Fit check
Is Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Real-time strategy players who want turn-based tactical decisions between engagements
- Alternative-history war fans who want campaigns for both Soviet and American forces
- Strategy players seeking a scenario-led military game with over 25 missions
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking role-playing systems or character-focused progression rather than military operations
- Players who prefer short, highly varied sessions instead of a structured campaign with 10 scenarios
- Players looking for conventional historical warfare rather than a post-apocalyptic alternate-history setting
Our take on Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade
The expansion emphasizes added units and two play modes, but its campaign scope remains limited to two sides, 10 scenarios and over 25 missions. The unit additions do not indicate broader campaign systems beyond military strategy.
What is Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade?
Set in 1967 after nuclear weapons cause global cooling, this standalone expansion continues the alternate-history conflict from Cuban Missile Crisis.
Soviet forces launch an Arctic offensive against American cities and towns, with battles in southern USA and northern Mexico. The game combines turn-based tactical play with real-time strategy. Two campaigns follow the USSR and USA across 10 scenarios and over 25 strategic missions. The expansion adds 22 military units, including the T-60, Hunter, Chieftain, Grand MLRD and Akatsia self-propelled gun. Two super units are also included: the Convair-49 and Tyulpan 240mm self-propelled mortar.
How Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade plays
- 01Dual strategy modes
- Campaign play combines turn-based tactical decisions with real-time battlefield control.
- 02Two campaign sides
- Separate USSR and USA campaigns cover the continuing military conflict.
- 03Expanded battlefields
- Operations take place in southern USA and northern Mexico.
- 04Mission collection
- The expansion contains 10 scenarios and over 25 strategic missions.
- 05New military units
- Twenty-two additions include the T-60, Hunter, Chieftain, Grand MLRD and Akatsia self-propelled gun.
- 06Two super units
- The Convair-49 and Tyulpan 240mm self-propelled mortar join the available forces.
Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade compared to similar games
Men of War: Assault Squad presents World War II battles with direct control over individual units, while Ice Crusade uses an alternate-history nuclear conflict and combines real-time play with turn-based tactical mode. Xenonauts follows a multinational organization defending Earth from extraterrestrials through turn-based squad operations; Ice Crusade instead follows USSR and USA campaigns across strategic military missions.
Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade: platforms & release
Is Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade worth it?
It is worth it if: real-time strategy players who want turn-based tactical decisions between engagements. Skip it if: players seeking role-playing systems or character-focused progression rather than military operations.
Where can I download Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Cuban Missile Crisis: Ice Crusade on?
Windows only.
