Combat Mission: Campaigns

CMC gives you the player a wealth of tools to effectively command and fight with your troops. With a single mouse click you can view a detailed collapsible Order of Battle (OoB) tree for all units under your command. At a glance you can review any units 'Readiness' statistic which combines fitness, fatigue and the actions and battles a unit fights to determine an overall level of effectiveness. View detailed signals reports indicating the type of communications links and assets your units have, for example, runners, direct or point to point radio , motorcycle and halftrack driven couriers.

Review the transport info of your units as well as their transport type (i.e. horse-driven, motorized, bicycle, foot etc...), load capacity and their on and off road speeds. Coordinate complex multi-unit maneuvers by using H-hour commands that commence at a specified time. Allocate artillery assets to be in of specific units (allows FO's to appear in the tactical battles). Order units to entrench, be placed in tactical reserve, move out in combat formations or road march (travel move), rest and more. All of this done in an intuitive and configurable graphical interface.

Put simply, Combat Mission Campaigns adds the Operational and Strategic elements that fans have always wanted in Combat Mission at an unprecedented level of detail! Russian and German maneuver units of platoons, companies and battalions are at your disposal and you can even opt to be a subordinate officer with the AI or other human players as your commander.

Combat Mission Campaigns not only provides the ability to engage in operational level maneuvering, but provides new context for Combat Mission battles, linking the results of tactical engagements with the larger operations, giving incentive for commanders to plan strategies carefully and with regard to the wide ranging consequences of their actions.

CMC can be played single player against one or more AI opponents (or subordinates), or multiplayer versus several other human opponents. PBEM and Hotseat multiplay modes are ed. An innovative host system exists to allow for handling of multiple campaigns and operations simultaneously on one computer.

CMC features a turn based mechanism similar to Combat Mission, where orders are provided for the following turn or turns, and then operational progress is resolved for all forces simultaneously.

CMC has a configurable and advanced fog-of-war system, restricting the information available to a commander depending on the sightings from units under his command, and the ability of those units to back information and the means used to do so. This allows for a true relative spotting component to be added to the regular challenges of fog of war and accurate situational awareness on the battlefield.

CMC is planed to include historical campaigns from Barbarossa, Stalingrad, Operation Mars, 3rd Kharkov, Kursk and Berlin operations. It also ships with a complete and powerful campaign and map editor, allowing you to create both historical and 'what if' scenarios.

The use of the Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin is required in order for you to play out the tactical battles although you can have CMC auto-resolve the engagements if you wish.