1C Company gave me a look at two new Men of War games that are coming down the pipeline. The first is the focus of today’s article, Assault Squad.

While the game will have a heavy focus on multiplayer there will also be a single player campaign in the game as well as a skirmish mode. The game is still early in the development cycle so a lot of the numbers in the game are not final yet but I can give you an idea of what will be in the game.

For the first time ever the Japanese will be a playable faction. This will boost the number of playable factions to five: Americans, British, Germans, Soviets and Japanese. They say there will be 7 or 8 game modes and have around 15 single player maps as well as 10 multiplayer maps which will be variants of the single player ones. Based on the map size they say a multiplayer game will be able to have up to 32 players (probably). They didn’t mention if the skirmish mode will be co-op versus massive enemies or if it will be a quick pick one-on-one multiplayer version. We’ll find out soon I’m sure.

Some of the gameplay they had on hand was pretty good with the game having a control point structure. Taking over a control point gives you command points that you can then turn into reinforcements. The more points you have the more reinforcements you can get obviously.