Login
Login

battlefront.com

{{short description|Video game developer and publisher}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Battlefront.com

| foundation = {{Start date|1997}}

| founder = Steve Grammont
Charles Moylan

| industry = Video games

| products = Combat Mission
Strategic Command
Theatre of War

| homepage = [http://www.battlefront.com/ Battlefront.com]

}}

Battlefront.com is a video game developer and publisher. Battlefront specialises in war-related games, including turn-based and real-time strategies, as well as simulations of air, land and naval military vehicles. On August 27th 2024, the 25th Anniversary of Combat Mission, Battlefront was acquired by Matrix Games.

Apart from publishing the self-developed Combat Mission series, the company publishes games created by other studios (such as 1C Company), including Strategic Command and Theatre of War series.{{Cite web |title=1C and Battlefront.com announce Theatre of War! |url=https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/1c-and-battlefrontcom-announce-theatre-of-war |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=GamesIndustry.biz |language=en}}

History

The company began life as Big Time Software when Charles Moylan and Steve Grammont decided to form an independent game company.{{Cite web |title=Battlefront.com, Inc. |url=https://www.mobygames.com/company/battlefrontcom-inc |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=MobyGames}} They produced the successful and unique Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord to critical acclaim in 1999.{{Cite web |title=Shipping date revealed for Combat Mission: Shock Force |url=https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/shipping-date-revealed-for-combat-mission-shock-force |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=GamesIndustry.biz |language=en}} The fledgling company utilized an online sales model and published a manifesto on its website pledging dedication to its fanbase.

The company continued to grow as subsequent titles in the CM series were released, and other publishers began to partner with BTS. A name change to battlefront.com, coinciding with the domain name of the official website, followed.

List of games published

class="wikitable"

! Release
date

! Title

! Genre

! Platform

! Developer

! Notes

style="text-align:center"|2000

|style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord

|style="text-align:center"|Hybrid turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Macintosh, Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Battlefront.com

|style="text-align:center"|First game in the
Combat Mission series

style="text-align:center"|2002

|style="text-align:center"|Strategic Command: European Theater

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Fury Software

|style="text-align:center"|First game in the
Strategic Command series

style="text-align:center"|2002

|style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission II: Barbarossa to Berlin

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Macintosh, Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Battlefront.com

|style="text-align:center"|Second game in the series

style="text-align:center"|2003

|style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission 3: Afrika Korps

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Macintosh, Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Battlefront.com

|style="text-align:center"|Third game in the series

style="text-align:center"|2005

|style="text-align:center"|T-72: Balkans On Fire!

|style="text-align:center"|Vehicle simulation

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|1C Company

|

style="text-align:center"|2005

|style="text-align:center"| Down in Flames

|style="text-align:center"|Vehicle simulation

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Dan Verssen Games

|style="text-align:center"|

style="text-align:center"|2005

|style="text-align:center"|Strategic Command 2: Blitzkrieg

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Fury Software

|style="text-align:center"|Second game in the series

style="text-align:center"|2006

|style="text-align:center"|DropTeam: Mechanized Combat in the Far Future

|style="text-align:center"|Real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Linux, Macintosh, Windows

|style="text-align:center"|TBG Software

|style="text-align:center"|

style="text-align:center"|2006

|style="text-align:center"|Down in Flames: Eastern Front

|style="text-align:center"|Vehicle simulation

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Dan Verssen Games

|style="text-align:center"|Expansion pack of Down in Flames

style="text-align:center"|2007

|style="text-align:center"|Theatre of War

|style="text-align:center"| Real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"| 1C Company

|style="text-align:center"| First game in the
Theatre of War series

style="text-align:center"|2007

|style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission: Shock Force

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Battlefront.com

|style="text-align:center"|Fourth game in the series

style="text-align:center"|2007

|style="text-align:center"|Strategic Command 2: Weapons and Warfare

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Fury Software

|style="text-align:center"|Expansion pack of Strategic Command 2

style="text-align:center"|2008

|style="text-align:center"| Strategic Command 2: Patton Drives East

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Fury Software

|style="text-align:center"|Expansion pack of Strategic Command 2

style="text-align:center"|2008

|style="text-align:center"|Strategic Command WWII Pacific Theater

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Fury Software

|style="text-align:center"|Third game in the series

style="text-align:center"|2008

|style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission: Shock Force - Marines

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Battlefront.com

|style="text-align:center"| Expansion pack of Combat Mission: Shock Force

style="text-align:center"|2009

|style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission: Shock Force - British Forces

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Battlefront.com

|style="text-align:center"|Expansion pack of Combat Mission: Shock Force

style="text-align:center"|2009

|style="text-align:center"|Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943

|style="text-align:center"|Real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|1C Company

|style="text-align:center"|Second game in the series

style="text-align:center"|2009

|style="text-align:center"|Theatre of War 2: Centauro

|style="text-align:center"|Real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|1C Company

|style="text-align:center"|Expansion pack of Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943

style="text-align:center"|2009

|style="text-align:center"|Empires of Steel

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Atomicboy Software

|style="text-align:center"|

style="text-align:center"|2009

|style="text-align:center"|PT Boats: Knights of the Sea

|style="text-align:center"|Simulation

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Akella

|style="text-align:center"|

style="text-align:center"|2009

|style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission: Afghanistan

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Snowball

|Will be the fifth game in the series {{cite web

|url=http://www.battlefront.com/afghanistan

|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628180453/http://www.battlefront.com/afghanistan

