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"Silently the Maoris rose. Dyer saw them as a scattered band of dark figures under the trees… with knees bent, and leaning to the right they slowly advanced firing at the hip. They did not haka, for this was not rehearsed. Instead there rose from their throats a deep shout ‘Ah! Ah! Ah!’ as they advanced firing. Then the cartridges in their magazines being exhausted, they broke into a run with bayonets levelled and their shouts rising as they went…The air whistled and cracked with bullets. Men went down but they still charged. And the pride of the German army turned and fled." - from the CMAK Companion, Chapter 14, "Thinly Armoured Preamulators".
"The Matildas proved to be an awesome tool. The 24-ton monster, conceived only for infantry support and with its two 87 hp engines actually rather underpowered, advancing in leisurely but apparently unstoppable fashion, had a devastating effect on the Italians. Their brave gunners, some of them still equipped with wooden-wheeled guns from the First World War, kept on firing their shells at the juggernauts until they were within a few meters’ range, only to see them bounce off and disappear into the sky as small glowing dots of light." - from the CMAK Companion, Chapter 4, "Twenty Acres of Officers"
"But as the Italians attacked, the British got in the all-important first shot, their guns ripping through the Italian armor, turning M13s into burning coffins, wrecking eight. Before the stunned Italians could return fire, the British had withdrawn down the slope, to repeat the example, destroying seven more tanks with no loss. The Italians opened up with artillery and committed their reserves, as did the British. " - from the CMAK Companion, Chapter 7, "The Battery Commander, his Batman, and a Cook". |
CMAK named "TURN BASED STRATEGY GAME OF THE YEAR" and grabs an Editors' Choice 92% in March 2004 PC Gamer Magazine
Editor Comments about the Game of the Year Award: Combat Mission: Afrika Korps is as fine a Strategy Game as I've ever played, at once accessible and deep...It never gets old. - Dan Morris Combat Mission- Afrika Korps is the best of the CM trilogy and should be our Best Game of All Time. - Joe
Finland's Biggest Gaming Magazine awards CMAK a 93% Rating!
Gameplanet
grants CMAK
DIY Games awards CMAK 4.5 Stars out of 5!
Gamespot hands CMAK a 8.6 "Great" Score!
German
Website GamersHall gives CMAK
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"On
an almost unprecedented sign of greatness, each entry in the revolutionary
Combat Mission series has earned our award in the Turn-Based Strategy
category (CM for 2000, CM: Barbarossa to Berlin for 2002). And these
props are well deserved. Afrika Korps is a detailed and life like simulation
of the WWII Mediterranean theater - and better yet, it's accessible
and dramatic, with the franchise's trademark full-3D engine and "pause-time" system
that lets you give your orders and then watch the next minute of action
unfold."
"Combat
Mission Afrika Korps adds another quality chapter to the superior World
War II tactical strategy series." - Erin Ellis
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"Combat Mission 3: Afrika Korps is a well implemented game, which leads the genre through realistic combat, huge content, and a good historical background." |
CMAK
gets a 7.6 Ranking from
GameZone Online
"The
game is truly epic in its design and implementation. The battles
can go on for quite a while and the options for play are varying.
I enjoyed this title and have every intention of purchasing it for
my father so we can go at it over the net 700 miles apart. He told
me the other day that I needed to find an online game that we could
get so we could play together. I just found it."
- Mike
David
