Battlefront says that it is Combat Mission’s tenth birthday, and who am I to contradict them?
The most important part of this post is the one screenshot of the upcoming Combat Mission game, returning to the Western Front of WW2. It’s a couple of Tigers dancing in a meadow of flowers.
I know I should never judge a game by its cover, let alone a single screenshot, but. . . graphically, for being ten years on, that’s not a terribly impressive screenshot.
I wonder what they’ve done under the hood. . .
I loved that game! It’s the closest computer gaming has come to the feeling of being huddled over a tabletop full of miniatures. I remember the exact moment, playing the demo, when I decided to buy it. My troops were gathering around a small town (my Tank already bogged down off in the woods ;O) and I had a machine gunner in the church. I noticed there was a clock tower on the building and I said aloud “I wonder if I can put this guy up in the tower” just as I found the command to do it. I bought it directly and played it for a long, long time.
You reminded me of a totally different TBS game… I think it was called Operation Combat 2. Early 90’s.
Oh what fun.
“I wonder what they’ve done under the hood. . .”
Does it matter? What could they possibly have done with the ballistics calculations that would be an improvement?
Curving the bullets.
Well, if Shock Force has shown us anything, it’s that Battlefront are perfectly capable of completely breaking something that never needed fixing.