Gone Gold! Battlefront.com and developer Fury Software are announcing that “Strategic Command – European Theater”, a turn-based Grand Strategy wargame featuring the Second World War in Europe, has now officially gone “Gold”. The game is already in production and is expected to ship by the end of the month. Pre-orders will be opened Friday, July 19^th. Strategic Command – European Theater will be available only from Battlefront.com’s online store and is not being sold in retail. A Gold Demo will be released shortly.

Strategic Command offers 6 major campaigns- “Fall Weiss”, “Fall Gelb”, “Barbarossa”, “Fall Blau”, “Zitadelle”, “Overlord” which begin from 1939 to 1944. Each Campaign can be played beyond historical end of war date and into 1946! Game play is turn based with each turn lasting from 2 weeks to 1 month depending on the season. Designed for replayability and realism, options include fog of war, Free French forces, Partisans, scorched earth, thoroughly implemented features for sea transport, amphibious assaults, strategic bombing, industrial production, research and development, declarations of war, historical and random nation neutrality and allegiances as well as other political mechanisms.

Other “Strategic Command” Game features include:

• Detailed Theater Wide Map covers an area that stretches horizontally from the east coast of North America to the Ural Mountains of Russia, and vertically from just below the Arctic Circle to the northern coast of Africa.

• Classic Turn Based Hex Style Wargame which blends the “chess like” feel for combat at the strategic level with the nuance and scope of the European Theater during World War II.

• Various Unit Types covering all the major facets of land, sea and air combat including HQs with true to life historical personalities, Corps, Armies, Tank Groups, Rocket Detachments, Air Fleets, Strategic Bombers, Battleships, Cruisers, Carriers, Subs and Transports.

• Players have the ability to command the forces of 25 Different Nations (6 major and 19 minor), including Germany, USA, Russia, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Poland, Hungaria, Romania, Greece and many more.

• Detailed Unit Modelling includes combat strength, readiness, supply, entrenchment, experience and associated commander ratings.

• Sophisticated Game AI – watch as the computer plans military campaigns that not only attempt to obliterate your military forces in the field but also target your strategic resources.

• “Campaign Editor” application to create your own “what-if” scenarios.

• Multiplayer Support for Hotseat and Play-by-Email with future free upgrade for LAN and TCP/IP play.

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 in September by the greatly anticipated Eastern Front sequel to Combat Mission – “Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin”. Additionally, Battlefront.com offers a host of resources for wargamers, including our newly opened Battlefront.com Bookshelf area with rare book titles from The Nafziger Collection, WWII theme poster prints and much more.

Fury Software is a new gaming company that was founded in 1999 by Hubert Cater. Although a newcomer to the war gaming development arena, his mandate has been commitment to quality from day one. Strategic Command will be his first major publication and with over 2 years into development, promises to become an exciting new product for this ambitious startup.

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