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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Grayeagle on November 08, 2008, 12:08:05 AM
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I miss Panzer Battles ..an the like :)
Was wonderin if there are any good ones out there these days.
-GE (still plays Age of Kings of all things ..now an then)
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Combat Mission series are fun. There older games, but I still play all three.
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I will take it that you meant computer WWII games:
Grand strategic: Hearts of Iron2 Doomsaday/Armageddon Edition (HOURS of playing)
Operational: Bltizkrieg I & II
I you meant board games:
Take-the-rest-of-your-life-to-play: World in Flames
If you meant miniatures:
Pass-the-beer&skittles: Flames of War
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I rather enjoy Flames of War mysef, its not overly complicated and full of possibilities...indeed just the other day i spent a pleasant afternoon kicking jerries aound with my company of Coldstream Guard and their matildas :D
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When AD&D was just becoming the rage among dorks I made an RPG based on air combat in the Pacific called "Victory In The Air". Never caught on though. No damn half-naked elven warrior sorceresses.
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Martix Games has several good WWII games ... War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition is what I am playing now with a guy from Canada.
They are Board games on a PC that can be played solitaire or with a live opponent or PBEM.
I'm getting this one for Christmas
The War Engine
If you build it, they will play... The War Engine is the ultimate table top war game simulation and replication kit. Limited only by your imagination, all units, weapons and terrain are fully configurable in artwork and stats. Ready made worlds range from sci-fi to fantasy to space to World War 2.
http://www.matrixgames.com/
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Tactical: Combat Mission 2 & 3(Unless state-of-art fancy graphics are more important than actual gameplay ;)) I still have much fun in multiplayer
Grand Strategic: Hearts of Iron Doomsday (Where you can play every country from 1936-1953)
Boardgame: Fighting Wings Series (Achtung Spitfire, Over the Reich, etc.)
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HPS Simulations
http://www.hpssims.com/ (http://www.hpssims.com/)
Battlefront
http://www.battlefront.com/ (http://www.battlefront.com/)
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Martix Games has several good WWII games ... War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition is what I am playing now with a guy from Canada.
They are Board games on a PC that can be played solitaire or with a live opponent or PBEM.
I'm getting this one for Christmas
The War Engine
If you build it, they will play... The War Engine is the ultimate table top war game simulation and replication kit. Limited only by your imagination, all units, weapons and terrain are fully configurable in artwork and stats. Ready made worlds range from sci-fi to fantasy to space to World War 2.
http://www.matrixgames.com/
War in the Pacific is outstanding for those that do not mind playing a slow moving game with almost infinite detail. Admirals Edition? That doesn't even look to be out yet on the Matrix site- as of last weekend anyway. I better go check. Let me know if you want to start up a pbem game.
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also, Matrix has other excellent games as well on many historical periods.
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red orchestra
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Thanks for the replies ..
..sounds like Hearts of Iron and Combat Mission will satisfy my 'itch' for a Patton moment :)
-GE
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Call of Duty, World at war! :rock
(You need a pretty advanced machine from what I've heard)
and if you don't have one... then THIS is a great one.
Medal of Honor, Pacific Assualt (for the PC) Great great game... you get to go from the Makin Atoll raid, From Edson's ridge at guadal canal, then to Tarawa after fighting more in Guadalcanal! :salute
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Hmmm, Was thinking pre/PC...
Nevermind...
I'm a wargame geezer, so my
suggestions would probably
be a little too old for ya...
Complete sets of those old
boardgames are collectors
items now..
<S>RC
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'wargame geezer' .. aye.
It all started when my dad got me hooked on Chess.
Then came Risk.
Then I found a wargame based on 'what if' kinda stuff, based on combat in the Fulda Gap..
I don't even remember the name of that one.
It was back when the M-60 - T-72's were the state of the art tho, and TOW missiles were king.
I got hooked bad.
Cross of Iron, Squad Leader, War in the Pacific, Third Reich, Air War..Starfleet Battles, Car Wars, Ogre, amazing fun.
