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This is one of the downsides of the engine, and a real bug bear for some. The reason why quick battles aren't suited to single player is that the TAC AI is scripted, which means it doesn't really work that well in Quick Battles. There is also the Quick Battle feature, which I profess to never use, as I only play against the included AI (plus, the Quick Battles really aren't suited to this and are more for multiplayer use). Altogether, there are four campaigns which include one training campaign and 25 scenarios. There are also scenarios set during Operation Nordwind, a battle featuring the German 6th SS Mountain Division. It also includes scenarios set in the terrible meat grinder that was the Huertgen Forest, a battle that wouldn't have looked out of place to a soldier from a generation before. CMFB takes us up to the end of what would be the German’s final large-scale attack in the West, which the Germans called Wacht am Rhein, which later became known as The Battle of the Bulge. The latest release is Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg, carrying on from where Combat Mission Beyond Normandy and its Market Garden module finished off. This also added loads of tension and excitement to the game.Ĭombat Mission Final Blitzkrieg has a multiplayer mode, 4 campaigns, plenty of scenarios and a skirmish mode. Now, we still had turns that took one minute of game time, but your moves played out simultaneously with the enemy’s, as you had previously plotted your moves and then, when finished, you watched the action unfold. Out went the old IGOUGO way of doing turns that had carried over from board wargames. Plus, it kept all of the features that made CMBO good like WEGO and Combat Mission's innovative new way of doing turns. The whole of the East Front from start to finish, including minor nations. No tactical wargame before or since has contained anywhere near the amount of content the new CM game had. Combat Mission Barbarossa to Berlin or CMBB is it came to be known. Then suddenly, (well it felt like a little time between CMBO and CMBB) Battlefront released a magnum opus. I remember like it was yesterday, picking up the box at Game in Liverpool.aaahh good times. A time when us wargamers looked on in awe at this tactical masterpiece, a true game-changer had just announced itself, and we rejoiced. Combat Mission (in one form or another) and I go back a long way, back to when Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord was the new kid on the block.