Steel Division: Normandy 44 is Paradox Interactive’s grand entrance into tactical combat

Paradox Interactive is known for innovation, be it from its own games or those it publishes. And it’s found a new way to fight World War II, eschewing the grand strategy and general’s-eye view of warfare it’s known for in the Hearts of Iront series for a more intimate battle — the hedgerow skirmish.

Today, the Swedish company announced it would publish Steel Division: Normandy 44 from Eugen Systems, the French studio behind the Wargame series and R.U.S.E. This upcoming PC game focuses on real-time tactical combat between units at the division level, something you don’t see from many strategy games these days. It’ll have single-player and online modes, and the maps and units are as historically accurate as possible — down to the hedges, copied from aerial footage taken during recon of Normandy in World War II.