The base game also has 20 single scenarios. The game also has a real-time mode for the first time in the series, but playing WeGo is also possible. A squad that has taken casualties carries them over to the next one. The outcome of some missions affect the following missions. It also includes two campaigns (training campaign and Task Force Thunder) which the previous titles could not model.
It is able to render each soldier individually instead of abstracted units that Combat Mission-series used before. The game uses the new CMx2 engine which is technically better than before. Task Force Thunder was given the most important task: to slice trough Syria with maximum speed in order to seal off pockets of resistance for other forces to mop up. After a terrorist attack the Coalition forces, led by United States of America, invaded Syria in order to locate and punish those responsible.
The backstory of the game takes place in the summer of 2008.
