I'm true, loyal CS player and I love it. Lately I've start looking for some other (similar?) strategy game. I'm playing CS for twelve years (nine on 'The Blitz') so it might be quite hard for me to find myself in other 'game engine'. I know that most of you have other games than CS. What you could suggest for old CS wargamer?
(05-01-2011, 04:47 AM)von Manstein Wrote: [ -> ]I'm true, loyal CS player and I love it. Lately I've start looking for some other (similar?) strategy game. I'm playing CS for twelve years (nine on 'The Blitz') so it might be quite hard for me to find myself in other 'game engine'. I know that most of you have other games than CS. What you could suggest for old CS wargamer?
When I need a break from CS and CS related games, I usually find myself playing Napoleon: Total War.
Jason Petho
(05-01-2011, 04:47 AM)von Manstein Wrote: [ -> ]I'm true, loyal CS player and I love it. Lately I've start looking for some other (similar?) strategy game. I'm playing CS for twelve years (nine on 'The Blitz') so it might be quite hard for me to find myself in other 'game engine'. I know that most of you have other games than CS. What you could suggest for old CS wargamer?
I really enjoy WIE by Decison Games
I play Battles from the Bulge and War in the Pacific AE, both from Matrix.
BftB is the best wargame I know, but unfortunately it doesn't feature PBEM. However the AI is the best I've ever seen in any simulation game.
Huib
(05-01-2011, 08:35 AM)Jason Petho Wrote: [ -> ]When I need a break from CS and CS related games, I usually find myself playing Napoleon: Total War.
Jason Petho
After CS, Total War series is ny next favourite game but unfortunately it won't run on my laptop (I had to left my PC back in Poland).
(05-01-2011, 10:09 AM)Von Earlmann Wrote: [ -> ]I really enjoy WIE by Decison Games
I've download demo version and try to figure out how it works. It's quite 'harsh' and only 'hot seat' (or I have wrong version?). It reminds me old fashion board games that I still have few of them somewhere around but no one to play with me :(
(05-01-2011, 07:30 PM)Huib Versloot Wrote: [ -> ]I play Battles from the Bulge and War in the Pacific AE, both from Matrix.
BftB is the best wargame I know, but unfortunately it doesn't feature PBEM. However the AI is the best I've ever seen in any simulation game.
Huib
Pacific theatre isn't my favourite one, but BftB looks nice (I have demo version). But Bombardment option is a little bit annoying. I have to give this order every time when bombardment mission is over (or I'm doing something wrong?).
Thanks mates for suggestions
(05-01-2011, 11:54 PM)von Manstein Wrote: [ -> ]Pacific theatre isn't my favourite one, but BftB looks nice (I have demo version). But Bombardment option is a little bit annoying. I have to give this order every time when bombardment mission is over (or I'm doing something wrong?).
Thanks mates for suggestions
You can automate to a certain extent: For whom the arty support is, and the duration and TOT of the bombardments as well. Ofcourse you have to take care not to expend too much ammo, so you might have to assign several bombard missions. You can also let the AI deal with it for you, works quite well too.
As far as arty is concerned BftB however suffers from the same flaw (or should I say feature) as CS: everybody can spot for every tube. I hope they'll fix that.
Huib
(05-01-2011, 10:09 AM)Von Earlmann Wrote: [ -> ]I really enjoy WIE by Decison Games
I've download demo version and try to figure out how it works. It's quite 'harsh' and only 'hot seat' (or I have wrong version?). It reminds me old fashion board games that I still have few of them somewhere around but no one to play with me :(
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The full game has a hotseat version and it also features a PBEM.......very interesting and challenging game when playing a full campaign.....seems to incorporate all the best features of the old board games..reminds me of a combination of Panzergruppe Guderian and Columbia games Eurofront with much more thrown in.......and with the comp figuring out all the zocs,supply etc it plays fairly fast....does not have an AI tho and probably wouldn't be much fun with it anyway.......if you find a good opponent the PBEM is great fun......working on my second campaign with someone and having a blast.....the first campaign he taught me some tough lessons one of which is don't invade Rumania as Russians to try and help the Allies who foolishly invaded Belgium and Holland in 1940 to try and help the Poles :-)
VE
(05-01-2011, 08:35 AM)Jason Petho Wrote: [ -> ] (05-01-2011, 04:47 AM)von Manstein Wrote: [ -> ]I'm true, loyal CS player and I love it. Lately I've start looking for some other (similar?) strategy game. I'm playing CS for twelve years (nine on 'The Blitz') so it might be quite hard for me to find myself in other 'game engine'. I know that most of you have other games than CS. What you could suggest for old CS wargamer?
When I need a break from CS and CS related games, I usually find myself playing Napoleon: Total War.
Jason Petho
I would like to have something totally different from the CS series as an alternative, as CS of course is
the definitive platoon sized game for WW II era. :)
I have two eras of interest, Rome, and the era of the European Thirty Years War. Quite handily, the Total War series covers them both.
Have any of you guys tried either Total War Rome, and / or Total War The Empire?
(05-08-2011, 05:08 PM)Verrückte Katze Wrote: [ -> ]Have any of you guys tried either Total War Rome, and / or Total War The Empire?
I'm a big fan of 'Total War' series from beginning, that is from Shogun then Medieval, Rome, Medieval II and Napoleonic. For Napoleonic period in Total War, I was waiting since Total War series appeared, but mod for Rome filled this gap a little bit. I hadn't played only Empire Total War. And since march we have Shogun II :)