Infantry can fight for so long in urban warfare that they run completely dry of their thousands of rounds of ammunition, requiring you to bring in supply trucks with the next wave of reinforcements. A multiple-rocket artillery piece can take minutes to reload. Steel Division 2 pushes realism as far as it can be pushed in the genre and still remain fun: A tank's main gun can fire massive distances-up to 2,000 meters-and even that kind of range doesn't scratch the width of a map. It's warfare at a scale that inspires awe when you watch a replay. Battles with 10 players on each team, each commanding a couple dozen units, feature prominently in online play and take place on a map so big you couldn't hope to support your furthest ally if you wanted to. Tactical battles are the heart of the game, real-time conflicts pitting dozens of units against each other in conflicts that feel real. You build your own customized divisions using the composition of these historical formations. Others are fresh-faced conscripts and raw recruits, or back-line battalions forced into front line service by the onrushing offensive. The combatant divisions of troops in this game are weary veterans who have been at war for three years, many equipped with some of the most advanced weapons to be produced during the war. At the same time as the Normandy invasion thousands of kilometers away, the Soviet army surrounded and crushed Germany's Army Group Center, signaling the end for Germany in the east.

Operation Bagration was the June to August 1944 offensive that threw a huge number of the Soviet army's best troops against the German army in occupied Belarus and Poland.

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