What a pity there wasn’t a Battle Academy fan amongst the sixteen Bellecour École students who made Cut Off: Road to Dunkirk. The free two-level vertical slice is handsome, très friendly, and refreshingly Gallic, but absent morale and fairly insignificant terrain undermine its wargame aspirations.
A Battle Academician in a position of influence would probably have insisted on accessible buildings, spookable soldiery, and terrain types with different movement costs and concealment values. Without these wargaming basics, realism touches like tanks with vulnerable posteriors, feel somewhat pointless.