Posted on: May 25, 2024
HoboXIII
Verified ownerGames: 97 Reviews: 2
Remember your training....
This game rewards intelligence and punishes ignorance. You send 5 squads across an open field to charge that machine gunner, they are going to get punished by the machine gunner and by any support squads nearby and highly likely 12 cm mortars are going to drop onto your heroic charge. Instead stay in cover and flank them and / or use smoke as well as a direct assault with flanmking and pinning manouvres. I love this game, too many games past and present make people invincible they get shot and nothing happens other than the health bar drops a bit but in Close Combat 5 they get shot they will get injured and will reduce in their speed as they travel and their morale may take a hit too. You are in command of soldiers dependent on your choices. From beaches, countryside, towns, fortifications and a mix of all too. Your decisions will determine their survival. You can choose to be German or US forces. There are single scenarios to full campaigns and you can build your own campaigns too in a very easy to do on the map clicking interface so you can set your campaign up choose with forces are taking part and deploy them to fight. On each battle you get to choose your squads and in campaign mode you will feel the losses if you are reckless with their lives. But you also get to see the enemy forces diminish as you fight them. I like the battles, I like the morales, I like the ammunition limits, I like how the squads are not robots, I like how they react to what is before them and happening to them. The use of cover from hiding under a tractor in ambush or a shell hole maybe a hedgerow just waiting for the perfect moment to wipe a squad out as it attempts to pass. What I really like is how you can change the amount of squads you put on the map and the enemy as well. Usually I let the computer sort itself out, depending on sort of challenge I want I might make my own mini game of having a few squads in a desperate last stand against the enemy advance.
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