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Close Combat

4.57 / 5 - 28 votes

Description of Close Combat Windows

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Games Domain's strategy/war editor Tim Chown says it all in his comprehensive review of this excellent start to Atomic Games' real-time squad combat series, set in World War II: 'The game runs best at 800x600 or above, where the strategic map view is also available. The main game screen is divided into an upper battlefield window and beneath that lie information windows; the info windows are very easy to read and scroll. The main battlefield has very good, though not drop-dead gorgeous, graphics representing woods, buildings, trees and hedgerows. Lots of hedgerows.

The snag is that your men are very hard to spot on the map, being (on the American side) green on green. Camouflage works wonders, but is a hindrance in the game. However, once your eyes adjust, you begin to cope - things also get easier if you use the option to remove trees above stump-height and remove dead/ incapacitated soldiers. Without the latter, you can easily, in the mists of battle, spend time trying to command the dead, which is a frustrating business.

The game includes a nice tutorial (the same as in the demo of the game); this shows some basic tactics and how to move your troops. I found that I soon used the keyboard shortcuts - much easier and well-appreciated. The shortcuts are easy to remember after a while - the basic Z-to-move, C-to-fire, V-for-smoke are the most commonly used. Herein lies one of Close Combat's 'weaknesses'. You, as commander, can see all your men, you know where they are, and command them at will. Morale effects may mean they won't obey, but you have a huge edge over the command ability of a leader in the field. This makes the game more of a Command and Conquer clone, yet the morale effects reduce this enough to give Close Combat its own very unique feel. And a very nice feel.

'Men Who Act Like Real Soldiers': This is the claim made on the box, and it's not far from the truth, or at least as close to it as I've seen in any other game. In game terms, it means that your men are human, they have human reactions to situations, and each and every soldier is accounted for and modelled separately. The basic attributes you see are health (eg. healthy, hurt, incapacitated, dead), mental condition (eg. stable, routed), and physical condition (eg. rested, winded). Underneath that the game tracks many more factors - experience, skill, morale, suppression, fatigue, leadership, observation (eg. shadows on the map are spotted but concealed troops) and more. Stats also track vehicle statuses. Each soldier can perform one of 30 or more actions at any one time. There's an amazing variety of actions.

The right-hand window reports events, and you can set a filter on different message types. Clicking on a message takes you to that unit, which is a nice feature. The whole system lets you track the progress of your men, to get favourites, to witness heroic deeds and see them rewarded with medals.

Close Combat is a very enjoyable game, moreso with the 1.0a patch applied (which for one thing speeds up scrolling appreciably). There are, however, some negative points to be made. The first is the lack of variety in units; while there are a number of vehicles included, you're not going to see the variety you see in the likes of Steel Panthers. There is no scenario editor or random battle generator, so you're stuck with the 35 or so scenarios in the game, which is a hindrance on replay value. This fact is emphasised more because much of the maps are similar; yes, there's rivers, roads, villages, etc, but an awful lot of the game is taken up fighting through hedgerows. As a means to educate you in the problems of warfare in Normandy in June/July of 1944 this does a good job, but it does get a little repetitive from a gameplay and fun perspective.

I like Close Combat, despite the various shortcomings. Some might call it a thinking man's Command and Conquer; there is enough variety and tension in the gameplay to keep you occupied for many many hours. There is a question mark over replay value, [but if] you have a Pentium running Windows 95 then Close Combat is a good showcase strategy game for your machine.'

Highly recommended!

Review By HOTUD

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jose2019-08-100 point

impossible to play on emulator or VM machines even in DOSbox or direct to a real machine with the maximum requirements has issues.. :/

Joe Mama2017-03-18-1 point Windows version

Very good WWII combat simulation strategy game. Only problem is that it runs on a Win95-Win Vista platform but not under 7-10. I hope I can run it under a Windows XP virtual machine since I miss playing this game.

JOemamma2016-10-11-1 point

Does this work????

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Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far

Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far

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Considered by many wargamers to be the best in the series, Close Combat 2 is a classic real-time tactical-level wargame from Atomic Games, makers of the renowned V for Victory games.

