Old Combat game Please Help

jake · Post by **jake** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:26 pm

I am looking for an old Combat game. It was a strategy game played against the computer on 4 or 5 different senarios. One senario was a dessert setting, one was jungle, one was inland lakes and rivers etc. You had a set number of tanks, boats, infintry men, light infintry vehicles and one bomber. The object of the game was to capture the opponenets headquaters. Each piece could be moved once when it was your turn according to a certain weighted value. IE a small supply truck could move father than a heavy armoured tank. Each piece could eithor move, fire, or get resupplied on its turn. Each piece fired a shot that was weighted according to its amunition size. IE a large armoured tank had more kill power than an infintry man. At the begining of your turn, you had a choice of moving all your pieces or flying a bomber over the board and only making a limited number of moves. The bomber randomly flew over the board and bombed random targets that you had no control over. You could play another player by dialing directly into his modem. I do not know who published the game but orginally, it came on 3.5 inch floppys then it came out on CD. I lost the CD when moving some years ago and wished I could find it. Please let me know if anyone knows where the game might be purchased

MarchingHome · Post by **MarchingHome** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:02 pm

It sounds like Advance Wars... But that's not exactly an old game and it's on the GBA

jake · Post by **jake** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:42 pm

No, I think the name of it was just Combat. A screen would come up and request a word on a particular page of its guide book to unlock the game when it started. You were eithor the red player or the blue player you could choose eithor color I think. I played it on my 486DX2 machine at the time. You eitor played the computer or you could dial your modem into another players modem and play them head to head.

broadcast2k · Post by **broadcast2k** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:14 pm

Operation Combat by Merit Software

jake · Post by **jake** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:10 pm

Merit Software rings a bell, It could be. Do you know where I might find it?

Identity Crisis · Post by **Identity Crisis** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:20 pm

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=3010

That oughta help.

jake · Post by **jake** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:48 pm

broadcast2k and Identity Crisis, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I have been looking for this game for years. I thought I would never find it. I had forgotten the name of it but only remembered the combat part of it so search engines never helped me. My father really liked it and it was one of the few games he would play on a computer and he really missed it when i lost it. He is now getting very imobile and this will help him pass away the time. Thank you both so much.
May great things happen for the both of you.

jake · Post by **jake** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:50 pm

Broadcast2k · Post by **Broadcast2k** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:52 am

They also made a medieval version of the game using the same engine, should try it out.

jake · Post by **jake** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:45 am

What is the name of the game?