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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
Anybody play "Combat Mission"? I just picked up Combat Mission Normandy. It is one of the best war sims I have ever played. The only criticism might be it is too much of a sim. It is squad-level combat much like "Close Combat" but with simple 3d rendering and even deeper. My only complaint maybe there is very little "game" to it. Things like when you are fighting, your units have true line of sight and will only identify the enemy with a clear view. The challenge with that is your troops will leave "artifact" symbols where they think the enemy might be and the map gets pretty cluttered with maybe units. I guess that is realistic, but it gets a bit annoying.
What I do love is the "turn-based" mode. You give orders and then start the turn. Your units carry out the orders as the sane time as the opponents, reacting to the action by their own initiative. It helps me to keep up with everything going on much better than the standard real-time combat. It does make things go slowly, as everything counts out in real time with pauses every minute.
Anybody play this? Any mods I should be looking for?
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I only like turn based war games. I hadn't played any war games in years but was getting the itch when Normandy came up on a holiday sale at a great price. So I picked it up from Fanatical IIRC. Then Steam had the complete DLC on sale a week later at a good price and I bought that too.
I was having enough fun when Matrix had the complete Red Thunder (Russian Front) game on sale a week or two later I picked it up too. Matrix gives you a serial code and a Steam key too. Maybe overkill?
One can spend a lot of time playing out a battle or campaign.
I agree the icons overhead become overwhelming but are necessary too. One can toggle them off to watch the turn play out, but it's already hard enough to keep up with what is going on with them there. I'd be totally lost with then turned off. Right now I'm playing the third tutorial, a "small" battle, defending a small town and it's a lot to keep up with. I watch a full field view and then follow by watching small sections of the map before moving on. I imagine with more play this will become easier.
The sim side of this seems insane when one considers every bullet fired is tracked
I think of it as the FM or wargames.
Mods back in the CMx1 days were almost as much fun as playing the game, that hasn't changed. Still a pretty lively bunch of users that put out some great mods over the years. The first one I found was an all in one that really dresses up the game. The link is at the bottom of the first post in this thread.
The all in one also includes a lot of battles and a few campaigns. The only drawback is some may require some or all of the DLC.
https://community.battlefront.com/to...al-all-in-one/
Pretty active boards for an "old style" game with lots of good topics.
Here are some other mod/scenario sites I've run across..
https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/cm-mod-warehouse/
https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/
https://www.combatmission.lesliesoftware.com/#
Some links are old enough they are broke, but most seem to work.
These games can be such a time sink but, in a war game, it's just what I'm looking for. Right now I'm having fun, just not sure I won't burn out (like I tend to do with FM) with the investment of time required.