While it may be at the forefront of real-time strategy gaming, there are still many games that have plenty to offer to real-strategy game fans. It effectively modifies the classic RTS formula by shifting the emphasis to troop movements over complex base-building and economy management, leading to a more action-oriented and tactics-centric experience. Aside from the notable WW2 setting, Company of Heroes grips players with its unit-focused tactical gameplay, territory control mission objectives, and creative faction design. Endwar did this pretty well, from memory.Before the return of Age of Empires, Relic Entertainment’s flagship World War Two real-time strategy series, Company of Heroes, kept the well-known classic RTS subset of gaming afloat. You could have a 'front', and then have individual battles on that front (that would be well below the level of HoI battles, although in HoI4 you could have WT-scale air combat), and then the outcome of those battles feeds into a larger map. I like your idea of going about it the other way, by adding a tactical layer to War Thunder. Not saying it couldn't be done of course, but it'd be a lot of work (particularly to do right) with relatively little payoff. For a start, there's no way known that anyone playing in a battle would have any significant impact on the outcome, and you'd be building a game engine to simulate battles of up to tens of thousands of individuals and hundreds of tanks and aircraft on each side, for the benefit of one person being able to drop in, in their plane or tank, and get in amongst it. X-Com and Total War battles are still much smaller than HoI-level battles though, and having tactical layers to strategic games is a bit different to having 'you're an individual in a battle' layers to a strategic game.

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