Battlefront.com offers downloads of playable demos for Combat Mission: Fortress Italy, allowing Windows and OS X gamers the chance to sample this recently released World War II strategy sequel. Word is: "This free demo version contains limited functionality and content to showcase the full version of the game, which can be purchased at www.battlefront.com." Here's an outline of those limitations:

• only three scenarios are playable.
• QuickBattles are disabled (but the QB setup screen is visible)
• multiplayer modes (PBEM/TCP) are fully enabled
• the Scenario Editor is enabled and fully functional, but it will not allow you to purchase units, load, or save any maps
• contains nag screens during launch end exit of the demo.