Post by barcelonablom on Aug 28, 2010 0:39:24 GMT -5
Now these are games that are near and dear to my heart. After me and my dad began painting he found the first iteration of the Campaign Series... East Front which was released waaaaay back in 1997. Its a turnbased tactical strategy game using the IGOUGO system.
That means. You take turns with your opponent moving all your units (I GO) and then your opponent does the same (U GO). The Combat Mission series uses something different called WEGO (both sides issue their orders and the game actually runs things in one minute increments using your orders and your unit's natural initiative to react to things that happen in that minute, because you can't give orders until the minute is over).
Tactical means its small scale. Though you can try and field an entire Army on a map it'd make for a long game. The game is certainly suited for Regimental sized battles though you can run a division and even Corps sized units.
The games all run along the same idea and concept. You can play through a loose campaign game covering a gamut of real campaigns (the fun ones being East Front where you can play Army Group North, Central, South from the initial invasion of Russia in June '41 until the end of the war) from big ones like the aforementioned Mega-OstFront campaign to small ones like Operation Typhoon (invasion of Moscow) and the Winter War (Russia/Finland 1939), and in other games you can play North Africa, Italy, the Cobra breakouts, etc.
In 1998 West Front was released and this game essentially cleaned up East Front and put in on the Western Front allowing the campaigns from 1939 (Poland) to the end of the war to be played.
A year later East Front II was released which overhauled the original game to work as well as West Front.
In 2000 Rising Sun was released. This covered the PTO.
Since then they've been packaged together and sold as a pack and currently Matrix Games owns the rights and sells all three with major updates and MANY MANY more scenarios (single battles based on historical or hypothetical events) and campaigns.
Now the graphics are most certainly dated but thats the charm of it. My dad played East Front and was instantly thinking of the old Avalon Hill Squad Leader game. Except the computer did all those big calculations for you. It brings back the old days of wargaming and just like a wargame your units on the map are usually representative of platoons, so one tank could be 3-5 tanks, infantry is usually a platoon for that particular country, etc.
Rising Sun, Marines attack Japanese positions in the Pacific:
German formation:
They are a tough learning curve as you have to learn the ins and outs of the game, coordinate it all and then make it all fit your strategy.
That means. You take turns with your opponent moving all your units (I GO) and then your opponent does the same (U GO). The Combat Mission series uses something different called WEGO (both sides issue their orders and the game actually runs things in one minute increments using your orders and your unit's natural initiative to react to things that happen in that minute, because you can't give orders until the minute is over).
Tactical means its small scale. Though you can try and field an entire Army on a map it'd make for a long game. The game is certainly suited for Regimental sized battles though you can run a division and even Corps sized units.
The games all run along the same idea and concept. You can play through a loose campaign game covering a gamut of real campaigns (the fun ones being East Front where you can play Army Group North, Central, South from the initial invasion of Russia in June '41 until the end of the war) from big ones like the aforementioned Mega-OstFront campaign to small ones like Operation Typhoon (invasion of Moscow) and the Winter War (Russia/Finland 1939), and in other games you can play North Africa, Italy, the Cobra breakouts, etc.
In 1998 West Front was released and this game essentially cleaned up East Front and put in on the Western Front allowing the campaigns from 1939 (Poland) to the end of the war to be played.
A year later East Front II was released which overhauled the original game to work as well as West Front.
In 2000 Rising Sun was released. This covered the PTO.
Since then they've been packaged together and sold as a pack and currently Matrix Games owns the rights and sells all three with major updates and MANY MANY more scenarios (single battles based on historical or hypothetical events) and campaigns.
Now the graphics are most certainly dated but thats the charm of it. My dad played East Front and was instantly thinking of the old Avalon Hill Squad Leader game. Except the computer did all those big calculations for you. It brings back the old days of wargaming and just like a wargame your units on the map are usually representative of platoons, so one tank could be 3-5 tanks, infantry is usually a platoon for that particular country, etc.
Rising Sun, Marines attack Japanese positions in the Pacific:
German formation:
They are a tough learning curve as you have to learn the ins and outs of the game, coordinate it all and then make it all fit your strategy.
