Combat Mission Downfall: Ride on Riede AAR
Troops of the 7th Armoured fighting through a German town, 1945. Reminder - click on images to see them full sized. Introduction: Battlefront enters the 21st century...sort of. It's been a transformative few years for Battlefront. For the first time in a long time they're under the wings of a large publisher, namely Slitherine/Matrix Games (I'm somewhat confused on which is a subsidiary of which). Perhaps more importantly, with pigs having finally learned to fly, the games are now on Steam. I like Slitherine, and quite a few of the products they publish, but they also seem to have a bad habit of throwing everything at the wall with the hope it will stick. This has led to some true stinkers and not a few completely dead on arrival games; such as "Check your Six!" It has me somewhat worried for the long term viability of such a giant wargaming entity, and by extension Battlefront, but on balance I do believe it's a net positive. I've also been playing Bat
