Airborne Assault - Red Devils over Arnhem has been Released

June 19th, 2002

Now shipping! - Battlefront.com and developer Panther Games are proud to announce that “Airborne Assault - Red Devils over Arnhem”, an operational level real-time wargame about the final leg of “Operation Market Garden”, is now shipping!

All pre-orders left our US and European warehouses today. New orders will ship within our normal 1-2 day timeframe.

In “Airborne Assault” players can take command of the British Airborne forces (the “Red Devils”) as they struggle to seize control of the strategic Rhine River crossing at the Dutch town of Arnhem in September 1944 or rally the desperate German forces as they try to repel the airborne invaders.

“Airborne Assault” game features include:

• Detailed vector drawn map based on actual World War II allied Geographical Section General Staff (G.S.G.S.) maps issued in 1944

• Historically accurate Order of Battles with a total of over 440 combat units (platoon size and up). Methodically researched, including details such as personnel strength, equipment, supplies, fatigue, cohesion, aggression, experience, training, commander abilities, staff capacity, communications rating, speed, deployment, location, formation, frontage, depth, and unit histories

• “ScenMaker” game editor to create your own “what-if” scenarios

• Multiplayer support for LAN and Internet play

• Sophisticated game AI – micromanage your units as much as you like, or issue strategic orders to whole formations and watch your subordinate commanders develop a plan of action- pausable real-time action at adjustable speeds simulates the pressures of command

Visit www.battlefront.com  for more information and screenshots!

Background information:

Battlefront.com is an independent internet-based publisher of superior war and strategy games, among them the award-winning 3D tactical WWII combat simulation “Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord”. “Airborne Assault – Red Devils Over Arnhem” is one of four new titles published this year under the Battlefront.com label, to be followed later this year by the greatly anticipated Eastern Front sequel to Combat Mission – “Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin”. Additionally, Battlefront.com offers a lot of resources for wargamers, among others our newly opened Battlefront.com Bookshelf area with rare titles from the Nafziger Collection, WWII theme prints and much more.

Panther Games have been developing wargames since 1985 with the release of the board game "Trial of Strength: War on the Eastern Front". Their computer wargame "Fire Brigade: The Battle for Kiev" won many awards including the 1988 Charles S Roberts award for Best 20th Century Computer Game. Airborne Assault will advance the cause of computer wargaming, bringing the challenge of real time play to the operational level of warfare.

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