chepel and closed the corridor. Russian intelligence then reported that Germans were using Prishib railway station to unload the tanks and artillery of the 3rd Panzer Division. However most of the German crews and reinforcement detachments were due to arrive by a separate train from Kharkov and if mobilized would completely encircle and entrap the two Russian detachments.

Their only hope lay near the village of Chepel, where the Soviet 23rd Tank Corps had been involved in a weeklong offensive, making inroads into the German line, but with no air support they paid dearly with their own blood for every kilometre gained.

The remaining troops of the 23rd Tank Corps had only a handful of operational tanks left, the final objective of securing Kharkov seemed unachievable. They should have retreated long ago as their soldiers, fuel, and ammunition were exhausted - but they knew the fate of thousands of stranded Soviet soldiers was in their hands…
 
German Campaign - Hunter
 
June 6, 1944
‘Operation Overlord’, the largest offensive in military history, had gone as the Allies planned. American, British and Canadian troops, supported by three airborne divisions, landed in Normandy under extensive enemy fire. While the operation succeeded in crushing the German defence, the cost to the Allies was many thousands of dead. German positions along the coastline of northern France were obliterated and the Allies threatened the remaining defensive lines.

The US army lead by General Bradley moved in the direction of Cherbourg, while British and Canadian forces under the command of General Montgomery approached the town of Caen, the door to the German defence in Paris.

June 12, 1944
The British 7th Armoured Division were set to assault the town of Villers-Bocage, which appeared to be an easy target, being defended by only a handful of German infantry with no heavy weapon or armour support. The British hoped that by June 13th, they would secure the town. Doing so would open a southern flank towards Caen.

Conquering Caen would then allow the Allies to approach Paris in several days and thus seal the fate of the German forces in France. All that stood in the way of an easy victory at Villers-Bocage was a handful of tanks of the 501st Heavy Tank Battalion – lead by Sturmführer Michael Wittman. Not only were the Germans in Caen depending on their success, but so too were all the German forces in France. If they held out, so would the Western Front!
 
Allied Campaign – Project America
 
August 1944
The German scientist Werner Von Braun had developed a 2-stage missile, weighing 100 metric tons, and 30 metres tall, designed to cover the distance from Peenemunde to New York in just 36 minutes. Better known as the V-3, its target was Manhattan, New York, using a planted radio beacon on top of a skyscraper for guidance, due to its extreme low accuracy.

This awesome missile had a 1000 kilo payload which had the potential to cause untold casualties. No US city had been bombed in the war so far, and Nazi Command believed that the demoralising effect of the missile attack would make the American people drop out of the war. This plan was dubbed “Project America”.

Even though the US Strategic Service Department (SSD) learned of this plan, their attacks were unable to affect the development and testing of the V-3, since it was being carried out in secret underground facilities.

August 29th, 1944
The Nazis successfully completed the test launch of the second stage of the V-3. In response, the SSD decided the main objective was to recover exact technical parameters of the missile guidance system from the crashed V-3 test launch and return it to Britain for analysis. An Allied special operations squad, codename “Condor”, was dropped off by the submarine Trident on the coast of France near Dunkerque.
 
Allied Campaign –Way to Berlin 
 
September 1944
After a summer of success for the Allied campaign in key areas of France, a new problem arose.

Their aim was to advance through the Netherlands, ahead lay the rivers of Maas, Waal and the Rhine and a myriad of canals connecting them. Their goal - to bring the frontline to the territory of the Third Reich.

However, if the Allies continued with an armoured ground offensive, then the German army could take out several key strategic bridges, severely hampering Allied progress. Field Marshal Montgomery devised a plan to counter this possibility. The Allied advance would begin with an airborne infiltration attempt. The operation, codenamed “Market Garden”, aimed to parachute masses of Allied soldiers into the area with the objectives of securing the key bridges of Wesel, Grauwe, Nijmegen and Arnhem.

No serious resistance was expected, so these British and American paratroopers could hold the bridges long enough for the armoured divisions to travel down this newly opened corridor and reach Arnhem within 48 hours of the airdrop. Once established in Arnhem, the Allies could launch an all out offensive into the heart of Hitler’s empire and finish the war just weeks after the airdrop.

The most important objective of this campaign was capturing the bridge at Nijmegen on the river Waal. This task was given to the American 82nd Airborne, famed for their fighting in Normandy. With this experience, excellent training and inspired by the importance of the mission, the division had no doubt they could succeed; but even they could not imagine how ferocious the wounded German army could be…