Love this game. There is nothing else the quite walks the line of large scale battles on land and air while also calling in fire support in the form of bombing runs, air to air strikes, artillery, etc.
If you haven't had a chance to experience this game then you should hop on soon before it's taken down for bogus copyright issues with licensed music. There IS a workaround for launching on modern CPUs - browse the forums for the answer.
I'm pretty sure I still have my original box for this game somewhere that came with a little chunk of the Berlin Wall. In either case, by comparison to what else is out today, the gameplay isn't too complex, but not so simple as to be another C&C clone in terms of strategy. Still enjoyable without requiring the time-sink that things like HoI4, Combat Mission, or others sometimes require. All and all I still find it fun.
The graphics surprisingly hold up decently, provided you're not one of those people who needs things to look hyperrealistic at all times. There's some jank trying to get DX10 to work on this, but at this point, some minor snags with hardware and software are to be expected.
It is VERY much worth noting the following:
To get this to work on a Win11 machine, especially one with a CPU that has more than 4 cores, there's a couple of things you may need to do. They're easy though.
1) There's some modder's dll patch (that I just found through a google search), that's needed on some, if not many, devices. The game generally won't run if your CPU has more than (I believe) 4 cores. It's a literal copy paste though. Easy peasy. Worked like a charm. No wonky install procedure or anything.
2) Now that you're game is running, you might notice that you're getting a lot of crashes. Often when cutscenes are supposed to play. It'll say it ran out of memory. The game limits RAM usage to 2GB regardless of how much excess overhead your machine has. Do a search for a program alled Large Address Aware, run it, select the game's .exe in the game files, and it'll correct the issue.
