Games like Combat Mission: Red Thunder
Looking for games like Combat Mission: Red Thunder? Here are top turn-based strategy recommendations with a warfare focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Combat Mission Battle for Normandy, Combat Mission Black Sea or Combat Mission Shock Force 2.
1 77%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregraphics, gameplay77% User Score 186 reviewsThis installment of the Combat Mission series brings the fight to Normandy during the three months following the allied D-Day landings of June 1944.
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83%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygraphics, optimization83% User Score 490 reviewsBattlefront.com's latest entry in the Combat Mission modern warfare simulator depicts a 2017 conflict between NATO and Russia.
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83%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygraphics, optimization83% User Score 842 reviewsThe latest title in the famous Combat Mission franchise of wargames, now on Steam. Shock Force 2 brings you to a hypothetical conflict in Syria between the forces of NATO and the Syrian Army. Play either on WeGo or Real Time in an incredibly detailed and realistic 1:1 tactical simulation.
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89%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storyoptimization, grinding89% User Score 703 reviewsGraviteam Tactics: Mius-Front - tactical battalion level combat simulation. Action takes place in the summer of 1943 at Mius river and Saur-Mogila tumulus area of over 140 sq. km. Four large-scale operations for the Red Army and Wehrmacht.
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsmusic, stability88% User Score 238 reviewsArmored Brigade is a real-time tactical wargame, focusing on realism and playability. The game has drawn inspiration from classics such as Close Combat, Steel Panthers and Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm. In Armored Brigade the Cold War has turned hot, and Europe is once again torn apart by conflict. An "Iron Curtain" divides the Western Powers gathered together under the NATO banner from the Sovi…
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84%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, stability84% User Score 14,812 reviewsIndependently developed by Barbedwire studios, published by Digitalmindsoft. GoH is an RTS/ RTT that portrays WW2. It offers a choice of instantly switchable top- down, third person and first person (for vehicles). SP, PvE, PvP. Dynamic campaigns are available for singleplayer and in co-op.
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83%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding83% User Score 11,790 reviewsAre you ready to take command? Deploy into an authentic, expansive, and meticulously researched Cold War real-time strategy game with WARNO. As the spiritual successor to the acclaimed Wargame series, WARNO is the ultimate next-gen World War III battle simulator. Two years have passed since Gorbachev’s overthrow in a coup by hardline communists, and now, in the dark summer days of 1989, the Cold…
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82%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, replayability82% User Score 422 reviewsTank Warfare: Tunisia 1943 - tactical battalion level combat simulation. During the Tunisian Campaign in winter 1943 German Panzer battlegroups launch a counteroffensive against the Allied forces to drive them out of Eastern Dorsal.
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82%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, atmosphere82% User Score 272 reviewsGraviteam Tactics: Operation Star is a sequel to Achtung Panzer: Kharkov 1943. It’s an Eastern Front war game with solid graphics and sprawling battlefields that really emphasizes the scope of WWII tank combat. Want to step into the role of a commander in the very heart of Kharkov’s defense? You'll have everything the officers had back then: tanks, guns, and fearless soldiers. The success of each…
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53%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgraphics, story53% User Score 298 reviewsClose Combat: The Bloody First is the latest release in the critically-acclaimed Close Combat series, and the first using the new 3D Archon engine. With this Close Combat: The Bloody First combines classic Close Combat tactical gameplay with battles fought across a wide variety of diverse 3D landscapes including craggy ridgelines, narrow...
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