“Streamlining will allow players cognitive capacity to focus on combat,” say devs

Age of Empires IV.

WarCraft III: Reforged.Company of Heroes 3.

A nostalgic need to be catered to.

A helicopter takes damage from anti-aircraft missiles in Crossfire: Legion

Were hoping to fulfill that gap.

What does that mean forCrossfire: Legion?

Units that burn rubber.

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Simple build queues, and harvesters that can be left largely to their own devices.

Global Risk provides a familiar, comparatively simple army-building strategy, Grela continues.

Combined arms, with an emphasis on quickly reinforcing fallen units.

Blackbird knows what they’re talking about.

Many of the designers, and the lead of Crossfire: Legion, are avid wargamers, Grela says.

For some team members, Legion is a chance to recreate and then refine on a nostalgia formula.

Grela promises modernisations across Legions interface, mechanics and game systems.

Grela describes the Crossfire universe as shlocky - a setting that plays up its counter-terrorism premise for dramatic effect.

Based onthe little Ive played, speed and accessibility appear to have been prioritised over spectacle and aesthetic novelty.