Hell I am drawn into a narrative in a Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy campaign (Called Die Letze Hoffnung, "The Final hope") I am doing right now. I am in charge of the leading elements of the 116th Panzer Division in a desperate counter attack towards Avranches to exploit an exposed flank in the Americans advance out of Saint Lo. All of the story is contained in the developers notes, and the briefing in text (And of course in the maps). I am on the first mission and already it has a solid story based in historical fact, the story so far fleshes out the characters (The officers in charge, some our fanatical [url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url], others normal army troops that despise Hitler, but see this attack as a real possibility to give Germany more time) one has lost his brother in the eastern front, the Panzer commander has fought in Caen, all believable but fictional characters placed in a real historical event. Knowing my history, and the designer telling me as well this attack fails historically, but I have a chance to succeed. This simple text based briefing has a far more interesting story than most AAA game I have ever played, and this campaign i am doing wasn't even created by the dev team, just by some community member. Its a shame this game (And the Combat Mission series as a whole) will remain for the most part hidden from most people. It is a hard core military tactical level RTS game that requires extreme patience, the application of real life tactics and those used back then, and a lot of thought. I am not here to force the game down peoples throats (GO TRY IT EVEN IF YOU KNOW YOU'LL HATE IT) the game, but it is safe to say it doesn't take an extremely popular game nor a fictional story to make a great story.