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Vonrichter

The campaign takes place during World War II and puts you in the shoes of General Joseph Sheridan. The campaign is comprised of 23 'missions' across Tunisia (Northern Africa), Normandy (Northern France) and Germany. Some famous combat scenes like the 'bloody battle of Monte Cassino', the very well known 'Operation Overlord' and the Battle of Bastogne "Battle of the Bulge" can be re-enacted by the player. There is unique approach to the event of the century whereby the single player campaign aims to provide you with the feeling that you're the master strategist who pulled strings to manipulate enemies and leave them in disillusion.[1]

Story[]

One of the campaigns takes place from the point of view of Major Joseph Sheridan of the United States Army. A Yale dropout, Joe Sheridan later joined the US Army and then assumed control of the First Armored Division. Alongside Sheridan is Colonel Andrew Campbell, dispatched from the War Office to bring Joe his orders, and assist him in carrying them out as quickly and efficiently as possible.

The opposing character is an up-and-coming German Major, Erich von Richter, who displays a rather dismissive attitude towards the war effort, until a challenge makes itself known, in the form of an impetuous young American officer...

The game follows Sheridan as he battles from Africa to Germany, feeling the weight of the war and moving up the ranks. The story's plot is for Sheridan to find the identity of Prometheus, a spy that seems to have sabotaged all of his operations making him a grinding soldier going up the ranks and feeling the glory of the victories.

Missions[]

Prologue[]

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RUSE Campaign M01
Icon USA Colditz Castle
April 16, 1945 — Leipzig, Germany
General Sheridan liberated Colditz Castle, freeing the political prisoners held there. Among them was Angie Summers, a British agent who had been working with General Campbell to locate Admiral Canaris. Unfortunately, the Admiral died before he could tell Summers the identity of a certain spy, code-named Prometheus...

North Africa[]

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RUSE Campaign M02
Icon USA Taking Command!
February 19-21, 1943 — Kasserine, Tunisia
Major Sheridan rallied several scattered and isolated outfits with the help of Colonel Campbell, turning them into a small but effective force. Skillfully avoiding the brunt of the 21st Panzer's offensive, Sheridan was able to occupy the key position of Kasserine Pass.
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RUSE Campaign M03
Icon USA Kasserine Pass
February 21-23, 1943 — Kasserine, Tunisia
Thanks to a clogged defense, Major Sheridan repelled all attempts by both the 'Ariete' and let Panzer Divisions to retake the Kasserine Pass; in this he was aided by Colonel Campbell's ability to listen in on German communications. This defensive action proved decisive for the Allied counter-offensive, and earned Major Sheridan a promotion to lieutenant-colonel in the 1st Armored Division.
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RUSE Campaign M04
Icon USA The Wild Bunch
March 17-April 1, 1943 — Northern Algeria
Lt-Col. Sheridan, riding to battle with his new armored combat command, was tasked with supporting the French 'Division de Constantine' in their advance against the Afrika Korps' Italian rearguard. In spite of a tougher than expected resistance, Sheridan captured the Italian HQ - where he found disturbingly accurate intelligence concerning Allied battle plans.
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RUSE Campaign M05
Icon USA Digging out the Fox
April 1-6, 1943 — Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia
Lt-Col. Sheridan, acting on his own initiative, launched an attack on the center of the Axis line. As he advanced against the 10th Panzer Division he fell into General von Richter's trap, and barely managed to turn the tide of battle in his favor at the end.

