Warfare 1944 is the latest attempt to pack all the grandeur, horror and terrible invention of the Second World War into something your web browser can swallow without cacking itself.

You control either the dashing Americans or cackling Hun in a series of pitched battles across Europe. The field of war is divided into three "corridors", sprinkled with cover points. Select troops from the menu at the bottom once you've built up enough resource points, and click a corridor to send that unit trotting down it.

Victory is obtained by bombarding the opposition to bits, capturing one end of the central corridor or exhausting the enemy's morale through flanking, shock tactics or sheer weight of numbers. During a match, you'll often find yourself on the verge of winning by one method only to realise that the enemy is close to doing so by another.

Troop types pair off against others in a realistic fashion. Entrenched heavy machine gunners are great at fending off riflemen, but are soon weaseled out by snipers. Costly tanks annihilate all and sundry, but can be countered by bazooka teams. And so on.

Think of it as 1066 but in real time and without the bizarre Middle English taunts. Try D-Day Defender for more World-War-II-inspired gaming.

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