Where the units in most other WW2 wargames took turns moving and trading fire, in CMBO the ire was interleaved. If I was the enemy I'd have mined that crossroads and slapped a Target Registration Point on that National Trust overflow car park.Ĭomplimenting the game's authoritative ballistics, spacious venues, solid AI, and trim Close Combat style order selection (in later CMs order types would multiply) was a tension-magnifying turn structure borrowed from Major Holdridge's TacOps. That hilltop farmhouse would make an excellent Observation Post. That thicket's a perfect Pak 40 position. After a few nerve-fraying weeks of hex-free company-level combat choreography, it was almost impossible to gaze at a real rural vista without seeing peril and potential amongst the prettiness. The countless Shermans I lost to distant specks of dunkelgelb gave me a new respect for the Allied tankers compelled to push Berlin-ward in the days following D-Day.Īrrestingly realistic, CMBO even had the power to contaminate country walks. The revolutionary 3D battlefields felt vast, the length of the Grim Reaper's scythe preposterous.
Migrating, as many PC wargamers did at the turn of the century, from the Close Combat series to Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord, was like clambering out of a Carden Loyd Tankette after a long cross-country drive. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.
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