Anyone grow up on Close Combat?

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I know I did, after our Apple IIGS, which I mostly duirng a period when I could not read. We got a PII 200mhz and Close Combat, yes I was probably a bit young for all the screaming and death but heh, I turned out all right!(morbid sense of humor and such notwithstanding(sp?).

I personally like the first one the most in most ways, A Bridge Too Far and Russian Front are a bit annoying sometimes. I like Russian Front over A Bridge Too Far.

I never played any after Russian Front though....

[Boohugh]

I only ever played the 4th one, Battle of the Bulge. It was quite fun, but I think the Russian Front was meant to be the best in the series. The problem with the Bulge was that the armies were set, you couldn't choose what units you wanted to fight with.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Yeah in the Russian Front you could and if you were feeeling a bit invincible due to King Tigers and such you could give them names!

Wow not many people grew up on them.....

[Pellinor]

Wow not many people grew up on them.....

That's because they came out when some of us were married and working ~:)

The computer games I grew up on were things like Missile Command and Space Invaders; and later on Elite, Lords of Chaos, Uridium, and so forth.

Oh, and there was Ambush, where the "computer" consisted of two dice, some cards, and a complex arrangement of matrices printed on A4 card with a cut-out overlay. I know it was a computer game, as it was prone to crashing: if Mum decided it was dinner time then the whole program would hang ~;)

Young people today, I ask you. Don't know they're born.

Cheers,

Pell.R.

[discovery1]

While I didn't grow up on it, I did spend a lot of my pre-teen time play CCII and CCIII. I recently rediscovered CCII, but I lost the CD :help:

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Thats too bad, C111 is in my opinion a lot more fun though, although my campaigns often go through cycles. For a while I rule the world and cannot be stopped and then the other side gets 30000000 heavy tanks and I get stomped for a while. Then I come backl with JS2's or JS3's and rule the world again.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Close Combat 2 was my favorite "pure" RTS. No, is. I still have my brother's copy installed on my laptop. I've only played 2 but it is amazing. The day CC & TW mate, will be the day I can die happy. Nah. Give me about two years to play, then I can die.

[Kommodus]

Close Combat was a great series of games, and my view of tactical combat was greatly expanded by playing it. (Previously, I only knew about the horde-oriented tactics of Warcraft II.) From Close Combat I learned the basic, yet important tactic of bringing overwhelming firepower to bear against a point on the enemy's line, breaking it, and then rolling up the line from the flanks.

I only played the first game in its entirity. I tried out the demos of "A Bridge Too Far" and "The Russian Front," but never bought the games. I also preferred the first - my units seemed more responsive, and the combat system seemed less capricious. These gameplay considerations outweighed some of the bells and whistles added in subsequent games, in my opinion.

It was because of my aggressive style that I preferred to play as the Americans. Of course, I would attempt to attack when playing as the Germans as well, but the scenarios didn't always lend themselves to this as much. Oh well; I wish Close Combat ran on Windows XP!

[Khorak]

I remember playing a demo of CC2. I was pretty young at the time. Thought it was great, even if I was totally 'pwned' every single time! :D

[screwtype]

I bought Battle of the Bulge as a budget game and thought it was absolute crap. The instant you move a vehicle out from cover it gets hit by infallible Panzer fire. I quickly deleted it from my hard drive. Had more fun with Squad Leader (though the cries of anguish get to you after a while).

[Uesugi Kenshin]

CC3 works on XP, it is still pretty fun.

I liked playing as the Germans and Americans. I would set up MG 42 teams in buildings so they could not be seen and then when my scouts told me the AMericans were halfway across the field move them up and gun the poor soldiers down while they are running across the field....

[71-hour Ahmed]

CC2 was the best because you couldn't build up invincibility over time like in CC3. I never tried one it was so ugly. I still have them installed on the laptop, but the CDs are with my parents...(ooops).

