April 11, 2008
Strategic Command 2: Patton Drives East
Release Date, Pre-Orders, Documentation!
Battlefront.com and Fury Software have just
announced that the second expansion in the acclaimed Strategic Command 2 grand
strategy series is now open for Pre-Orders! This expansion costs $25 and is
scheduled for an official release in May via
http://www.battlefront.com/ only, and will be available for Digital Delivery
(download), Mail Delivery (CD) as well as a combined Download & Mail Delivery
version.
Pre-Order now and get all of the following:
- Priority Advance Notification of the games
release by email - Download the game as soon as it is officially
released in May - Hardcopy of the game (on CD) will be sent you
via mail after release - Save $10 on the "Download & Mail" delivery
option! After release you will have to pay $35, but as a Pre-Order customer
you only need to pay $25.
As an added bonus, Battlefront.com has already
published the Full Patton Drives East Expansion Manual for players to flip
through and explore the exciting new features, campaigns and enhancements to the
original game.
Patton Drives East Expansion Manual Here:
http://www.battlefront-store.com:8080//index.php?option=com_flippingbook&book_id=5&Itemid=226
Game Info:
Patton Drives East allows players to explore the
both the historically possible "what ifs" and alternate realities of World War 2
such as:
- What if the Western Allies and the Soviet
Union went to war after defeating the Axis? - Could America liberate a Europe subjugated by
the Axis? - What if the Western Allies had accepted a
surrender from Germany and together they would fight against the USSR? - This expansion incorporates a list of new
features including: - New and bigger game map, now 172×46 tiles in
size - Much larger North American map area,
stretching from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico all the way to the Rocky
Mountains - Enhanced and unpredictable AI via new decision
events and global variables - New unit graphics to reflect updated equipment
and technologies that would become available post WWII - Exciting new post-WWII Allies vs. USSR
campaigns - Thrilling re-envisioned classic campaigns with
alternate history "what-if" situations
Strategic Command 2 Patton Drives East is an
expansion pack and will require the original English language Battlefront.com
version of Strategic Command 2 Blitzkrieg to be installed and licensed on your
computer in order to run! It will not work with any other version of Strategic
Command 2 Blitzkrieg nor will it work simply by itself. Strategic Command 2
Patton Drives East does not require the Strategic Command 2 Weapons and Warfare
Expansion to also be installed but will work if it is.
Game Web Site:
Patton Drives East Campaigns
- 1944 Shattered Alliance – Germany surrenders
to the Western Allies following the debacle of the Battle of the Bulge and
together, under the leadership of General George S. Patton, they turn their
focus on the USSR in order to wipe Communism from the face of Europe forever.
- 1945 Patton Drives East – Following the
surrender of Germany, Patton is given the green light to lead the Western
Alliance in an attack on the USSR and push the Communists back across the Oder
and all the way to the gates of Moscow. - 1945 Stalin Drives West – With the defeat of
the Axis powers Communist Russia and the Western Allies go to war against each
other. Allied forces in Europe must starve off conquest by Russia until
American reinforcements arrive from across the Atlantic. - 1947 Russians Are Coming – Following the end
of WWII and after much demobilization of its armed forces in Europe, the
United States and its Western Allies were shocked by a sneak attack from the
Soviets that saw it overrun the Western occupation zones, conquer Belgium and
reach the coasts of France within 2 weeks. The UK isle stands alone and is all
that separates the USA from a full scale invasion of American shores. - 1948 Berlin Crisis – Having failed to
successfully blockade Berlin Stalin was not about to let the Western Allies
control what had been paid for in Russian blood. If the Americans and their
Capitalist partners thought they could keep the Communist Party from
dominating all of Europe, they were wrong.
Alternate History WWII ‘What If’ Campaigns
- 1939 Storm of Steel – Having recently annexed
Austria, Germany turned its sights on the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia. Will
Poland be next? Will Great Britain and France sit idly by? What will Stalin
do? Can Hitler be appeased or is WWII inevitable? Control the start of WWII by
building up the German army and invading the country of your choice. - 1941 Unternehmen Seelöwe – Having swept the
English Channel of mines and successfully dealing a series of critical blows
to the Royal Navy as well as the RAF, German military planners put to work
their original plan for the invasion of England. Can the remnants of the Royal
Armed Forces stop the German war machine or will there be goose stepping in
London before the year is out? - 1943 Sledgehammer – The Western Allies, having
forgone reinforcement in North Africa and canceling Operation Torch, are
prepared to launch D-Day a year earlier than planned but with the intention of
capturing a major port, either Cherbourg or Brest, from the outset. Is it a
port too far? - 1946 Case Neptune – After Germany had
performed a successful Sealion in ’41 and subsequently forced Russia to the
bargaining table in ’44, the United States and the remnants of the Royal Navy
and British Expeditionary Forces launch a bold invasion to retake the British
Isles. On the Eastern front the Soviets break their armistice with Germany and
attack from the Urals in hopes of reversing their earlier humiliation on the
battlefield.
Bonus Mini-Campaigns
- 1940 Seelöwe – Operation Sealion, the
amphibious invasion of the British Isles commences. - 1974 Invasion of Cyprus – The Turkish invasion
of the island of Cyprus