Adrenaline Vault's wargame expert Pete Hines explains in detail what makes this title worthy of being in our Hall of Belated Fame: 'In Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far (ABTF), you have the opportunity to test your hand at commanding either German or Allied troops in [Operation Market Garden, a] bloody struggle for control [during World War 2]. As the Allies, you try to make the push successful and rewrite history by bringing the attack to a close and seizing that final bridge at Arnhem. If you play as the Germans, your task will be to halt the advancing Allies at all costs and keep them from controlling this all- important corridor into the Fatherland.

This sequel to Close Combat has both similarities and differences from the original, and offers some strong military strategy gameplay. ABTF really offers three ways to play: battles, scenarios, or campaigns. Each relates to how much of the map -- which shows the key points of Operation Market Garden -- you play at a time. A battle is a single skirmish that takes place in one location. A scenario is a series of interrelated battles, in which your performance in one battle determines your troop strength and position for the next battle. Scenarios comprise a larger portion of the overall operation. A campaign is made up of several scenarios linked together and includes a major part of the operation, or can be the entire Operation Market Garden, from beginning to end.

Each battle map has a number of objectives spread throughout the landscape. These objectives will be controlled by one side at the beginning of the battle. If you are playing the 'battle,' then you have no choice over which soldiers to use, but you can determine where you want them to begin the battle. If you are playing a scenario or campaign, you can pick and choose, up to a point, the type and number of units you'll use in the upcoming battle. Depending on which side you are playing and whether you are defending or attacking, you will have a lot or only a little room in which to maneuver your units before the fighting begins.

Commanding your troops is largely a point-and-click affair. Right-clicking on any of your units brings up a menu of options for that unit. By pointing to a location on the map (i.e, at a building or enemy troops), you can move that unit to a particular location or ask him to fire his weapon. Individual soldiers are not controlled, but rather you command a group of units, whose size can vary. You can order troops to move, move fast, sneak, fire, lay smoke, defend, or hide. Moving means heading towards the indicated location while looking for enemy units while move fast is a quicker move and with less regard for locating or firing at the enemy. The sneak command is used to move at a much slower rate with the objective of reaching the target undetected by enemy forces, and defend means you want them to stay put and, well..defend. The hide command means they'll look for the best cover in their immediate area and try not to be seen (good for ambushes).

If you're ready for new and different challenges, use the game's battlemaker to construct your own battle. Starting with one of the maps provided, you can determine which and how many units each side will have. You can also choose where to place objectives on the map and how much each one is worth. Using the battlemaker you can see if a small, but experienced and heavily-armed group of soldiers can hold off a larger, but less equipped force.

This game was an awful lot of fun to play and very addicting. It's a very solid four star game and should get serious consideration for adding this to your game library. It was the type of game that I'd end up looking at the clock and realizing that three or four hours had just gone by without me noticing it. There are very few games of this type out on the market that kept my attention the way ABTF did. For those that have played the original, this game offers a ton of improvements. I think Atomic did a great job of making a good thing even better, without messing up what they had already established. This is definitely a sequel worth getting, and a great game for anyone looking to make an entrance into this genre. '

Review By HOTUD

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Bilgediver2019-03-150 point

CAELESTIAL, I fixed it by running it with compatability mode for WinXP

Echo1272018-03-021 point

@CAELESTIAL
I had the same error. Running in Windows 98 compatibility mode fixed it for me.

Caelestial2017-10-31-1 point Windows version

Followed all of the above steps, and somehow managed to get a new error that shouldn't be possible.
'Unable to start the program because your video card does not support at least 800x600x16bit resolution.'
Now obviously in this day and age I don't think a video card even exists that can't run at least 800x600x16bit resolution, so any ideas or suggestions? Pretty please, I am dying to play this gem of a game again.

tburgerman2017-05-101 point Windows version

@OldieButGoldies you say to replace the DATA folder with a valid clean CC2 ABTF archive which contains all videos. Where would I find that?