The flamethrowers were cool, I used them way too much... "ARRRGGGGGHHH!" ~D

A typical battle in some areas would have 30 + yank casualties when fighting as the germans in CC2 thanks to those lads.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I love the flamethrowers, especially those mounted on tanks! If you come up against in your Crocodile or T-34 flamethrower all you have to do is flame it and *FwaBooom!* no more Tiger! Course it only really works in city fighting.....

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

CC2 (Bridge Too Far) works on XP Home at the least. Or maybe my XP Home. Never can tell...

Ugh. I hate flamethrowers. I never figured them out. Mine would die about 5 minutes into a battle trying to attack some seemly defenseless target. But the other guy's flamethrowers... *fwhooosh... Bam!* And all my men die brutally. At the same time...

[Shambles]

i really grew up on text based rpgs on systems like the c64 and zx 128k

I was 8 before i got my 1st games console..
atari 2600... I played moon patroll and millipied :)
then mooved on to nes, snes, pc n64 ps2

but i never played those games :)

[Albino Gorilla]

I played A Bridge to Far in the Fith grade. Great game, but if you didn't have tanks and the other side did, then you were screwed.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

The other handy thing about playing the Germans: Panzerfausts! I loved them while playing Germany and hated them while playing Allies. I started CC1 when it first came out. I was probably in 3rd grade maybe. I really am not sure that is right but somehwere around there.

With the flamethrowers you have to try and sneak up on a target using buildings as cover and then wait for it to be facing away, works really well againts tanks!

CC2 and later all work on XP Home and PRO, unless CC4 has some crazy issue...

[discovery1]

I played A Bridge to Far in the Fith grade. Great game, but if you didn't have tanks and the other side did, then you were screwed.

Not if you're fighting in cities. I was even able to hold off the jerrys on the Lz maps with just my at guns, was a little nerve raking at times though.

[khelvan]

If you are looking for realism and accuracy in your squad-level tactical combat simulations, and Close Combat was your answer, I can say without a doubt that the Combat Mission series of games will blow you away. I can't say enough good things about Combat Mission; for me, it combined the best elements of CC and Steel Panthers, and added some.

[71-hour Ahmed]

infantry against tanks certainly gives you more respect for the humble german infantryman or his allied counterparts doesn't it? I find generally that if the enemy doesn't use good infantry/ tank combined arms strategy they can be ambushed, but it gets harder if they do know what they are doing. The tanks can crush at range, and the infantry can find ambushes... Still the panzerfaust range and commonness does help if sie sind deutsch.

AT guns can work much better, in some of my harder CC3 campaigns I used them a lot. The key thing is hoping that they either hit with the first shot or if they missed then so did the tank!

And of course, flamethrowers kill tanks megadead at close range... problem is as Alexander said, close range for a flammenwerfer is basically "nozzle in the drivers viewslit" style distance.

You just gotta do it Soviet style, and throw all those different things at them and hope one kills em. :duel:

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Yeah, then pray you get a Bazooka out of the lend-lease deal.

Good old Russian tactics. Drink Vodka, gather conscripts, hand out .5 rifles per man and tell them to run or they get lead in their shorts!

[Lechev]

I can recalled those days when i played abit of the ladder games for CC3. I they also have Clans juz like TW series. IIRC, the leading Clan is called "GD" and the top of the ladder is rulz by a guy name " GD_Candy".

[Alien of Germania]

Played cc4 first, then cc5 and the last cc3... CC5 Invasion Normandy is great!
never played the early ones cc1 and cc2....
I was old already when started play Close Combat ehehe...

[Craterus]

I've never even heard of Close Combat. Maybe it was before my time?

[Penguin]

The close combat series is the awesome have all 5 games really only play cc5
anymore the AI play is awfull when compared to MP play, and I make mods
for CC5 like how easy it is to mod ~:cheers: check out these sites if you like cc
http://www.closecombat.org and http://www.closecombatseries.net