Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein
In Close Combat - Wacht am Rhein, you take command of US or German forces and either retrace the last steps of Hitler’s army in one desperate attempt to turn the tide of the impending allied victory or ride to the rescue with General Patton and push back the German offensive to reclaim Bastogne.
Also known as:
Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein
Release Region: United States
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Publisher: Matrix Games
- Vastly improved and expanded rebuild of the critically acclaimed Close Combat: Battle of Bulge title, originally developed by Atomic Games
- New enhanced Grand Campaign with a new strategy level map as well as 64 gorgeous hand-drawn tactical level maps
- 70+ scenarios based on real-world battles, operations and campaigns
- New graphics for the user interface, aircraft, vehicles and other graphics
- An easy-to-use but powerful Scenario Editor - Create your own "what if" Scenarios
- Largely expanded moddability: all strategic layer features, all campaign details including weather, turns per day, scoring, support mission (artillery, airstrike) capabilities for both Germans and Americans, battlegroup recycling, battlegroup retreat/disband, supply and much more
- Further improvements have been made to the AI to enhance most, if not all, performance issues: vehicle pathing, infantry tactics, team and unit morale, overall AI aggressiveness and decision-making in general
- Accurately depicts World War II tactical warfare and its challenges
- Realistic soldier psychological profiles during combat
