Sucessor to Close Combat series

CCIP · 04-03-10, 03:11 PM

Ah, I say go for it. I don't think it holds up to the classic status of the old CM games and the 1:1 unit implementation is sometimes problematic (read: having individual soldiers in squads sometimes causes squads to behave stupidly and get killed). But I learned a lot about modern warfare from it, and keep coming back to it every once a while. It can be a surprisingly difficult game, curse the deadliness of modern weapons (ATGMs and what have you).

Raptor1 · 04-03-10, 03:12 PM

Right, I'll get it, thanks for the advice.

Egan · 04-04-10, 12:06 PM

CM:SF is great; I love it. I sometimes wonder whether it got judged more harshly because of the setting. I suspect that placing it in WW2 again would have blanketed some of criticism it got even if a lot of the criticism was originally deserved. It was released in a shocking state but is more than playable now. I think the two expansions are probably fairly compulsory if you like the base game - each add a very different approach to how you play as well as lots and lots of new toys.

I really like the setting, though. It's nowhere near as one sided as it seems at first, particularly in PBEM, and there are a pile of great single player campaigns and scenarios that really reduce the perceived coalition overkill.

Hope you enjoy it - if you do there is the Afghanistan game about the Soviets in the 80's coming out 'soon' and another Shock Force expansion with NATO troops hopefully before the summer.

Of course, Combat Mission: Normandy should be out by then as well...

04-03-10, 03:11 PM	#1
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Ah, I say go for it. I don't think it holds up to the classic status of the old CM games and the 1:1 unit implementation is sometimes problematic (read: having individual soldiers in squads sometimes causes squads to behave stupidly and get killed). But I learned a lot about modern warfare from it, and keep coming back to it every once a while. It can be a surprisingly difficult game, curse the deadliness of modern weapons (ATGMs and what have you). __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

04-03-10, 03:12 PM	#2
Raptor1 Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Stavka Posts: 8,211 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Right, I'll get it, thanks for the advice. __________________ Current Eastern Front status: Probable Victory

04-04-10, 12:06 PM	#3
Egan Admiral Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,020 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	CM:SF is great; I love it. I sometimes wonder whether it got judged more harshly because of the setting. I suspect that placing it in WW2 again would have blanketed some of criticism it got even if a lot of the criticism was originally deserved. It was released in a shocking state but is more than playable now. I think the two expansions are probably fairly compulsory if you like the base game - each add a very different approach to how you play as well as lots and lots of new toys. I really like the setting, though. It's nowhere near as one sided as it seems at first, particularly in PBEM, and there are a pile of great single player campaigns and scenarios that really reduce the perceived coalition overkill. Hope you enjoy it - if you do there is the Afghanistan game about the Soviets in the 80's coming out 'soon' and another Shock Force expansion with NATO troops hopefully before the summer. Of course, Combat Mission: Normandy should be out by then as well...