Author Topic: War games etc... (Read 504 times)

Heater · « **on:** November 27, 2007, 04:28:22 AM »

All,

Looking to getting back in to playing war games etc...

it been 10@15 years ago that I was involved in anyway shape or form etc...

It does not matter what the learning curve is etc... hell that is most of the fun. I am NOT looking for any FPS or things like that but more on the lines of turn base strategy Simulations etc... WWII and later

Cheers

Bruv119 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 27, 2007, 04:52:49 AM »

I heard Aces High 2 isnt that bad.

Swoop · « **Reply #2 on:** November 27, 2007, 05:29:50 AM »

War In The Pacific.

It's epic. And available direct to drive from http://www.matrixgames.com

Tango · « **Reply #3 on:** November 27, 2007, 05:35:08 AM »

Try the Combat Misson games. they are turn based and GREAT fun.

http://www.battlefront.com/index.htm

Fishu · « **Reply #4 on:** November 27, 2007, 08:06:56 AM »

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Originally posted by Swoop
War In The Pacific.

It's epic. And available direct to drive from http://www.matrixgames.com

It's great, but immensely time consuming.

FiLtH · « **Reply #5 on:** November 27, 2007, 08:20:40 AM »

Ya I have War in the Pacific. Its as close as I can find to the old SSI games. Its very involved. Almost too much for my taste.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #6 on:** November 27, 2007, 09:00:12 AM »

I bought the U-boat sim Silent Hunter III on a DD from Ubisoft's website. I have to say I am completely addicted to it. Something about the 180 degree opposite of a FPS and slow-as-molasses-on-a-cold-morning pace agrees with me. I just wish I had the system to play its Pacific war based sequel.

Bluedog · « **Reply #7 on:** November 27, 2007, 09:27:26 AM »

http://www.pacificstorm.net/en/index.php

Pacific Storm :Allies

Clunky interface, crashes annoyingly often, is historically very questionable,yet I find it strangely addictive.

Frustrating to be sure, but very cool all the same.

Gameplay is somewhat similar to the 'Total War' series...ie you have a strategic map for moving formations around the PTO, and a 'Tactical Battle Map' for when enemy fleets engage each other or shore facilities.
Resources in the form of oil, iron and aluminium must be managed, and more importantly, shipped back to the home country so they can be turned into ships, planes ammo etc...these shipping and transport lines are exceedingly vulnerable.......a Nation's war efforts can be utterly strangled by denying the use of transport shipping through submarine fleets, air attack or surface fleet action.

Personally I would rate it around 6 or 7 out of 10

Cheap too, and available for download purchase.

Charon · « **Reply #8 on:** November 27, 2007, 09:40:25 AM »

Rome Total War, etc. are good for some fun.

Charon

Fishu · « **Reply #9 on:** November 27, 2007, 10:42:10 AM »

Matrix games has also other good strategy games, like Battles in Normandy and Battles in Italy.

1cajun · « **Reply #10 on:** November 27, 2007, 10:50:06 AM »

I used to like Axis and Allies and have always been tempted to buy the computer version.

Has anyone tried it? Is it any good?

DiabloTX · « **Reply #11 on:** November 27, 2007, 10:52:30 AM »

I've been trying to get my old copy of A&A (1998) with the patch to work on my XP Pro machine but to no avail so far. I did love playing that game.

Maverick · « **Reply #12 on:** November 27, 2007, 12:49:58 PM »

Are you really talking about the old Avalon Hill and SSI style games or just strategy games for the computer?

If it's strategy games I still play Command and Conquer, the latter games as they run on Win 98 systems. There are others like HomeWorld for space style games and Civilization for a time period spanning style game.

Heater · « **Reply #13 on:** November 27, 2007, 02:06:59 PM »

Have found the following....

as anyone tried it?

http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/products/POA2/POA2b.html

Cheers

1cajun · « **Reply #14 on:** November 27, 2007, 03:08:59 PM »

Here's another turn based Naval Sim.

Navyfield