Real-Time Tactics Firefight -real time platoon level tactics

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://www.windowsgames.co.uk/ff.html

Firefight is a World War II real-time simulation game with more AI and attention to detail than any other game in its genre to date. Tanks are modelled with a physics engine and have gears, rev counters and speedos, and steer themselves with brake levers to give them realistic looking tracked vehicle movement. Each bullet, shell or piece of shrapnel is modelled in 3D and ricochets realistically off sloping surfaces. You can see each infantryman's rank, name, weapon, ammunition remaining, heart rate and fatigue levels. Machine gunners will call for ammunition when they're running low and other squad members will rush over with spare ammo if they are carrying any. Wounded men call for medics who will sprint over to administer first aid. Off-board artillery can be called in but will have to fire several ranging shots before the full 8 gun battery opens fire simultaneously.

There are 9 maps to choose from, and each map has eight scenarios. The scenarios give you the option to play as any of the major nationalities involved in fighting on the Western Front from 1939 right up to 1945.

Game was already released back in 2016, but there has been recent patches which added more maps, more countries and skirmish mode.
There's also mod support.
https://www.windowsgames.co.uk/firefight_maps.html

 

[jebsmoker]

firefight is sincerely the best close combat-alike that no one has heard of, and it actually does feel better in terms of mechanics if compared to the 2D close combat games

 

[Hoodoo]

Used to play the shit out of this back when it was bundled with Slay! Wonder if it's gotten any better.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Used to play the shit out of this back when it was bundled with Slay! Wonder if it's gotten any better.

I'll link some updates that the developer has done.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/500190/view/3338876362826936231

- added 9 new Eastern Front maps

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/500190/view/3327618707392778266

Version 5.0
- new building graphics
- added 14 new tank types, including M26 Pershing, M3 Lee/Grant, Flammpanzer III, and M8 Greyhound
- added the ability to drag bought squads in Custom battles to other slots
- vehicles can break down
- tanks now have separate gun mantlet armour

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/500190/view/3704813672799557889

6.1.0
- tanks can launch defensive smoke bombs and create smoke screens from their exhausts
- tank crews have their own uniforms
- trees are destroyable

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/500190/view/3886107025442117405

7.6.0
- added double and triple differential steering

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/500190/view/3953665275850774938

7.8.2
- the corners of vehicles can now be targeted, so even if just the front of a tank is showing (and its centre is still hidden) it can be fired upon
- fixed some incorrect positioning of doors and windows in buildings
- small HE shell bursts will do an animated flash, rather than the new grey explosion animation
- added the Italian Fiat 3000 tank

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/500190/view/4259923998347833458

Version 9.0.0
Version 9 now has a new squad order interface so you have more fine control over your units. You can get them to crawl to their destination by ordering 'sneak', you can set them to ambush, or completely hold their fire if you want. You can now also re-mount squads onto halftracks.

The summary of the update is:

- new squad orders user interface
- added 'Sneak', 'Ambush', 'Mount', 'Halt' and 'No Firing' commands
- blue line points from a unit's centre to its destination marker
- orange line points from a mortar squad's centre to its target
- new infantryman icon on the Custom game carousel now shows if a vehicle can mount a squad

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/500190/view/4569553448607118674

Version 10.0
Added:
- Chinese troops
- Hungarian troops
- Romanian troops

Current version is 10.1.0, which added Finland (,but no Finnish voice lines).

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/500190/view/4667508642771337373

10.2.0
- added a new 'Capture The Flags' mode
- added German Pak 38(t) anti-tank gun
- added Japanese Defenders Of The Homeland infantry
- modded mortars and HMGs can also now be set to be immobile

 

[ValeVelKal]

Yes, it has been on my radar for a while, and even receiveed a multiplayer AAR/let's play

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/let’s-command-you-guys-in-firefight.132988/

It's still super flawed, but once it has a cmapaign mode I will overlook that.