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Combat Mission - Barbarossa to Berlin (PS)

Description: Genre: Strategy

Newest Review: ... etc has a HQ unit. When, say, a rifle squad from a rifle platoon strays out of the command radius of its HQ unit (or ... more

... something else blocks the HQ from the unit, for example smoke), then the rifle squad will take longer to execute orders, and will not receive any morale, combat or stealth benefits from its HQ unit. It seems very complicated, and it does take a bit of getting used to, but believe me ? it?s worth it. Combat Mission is so packed full of detail, it can all seem quite daunting (there are roughly 1700 different units, if my memory serves me correctly)...more

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Combat Mission - Barbarossa to Berlin (PS): Greatest strategy game ever (1079 words)
by - written on 27/03/04 (Very useful, 86 readings)
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I?d heard about Combat Mission before now, but when a demo appeared on a magazine cover disc, I decided to give it a try. Within five minutes I was hooked. The game itself is a hybrid turn-based strategy and real-time strategy, in that you give orders to your units in the planning phase, then watch them carry them out in the 60-second-long action phase (or ignore them and do something else, since the AI is quite sophisticated). This makes the game a challenge in that you can?t change what a unit is doing halfway through a turn, which can cause all kinds of problems ? it makes you think before you give an order, something I have rarely seen in other strategy ... Read the complete review