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Full rectangular battlefield map with the planned approach, consolidation line, bridge assault route and contact positions
Commander’s Diary · Firefight

A Bridge Too Expensive

A gentle return to Firefight ends with a captured bridge, three lost vehicles and a disastrous verdict from headquarters.

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Royal Navy helicopter flying over an aircraft carrier in Sea Power The news desk · Weekly Dispatch · 13 Nov Wargaming News: Sea Power’s Falklands Update and WARNO’s Tropic Storm Sea Power heads to the Falklands, WARNO opens a Caribbean front with Tropic Storm, and Company of Heroes 3 gets a hotfix.
In this week’s Dispatch
  • The lead: Sea Power brings the Royal Navy and Argentina to the South Atlantic
  • WARNO: Tropic Storm takes the Cold War to the Caribbean
  • Company of Heroes 3 issues a hotfix
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