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From: rhunt@icard.med.unc.edu (Rick Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: A good War Game?
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Date: 17 Feb 91 18:56:09 GMT
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I would highly recommend Second Front from SSI to anyone who likes
classic, detailed wargames.  It is a simulation of the invasion of Russia
in WWII.  The scale is 1 week turns, 20 mile hexes and corps sized units. 
The player can control the units down to the scale of battalions as to
what kinds of armored vehicles it contains.  The air war is also fairly
detailed and the losses are measured in individual planes of each type.

The user interface is simple and similar to the IBM, but is quite useable.
There are pull down menus, but they tend not to be used once the keyboard
commands are learned.  The graphics are not spectacular, but serve their
purpose.  They are clean and functional instead of flashy.

There are a couple of minor bugs, but nothing of consequence.  SSI is
offering a free upgrade that is supposed to fix them.  The biggest
complaint I have is that the same game feature doesn't even have a simple
file requestor and you have to rememeber the names of the files on the
disk yourself.  Since the game does multitask, you can have a cli to get
the file names though.  It can also be installed on a hard drive.

Rick