Oldies But Goldies2017-04-150 point Windows version

Got it to work on Win7 x64 -How?
Step 1 :Follow exactly and that order steps from
ANONYMOUS D 2016-09-05 1 point Windows version
The registry key supplied does not work with 64-bit windows since the path requested by the game is different. Edit the included CC2.reg file so that all paths that mention
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftMicrosoft Games
are changed to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftMicrosoft Games
Also make sure the InstalledTo entry matches the correct folder. And then run the reg file to add the entries to registry.
Step 2 :Further more after completing these steps ,overwrite DATA folder ENTIRELY from archive given from Abandonware with the one from a valid clean CC2 ABTF archive which contains all videos ,as it seems game requires those videos IN DATA FOLDER ,(otherwise it will pop-up an error message)and those dont exist on provided archive.

Rosty2017-03-311 point Windows version

Hey guys do any of you know how to make this run on D-Fend Reloaded or any of the options this site recommends? I have tried to run it using the sites steps and it just wont work. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Craigor682017-03-221 point Windows version

ANONYMOUS D you are a genius! Works great on my Win764 machine!

Thinnu2017-01-260 point Mac version

i fixed wineskin, did al the adjustments, but when i start the game it says it cannot find the video files.

Thinnu2017-01-261 point

for graphics solutions
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=6369&iTestingId=91921

Pzz1122017-01-211 point Windows version

Can't open the SETUPENU.DLL to install -Any advice? I'm not really tech savvy sorry!

speedothebrief2017-01-071 point

Thanks for the wineskin tip Anonymous Canadian. Anyone else having trouble with the graphics loading slowly? I experienced this on a Win 7 system and also on the wineskin'd Mac system. But, on Windows 10, it loads really fast. However, on Windows 10 it often crashes :{
Any ideas? I've played with so many graphics options with no luck. It seems like I'm possibly missing the old DirectX version required? Any ideas?

sfcrusscanter2017-01-010 point Windows version

Running a Dell D830 laptop with XP.. I remember spending too much time on this game in the mid and late 90's. I downloaded the game and drug the .exe file over the dosbox icon. Eight hours later.. Hey, it's the New Year! Okay, time to download the Russian Front and see if it works too. Great time to spend while recovering from a foot surgery. Russ, in Kansas

Jeff G2016-12-151 point

Never did have any luck with this one. The zip file didn't have a default path or install program, so tried to install it to a few different directories without success.

Farticus2016-11-222 points Windows version

Works in 64Bit mode if you change/replace the entry keys as suggested by
'Anonymous D'. Thanks for the info you are a star ;-)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftMicrosoft Games]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftMicrosoft GamesClose Combat]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftMicrosoft GamesClose Combat2.00]

$lick2016-11-201 point Windows version

Thanks Anonymous. Works perfectly on Windows 10 64-bit after adding that info to the registry keys.

Anonymous Canadian2016-09-122 points

Download works great! Got it running on Mac with Wineskin.

Anonymous D2016-09-052 points Windows version

The registry key supplied does not work with 64-bit windows since the path requested by the game is different. Edit the included CC2.reg file so that all paths that mention
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftMicrosoft Games
are changed to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftMicrosoft Games
Also make sure the InstalledTo entry matches the correct folder. And then run the reg file to add the entries to registry.

der general2016-04-15-1 point

Does not work, complains about th emissing registry entries, even after writing them from the supplied .reg-file and adjusting the InstalledTo path to point to the proper direction. Any tips how to get it to work?

battling bill2016-02-03-5 points Windows version

the game will not open. files will extract and properties can be adjusted for compat. the registry files cause it to not open. x3 attemps confirm this.

SHINOBI2332016-01-250 point

OEFM USE THE CC2 FILE

OEFM2015-04-051 point Mac version

This download doesn't work, why say that it will? Such a waste of time

Maverik2015-02-11-3 points Mac version

#John
This is one of the grat Mac game titles of all time although it was created in 1996!. It will only run in Classic (OS 9) on G3, G4 or G5 PPC (with Classic). If you have an Intel Mac from 2005+ the Mac version wont work. Your alternative is to install Steam and then pay / download one of the 7 or 8 Windows editions - I think the last of these from Matrix is about 2012 (so its still being developed after 15 years)

John2015-02-081 point Mac version

Ha, I meant dosbox..

John2015-02-07-1 point Mac version

Hey man, how the heck do I get this to work for a mac. I got dropbox and boxer but can't figure it out.

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