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=2013-06-28

|year=

|title=Combat Mission: Afghanistan

}} At the official website of Battlefront.com. URL accessed on March 29, 2010

style="text-align:center"|2010

|style="text-align:center"|Strategic Command WWII Global Conflict

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|Fury Software

|style="text-align:center"|Fourth game in the series

style="text-align:center"|2010

|style="text-align:center"|Theatre of War 2: Kursk 1943

|style="text-align:center"|Real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|1C Company

|style="text-align:center"|Expansion pack of Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943

style="text-align:center"|2010

|style="text-align:center"|CM:SF - NATO

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

|style="text-align:center"|

|style="text-align:center"|Will be the third Module for Shock Force

style="text-align:center"|2010

|style="text-align:center"|CM: Battle for Normandy

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows/Mac

|style="text-align:center"|

|Initial game of the CM:X2 game engine set in World War II.

style="text-align:center"|2012

|style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission: Fortress Italy

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows/Mac

|style="text-align:center"|

|Second title of the CM:X2 game engine set in World War II

style="text-align:center"|2014

|style="text-align:center"|CM:Red Thunder

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows/Mac

|style="text-align:center"|

|Third title of the CM:X2 game engine, first to be set on the Eastern Front of World War II.

style="text-align:center"|2014

|style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission: Black Sea

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows/Mac

|style="text-align:center"|

|Set in fictional Ukraine-Russia-NATO war.

style="text-align:center"|2016

|style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission: Final Blitzkrieg

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows/Mac

|style="text-align:center"|

|Set in WWII.

style="text-align:center"|2018

|style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission: Shock Force 2

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows/Mac

|style="text-align:center"|Battlefront.com

|Same as Shock Force 1, But graphic improved a bit

style="text-align:center"|2021

|style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission: Cold War

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows/Mac

|style="text-align:center"|Battlefront.com

|The Timeline was set in during the Cold War era, But about what if the Soviet Union invaded West Germany and Europe, from a cold turn into the hot war.

In development

class="wikitable"

! Announced

! Title

! Genre

! Platform

! Developer

! Notes

Cancelled games

class="wikitable"

! First
announced

! Cancelled

! Title

! Genre

! Platform

! Developer

! Notes

style="text-align:center"|2004

|style="text-align:center"|5 November 2009[http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=89515 battlefront.com forum announcement] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927164507/http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=89515 |date=September 27, 2011 }}

| style="text-align:center"|Modern Naval Battles: World War II at Sea

| style="text-align:center"|Simulation

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

| style="text-align:center"|Dan Verssen Games

| style="text-align:center"|{{cite web|url=http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=135&Itemid=186

|year= |title= Modern Naval Battles }} At the official website of Battlefront.com. URL accessed on December 12, 2009
Would be based on a board game of the same name

style="text-align:center"|2005

|style="text-align:center"|2009

| style="text-align:center"|Combat Mission: Campaigns

|style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

|style="text-align:center"|Windows

| style="text-align:center"|Hunting Tank Software

| style="text-align:center"|Had been in development well before 2005; work was mainly by private software company under license.{{cite web|url=http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Combat-Mission-Campaigns-announcement.html&Itemid=213

|year= |title= Combat Mission Campaigns announcement}} At the official website of Battlefront.com. URL accessed on December 12, 2009

style="text-align:center"|2005{{Cite web |url=http://www.gamershell.com/companies/battlefront_com/244836.html |title=gamershell announcement |access-date=2010-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615142119/http://www.gamershell.com/companies/battlefront_com/244836.html |archive-date=2011-06-15 |url-status=dead }}

| style="text-align:center"|2009

| style="text-align:center"|Histwar: Les Grognards[http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2009/11/05/histwar-les-grognards-dropped-by-battlefront/ Flash of Steel website ]

| style="text-align:center"|Turn-based /
real-time strategy

| style="text-align:center"|Windows

| style="text-align:center"|

Personnel

Matt Faller spent nine years as chief information officer and project manager, leaving the company for employment with Software Generation Ltd. in August 2009. Faller's duties involved design, implementation and support of the battlefront's IT infrastructure and management of customer support.[http://www.tvnewscheck.com/articles/2009/08/12/daily.20/ tvnewscheck article]

On July 1, 2010, battlefront hired Phillip Culliton as a "First Second Programmer" after operating for 13 years with a single coder.[http://www.battlefront.com/community/announcement.php?f=&a=317 battlefront.com announcement] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807121009/http://www.battlefront.com/community/announcement.php?f=&a=317 |date=August 7, 2011 }}

Notes and references

{{Reflist}}

Further reading

  • {{Cite web |last=Hall |first=Charlie |date=2013-01-29 |title=Turn by Turn: The Story of Battlefront |url=https://www.polygon.com/features/2013/1/29/3916154/turn-by-turn-battlefront-combat-mission |access-date=2024-02-24 |website=Polygon |language=en-US}}

External links

{{Portal|Video games}}

  • [http://www.battlefront.com Official website]
  • [http://www.mobygames.com/company/battlefrontcom-inc Battlefront.com] profile at MobyGames

{{Battlefront.com}}

{{Authority control}}

Category:Video game companies established in 1997

Category:Video game development companies

Category:Video game publishers