What is "take command"

vb. to assume control or responsibility

Take Command is a series of real-time tactics computer games by MadMinute Games. As of August 2006 the series consist of two games, Take Command: Bull Run (a.k.a. The History Channel Civil War The Battle of Bull Run Take Command: 1861) (2004) and Take Command - 2nd Manassas (2006). The games are real-time wargames depicting some of the major battles of the American Civil War. The developers describe the games as "real-time combat simulators". The first game was released under the Activision Value brand, which is Activision's budget line. The second game is released through Paradox, a Swedish publisher that specializes in strategy games. A third game, based on the Battle of Shiloh, was said to be in development according to the instruction manual for 2nd Manassas, but has likely been discontinued.

The Take Command Series were the first games to employ a real army chain of command. Where you could play anywhere from brigade commander up to army commander. If you play as a division commander the rest of the army would be controlled by the AI. Unlike other RTS games you don't control every unit in the game, but you give orders to the officers under you, and they execute the order to the best of their ability. Some commanders are better than others and will execute your orders better than others.

The games have an active modding community with several mods out and in the works, among others a Napoleonic Wars mod.

A total conversion mod called Horse & Musket has been released, that changes the time period of the game from American Civil war to time of the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic wars.

Take Command was the name that JP Software used for their GUI command-line interpreters for Windows 3.1 (TC16), Windows 32-bit (TC32) and later OS/2 Presentation Manager (TCOS2). These were released concurrently with version 4DOS 5.5, 4NT 2.5 and 4OS2 2.52. The OS/2 and Windows 16-bit survived until version 2.02, they are still available for download from the FTP site on JP Software.

Beginning with version 9, the name Take Command was applied to an entirely different assembly of products: TCI (Tabbed Command Interface) and 4NT. The original Take Command is no longer being developed. TCI was expanded to include a file manager and various other windows, while 4NT was renamed TCC, and issued in "light" form.

Take Command is a command-line interpreter for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Its advantages over the regular command shell are analogous to those of 4DOS over the [[COMMAND.COM]] supplied with MS-DOS.

Beginning with version 9, Tabbed Console Interface and 4NT have been merged into the Take Command product line. 4NT was renamed to Take Command Console, with a Lite Edition (TCC/LE) released as freeware. Take Command includes a tabbed interface, configurable toolbars, and an integrated graphical file explorer. Take Command adds a built-in batch file editor and debugger, FTP and HTTP file access in commands, network file system access, Active Scripting integration, system monitoring commands, and Windows service controls.

Take Command may refer to:

• Take Command (command line interpreter), a cmd.exe replacement by JP Software
• Take Command Console, a later version of the command line interpreter
• Take Command (computer game), a 2006 computer game by MadMinute Games