this country is at war with Germany. We shall go on to the end. I remember the

sheets of plane which came up and almost blinded us for my guns.

Hello Lysner, welcome to the World War Two podcast. I'm Angus Wallace. I have

something slightly different for you. On the back of episode 87 when I talk to

Robert Forsyck about the war in North Africa I thought it might be

interesting to see how that fighting is interpreted and simulated as a

computer game. And look at the Choices Games designers have to make juggling

authenticity over entertainment. I'm joined by David Milne from Relic Entertainment.

David is one of the senior designers who worked on company of heroes three

computer game which focuses on World War Two in North Africa and Italy. David

thanks for joining me and for people unfamiliar with company of heroes and we

are going to be specifically talking about the latest version. What is your

elevator pitch to explain it? Company of Heroes is a real-time strategy game

based on World War Two battles. So if you're not familiar with a real-time

strategy game it's sort of that more God's I view. You're looking down at the

battlefield from above. You're building up your base. You're building your

armies. You're commanding your troops to get into cover and to capture objectives

and ultimately to defeat your enemy. And you're doing that while playing

through these historical campaigns. Company of Heroes Three focuses on the

invasion of Italy. So moving from the south of Italy and you know from

Salerno and making your way up to Rome and then North Africa focuses on the

German Africa core starting at Agedibaya and ending up at El Alamein. Which

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