Amazingly, first generation Combat Mission isn’t the oldest PC wargame series to have benefited from tender modernisation this month. That distinction belongs to Talonsoft’s Campaign Series, the core of which dates back to 1997.
Thanks to Matrix Games and the tireless Jason Petho, the version of Rising Sun that comes in the £23 WW2 Campaign Series compendium (West Front, East Front II, and Rising Sun) now gets along fine with laptop GPUs and NVIDIA apps.
The September 18 update also delivered a mass of new battles and campaigns for EF2 and WF…
• Added a new Dynamic Campaign to East Front as a Mod: The Lapland War. (Petri Nieminen)
• Added the Arctic Front scenario set of 12 scenarios to East Front, previously only available via the Blitz wargaming club scenario database.
• Added 27 new East Front scenarios dealing with the Smolensk Battles, 1941. (Jason Petho).
• Added a new Linked Campaign to East Front: 29. Motorized Infantry LCG (Jason Petho).
• Added two new scenarios to West Front, one dealing with Arnhem[arnhem_new], the other Crete[kreta_merkur] (Ingomar Scheiber).
• Added Operazione C3(v2), Operation Sealion(v2), Rommel in England(v4), The End is Near(v2), Tobruk Multiplay(v2), The Art of Blitzkrieg (v2) scenarios to West Front (Jason Petho)
• Updated Iron Maidens at Cranbrook v2 scenario for West Front.
Matrix/Slitherine, surely the time has come to make the Campaign Series available through Steam. While it probably wouldn’t leap off shelves quite as energetically as CMx1 or the Close Combats, compared to many vintage wargames, I reckon it would sell like hot cakes.