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Get ready for even more treats for Slitherine enthusiasts!

Combat Mission is a series of wargames simulating tactical battles – a good amount of them joining the GOG catalog today. You can now get:
Combat Mission Black Sea
Combat Mission Cold War
Combat Mission Red Thunder
Combat Mission Fortress Italy
Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg

But that’s not all, because several extras are also joining in!
Combat Mission Black Sea - Battle Pack 1
Combat Mission Red Thunder - Battle Pack 1
Combat Mission Red Thunder - Fire and Rubble
Combat Mission Fortress Italy - Gustav Line
Combat Mission Fortress Italy - Rome to Victory
Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg - Downfall
Combat Mission Red Thunder Complete
Combat Mission Black Sea - Complete Pack
Combat Mission Fortress Italy Complete
Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg Complete

Now on GOG!
This is simply amazing!

Thanks you so much to Battlefront, Slitherine and of course GOG to make this releases possible.

Gonna try to grab all the moment that I can!
Wow..... $80 CDN per game....... ate these top tiers for this genre?
Great news! Even though the price of the games is making me go homeless.
Regarding the screenshots of "Final Blitzkrieg":

I'm somewhat sure, that howitzer in the first, respectively the fifth, screenshot is either a M12 GMC or a M40 GMC.
And seeing that howitzer fire in the fifth screenshot, without having its earth spade "dug in", seems wrong to me.

Not sure, that's how this pieces of artillery worked.

I know for sure from later models, that those couldn't fire "just so".

Of course...the game is set in wartime...security measures probably weren't as high in active combat as they were during my service time.
And yet...the loading process alone requires the howitzer to be stationary and "dug in".
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Post edited December 11, 2024 by BreOl72
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BreOl72: Regarding the screenshots of "Final Blitzkrieg":

I'm somewhat sure, that howitzer in the first, respectively the fifth, screenshot is either a M12 GMC or a M40 GMC.
And seeing that howitzer fire in the fifth screenshot, without having its earth spade "dug in", seems wrong to me.

Not sure, that's how this pieces of artillery worked.

I know for sure from later models, that those couldn't fire "just so".

Of course...the game is set in wartime...security measures probably weren't as high in active combat as they were during my service time.
And yet...the loading process alone requires the howitzer to be stationary and "dug in".
I'm no expert either, but, from my modest knowledge on that subject, you may very well be right indeed.
Quite the typical sort of small oversight that nowadays' games marketed towards fans of realistic military simulations try to avoid, but it's just so hard to take in account everyone of them... It's a lot of animations to add - then multiplied by the number of (quite but no exactly) similar units afterwards -, just fo the sake of something not always correlated to the gameplay itself !
There's no way your comment would attract any attention from Slitherine here, but it's also exactly the sort of small useful nitpick lots of grognards would type on Slitherine's forums, sometimes leading to future improvements... Developers like Battlefront do strive more and more to achieve a good level of realism.
Thank you Battlefront and Slitherine for bringing those gems to GOG.
Will definitly buy all of them one by one.
Premium prices for old games. How typical.
Niche games for armchair generals .
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Turbo823: Premium prices for old games. How typical.
for Slitherine it is. you can always count on them to price gouge.
@GoG -
https://www.gog.com/en/game/combat_mission_black_sea trailer is about "Final Blitzkrieg".
The rest of attached art (screenshots) seem fine.
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wolfsite: Wow..... $80 CDN per game....... ate these top tiers for this genre?
yes