The game utilizes the Enigma engine—originally famous for the Blitzkrieg series—combining fast-paced tactical battles with a turn-based strategic layer.
: Players manage resource centers and move "battle groups" on a global theater map in turn-based mode before diving into real-time tactical combat. Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade
is a standalone expansion for the real-time strategy (RTS) game Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath , developed by G5 Software . Set in a terrifying "what-if" timeline, it explores a world where the 1962 diplomatic standoff failed, plunging humanity into a nuclear winter. The World of 1967 The game utilizes the Enigma engine—originally famous for
In reality, the Cuban Missile Crisis ended in October 1962 when the USSR agreed to remove missiles from Cuba in exchange for a US pledge not to invade the island and the secret removal of US missiles from Turkey. Ice Crusade serves as a grim exploration of the consequences if "cooler heads" had not prevailed. Availability Set in a terrifying "what-if" timeline, it explores
: The expansion features two new campaigns for the USSR and the USA, spanning 10 scenarios and over 25 strategic missions.
While the real world avoided catastrophe through diplomacy, Ice Crusade fast-forwards five years into a post-apocalyptic 1967. Global cooling caused by nuclear fallout has reshaped geopolitics, making clean water and fertile land the most precious resources left.