![]() Operation Eagle adds a surprising amount of playtime to the base game – easily another dozen hours- and the missions and levels were well designed and thought out too. Let’s get back to Iron Harvest: Operation Eagle. Just in case the desert wasn’t hot enough, you can deploy flamethrower troops to incinerate enemies too.īut enough of the World War I and geopolitics history. Cue Rule Brittania and La Marseillaise.Ī century later, the repercussions of this skulduggery are still echoing through the region. He was genuinely fighting to free the Arabs from the Ottomans and give them their own country and, while the British and French governments said they were totally on board with that, once the Ottomans had been given a solid drubbing, the British and French Governments looked at the map of the Middle East and Arabia and decided that actually they were going to divvy up the region into European-controlled spheres of influence instead, so the Arabs weren’t getting their own country after all. William is an all-American hero who unironically appears to buy into the freedom, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for all ethos, while his father – who has lots of powerful friends in Washington – is looking at all that tasty, tasty oil under the dunes and getting a marker pen out to make some territorial adjustments to the world map.Īs the real-life Colonel Lawrence found out, you can’t trust politicians. I found the diverging goals of the Usonian main character, William Mason, from that of the expeditionary force admiral (his dad) to be very interesting. This official artwork by Jakub Rozalski illustrates the central premise of Operation Eagle extremely well.
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