At this point in the war, on a tactical level the US, UK and German forces were pretty similar, with similar equipment and training, and that’s represented in the game. The three forces feel pretty accurately represented. The writeup for each scenario is just a few sentences long, but adds some flavour to the game. Each scenario comes with a short writeup that explains what’s going on, and the importance of the engagement, but there’s no campaign that ties it all together, just 19 separate scenarios that are completely independent of each other. Two allied nations are available, the US and the British, each of which has their own set of scenarios. It probably did end up causing the war to end earlier than it otherwise would have, and the map of Europe would probably look quite different now had the Russians been the only ones really taking the fight to the enemy, but the war would have ended with a German defeat anyway. Some argue that this marks the point where it became clear that Germany were about to lose the war, though the actual importance of the D-day has been debated among historians, as Germany were already losing ground to the Soviet forces at this point. Fighting that historically the allied forces won. Valor & Victory takes place shortly after D-day, and covers the fighting between the Germans and the allied forces. One of the more busy maps in the game, and there’s still not a lot of units! Story & Setting
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