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[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

The best review, is the review from a source that normally would not like the game or even give a damn.

David Heath asked me to give an opinion on EYSA back when they first started working with it. Put simply, David KNEW I hated 3d and real time in general, and he KNEW he was not going to get any sympathetic comments, or restraint.

I have had the chance in the past to say favourable things of some games, in modes I normally loathe. That I say Combat Mission is likely the best game in 3d is my way of saying, no one, and that includes everything available circa sept 2006, has done anything tangible to beat them. And that is the unvarnished opinion of a harsh critic. If you want 3d, you want Combat Mission. Anything else is second best.

Close Combat rules real time. It did in the beginning, it still does today. Doesn't mean squat how old it is.
But, it has been made to feel a great deal of heat from Panthers Games. Which likely has taken the lead.

I recall reading how mainstream voted Korsun Pocket as likely one of the best wargames ever. When you get occalades from OUTSIDE your hobby, you KNOW you accomplished something. And as Battles in Normandy and Battles in Italy are just better and better. it's likely a fair comment, that those three games have no current equals in the "looks like a board game" aspect of wargaming.

It's easy to get support from people that likely already liked you. Try getting support from people that have no reason to care in the first place.

[Sarge]

ORIGINAL: Les_the_Sarge_9_1

{sniped}Great games are exceedingly rare, and are more about luck.{sniped}

I don’t know if luck real has anything to do with , lets say “the top ten” .

But what I do think we are seeing the end of WWII fresh idea’s which holds the market share of the hobby. Napoleonic’s ,Civil war and even the American Revolution has seen new and fresh idea’s as of late, thankfully.
But I do believe there is a rash of WWII burn out ,at times I think most of us know in a historical sense more about the politics ,strategic ,tactical part of WWII then the people that fought the war.

I can remember back in my early gamming days asking my Grandfather questions on troop movement or something along those lines, and the reply I got was

“I have no idea what the hell was going on outside of the 100 yards around me”

[watchtower]

“I have no idea what the hell was going on outside of the 100 yards around me”

Well a FOG Fest. Small unit ultra defined - in the thick of it. Not your FPS. turn based tatical