Star Cadre: Combat Class

Greetings, cadet! It is three years since you entered the Star Academy. Your talents show you to be an excellent leader, and you're assured of a bright future commanding an elite squad of troops in missions of the utmost subtlety and importance. Your period of training is nearing its end, and soon you will be ready to go out into the field. All you need to do to qualify is to complete a number of missions in the combat simulator. Once you've completed these missions to an acceptable standard, your graduation is assured!

The combat simulator will provide you with a squad of four units, and assign you to one of a number of missions. On successful completion of each mission you will be given a score. You need to maximise your scores across all mission types in order to graduate, starting at the easiest level and progressing to the most difficult. No graduate has ever achieved 100% in all missions, but you should try to get as close to that as possible.

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You can opt to be dealt random missions, with random units. Or you can select the mission yourself, and if you like, hand pick the unit types that you will command. You'll get more details on this process later. Good luck!

Star Cadre: Combat Class is a tactical combat game, a kind of strategy game with role-playing game elements. You take on the role of a cadet taking their final practical leadership examinations. Each game consists of a single mission on the combat simulator

Scores are collected on table listing the highest score for each mission for each difficulty level. The object across multiple games is to try to get the best score you can for each mission at Easy level, before progressing to Fair and Hard levels for an extra challenge. Each game is quite short, and progress can be saved, making this an ideal game for a coffee break.

Star Cadre: Combat Class was released in 14th July 2024.

Star Cadre: Combat Class

Download: sccc.zip
Size 93kb, downloads 206.

This download requires DOSBox to run. Make a folder for the game wherever you put your other DOS games. Extract the contents of the ZIP into it, and have fun! A read of the manual would be beneficial for this game if you want to know what you're doing. (read more...)

Star Cadre: Combat Class manual

Download: sccc.pdf
Size 698kb, downloads 134.

Here's a PDF manual for Star Cadre: Combat Class. It's worth reading if you want to know what you're doing when you first run the game. It includes a full tutorial to get you started. The reference sections at the end tell you what you need to know about all the mission types, unit classes, items and skills in the game. (read more...)

Star Cadre: Combat Class for Windows

Download: sccc.exe
Size 3120kb, downloads 55.

This is a windows installer for the game, for those who don't want to have to mess around with DOSBox. This version is still powered by DOSBox, but the installer will install that and the game for you automatically, along with a desktop icon and Start Menu entry. Because I'm not a big company with lots of money, some versions of Windows might flag this file as a security risk. (read more...)