Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: republic on January 19, 2007, 11:22:25 AM

Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: republic on January 19, 2007, 11:22:25 AM: Any of you play the wargame "War in the Pacific (http://www.warinthepacific.net/main.asp) " by Matrixgames?

It's kinda pricy, I bought it awhile back and been playing it off and on for a few months now. I was a big fan of the old games P.T.O. (Pacific Theater of Operations).

War in the Pacific is...very complex. They are coming out with another game, which sounds more like P.T.O. "Carriers at War (http://www.matrixgames.com/games/game.asp?gid=337) "

These games don't seem to come out very often. I used to play Great Naval Battles by SSI... Seems the trend these days is towards shoot 'em up's with eyecandy, rather than something that is actually thought provoking or fulfilling.
Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: Skuzzy on January 19, 2007, 11:52:30 AM: I certainly will not be trying it. Active server page (Windows server), and requires Java/Javascript to be enabled to peruse the WEB site. Bad combination in my book. No thank you.
Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: EagleEyes on January 19, 2007, 12:48:56 PM: Skuzzy, we all know you play that game. You just dont want to admit it and get into trouble from HiTech! :D
Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: Skuzzy on January 19, 2007, 01:08:21 PM: Actually, it is called "research". :D

But I really will not play this one. Cannot trust a company which uses Windows servers.
Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: republic on January 19, 2007, 01:11:34 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Skuzzy
Cannot trust a company which uses Windows servers.

I LOVE this quote! Adding it to my siggy now! :D
Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: AWMac on January 19, 2007, 02:07:17 PM: What Skuzzy reall meant to say... "If I can't kick the plug, it isn't worth my time."

J/K

:D

Mac
Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: Maverick on January 19, 2007, 02:56:28 PM: Mac,

Keep that up and you're going to look like your avatar does when he plugs his tongue into the 220 socket.........
Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: Vipermann on January 19, 2007, 03:02:09 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Skuzzy
Actually, it is called "research". :D

But I really will not play this one. Cannot trust a company which uses Windows servers.

You must not trust many companies then :noid
Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: Skuzzy on January 19, 2007, 03:16:25 PM: Correct sir.
Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on January 19, 2007, 09:24:34 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Vipermann
You must not trust many companies then :noid

You might be surprised. Alot of companies use Linux and Unix based servers, even if they use Windows machines for workstations. Well, companies that want reliable service anyway. I suppose its possible some companies actually have people who have nothing to do and need extra work, and in that case Windows is perfect for them. lol

Linux - Helping more System and Network admins get a good night's sleep for 20 years. :)
Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: Booz on January 20, 2007, 12:43:24 AM: Meanwhile...

Yeah I'm playing the the monster campain game vs AI right now.

May 42

Japanese are having a hard time keeping Rabaul open and operating. I managed to fortify & build Henderson early and can now fly my 17s out of it. I caught a few cruisers south of Rabaul with my carrier force, that was fun. And one of the big BBs is in port, I cant hurt it much yet but it it's unable to sail anywhere.

Wake never fell. AI isn't interested in it.

Dutch East Indies are falling very slowly. Palembang just went down, so they have oil now, but I 'm still holding onto west halves of Sumatra and Java.

Manilla and Clark air field are still hanging on, though it'll fall in the month. MacArthur will die there :)

I think I'll have the Japanese advance halted by mid June. But it'll be a long while before I can really mount any offensive operations this early. My 4 BBs that were hit at Pearl are in SF and will be repaired in 2 months.

KB is somewhere in the Dutch East Indies. British subs have wreaked havoc on Japanese supply in the south China Seas. I'm trying to use US subs to blockade Japan but they still suck this early.

In Burma the Flying Tigers have helped stop the advance, my top allied ace is with them and has 12 kills.

All of China is pretty much calm, no japanese advances.

The game IS a monster, turns are 1 day game time and every ship and air squadron is represented. It'll be years before I'm done with this, but I love the game. Developed by Gary Grigsby, Matrix is the publisher. If you were ever into the big boxed tabletop wargames from Avalon Hill & SSI of the 70s & 80s you may like this.
Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: Debonair on January 20, 2007, 12:47:41 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Skuzzy
Actually, it is called "research". :D

But I really will not play this one. Cannot trust a company which uses Windows servers.

when i worked for MSFT we had mostly Sun servrs, so u r in a big paradox:confused::confused::confused: :huh:huh:huh:noid
Title: War in the Pacific
Post by: Skuzzy on January 20, 2007, 06:01:25 AM: Actually, I remember when MS replaced most of its Internet servers with Sun servers. I thought that was quite hilarious.

Even today, all thier email servers, and all of Hotmail's servers are Sun based. I am not sure about thier WEB servers.

Companies that are serious about having an Internet presence do not use Windows based servers, unless there is something seriously wrong in thier IT/Networking departments.