{
  "id": 13968511,
  "title": "You don't just paint the map your colour in new WW2 RTS Battleplan, you redraw the frontline with a pencil and hope your troops do the rest",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/you-dont-just-paint-the-map-your-colour-in-new-ww2-rts-battleplan-you",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-12T13:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/you-dont-just-paint-the-map-your-colour-in-new-ww2-rts-battleplan-you-redraw-the-frontline-with-a-pencil-and-hope-your-troops-do-the-rest"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Battleplan is a new WW2 real-time strategy game that takes a unique approach to military conquest. Rather than issuing direct orders to units, players draw on a large map based on geographical survey data. As you pencil in your plans, thousands of troops, tanks, planes and artillery units come to life, attempting to turn your doodles into reality. While you don't control the units directly, the game offers a high degree of nuance in your pencilling. You can attempt various tactics such as curving breakthrough attacks, preparatory bombing runs, reconnaissance, counterattacks, and other strategic maneuvers. Each division is realistically modeled with a chain of command, and you can customize it to your liking. Lieutenant Colonel Steam Page notes that players can organize their forces extensively before drawing any frontlines, including requisitioning and upgrading units throughout a campaign. The game's single-player campaign includes 11 historical missions from D-Day landings to Operation Varsity, all set on the Western Front. The developers, Foolish Mortals Games, have plans to continue expanding Battleplan with new system updates, gameplay improvements, and additional theaters of war after launch.",
  "summary": "You may have heard that the pen is mightier than the sword, but did you know that the pencil is mightier than the 7th Panzer Division? Here is Battleplan to educate us on the subject. In this WW2 real-time strategy game , you issue orders by drawing on a big pseudo-paper map based on geographical survey data. Then you sit back and watch as thousands of troops, tanks, planes and artillery wotsits…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}