For serious wargamers, the name "Combat Mission" conjures images of intense tactical battles, meticulous planning, and the unique "WEGO" system that sets it apart. While the modern CMx2 engine games like Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy and Combat Mission: Red Thunder offer stunning realism and refined interfaces, there's still value in the older, original CMx1 titles: Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord, Barbarossa to Berlin, and Afrika Korps.
I've been granted the privilege of a press and preview copy of "Concert of Europe" (New DLC for Strategic Command-American Civil War, courtesy of Eugenia and Paolo at Slitherine Games. Thank you!
I continue to enjoy Falcon BMS's Balkans campaign. I'm now using the HTS pod and mission (partial) successes are more frequent now.
Great visuals, but the limitations of the demo may be concealing what the actual gameplay would be like.
A short gameplay video showing the daily turn resolution can be found at my YouTube channel:
I enrolled in the beta builds for Scourge of War Remastered (via the Steam page, no code for beta necessary) after I read a game discussion thread about improved visuals.
I dusted off my copy of TacOps for this blog entry just to remind myself of how much I neglect the planning of fires on my tactical gaming sessions.
Many books on military tactics teach you to follow a script, a predictable series of drills. The Special Tactics series, however, challenges you to think critically and adapt.
The latest mission that I reported for Falcon BMS, left me aching for a good fight with enemy SAMs. I am full of questions on how to dance with an enemy SA-5. But my problem is beyond battle drill, it is mostly about if I am asking the right questions.
Command Modern Operations (CMO) is a fantastic tool for exploration and a great platform to look for insights. With its great database, it took me less than 10 minutes to set up an scenario at the same area of operations in my last Falcon BMS foray. Down to the villages and small cities plotted besides the AAA, SA-5 and a trustworthy F-16CJ armed with HARM missiles.
This scenario portrays the offensive of the Russian 63th Army in the southernmost edge of the Bryansk Front. The objective is to break through the German defenses in a sector defended by General Rendulic's XXXV.ArmeeKorps. It is one bonus scenarios that were deployed along the latest patch for Orel '43.
