Combat Mission: Afrika Korps (CMAK) is a tactical WWII combat simulation set in a true 3D environment. Players issue orders in turns and then see the action executed in real-time. It simulates battles in the Mediterranean theater of operations, including North Africa, Italy and Crete, between 1940 and 1945. From the sweeping deserts of Libya to the mountainous Gothic Line in Northern Italy to the islands of Crete and Sicily, Combat Mission: Afrika Korps allows you to recreate some of the most fierce ground battles of World War Two.

Combat Mission: Afrika Korps (CMAK for short) allows the player to lead the soldiers of ten nationalities (USA, Germany, Italy, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa and France) into battle, using historical Tables of Equipment and Organization (TO&E), surroundings, and combat results. Combat Mission is not a video game. It requires thoughtful strategy and tactical skill to overcome the enemy while preserving one's own forces and achieving the mission objectives.

CMAK is the most realistic simulation of ground warfare on the Western Front made to date, and contains a mind-boggling amount of detail, research and information - from the organization of the various participating nations to the unbelievably detailed armor penetration algorithms based on real-world physics and real-world data, to the realistic 3-D representation of environment, weather and fog of war.

If you're new to the Combat Mission series (CM for short) don't be scared. Actual gameplay is easy and you don't need to be a master of WWII tactics (a so-called "Grognard") to play and win. Use your intuition and think about what tactics and strategies would work in the real world if you were on the front line. It's easy to play CM, because CM's "rules" reflect the real-world "rules" of combat - no need to learn an abstract game system first.