As some of you may know, I am a big fan of the combat Mission series byBattlefront. This is the reason why I decided to share some info about the series with you, as many may not be familiar with this state-of-the-art game.
CM is a turn based strategy. The player and his opponent, AI or another human, place their units at the same time. They also give orders at the same time and what comes next is the turn of execution of orders.
Duriong this turn the player has no influence on what is happening, he can only move the camera and view the turn as many tmies as he wishes, from differentangles and so on, there is possibility to rewind the turn, pausetoo.
I find the series incredibly interesting due to the fact that a long time ago I used to ply with my frind, Charles, a game we called"the Battle System" , with models of tanks, cannons, soldiers, all in 1:72 scale, with buildings, roads ,etc.
there were very detailed rules, we had al the information aboutgiven vehicle's armor, it's angle,etc, even facts like that German tanks had better quality of the armor due to someproduction process. We rolled dices to determin if given shell hit and so on and on, it was very in-depth.
Combat Mission was made by people who probably played that model game and is the best computer adaptation of this wargame. Effectiveness of your soldiers is affected by their skill, their leaders,such as platoon HQ, company HQ, if they have radio, their morale, etc. sometimes they go berserk and stop listeniinng to your orders, sometimes they panic and there is nothing you can do,except for trying to get some HQ unit near them.
The game comes with loads of various orders you can give, from moving fast, slowly,hunting,and many more. Youcan dig in, hide,use artillery spotters.
The player can also design his own battles with map editor and quick battles giving desired parameters.
If anyone of you folks has the game, I'd love to play it from time to time with ya.
For those, that like strateg, or rather tactical games - here are some reviews and screenines:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/com ... eview.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/afr ... %20mission" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/com ... %20mission" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
on http://www.battlefront.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; you can find demo versions of all three parts of the game.
On the net there are tons of graphic mods which make all the games from the series look more beautiful, there are also hundreds of great scenarios.
The game should be played with real tactics book, it all works.
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Mac
Yeah, I lost that one. 3 Matildas later. 
