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Clash of Steel

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s Wargame of the Year award in June 1994. The editors wrote, "Everything is accessible, useful and enjoyable in this well-conceived design". Elsewhere in the issue, the magazine stated that "Although
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has its share of flaws, it won our award based upon its most important underlying virtue: the fun factor", describing it as a "game-about history" and not "history-in-a-game" and comparing it to
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and "a gamer's game—quick-playing, entertaining and reasonably accurate. An entire campaign ... can be played in as few as six hours". It concluded that "
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four-plus stars out of five, calling it "strategic and eminently playable ... everything that
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on a grand strategic scale between 1939 and 1945. Three major powers are playable:
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should not be missed." A survey of wargames by the magazine gave
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Index


Developer(s)
Strategic Simulations
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)
Platform(s)
MS-DOS
Genre(s)
Strategy
Single-player
grand strategy
computer game
1993
Strategic Simulations
MS-DOS
World War II
Europe
Germany
Axis
Allies
Soviet Union
bugs
Computer Gaming World
Hitler's War
Storm Across Europe
Computer Gaming World
The Russian Campaign
"Clashing In On World War II"
"Brooks' Book of Wargames: 1900-1950, A-P"
"Announcing The New Premier Awards"

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