Last night I had a flashback to the good old days of Close Combat: A Bridge too Far. Excellent game, and it being so old I was able to find a website from which to download it (I'm not sure what the mods think of posting FREE GAME DOWNLOAD websites, even though this one looks legit I am not going to link it unless someone asks). The page for CCABTF also informed me there were many other iterations of the Close Combat games I did not know existed.

Such as Close Combat 3: The Russian Front.

I don't know who wrote the summary of this game, but judging by how old the game is they should have known better. From what I have seen from older strategy grognards, it is very rare for them to be Wehraboos, but I guess I found one. While he has some legitimate criticism of the scope of the game being too big, it goes off the Wehraboo scale pretty quick.

In the actual Russian front, the Germans lost about 3 million troops, and the Russians lost about 43 million [Figures are from the Close Combat 3 Manual]. That's roughly a 14 to 1 kill ratio. But in the game, the numbers of Russian and German troops in any one mission are nearly identical. Also, the power and precision of the two sides is very similar. In actuality, the Russians were essentially a bunch of poorly trained bumbling fools with bad equipment who only won because they had a population that could support an army 20 times larger than that of the Germans.

MUH KILL:DEATH RATIOS! ASIATIC HORDES TERRIBLE SOLDIERS COMPARED TO MUH ARYAN SUPERMEN!

I don't need to explain it to you guys, you all know that the Soviet forces were not exactly bad at fighting. But for visitors, their equipment was very good (There is a reason everyone loves Mosins), their tanks were great, and they did artillery like it was going out of style. Once the high command got its act together, the leadership wasn't bad on the whole either.

The funniest thing is, he is complaining that a very realistic old strategy game is too realistic for his taste. Then he ends with this:

For everyone else, Close Combat 3 is a difficult, onerous, almost unapproachable game that fails to capture the drama of its subject matter or to take advantage of the intriguing elements of the Eastern battlefields. Besides, who would want to play as an idiotic, Stalinist Russian or a spiteful, goose-stepping German anyway? Give me some good old American elbow grease any day, god darn it!

Offered without comment.