Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm - Player's Edition

Lowland Lions is the first major expansion for Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War, the successor series to Red Storm, and it is now out. It adds the Dutch I Corps in northern Germany, including ground surveillance radar and terrain cut through by waterways, and brings back the Wolves Campaign from Red Storm.

出典：Matrix Games / 2026-09-30

This official dev diary covers the Lowland Lions DLC: the new area of responsibility in northern Germany, the Dutch, Belgian and West German campaigns, and US standalone scenarios carried over from Red Storm. It also explains how the terrain change from mountain passes to forests, rivers and plains alters how you command.

出典：Matrix Games / 2026-09-08

This feature, written for a military audience, looks at how the series' variable command-cycle turn system (inherited from Red Storm) gamifies Boyd's OODA loop. It covers the gap in order intervals between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and includes comments from On Target Simulations president Robert Crandall.

出典：Military Times / 2026-06-09

This post explains, with screenshots, what makes the game tick: command-cycle differences shown in the C3 panel, how headquarters hierarchy and resupply work, units being slow to carry out orders once in combat, and the importance of terrain. It works these points into practical tactical advice.

出典：はてなブログ / ka-ka_xyzの日記 / 2018-03-25

In a long interview with Robert Crandall, head of the series developer, he looks back on his path from the Simulations Canada days through Flashpoint Germany to Red Storm. He also talks concretely about how the series has changed since Red Storm, for example the weather system being rebuilt on real historical data.

出典：Tally-Ho Corner / 2025-10

This review from the original 2013 release uses the historical background to explain the asynchronous turn system built on the OODA loop and the modelling of the era's weapons. It praises the innovative system and the AI while also noting the plain graphics and the somewhat clunky interface.

出典：Armchair General / 2013-12-12

Following the manual, the author plays through the tutorial scenario as an AAR (after-action report), covering setup, fog-of-war settings, deployment and giving orders one screenshot at a time.

出典：はてなブログ / 暇人雑記 / 2016-11-26

This review covers the Player's Edition together with the Germany Reforged DLC. It lays out the game's scenarios, its four campaigns and its lineage from Flashpoint Germany, and uses the gap between NATO and Warsaw Pact command loops as examples to explain why play is so tense.

出典：A Wargamers Needful Things / 2016-11-28