(01-12-2014, 02:57 AM)cdrost Wrote: Strela posted:

The graphics you have seen in this thread were specifically designed for Panzer Battles (PzB). They have subsequently been used in the mobile version of Panzer Campaigns (PzC) and are being retrofitted into Panzer Campaigns games available from John Tiller's web site.

The Panzer Battle version is better quality as it uses the larger Squad Battles hex layouts as compared to the pixel doubling zoom in Panzer campaigns.

Does this mean that if the new graphics are retrofitted to an old game it will have the new map graphics (larger hexes) or will they still be the same small hexes? I stopped buying and playing Tiller games because the hexes are just to small on a 27" monitor.

(01-12-2014, 04:52 AM)GerryM Wrote: Thanks David and others with knowledge of the game for sharing. Wondering two things.

1. How many units would one be in control of in a small scenario or a medium scenario (I don't care so much about number of turns).
2. Is the game mechanics the same as in Squad Battles and PzC? As in you fire each unit multiple times, etc.

I ask as one of the issues I have is the workload with these games. It seems that the firing for the AI or one's own side goes on forever.

Thanks again,

Gerry

(01-12-2014, 09:09 AM)jimcrowley Wrote: The question of facing is perhaps moot at the company level; maybe less so when considering platoons. Unless I am misremembering, CS had an optional armour facing rule but, there again, that was a purely platoon based gamed. I'm intrigued by the 'mechanism' mentioned by David, above, and how it will reflect, or impact, facing.

One area that I found very frustrating in both CS and PzC was a very tight time limit on most scenarios, particularly the smaller ones. You could be very close to fulfilling all of your objectives and the clock would suddenly stop and game over - a loss or draw instead of the victory another turn or two would have yielded. This gave the scenarios more of a 'puzzle' aspect forcing you to keep trying until you got a decent result.

Of course battles were, to a great extent, fought to a time table but that often went out of the window and the battle was still fought to a conclusion, win or lose. I would love to see a feature whereby you could continue on past the allocated time, perhaps at the cost of x victory points for every extra turn taken, still losing if you take too many extra turns. Far more realistic and satisfying IMO.

The other area that always concerns me with an upcoming wargame is the potential performance of the AI. Seeing a lot of H2H-only or one-sided scenarios always suggests a poor AI and while I fully expect the usual 'not as good/fun as against a human', I do hope the AI in PB is robust enough to allow solo play from both sides, in all or most of the supplied scenarios.

(01-12-2014, 09:09 AM)jimcrowley Wrote: I would love to see a feature whereby you could continue on past the allocated time, perhaps at the cost of x victory points for every extra turn taken, still losing if you take too many extra turns. Far more realistic and satisfying IMO.

(01-12-2014, 10:40 AM)cdrost Wrote: Strela posted:

All the PzC/MC and SqB games now have the larger hexes. This was updated in the most recent patches.

Are you referring to the blurry 2x view (it's terrible) or the new larger map hexes used in Panzer Battles? The map graphics should have been updated years ago. I'm looking forward to any Tiller game with the new map graphics used in Panzer Battles. Thank you for the information you have been providing us on the game's development.

(01-11-2014, 08:50 PM)Strela Wrote: PzB is 250m x 30 minutes
vs
SB 40m and 5 minutes

This means at approximately 6 times (not 3 times) 240m & 30 minutes....

The scale to Panzer Campaigns is another 4 times at 1,000m & 2 hours.

There is consistency between the three game series.

David

(01-12-2014, 02:19 PM)trauth116 Wrote: @ DF:

I think he was talking about the zoom in used in the Panzer Campaigns titles now - whereby it is basically just stretching the existing graphic file as opposed to calling on a larger graphic file which is what you have in PzB.