Kampfgruppe

Kampfgruppe description

Wargame about world war II, one of the oldest (but certainly not most), looks for someone, maybe "scary", but just amazingly interesting.

Kampfgruppe is an unusual wargame. Here you are offered to lead only a small unit a specific army in a specific historical battle. No campaigns, global strategy, too, no – just pure tactics.

Of course, as we know from history that the battles of the Second world lasted not a day or a week. And here is a respected (though peculiar), but still win the war, whom would you play, you will not succeed - only in battle.

Several unexpected and therefore even more good news: the action takes place on the Eastern front, and in every (!) battle has the ability to play as the USSR and Germany. Only four battles: Bryansk (start date – July 7, 1942), pre-operation of the Germans before the July offensive on the South of the European territory of the USSR in the summer of 1942; Stalingrad (start date - 17 December 1942) – the beginning of the Soviet offensive at Stalingrad and the turning point in the war; Kyiv (start date - 3 November 1943), the Soviet offensive in Ukraine and the completion of the radical change; Berlin (start date – 22 March 1945) – the beginning of training by the Soviet Army encirclement of Berlin group of Germans, the agony of the Third Reich. I repeat that in every battle there is a choice of side. The historicity observed: in the battle of the bulge on the German side, the second force are approximately equal, the third and especially the fourth – the superiority of the Soviet Union.

You must also have to consider that in each battle your chosen side is (historically) the offensive or defensive. In the first, the attacking side – Germany, the rest of the USSR. Depends on the number of moves that you play to win. Coming is given 30 moves, the defender only 20 (talking about the player-man, of course). Remember that upon reaching a specified number of moves, the game ends automatically (which is not always pleasant) [here you have mentioned a kind of compliance "of mnogogrannost", but of transience in relation to the total duration of the war a single battle], and the result will be presented according to the established at the time of the last progress statistics (there are various options for completion of battle – several types of victories and defeats [the victory of the "tough", "decisive" and other], there is also a draw). So you have to try at all costs to defeat the enemy in the allotted small number of moves. It is possible, but difficult.

But most importantly – the game contains a whopping (in other words you can not pick up) a "Bank" of random battles (one of the first games). Please choose a random battle, choose the Red Army or the Wehrmacht, choose who will attack and who to defend (because the rules regarding limit moves are the same as in "historical" battles), and play. The number of variants of battle – infinite, so all the beauties do not know, probably never.

Now about the graphics. Whether it is necessary here to mention? In my opinion, all-taki Yes. Someone she might even scare those old wargames from which you previously turned up his nose, will seem to you compared to Kampfgruppe just a graphics feast. Here is a four-color CGA palette and minimal graphic design (lines, dots, etc.). But in this and only in this way, this game can be as wonderful as it is. There is nothing extraneous, no detail distracts from the hard work of the brain by finding the right move in the conditions of a rigid limit of these moves. And because the interface, unlike many similar games, not particularly unfriendly.

Kampfgruppe – another beautiful example of superiority of content over form, an example of what strong impressions can be obtained not only from the colorful graphics and special effects. A strict recommendation to all fans of old wargames and tactical strategies. Impressions are guaranteed.

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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com