Ace of Aces, Knights of the Sky ..
Then .. along came the lil brown books of D&D.
How cool was *that* ..makin maps, creating a world and runnin adventures with 30 people gettin together on weekends
to hack an slash, cast magic, and in general just have a blast runnin half-elves, half-orcs, wizards, warriors,
..lawful good Paladins that everyone seemed to hate
-Skyl, the theif and part time assassin of the party, looked askance at the prissy Paladin's shiny hat,
..idly wonderin if it would make a good .. umm .. nm.
Nowadays ..I'd like to beat somethin up on my PC .. would be fun to recapture the fun of some of the old Avalon Hill games.
Nothin says 'breakthrough' quite like a Panzer Division in 1941 Eastern Front .. like a knife thru butter :)
(useda p/o the other player when I ran the Russians by just runnin as fast as I could savin as much as I could, until production of red units just overwhelmed the Wermacht and buried them.. when I ran the Wehrmacht I put all the panzers in Center and owned Moscow by January '42.. Hitler and Stalin were both such dweebs :)
-GE
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Call of Duty, World at war! :rock
(You need a pretty advanced machine from what I've heard)
and if you don't have one... then THIS is a great one.
Medal of Honor, Pacific Assualt (for the PC) Great great game... you get to go from the Makin Atoll raid, From Edson's ridge at guadal canal, then to Tarawa after fighting more in Guadalcanal! :salute
Theres only 1 map with tanks dood, and theres only 2 of them.
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My first Avalon Hill game was Blitzkrieg...
Still have it, first edition too, circa 1968..
You can tell its first edition because it has
the plastic tray for the cardboard unit counters..
Still have 5 copies of Panzerblitz, my favorite..
2 copies of Panzerleader..
Also, Third Riech, Tobruk, Afrika Corps, Squad leader,
Jutland, Chancellorsville, Battle of the Bulge, Wooden ships
and Iron men... Others too..
Mine are Originals from the old days, still have em, LOL..
If ya remember, they cost about 50bucks back in the day.
And only available in book stores...
The one that makes me chuckle is Luftwaffe... LOL, those
cardboard counters, with data sheets for altitude etc etc..
My god, how did I play that game?
Got into micro armor after that... And 1/1200 waterline
diecast ship battles on 2pingpong tables in the garage..
My dad was always pizzed because he couldnt get the
car into the garage, lol!!!
He used to walk in, and look over the battle, (that went on for weeks)..
With those little ships, all in battle lines, some of them with steel wool
for smoke plooms.. Or red and yellow yarn for fires.. I could tell He wanted
to put a stop to it.. But would look interested as the battle took shape..
He was probably glad I was home, instead of out gettin in trouble..
He was WWII marine rifleman, so I think he liked watchin the jap fleet go
down in flames...
Semper Fi pop, I still miss ya...
RC
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I am an semi-old grognard. Here are a few of my old games, if I can remember them without digging them out.
Avalon Hill- Third Reich, Tobruk (outstanding game for a near miniature rules), Luftwaffe, The Squad Leader series with Cross of Iron, Crescendo of Doom and the Anvil of Victory (was that it?),
SPI- Fulda Gap- very nice Soviet/Nato game, Invasion: American
Harpoon- the Larry Bond game.
Probably another 10 or so that I cannot recall right now.
Great list by Ripchord. I remember playing a lot of Panzer Blitz and Panzer Leader in the late 70's. Jutland was a great game that never became too popular.
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One game stands out above all others- Red Orchestra- great game
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speaking of Battlefront.com
I wish to hell this one would come out already
HistWar: Les Grognards
http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=124&Itemid=175
(http://www.battlefront.com/products/les_grog/screenshots7/thumbnails/Capture340.jpg)
(http://www.battlefront.com/products/les_grog/screenshots7/thumbnails/Capture500.jpg)
(http://www.battlefront.com/products/les_grog/screenshots6/thumbnails/HistWarB11.jpg)