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I agree with Steiner, this series needs to head back to the eastern front!

ORIGINAL: Death Method

I agree with Steiner, this series needs to head back to the eastern front!

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ORIGINAL: jwduquette1

ORIGINAL: Death Method

I agree with Steiner, this series needs to head back to the eastern front!

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YUP!

Eastern Front is ok as long as vehicle pathing is sorted, which still hasnt been fully resolved as far as I am aware. Is PITF better?

CC excells in infantry combat, which would make something along the lines of Guadalcanal very interesting, as both sides at that time were about even.

Close Combat is still one of our most popular games in terms of hours played and sales so the stats seem to be against this.

That's because for a long while only it and Steel Panthers were the only worthwhile games out there and Steel Panthers being the most popular. This series being over 10 years old of course it's going to have more hours played but that doesn't mean it's all that great it means more it was about the only thing to play other than Steel Panthers for years. Now with games like the Total War series and Norbsofts Civilwar I'd be sure in a 10 year span they will be more popular than Close Combat series.

I like this series. This game made me want to buy the rest of the CC games next week. I like it.

Vote for Pacific and Eastern Front...To have so many CC games and never have an official CC Pacific game seems wrong (mods don't count and don't work that well anyway). Just one at least...tunnels, jungle fighting, banzai charges would be a nice change instead of the same looking battlefields over and over. Also a nice and new challenge for the developers I would think.

Also new Eastern front as CCIII/Cross of Iron had that linear path that always ended the same no matter what you did win or lose.

A random map generator and quick battles ala Steel Panthers or Combat Mission or Panzer Command is what this series needs also. I never have liked playing a single map more than once.

ORIGINAL: heyhellowhatsnew

I like this series. This game made me want to buy the rest of the CC games next week. I like it.

then get ready for the long haul, as well as the "official" versions, there are hundreds of comprehensive mods, and some of them are superb

ORIGINAL: STIENER

Russian front.......Kursk [:)] or a part of that Battle & campagn [:)]

+1 Steiner

ORIGINAL: Reboot

61 years old, been wargaming for 40+ years, and CC since CC2 was released
when there is something better than CC to simulate WWII armored warfare then I'll play it

hey mooxe, trolling in your own troll hole not enough for you?

I just turned 23 but I still wholeheartedly agree!

ORIGINAL: heyhellowhatsnew

I like this series. This game made me want to buy the rest of the CC games next week. I like it.

Welcome aboard!

Buying all the games will give you a decade of gaming, at least that is how long I've been playing CC, and a large variety in the game styles....

COI - linear eastern front campaign, you can't change history, but it does cover all the years of fighting so it has a large variety of guns/tanks available over time. Uses a point system to buy/upgrade squads/vehicles.
CCMT - best single battle editor/setup and modern weapons. It also supports more than H2H (5 vs 5) but so few picked up the game because it has no campaign that it is hard to find opponents
WAR - has a strat map to determine where battles will occur with lots of winter maps. Uses a forcepool to limit available squads/vehicles.
TLD - has a strat map to determine where battles will occur and covers D-day. Including Para drops the first night and all the Allied forces (British/Canadian/US). Uses a forcepool to limit available squads/vehicles.
LSA - has a strat map to determine where battles will occur plus adds blowing bridges along with allowing 2 BG's per map (this is/was a big change though some found it complicated). It uses a point system like CC2 and CC3 to buy squads/vehicles.

Speaking to the original post, I would say "No" and would ask him if Civ has outlived its time. Harpoon? Risk? A classic is a classic. Panzer General has re-emerged as Panzer Corp and still captivates. No game is dead until developers and modders give up.