The player commands a small squad of either German or American soldiers in the western Europe of World War II.
In a game of Patrol the opposing Alpha and Bravo squads encounter each other in the area between their front lines.
board-game series from TSR to function as a multi-player computer game available to play online on CompuServe.
computer game, and suggested players pay for the graphical version rather than try to decipher images composed of ASCII characters, which he found "far too cryptic for my tastes."
He noted that although "the game's control logistics seem a little obtuse at first, you can enter a modified boot camp where you explore all of the various commands.