I ordered T-72 in 2005 when it first came out. I got a beautiful manual and two CD disks In a non descriptive brown envelope In the mail...cool!!! I played and eventually won all 18 missions on an under-spec computer. I recall trying to down the Mi-8 helicopter with the AA matching gun with the lousiest frame rate ever. I finally did it.
A friend gave me an old laptop that he was about to throw away and I installed Windows XP and T-72! I’m going to try to beat it again.
Anybody else playing right now? This game was dismissed by the Steel Beasts community back then and is the best kept secret in the tank sim world.
I’ll post my progress. Right now, I’m relearning controls and going through training missions.