Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein

Great game but too expensive for its quality. its 2020's

Long ago CC player coming back with the steam releases. I had a BLAST with Cross of Iron. That one I really recommend. So I figured id try this one (completed all campaigns in Cross, and some of those are nail biters with a lot of back and forth. The fights feel like a real unit action over time). The campaign in this version is like playing 10+ operations at once with very little incentive to actually play them. You bounce from fight to fight with completely different units with no briefing and its just so disjointed. The programming is also MUCH worse in this version. Unit types feel like they dont do their roles well at times, and the units behavior feels bugged and doesnt make sense at times. Infantry dont move to get good vantages like in Cross of Iron and will "seek cover" but wont use the damn trench next to them you literally deployed them in. I played this version of CC for 4 hours and im uninstalling it after I finish this review its just so unresponsive compared to the older Iron Cross that had much better unit behavior and control. Even right clicking to bring up the menu (if your not using hot kets all the time) is buggy. The "topography" of this versions maps is hilariously inconsistent and buggy. LOS is a mess and I think thats half of all the unit behavior issues. For example Youll be 6 meters above a gentle slope in orepared positions with no tree cover in the way, yet cant fire down on a point on said slope thats literally crawling with infantry firing directly UP at you. Ultimately worse unit behavior, worse control (not talking about conscript moral etc), worse immersion, worse unit balance. Pass for me. I really tried to enjoy it.

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The A.I needs improvement as it does in any game but it is still enjoyable.

I used to like these games because I played them as a child, then I started to have mixed feelings and the more I played I started to realize that it is a really bad game. Aalmost as enjoyable as removing the skin from your backside with a cheese grater. The older titles are better, even though they are also not that good and time has moved on. The AI is so bad that they gave it some frustating advantage and now you can't target them but they can target you, and by targeting I mean every enemy unit that has LOS on your unit will lock on to it, instantly fire with all weapons from every direction often annihilating it immediately or if the unit doesn't get wiped out immediately then they will just become suppressed -> pinned -> panicked and annihilated. Only way to deal with the enemy is to shoot at the muzzle flashes with tanks and hope you get the enemy unit killed by targeting and shooting at different points of the building/trench/forest/whatever where the enemy is hiding and shooting you from. However enemy AT guns, even the light ones, can frontally pen your best tanks and they can't be located even after they fire at your tanks and even destroy them, so good luck! It is a really slow grindfest because movement in this game is made almost impossible by the enemy mortar teams sniping everything that moves and lobbing a grenade always in the middle of your team, killing most of them, switching targets in a nanosecond and sniping another one of your teams like this again. Also if the enemy units spot your team even for a nanosecond they will fire instantly, killing the men running or making them crawl in panic, so only way to advance in this game is to employ big smoke screens and make the teams crawl their way to the victory locations. Fun, yay! Enemy elite units will wipe out even the most seasoned units you have easily and you can't fire back and kill any of them because of the issue in this game of locating enemies. By the time you get your tank to fire at the building that shows muzzle flashes, half of your units are dead without having fired a single shot back at the enemy they can't target. Also the enemy elite units take a ton of damage before they get killed while your men drop like flies. Even direct hits with a assault guns don't often kill or even suppress them and they just keep on firing at your men, killing them. Luckily the AI is so bad they will often run in the streets and if you have machine guns(which you should, pretty much the only useful teams against the enemy) you can defeat them this way. Artillery support is ridiculously OP and if you end up in a map where you are attacking, you just have a tiny box where to deploy all of your units. The AI will target there and no matter how well your units are concealed or covered, they will get absolutely destroyed. Only way to win the enemy is to wipe them out completely or have the "force morale" setting on which makes you win if the enemy morale gets too low. But since they messed up the unit morale system in this game unlike in for an example Close Combat 3 where units often surrendered if the men in the unit lost their nerve, the units in this game rarely surrender, even if their situation is completely hopeless, so the only way to get the enemy morale down is to kill most of their units. Many ofther things thar are outright s**t, please don't buy this game you will save your nerves. Maybe try the Gates of Hell series if you want some WW2 tactical stuff, I heard it's good and prob costs less than this steaming pile of s**t!

vylepšená verzia The Battle of Bulge ,váčšie mapy,možnosti konfigurácie jednotiek

Top down simple game. or is it? Real tactics work. Charge headlong into attack, without support and you will die. Takes a while to master.

Close Combat is an excellent simulation of tactics warfare during the WWII. 9/10 You play one full compagny (German or Allied platoon) on the field and move infantry and tanks, with artillery and air powers. Each game of Close Combat simulates one of the big battle of WWII: East front (1), Normandy(3), Bulge(2), etc. I stongly advise you to try once !

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