Old Gamers Never Die: MicroProse and Bird's Eye Games Unleash a New Real-Time Strategy Game Set in World War III - 'Regiments'
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The wreckage of a Soviet tank platoon burns on a West German battlefield after an airstrike carried out by two A-10A Thunderbolt II ground-attack jets. © 2022 Bird's Eye Games/MicroProse On Tuesday, August 16, the revived software publishing company MicroProse released Regiments , a new real-time tactics wargame set in a version of 1989 when perestroika, glasnost, and the collapse of the Soviet Union never happened, and the Warsaw Pact invades West Germany. Developed by indie game studio Bird's Eye Games, Regiments is a look at combined-arms warfare at the brigade/regimental level that allows players to command units from either the Russian-led Warsaw Pact (WP) forces or the Western alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in a searing, life-or-death struggle to determine which side will win this Cold War-Turns-Hot after internal pressures within East Germany push Communist hardliners in Moscow to use force to preserve the Communist regime in East Berlin - and settle