It just doesn't get better than Highway the the Reich and Conquest of the Agean for WWII ground combat sims. Best battlefield sim I've ever played. Don't let the "Realtime" scare you off. This is no Warcraft or Command and Conquer. These games are like you sitting in the command center... knowing only what your units know... the units on the map represent the relative position of the units but not exactly where they are. Orders to move are carried out in real time exatly as they would when you give the order for a unit to do something.. not to mention, there is a command structure linking whole sections of units together so you can give your objectives to the highest ranking units and they'll pass down their orders to best carry out the operations to their underlings etc..etc... or you can just contact individual groups and order them directly. The Airborne Assault games are not your typical real time strategy game at all. There's no comparison.
There's even a mod for Conquest of the Agean (I don't know if one exists for Highway to the Reich) to replace the sounds of battle with quieter and more realistic battlefield sounds like what you would hear if you were a commander sitting in a bunker while the fighting is going on around you.
As I've said numerous times before.. Highway to the Reich, Conquest of the Agean, Operational Art of War III, Harpoon III Advanced Naval Warfare, Orbiter, and of course Dangerous Waters, and Silent Hunter III, are the games that will probably never leave my hard drive or not anytime soon.
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