Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein
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Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein, is a World War II
real-time tactics
game, developed by Strategy 3 Tactics, and released on October 28, 2008 . A remake of the fourth installment of the Close Combat series, the game is played on a two-dimensional map, between either one or two players.
Based on the fighting of the Americans and the Germans in the Ardennes Forest
during the Battle of the Bulge
; all the units in the game are based on those used in December of 1944. The game may be played as either the Germans
, or the Americans
.
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
real-time tactics
Real-time tactics
Real-time tactics or RTT is a subgenre of tactical wargames played in real-time simulating the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics...
game, developed by Strategy 3 Tactics, and released on October 28, 2008 . A remake of the fourth installment of the Close Combat series, the game is played on a two-dimensional map, between either one or two players.
Based on the fighting of the Americans and the Germans in the Ardennes Forest
Ardennes
The Ardennes is a region of extensive forests, rolling hills and ridges formed within the Givetian Ardennes mountain range, primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, but stretching into France , and geologically into the Eifel...
during the Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive , launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name , and France and...
; all the units in the game are based on those used in December of 1944. The game may be played as either the Germans
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
, or the Americans
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.