Your first duty is to sort out troop movements on a vast overland map broken up into grids, with each side taking turns to move their platoons into position around key locations. Whilst details about the actual conflicts and battlefields are scant, you nevertheless get the feeling that this is a game that wouldn’t let the finer points slip through its grasp.ĭelving into each of the four campaigns, your role takes up three stages that roughly translate to the responsibilities of a general, battalion commander and that of a tank driver, gunner or anything in-between. An ‘encyclopaedia’ mode allows for careful inspection of the hardware used throughout each of those campaigns, and for the most part everything is modelled to a degree that’s compelling to explore. Military aficionados will no doubt get a suitable kick from playing on new ground such as this, and for the most part Steel Armor does a good job of presenting its suite of digital tank ephemera with a dry enthusiasm and attention to detail that’s perfect for enthusiasts. It’s Soviet T-62’s and the American M60A1 all the way then. Steel Armor - Blaze of War sets its action not in the well-trodden WWII or fictional modern-day scenarios, but instead in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980’s, with a side ordering of Angolan civil war and the Russian attack on Afghanistan.

Say what you want about Graviteam’s rough and robust tank simulator (and we will, very shortly), but the developer at least has to take credit for attempting to spice up a well-worn genre with an interesting and under-played setting.

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