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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ygsmilo on April 29, 2002, 04:11:44 PM

Title: Steel Panthers World at War
Post by: ygsmilo on April 29, 2002, 04:11:44 PM

I used to play Steel Panthers all the time when it first came out.  I was looking at the Matrix games site and downloaded the the free version of SPWaW 7.1.  Still lots of fun, new units and player mods but after playing AH for so long, the slowness of a turn based game gets a little old.

Title: Steel Panthers World at War
Post by: Tuomio on April 30, 2002, 09:20:27 AM

The slowness is necessary if you want to utilize realistic tactics because the lack of proper AI control. You have to manually move every troop yourself, cause they cant do it themselfs like they would in real world.

But i just love small battles in SP:WAW, with no saving between the turns. One turn takes about 5 mins in small map with 1-2 platoon size groups. Sadly most of the scenario maps are too large and has sometimes even hundreds of units to command.

Title: Steel Panthers World at War
Post by: Hortlund on April 30, 2002, 09:33:29 AM

Have you guys tried any of the Mega Campaigns? Trust me, they are among the best in the market.

<-- used to be a betatester for SPWAW

Title: Steel Panthers World at War
Post by: RRAM on April 30, 2002, 10:14:36 AM

I loved SPWAW...

then I purchased Combat Mission, and everything changed for me ;)