On Tuesday, independent game developer and publisher Battlefront announced
Combat Mission: Cold War, the latest in its long-running series of PC-based wargames. The series itself dates back more than 20 years, and is the spiritual successor of the seminal wargame known as
Squad Leader.
Squad Leader and its sequel,
Advanced Squad Leader,
is about as old-school as modern wargames get. Aficionados use cardboard chits smaller than a postage stamp to recreate historic battles on the table. Actions between small units can take hours, often days to play out with tweezers.
In 2013, Polygon told the story of how Battlefront co-founders Steve Grammont and Charles Moylan turned their pitch to Avalon Hill into a successful series of turn-based PC wargames in 2000. The series was reinvigorated in 2010 with
Combat Mission: Cold War expands a franchise with roots in old-school wargaming Polygon 2/19/2021
On Tuesday, independent game developer and publisher Battlefront announced
Combat Mission: Cold War, the latest in its long-running series of PC-based wargames. The series itself dates back more than 20 years, and is the spiritual successor of the seminal wargame known as
Squad Leader.
Squad Leader and its sequel,
Advanced Squad Leader, is about as old-school as modern wargames get. Aficionados use cardboard chits smaller than a postage stamp to recreate historic battles on the table. Actions between small units can take hours, often days to play out with tweezers.
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