Luckily for us, the artillery unit we had left was immensely powerful - and tracked, so it could get around quickly. Like this Sherman Rhino - a modified Sherman Tank designed to smash through hedgerows, as it's so eloquently demonstrating. We had so many more units at the start of the mission.

'Oh dear', we thought, 'we've got this far only to fall at the final hurdle'.

Only problem was, it sent them right into the middle of the heavily fortified town, where they were promptly torn to shreds by several anti tank guns, a few artillery units, and the newly arrived Tiger I. While we were sitting just outside the town, pondering our options, the game decided to send in the cavalry by way of two Sherman Firefly tanks, which was at least a nice thought. As at least two of those can't actually fire, it's probably fair to say we were at least a little bit outgunned. In fact, when we finally reached the city - a city packed so tightly with Nazis, it was closer to bursting than Hermann Goering's belt buckle - we had just five units left: one artillery unit (an M7 Priest if that means anything to you), two soldiers, a repair wagon, and a supply wagon. Having completely botched up the entire mission so far, we'd ended up accidentally leading dozens of our troops into ambush after ambush, while the vast majority of our armoured units had been knocked out thanks to some pesky artillery fire. One of the early missions in the allied campaign sees you trying to retake a French city, which has found itself overrun with Nazi armour. You'll need to keep a close eye on how the battles are progressing, as your orders can change everything. No matter the units you have, and no matter how outnumbered you find yourself, there's almost always a way for you to outsmart the enemy and gain the upper hand in Sudden Strike - as we quickly found out for ourselves. Almost unique amongst strategy games (especially on consoles, where they're a rare enough beast as it is), the concept of Sudden Strike is fairly simple.

With 21 huge single player missions to take on, divided into three campaigns, you get to take on some of the most famous battles in the war from the perspective of the Germans, the USSR, and a combined British/American allied forces campaign.

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