| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE (c) CCS/STRATEGY SOFTWARE ★ |
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Test your arm at the real thing in the mist and snow of the Ardennes -16th December 1944. As 1944 drew to a close and the allied armies appeared to be making progress after the long and bloody campaigns in Northern France and Belgium, three German armies made a surprise attack on one of the weak sectors in the allied line in a last desperate gamble to win the war. It was a gamble which, had it not been for some heroic manoeuvres on the allied front, could well have paid off. As it happed, the Battle of the Bulge became the largest battle on the Western Front. Think you're up to it? Right, take a hold of your battalions and prove it. As a one or two player game, you can relive the entire battle just as it happened using the historical deployment option, but if think your tactics are better, try your own.
At the start of the game, you get to change the odds for, or against you. The poor weather option will disable your airfleet and stop you from making reconnaissance missions. Playing out the Command Crisis scenario will assume that Eisenhower did not make Montgomery Commander of the northern shoulder. In this eventuality, you get no British troops coming to your aid. If General Patton had not been able to swing his army north in such a short time, the outcome of the original battle could have been very different. Try this option and see the results! Once you've sorted out your deployment and playing conditions, it's time to start moving. If the weather is good, send in your planes to recce, straff and bomb -it's nice to lower the opposition's morale a touch. Throughout the game, you and the computer, or a friend, take turns to move your troops, tanks, gun emplacements and combat units. Once the moves have been simply made by moving the cursor over a unit and pressing the appropriate order key, it's time to take cover for the combat round. You'll soon find out if you made the right moves as the firing begins. The idea of the simulation is to stop the Germans reaching the two road entry points at the top left hand corner of the map near Namur, If this is reached, they've broken through to Antwerp. Your job is to prevent this, and also to prevent them capturing towns by making sure yours were the last units to pass through them. Demolishing roads and bridges will hinder their progress, but keep an eye on your supply dumps when you start blowing things up. The battle will finish on 2nd January 1945 if the Germans make the breakthrough, or any time before that if one of the sides has been obliterated. As a taste of the real thing, Battle of the Bulge will be hard to beat. You'll need to utilise every last ounce of cunning and strategy to survive in this historically accurate masterpiece. Dave Peach, ACU |
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Page créée en 206 millisecondes et consultée 3791 fois L'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
