That’s one dramatic example as to how Sudden Strike 4 tracks every element of the battlefield, and how each of those elements can have an impact on your tactical approach. Infantry could circumnavigate the wreckage but were soon pinned by enemy fire, and any vehicle larger than a motorbike struggled to get past the memory of my past mistakes in the form of those ruined tanks, nudging at their remains and barely making any progress, even as the turrets of the Russians locked into position for the kill. When I brought up reinforcements, from the rear of the map, navigating that street - the only (previously) clean run to our objective - was all but impossible. The wreckage blocked the road completely. The firefight that followed was swift and messy, as flames and smoke obscured the vision of my retreating infantry, several of which were cut down, and both of my tanks were rendered useless. I sent my tanks rumbling down the road, the infantry and support trucks lingering behind, using the great hulls of their companions as cover.ĭisaster struck when two Russian tanks caught us in crossfire, destroying the tracks on both of my lead vehicles. On the Stalingrad map that I played, clearing a street opened a route straight through to a key objective. Sudden Strike 4 doesn’t care for cleanliness. You could read that as a commentary on the horrors of war, in which men and machines alike are swiftly forgotten in the midst of battle, or you could see it as a way to keep battlefields clean as commanders click and scroll across them. One of the key tenets of most RTS games is that everything is disposable. Sudden Strike 4 is a return to a slower, more thoughtful time. Exceptions existed, with Company of Heroes the most splendid of them, but the wider arena of real-time strategy esemed like a thing of my past for a while. Either way, there was a point when war, whether interstellar or historical, became unmanageable for me. Either RTS games got faster or I got slower.
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