Fire-Brigade: The Battle for Kiev - 1943
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| Developer(s) | Panther Games Pty Ltd |
| Publisher(s) | Panther Games Pty Ltd |
| Designer(s) | David O'Connor |
| Programmer(s) | Tony Oliver Ben Freasier Hugh Fisher Steve Adam |
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IBM PC DOS 3.0 Mac OS 2.0 Atari Amiga |
| Release | Version one - 1988 Version two - 1989 |
| Genre(s) | Computer Wargame |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
Fire-Brigade: The Battle for Kiev - 1943 (commonly abbreviated Fire-Brigade) is a Computer Wargame developed and published by Panther Games in Australia in 1988. The game is set around the historical WWII Eastern Front battle for Kiev in 1943.
Fire-Brigade was a pioneering computer wargame as it was one of the first wargames to take advantage of the new graphical mouse driven interfaces that 16bit computers were making available on both MAC II & IBM PC. It was also one of the first wargames to enable network game-play for head to head multiplayer battles.
Fire-Brigade required a huge amount of hard drive space and RAM for the time of its release to take full advantage of the development of 256 colours. For colour Fire-Brigade required 2MB of RAM and 640KB of hard drive space, while for mono the game only required 1MB of RAM.
Early November, 1943 and the war in Russia is at its height. With the capture of the strategic city of Kiev imminent, Soviet General Vatutin unleashes Rybalko's elite 3rd Guards Tank Army. "Drive like hell" his orders read, "and we'll split the entire German Front!"
With the fate of the Army Group South in the balance, Marshall von Manstein must commit Balck's 48th Panzer Korps, the fire-brigade, to save the German Army. Receiving the Soviet attack will be fierce, delivering the counter-attack could be decisive... for one side or the other!
Fire-Brigade is a turn-based strategic & tactical computer wargame that allows players flexibility and advanced functions. You can play either by yourself against the AI or against another person in any of four scenarios networked via modem or cable. You can play either as the Germans or the Soviet Union in any of the scenarios and you have at your command a comprehensive reporting system and realistic staff support.
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