Game Series
Three titles using the original game engine were released by battlefront.com:
- Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord 2000
- Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin 2002
- Combat Mission: Afrika Korps 2004
These three games are commonly said to belong to the 'CMx1' engine. An operational layer was also planned for Barbarossa to Berlin with the announcement of Combat Mission: Campaign, which was to allow players to order maneuver elements from platoon to battalion size on an operational grid and generate realistic battles to be fought out in Barbarossa to Berlin. It was expected to be released in 2006; Battlefront.com had announced this title would be released before Shock Force. This game languished in development hell and was officially cancelled on February 26, 2009 due to lack of funding and irresolvable bugs.
In the meantime, production shifted to a new game engine, described as the 'CMx2' engine. New games, to consist officially of Titles, outlining a particular era, with Modules providing extra nationalities, weapons, and equipment types for each Title, were planned. The initial release was set as a near-future game.
- Combat Mission: Shock Force 2007
This title depicts combat in a fictional US invasion of Syria, focusing on US Stryker brigades and Syrian regular and irregular forces and was released on July 27, 2007. Three modules have also since appeared:
- Marines 2008
- British Forces 2009
- NATO 2010
Russian developer Snowball announced that it had obtained a license from Battlefront.com to create a product titled Combat Mission: Afghanistan depicting combat set in the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The game will not be compatible with other versions and units will not have the ability to be ported from one game in the series to Afghanistan or vice versa.
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