In the strategy game, players will players enjoy the strategic side of waging war, supporting the boys on the ground as they fight their way through the enemy lines, setting up defenses and planning attacks. They can organize their tactics, manage support and logistics and send reinforcements to the troop playing the action game.
The strategy game is also supported by Handheld apps and casual games for social networks, which allow players to help decode enemy intelligence, execute bombing raids and more to support both players playing the action game and the general staff planning the grand strategies.
Being in all its aspects a full blown First Person Shooter complete with intense infantry, vehicle and airplane combat in a wide variety of modes and missions, the action game lets players fight each other on the ground and in the clouds. Players progress, request for reinforcements/air strikes/etc. are fed up through the chain of command to the players playing the strategy game. Every single mission fought in FPS mode will be a part of one grand war reaching all over Europe.
In Heroes & General you can choose to join the US or the German faction. Once you have chosen a side, your game account will be locked to that faction for the remainder of the war. When the war has been concluded and one faction stands victorious, a new war will begin. You can then choose to remain on the same faction, or switch to the other one.
