Burden of Command is a WW2 wargame that saddles you with anxiety over each soldier's life

There's no shortage of World War 2 biographies and movies about the brutal reality and shocking bravery of leadership in combat. For whatever reason, though, I've never experienced a campaign wargame that sought to capture not just the tactical but the interpersonal life of soldiers and officers who fought alongside each other for years at a time. That's the goal of Burden of Command, an upcoming game which bills itself as a "World War 2 tactical leadership RPG" but uses game rules that will be pretty familiar to a lot of players of classic hex-and-counter wargames...
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