I was glad to see that a “Training Campaign” was included with Red Thunder. The games of the Combat Mission series typically come with a few campaigns, a good list of individual battles, and a scenario editor for you to create your own scenarios and campaigns. You can view the game’s vast array of equipment on ’s site The designers of Red Thunder have pulled no punches and have given players command of some of the most devastating equipment of the war. A flamethrower attack from a forest against a passing tank set fire to the forest, which panicked some friendly troops. Both sides have flamethrowers, but use them with caution. Both sides can employ off-map and on-map artillery, including an assortment of rockets, such as the Nebelwerfer and Katyusha, some as large as 300 mm. Tank destroyers such as Jagdpanzers, Marders, and StuGs also lend their support, along with self-propelled artillery like the Grille and Wespe. The Germans can call upon tanks such as the Panzer IV variants (G, H, J), Panthers, Tigers and King Tigers. A very nice addition to the arsenal, which players will need to use with caution, is the ROKS-3 flamethrower. Anti-tank guns include the 76mm and infantry guns ranging from 76mm on down. Infantry carrying the Model 1891 rifle, STV-40 rifle, the PPS-43 submachine gun, and the DShK machine guns can now ride into battle aboard tanks and assault guns such as the SU-122 and ISU-152. As the Soviets, players can command variants of the T-34 and IS tanks as well as the T-70M. So what can you expect with Red Thunder? In the summer of 1944, German and Soviet equipment were almost equal contenders on the battlefield, making for some interesting one-on-one battles at the tactical scale that Combat Mission: Red Thunder offers. I found that to be true to some extent, but Red Thunder debuts Battlefront’s new Game Engine 3.0, which offers some new features including flamethrowers and infantry riding on armored fighting vehicles. As a long time Combat Mission player I was concerned that Red Thunder would just give us more of the same game mechanics from Combat Mission Normandy / Market Garden and Fortress Italy / Gustav Line. In Combat Mission: Red Thunder, players are taken to the battles between the ground forces of Germany and the Soviet Union during the summer of 1944, when the equipment and soldiers of both sides were of about equal quality. Combat Mission: Barbarosa to Berlin, a first-generation gaming engine of the Combat Mission series, was released over a decade ago, in 2002. Many Combat Mission fans and WW2 wargamers have been anxiously waiting for the popular series to return to this front of the war. The gloves are off, the tanks are warmed up, and your PC/MAC is about to experience brutal warfare on the Eastern Front, through Battlefront’s highly anticipated release of Combat Mission: Red Thunder. Can be a steep learning curve for some gamers. Game comes with the upgraded “3.0 Game Engine” for the Combat Mission series.įailed Inspection: AI can be somewhat predictable and is mostly dependent on how well-scripted the AI is for a given scenario. Passed Inspection: Combat Mission players are taken to the Eastern Front to play with Soviet and German weapons. Combat Mission: Red Thunder – PC Game Review By Ed WilliamĬombat Mission: Red Thunder.
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