1C Company announces Men of War: Condemned Heroes, a new installment in this World War II real-time strategy series in development at 1C-Softclub for release in Q1 2012. To the delight of both Beavis and Butthead, the game will surround "the story of one of the infamous Soviet penal battalions during the WWII." Word is: "Take command of one of these notorious companies and lead it to victory against all odds through most of the war on the Eastern front. Fight from desperate battles in 1942 in the area of Volyn in the Ukraine, to the massive operation "Bagration" in the Brest area, Magnush bridgehead and Warsaw area in Poland and finally to attacks on the German Altdam and Stettin near the end of the war." Here's a feature list:

• Ultimate singleplayer experience - 4 campaigns consisting of 15 missions telling the story of the penal company from crucial 1942 to victorious 1945
• Truth about Soviet penal battalions from their former members
• New ultra-detailed photorealistic human models, faces and uniforms
• A comprehensive encyclopedia describing the structure of penal battalions and their operations