The timeframe is summer 1944, during Operation Bagration, the Soviet summer offensive for that year. The area is between Smolensk and Vitebsk in what is now Belarus, in the northern sector of Germany's Army Group Centre. Together, the missions form a campaign of sorts but they seem to be no more than a loosely-sequenced series of small operations in the same general area in the same timeframe. There are no training missions - it's all on-the-job-training, as it were. But the single-player option also had its issues. If you're single-player only like me you won't be too bothered that the sim's apparently promising multi-player capability never seemed to have been realised. Will a fresh crack at the sim after the passage of several years change my first impressions? Let's find out!
Having fairly recently taken some time off combat flight sims to play Steel Fury and report the results, I thought I'd dust off T-34 vs Tiger and do likewise. And if you like it enough to hanker for more, there's an ongoing payware mod by Zeewolf which adds vehicles and missions. Still, 'TvT' has some really good features and in particular, is in most respects a very good simulation of operating the two featured tanks. But with sub-par AI, no interaction with other tanks or vehicles in your unit and a very limited set of heavily-scripted (and questionably realistic) missions, I soon realised why most players seemed to gravitate (sic) to Graviteam's 'Steel Fury', instead.
Strangely, this was released by the same publishers - Lighthouse Interactive - as Steel Fury my T34 - vs Tiger manual even has a 2-page, centre-fold spread advert for SF! As a fan of the Tiger tank in particular and something of a tanksim nut since discovering Panzer Commander, I was keen to try out the new sim. This time it's the turn of 'the other sim' - the aptly-named T-34 vs Tiger.
One was Steel Fury - Kharkov 1942, which found most favour with players, continues to be modded and played, and has been featured in three recent mission reports here at CombatAce. The year 2008 was a promising one for tank simulation enthusiasts, with two new WW2 tank sims released around the same time. Back to the Russian Front with 'WWII Battle Tanks - T-34 vs Tiger'!
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