I miss Close Combat

[CountDeMoney]

Loved the market garden one. Machinegunning Polack paratroopers was a blast.

Kraut faggot.  I should machinegun your white-on-black counters.

[Ed Anger]

Loved the market garden one. Machinegunning Polack paratroopers was a blast.

Kraut faggot.  I should machinegun your white-on-black counters.

They have higher combat factors. A back 2.

[FunkMonk]

Mortar squads were my favorite. Laying massive amounts of smoke and then ordering Lt Jackson's platoon to charge ahead into MG42s was sublime. 

[Ape]

Hah, I reinstalled CC V the other day, was a blast, after my Osttroops ran out of ammunition I oredered them to bayonet charge those pesky yankee paratroopers, felt like a real nazi then using those untermensch Georgians as expendable cannonfodder. 

[Syt]

Vinny,

You may be interested in the upcoming release, Officers.

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/367/details/Officers

It's been out in Russia for a year or two, and over here for a couple months. Seems to get decent reviews (it's basically a Sudden Strike game with logistics added), but single player seems limited to a U.S. campaign.

[derspiess]

Anyone play these back in the day? I still own all 5 games. They had something I've been totally unable to find in a modern WW2 RTS: strategic context. The sense that your actions on the battlefield mattered in the larger campaign. None of this "story of soldiers" bullshit, I play strategy games for the strategy, not the fucking narrative.

100% ditto (though I actually started with CC2).  God knows how many hours I logged with CC3 with the RealRed patch. 

CC3, 4, & 5 were the only games outside of EU2 & 3 that I made it a point to buy the first day they were released.

I'm planning on installing CC3 on my little netbook for some old school mobile gaming.

[derspiess]

Loved the market garden one. Machinegunning Polack paratroopers was a blast.

Yeah, in CC2 if you had an MG42 set up in just the right spot you could pretty much massacre anything that came in front of you.