Italy[]

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RUSE Campaign M06
Icon USA From Bait to Prey...
November 2-10, 1943 — Campania, Italy
Sheridan, having been promoted to full colonel during the Sicilian campaign, was tasked with tying down several German divisions while General Wetherby's Task Force outflanked them by sea. Apparently the Germans knew about the plan thanks to the spy code-named Prometheus, and trapped Wetherby's force on the beaches. Meanwhile, Sheridan was tied up fighting off Italian militias.
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RUSE Campaign M07
Icon USA Hide and Seek
November 10-15, 1943 — Campania, Italy
Disobeying General Wetherby's direct orders, Colonel Sheridan decided to counterattack against the Italian militias rather than lead his troops into Von Richter's trap. Fighting house to house, Sheridan's men finally threw the Italians back to their initial positions.
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RUSE Campaign M08
Icon USA Tangling with Barbara
November 15, 1943-January 4, 1944 — Campania, Italy
Enlisting the help of the French Expeditionary Corps' vanguard, Colonel Sheridan struck at the heart of the Italian defense and destroyed their command structure. This daring action forced the German divisions to retreat to a new defensive line to avoid being cut off, thus relieving the pressure on Wetherby's trapped Task Force. In recognition of his actions, and thanks to the influence of Kate Garner in the War Department, Sheridan was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general.
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RUSE Campaign M09
Icon USA Battle of Monte Cassino
January 20-February 11, 1944 — Monte Cassino, Campania, Italy
The Allies brought in reinforcements, determined to open the way to Rome once and for all. General Sheridan, holding the center of their front, provided air support to the Allied columns and helped them advance to the German stronghold at Monte Cassino. Though driven out of a strong defensive position, General von Richter's skillful retreat once again left the Allies with only a partial victory.

France[]

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RUSE Campaign M10
Icon USA Utah Beach
June 6-9, 1944 — Normandy, France
Commanding the lead elements of the 4th Infantry Division on Utah Beach, General Sheridan established an Allied foothold on French soil. Relieving the exhausted Airborne divisions, Sheridan took over defense of the beachhead and repelled everything the Germans threw at him. The landing was secured, in spite of Wetherby's inability to secure the flank at Carentan.
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RUSE Campaign M11
Icon USA The Hedgerow War
June 10-21, 1944 — Normandy, France
The Allied beachhead on the Cotentin peninsula was under intense pressure from counterattacks led by elite German troops. General Sheridan crushed the Germans using effective air to ground coordination, and was then ordered to move inland. After several fierce engagements, and in spite of inaccurate military intelligence, he liberated the city of Valognes.
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RUSE Campaign M12
Icon USA The Battle of Cherbourg
June 21-26, 1944 — Normandy, France
Promoted to Major-General, Sheridan was given the mission to seize the campaign's ultimate objective: Cherbourg and its deep-water harbor. The last remnants of several German divisions fortified themselves around the city, putting up a stubborn defense before being eventually overwhelmed by Sheridan's troops.

Holland[]

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RUSE Campaign M13
Icon USA Screaming Eagles
September 17-18, 1944 — Netherlands
Transferred to command of the 101st Airborne Division, General Sheridan led the initial phase of Operation Market Garden. What was to be a leisurely walk soon turned into chaos, as Campbell had prophesied, for the Germans were much better prepared than the Allies expected. After several tough battles which included hand-to-hand combat with enemy tanks, Sheridan was able to capture the bridges at Eindhoven and Son.
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RUSE Campaign M14
Icon UK Death From Above
September 19, 1944 — Gelderland, Netherlands
While the XXX Corps was slowed down by flank attacks, Sheridan's 101st Airborne, reinforced by the Irish Guards regiment, led the way to Nijmegen where the 82nd 'All-American' Airborne Division was taking heavy casualties. Cutting a bloody path through the German defenses, General Sheridan succeeded in making contact with the beleaguered outfit south of Nijmegen, near the city of Grave.
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RUSE Campaign M15
Icon UK A Bridge Too Far
September 20-21, 1944 — Gelderland, Netherlands
General von Richter, well informed by Prometheus of the Allies' strengths and weaknesses, launched his best units against Sheridan's troops at Nijmegen while pounding the remaining British paratroopers trapped at Arnhem. Although Sheridan was able - at a heavy cost - to take the bridge at Nijmegen for the XXX Corps, orders came to stop the offensive. Though Sheridan was successful, the operation was a failure.

