[3] According to Tim Carter of Computer Gaming World, "The battle has been done so many times in both cardboard and digital format that the publishers had a real problem finding a decent name that had not already been copyrighted.

[5] Rock, Paper, Shotgun wrote that the members of SSG "were already development veterans with dozens of strategy releases behind them.

[4] However, poor sales of The Ardennes Offensive led Strategic Simulations to abandon plans to publish the sequel.

As a result, Strategic Studies Group (SSG) chose to recycle the work it had done on the sequel in an updated re-release of The Ardennes Offensive, which was launched online as freeware in December 1999.

The wargame genre was transitioning at the time to a digital distribution model, which created an opening for Korsun Pocket.