For instance, unless I tell the tank in my base not to move, it will chase the enemy and it will get destroyed. One such bit of advice was that you can use your offensive units (infantry, tanks etc.) to defend your base whilst you’re away, and you can set them to obey a selection of orders. Instead, I let one of the producers have a quick go at breaching and within three minutes my ego had been destroyed along with all my military-based future plans.Īfter this complete embarrassment, the development team showed me a bit more about the base builder and explained certain things that I had taken for granted. The other thing that I learned was that, no matter how I setup the base, I was never going to breach it because I’m terrible at strategy games.

What I learned very quickly was that the development team were, indeed, much better at building bases than me. I then used a feature that allows you to test out your own base, before letting other players attempt to destroy it. Being the pedantic piece of crap I am, I decided to move literally every offensive and defensive unit around because I know so much better than the developers of the game. Due to time restrictions at the event, I was provided with an already crafted base. Either way, other players will attack your base and the AI will defend it, sticking to the parameters that you set up. You can go out and attack other players’ bases and attempt to steal their resources (in aid of further developing your own), or you can simply log off. However, your base is then, defense wise, completely out of your hands. When you start playing the multiplayer side of the game, you will build up a base with the resources that you have, much like any other RTS.

Whilst there was a hefty single-player campaign mentioned to me in the preview (which I’ll cover a bit later), the multiplayer was really where the game shone through, and where the vast majority of the time will be spent, I’d guess. An hour flashed by in the shot of a gun and “one more go” syndrome had wrapped me in its greedy arms and wouldn't let me go.īlitzkrieg 3 is both an RTS and a TBS (turn-based strategy), set in World War II, with an online multiplayer element. I think I had it stuck in my mind that this was going to be a real time strategy game, I’d enjoy it but it wasn’t something that would grasp me, much like 99% of other RTS games on the market. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect when I went to preview the upcoming strategy title from Nival ( Etherlords, Prime World), Blitzkrieg 3. Previews // 6th Feb 2015 - 7 years ago // By Kris 'Kaostic' West Blitzkrieg 3 Preview

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