Belgium[]

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RUSE Campaign M16
Icon USA Wacht Am Rhein
December 16-19, 1944 — Bastogne, Belgium
Having gathered hard evidence that the Germans, although said to be completely beaten, were up to something big, general Campbell came to lieutenant-general Sheridan's HQ. Convinced by his proofs, Sheridan just had time to put his V Corps on alert before the Germans, led by Field Marshall von Richter, unleashed their full might. Holding the tide long enough to organize the defense of the key city of Bastogne, Sheridan finally withdrawn on this position when learning about general Wetherby's unconditional surrender.
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RUSE Campaign M17
Icon USA The Siege of Bastogne
December 20-27, 1944 — Bastogne, Belgium
Aware of both General Patton and Field Marshal Montgomery's attempts to relieve him, General Sheridan held tight at the strategical crossroad of Bastogne in spite of ferocious assaults and a personal request from Von Richter to surrender honorably.
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RUSE Campaign M18
Icon USA Blood'n Guts
January 1-7, 1945 — Luxembourg, Belgium
General Patton's Third Army finally relieved Bastogne, quickly followed by Montgomery's 21st Army Group. Sheridan coordinated air support for those armies until he learned that Von Richter had crossed the Siegfried line to personally take command of the German defense. Sheridan, hoping to capture his old nemesis, took command of detachments from Patton and Montgomery's troops to chase him down.

Germany[]

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RUSE Campaign M19
Icon USA West Meets East
April 17-25, 1945 — Torgau, Germany
Due to intelligence gathered by Angie Summers, General Sheridan decided to seize the German HQ near Torgau. Realizing that the Russians had the same objective, Sheridan had to be careful to avoid a major diplomatic incident. Fighting his way through the last remnants of the once-mighty Wehrmacht, Sheridan was able to occupy the city under the Russians' noses.
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RUSE Campaign M20
Icon Germany Riding with the Devil
May 9-12, 1945 — Saxony, Germany
Though Germany had surrendered, some fanatics were still fighting to the end. Under Admiral Donitz's orders, those refusing to lay down arms were mutineers and liable to be crushed by armed force. Using such a "police operation" as a pretext, and with Von Richter's assistance, Sheridan led former German POWs and some Allied commandos in a "false flag" operation to seize a Nazi secret weapon research center near Torgau before the Russians could.
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RUSE Campaign M21
Icon Germany Secret Weapons
May 13-15, 1945 — Saxony, Germany
While Sheridan defended the research center from waves of Russian troops, Summers led some engineers to rig the German's secret weapons with explosives in order to prevent the Russians from capturing them. However, news came that some prototypes had been already sent to Thurigen, a Russian-occupied German state. Just before leaving the battlefield Campbell spotted Kate Garner among the Russian command staff, thus uncovering Prometheus' identity.
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RUSE Campaign M22
Icon Common Into the Bear's Jaws...
June 7-8, 1945 — Thuringia, Germany
Aware that Kate had recovered the remaining prototypes, Sheridan conceived a daring plan to airlift a strong all-arms battlegroup behind enemy lines. Taking Kate and her renegade Soviet allies completely by surprise, he was able to prevent them from gathering enough fuel to fire their nuclear rockets on Germany. In the process, he mauled Kate's rogue troops of the Soviet 8th Guards Army.
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RUSE Campaign M23
Icon Common The Grande Finale!
June 9, 1945 — Thuringia, Germany
Kate and her allies, entrenched in their base, were prepared to go down fighting and take as many enemies as possible with them. Unable to fire her nuclear rockets on Germany, they still had enough fuel to drop a nuclear warhead on Sheridan's troops. Sheridan, pushing to take out her headquarters before this happened, had to hold on long enough to receive a new and unique nuclear howitzer that would get rid of Kate once and for all.

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