Play Red Lightning Amiga Online

Red Lightning came out on the Amiga in 1989 from Strategic Simulations, Inc., a publisher well known for its war games. It was part of that wave of late 80s computer games that tried to model large scale military conflict with more detail than before, putting you in charge of a full theater of war rather than just a single battle.

You command either NATO or Warsaw Pact forces across a detailed map of Central Europe, moving brigades and divisions to seize objectives and destroy enemy formations. The game operates on a large scale, focusing on operational movement, supply lines, and combined arms assaults rather than individual tank commands. Managing your limited fuel and ammunition becomes a constant, critical puzzle, and the sheer number of units under your control demands careful attention to positioning and fronts. It feels like a relentless, cerebral exercise in logistics and foresight, where a single misjudged advance can unravel your entire front.