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Close Combat: Gateway to Caen

With Close Combat: Gateway to Caen you can play at the strategic and tactical level, putting yourself in the boots of both the generals and the platoon commanders. You can move or combine your battlegroups on…

5 May 2014

Close Combat: Gateway to Caen is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Slitherine, released 5 May 2014 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Close Combat: Gateway to Caen is

Close Combat: Gateway to Caen is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Slitherine and released in 2014. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

With Close Combat: Gateway to Caen you can play at the strategic and tactical level, putting yourself in the boots of both the generals and the platoon commanders. You can move or combine your battlegroups on the strategic level and decide the outcome of battles on the tactical level. You will command squads in close combat situations, using small arms, mortars, machine guns, armored cars, and tanks to triumph against the enemy. You command artillery and mortar barrages and even air strikes. You will get to know individual solders, platoons, battalions, and the larger brigades and battle groups which they comprise.
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How it plays

Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Close Combat: Gateway to Caen launched on 5 May 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor and Child of Light.

Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor, Child of Light.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Close Combat: Gateway to Caen come out?
Close Combat: Gateway to Caen was released on 5 May 2014 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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