Microsoft Close Combat manual Replays

Chapter 2 Setup and Game Play 11

•You play the next battle if you suffer a minor defeat.

•You skip ahead one battle if you suffer a major defeat.

•You skip ahead two battles if you suffer a decisive defeat.

You cannot skip over the first battle on a new map, nor can you back up to a previous map. Advances and regressions are possible only with multiple battles on the same map. For example, since Across the Aure

1 and Off the Beach 3 are on different maps, winning Off the Beach 3 decisively as the Americans will still take you to Across the Aure 1 just like a minor victory would, but in much less time than it would take for a minor victory.

The two exceptions are Across the Aure 1 and Across the Aure 3. The Americans only get one chance to cross the Aure bridge in Across the Aure 1. If they fail, they must take a detour to Bricqueville to fight Across the Aure 3. In Across the Aure 3, the Germans get one chance to launch a major counterattack. Unless the Americans get a major or decisive victory, play will progress to Across the Aure 4, but the amount of time that elapses between the battles will vary with the level of victory.

During campaign play, Campaigns are automatically saved when each battle ends. If you exit Close Combat at the end of a battle during campaign play, Close Combat displays the next battle when you restart your Campaign.

If you save a Campaign as a Replay, only the battle you were playing is saved for Replay. If you save Hedgerows! 2 as a Replay, you only play Hedgerows! 2 when you load the Replay. When you finish playing Hedgerows! 2 as a Replay, the game is over; if you want to complete the Campaign, you need to start the saved Campaign.

If the completed operation is the last operation, then you are shown a final video that congratulates the winner and offers advice to the loser.

To win at campaign play, you need to complete all six operations on or before the actual date on which Saint-Lô was secured. Remember that the condition of your teams at the end of each campaign battle is very important because you keep the same teams throughout the Campaign; you probably won’t want to play as aggressively as you would in maneuver play.

Replays

You can choose to play back any game saved as a Replay. When you replay a saved game, you watch the action until the game is over. Or, you can issue a command that stops the Replay and lets you play the game to completion.

You can start a game by double-clicking the appropriate title in the scrollable list.