Skybird,
Please, check the facts prior to giving advise to new players.
I think you are being again totally unfair with Steel Fury.
You say that "SF is pretty much a dead game these days."
Well...
1) A new update (mod) has been released for Steel Fury just some days ago, and the modders are planning to release an additional update probably in December:
http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=10944.0
2) A new "mission pack" has been also released just some days ago. It contains 40 new missions for Steel Fury.
http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=10934.0
3) There are a lot of additional user made missions.
http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=10102.0
A lot of the new missions developed by the modders are very good.
If you install the main mod (Steel Panzer Mod 1.5 and its updates) and the missions, you will get a very good WWII tank simulator, with a wide variety of tanks and vehicles modeled, and more than 100 new missions (including also several excellent new campaigs !!!)
Von Due: please, give it a chance, I think that you will not be dissaponted !
Skybird: it is a shame to see that when a new player comes to "Tanksim" asking for advice about "Steel Fury" he gets a completely false answer that sounds just as an advertisement for "Steel Beasts". Please, if you know nothing about "Steel Fury", do not answer questions about it. If you want to give advise about "Steel Fury", check at least the developer forums:
http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?board=1.0
Txema