![]() ![]() ![]() Brits are supported by Canadian infantry. Otherwise, they'll just keep on chipping away at whatever's fruitlessly trying to blow them away, an often insurmountable barrier to a vital victory point. Even the most basic infantry becomes devastatingly effective in a trench, as only incendiary attacks can realistically clear them out. Their build-'em-anywhere trenches, for instance - such a simple technology, but you can't really beat a dirty great hole in the ground for keeping bullets away from your face. Weak for much of the early game, digging in and setting up a defensive line is critical. Most RTS games will have a faction that's a bit better defensively than offensively, but it tends to be a polite tip of the hat to the practice rather than a passionate bearhug. Turtling, the RTS practice of building up a heavily defended base and waiting for the enemy to wear itself out trying to break in before you go for them, is still considered a bit dirty in some quarters. "Let's show these WANKERS!", bellowed with the full, furious force of a beefy cabbie who's just been dinged by a scrawny, bug-eyed tracksuit kid in a Ford Escort, really puts the spirit of war into me.Īnd what a joy they are to play as, too. While some may be mortified by the plucky Brits' stiff upper lips uttering such unpleasantness, I can't tell you how relieved I am to not hear some hackneyed "Jolly good, let's go show them what-for, what? Fnarr Fnarr" soundbyte when I select a unit. Though I did hear at least one cutscene mention putting the kettle on. Apparently, we're incredibly foul-mouthed, angry and violent. Clearly, uber-RTS developers Relic have spent some time hanging out at branches of Wetherspoons, as they've managed to paint a rather more accurate portrait of the denizens of our sceptered isle, whose forces make up one of the two new factions in this World War II RTS 'expandalone'. ![]() This much, Hollywood and games have taught us. Usually dastardly, or at the very least conniving. The British - tea-drinking, moustache-twirling nancy-boys. ![]()
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