Mech Brigade Title screen
Title screen

Mech Brigade

Mech Brigade is a Simulation game released by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1987. It is an interesting DOS game and a must play for all old videogame lovers.

Mech Brigade description

Wargame dedicated to the fictional conflict (in fact the Third world) between the forces of the NATO and OVD preserved on the territory of divided Germany in the early 90s. the background Story – the only fantastical part of the game.

This game is wargame only tactical forces of the parties are small (in number of units) and are represented mainly by several models of tanks and helicopters, though, of course, there are missile troops, artillery, and infantry armed with various weapons; frequent fights between, for example, separate tanks. Have the opportunity to play together on one computer. Pre-installed scripts are only four (battle in four German cities), but it is possible to create your own using the editor.

Lasts for the battle or fifteen moves (if human player is defending) or twenty (if it attacks), but there may be situations when the battle lasts less moves or even more. The outcomes of the "party" there are various so – called "extreme", "independent" or "decisive" victory of one party or draws, so to destroy all enemy forces not necessarily, and not always possible.

The graphics in wargames is estimated rarely, because in this subgenre, in General, and not needed. This wargame in a "pictorial" against a very stingy and harsh: black backgrounds, very few colors, limit the arbitrariness in the mapping units, but there are elements of the landscape. Despite its obscurity, made this game very efficiently and will certainly appeal to all lovers of this complicated strategic directions.

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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com

Mech Brigade

Genre:
Simulation, Strategy/Tactics
Year:
1987
Publisher:
Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Platform:
DOS
Developer:
Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Perspective:
Top-down
Gameplay:
Wargame