First sim?

[Kyth]

Originally Posted by 33lima

SF42, despite the fact that's the role it casts you in, a much inferior simulator to PE of the platoon/troop commander role. In that role, SF42 is much better than TvT, but PE is much, much better than either.

Yes, I have to agree with you about that - the high point for me in playing PE (the unmodded version) was the platoon management... assigning tanks based on availability, limited ammunition supplies, the increasing expertise in the crew members when they survive...

As for the game itself, I recall that the mission design could be somewhat, shall we say, "crappy". One mission in particular (in North Africa) involved a nasty artillery barrage guaranteed to destroy (not disable) your entire tank platoon. Seems it was triggered off by driving your tank over a particular spot on the map... After a few tries, I wised up enough to make a detour, not a very large one, off the road, to continue... and voila, Mission accomplished...

There was a later 'Mission Impossible' in Normandy which literally stopped my campaign in its tracks. Just not possible to survive that one
PE disappeared off my HD some time after that...