Ketil
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I've played WWII miniatures for many years.
FOW has done well due to a brilliant marketing campaign (credit where it is due) but there are many other sets of rules out there which in my opinion do a much better job at putting WWII on your tabletop.
Try:
Crossfire (best "feel" for tactical combat I've played, aimed mostly at infantry at the company or battalion level)
I Ain't Been Shot Mum! (good system from UK, lots of "friction", leaders matter)
Blitzkrieg Commander (1 stand=1 platoon, based on GW's Warmaster rules but it works)
Nuts! (excellent skirmish rules)
Poor Bloody Infantry (grid based tactical level, lots of fun)
Stargrunt II (sci fi but easy to translate to WWII and a damn fine game)
Fast and Dirty (another good low level game)
Next up for me is Force on Force by the guys that wrote Ambush Alley.
More info than you can shake a stick at over at www.theminiaturespage.com
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The screens you posted seem somewhat improved from the version I remember.
Somewhat.
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Demo lagged hard on my machine with 8700 Nvidia and 2 MB RAM at the stock settings the game chose.
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The Battlefront Flames of War forums ?
Might also get some replies at
Though some of the crowd there can be kind of rough on FOW.
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I used Firefox for years, but the latest versions had problems that made me drop it.
I'm using Opera now and like it a lot.
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When I got a new machine this summer I decided to give Vista a try, on the assumption that if I didn't like it I could always just go to a dual-boot setup. Frankly, I haven't seen the need to do so - it works fine. I'm sure I'd have greater issues with it if I'd gotten it sooner, or if God forbid I were responsible for a department someplace actually needing to run it, but for my use I haven't had any more problems that I'd expect from XP. Maybe even fewer; it was a complete breeze to set up.
My experience was actually so at odds with the prevailing wisdom that I tend to think people went overboard in criticizing it after changes were made to improve the thing. I had way more trouble getting Win 98 to run on an old laptop I got for my kids. :/
Pretty similar experience. I bought a new laptop that came with Vista already installed. Having read all the bad stuff about Vista I have two copies of XP sitting here, one unopened.
I figured I would putter around with Vista a little and then install XP. But after reading about all the fun trying to find XP drivers for the video card that came with my new laptop, I never got round to installing XP.
Some 6 months later I am still using Vista. It has crashed perhaps twice in 6 months, far less than XP used to. I did have to spend perhaps 2 hours "setting up" Vista, mostly turning off a lot of the stuff that is supposed to make it user friendly but is in fact annoying. The performance is fine, especially after turning off a lot of the crap.
As a highlight, Vista runs several older games right out of the box that never worked on XP, or only worked with lots of "fixes". The original Steel Beasts is the only game I have tried to run on Vista that just didn't work.
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Sean O'Connor's Firefight? Not a bad little game, haven't tried running it on Vista yet though.
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I recently switched to Opera from Firefox due to Firefox hanging far too frequently if left alone for more than a couple minutes. So far, I am liking Opera a lot better than FF, and I used FF for the past several years.
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Was going to complain about pages starting at the bottom but I see John has that covered.
And wow my post count went down. Ah, to be young again...
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FWIW, and I have not played CMSF nor have much interest in doing so, I knew an awful lot of folks in the Army that weren't very good shots. And that was on the range, with no one shooting at them.
You can give a bad shot an Eotech or Aimpoint, and he will still be a bad shot. It's not about the gear nearly so much as it's about the guy.
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I imagine you already know this but a third party has patched Myth I and II to run on XP. I played some LAN games with my brother when he was visiting a month ago and it was like old times. Except I actually won a couple lol!Originally posted by DzrtFox:To me the best wargame ever made is Myth II: Soulblighter. It's set in a fantasy world but I have never experienced tactical warfare on a computer anywhere close to this. No resource management, no build queues... just pick your best guys and destroy the opposition with real tactics.
CMx1 games are without a doubt my second favorite. Because of that I had huge hopes for CM:SF, but so far I haven't exactly been thrilled. I'm still hanging on to a slim hope though!! (although it is growing slimmer by the day)
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@thewood:
Do a search on Amazon for Brent Nosworthy.
He did a dissection of the tactical level of Napoleonic warfare.
You might also find Paddy Griffith of interest, though he may be harder to find in bookstores. My local library had a couple of his books much to my surprise.
Chandler is good as well, but is more of the larger picture for the most part.
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[ November 05, 2007, 08:30 PM: Message edited by: Ketil ]
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Own many horses?A horse and buggy is a much more simple means of transport that has a lot less to go wrong with it than a car.
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First thing that crossed my mind on seeing the title ...Originally posted by J_Toe:I apologise for this constructive post but...
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Have you read these?Originally posted by SlapHappy:[QB] All this dissension is simply a side effect of the beginning of the end for computer wargaming.
I don't think it's going to survive the endless stream of ****ware titles from EA and the like. When Company of Heroes came out I was shocked to find that the game wasn't anything like what I had hoped it might be - and I fully expected more folks to feel the way I did. Instead, the media had an orgasm and I was left wondering what all the fuss was about.
Hopefully it can at least survive as a niche market - the state it's always been in.
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How are these any different? Once you have maxed a character and done all the quests is it not "finished" by your definition?The only games that fit my definition of open-ended are MMORPGs or perhaps those space trading/fighting games. -
They call what Jason is describing as "bathtubbing" in the miniatures world. Frank Chadwick did a "Bathtub Barbarossa" for his Command Decision rules that scaled the whole Russian front down by a factor of 25. Even then it was immense.
The problem with such an excercise is, Combat Mission is set to put you in the role of a company commander more or less. And even with that you are making the decisions of several platoon commanders. At a divisional level, you aren't making the kind of decisions a division commander would make, but the decisions of LOTS of platoon commanders. It just doesn't work.
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elicense is one of the major reasons why I haven't bought this game already. And am going to have major concerns about buying other games from Battlefront that use it.
If the hacker crowd thinks your game is cool enough to spend the effort, they WILL crack it.
As usual the people affected most by such policies are the ones who actually purchase the software...
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North Carolina. They are indeed a pain. We live on a horse farm, and they haven't been after the horses yet but they killed one of our barn cats and the neighbors bull calf and several other cats, dogs and calves in the vicinity. And they put a dent in the local wild turkey population, which is my job dangit!
It is legal to shoot em in the daytime, which hasn't stopped me from going out there at 2 am lol. I really don't care to kill them, usually shooting a few rounds into the bank will run em off for a few days. But given a clear shot...
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I have mine hanging on my AR, I use em for general shooting, but when I run out late at night to chase the coyotes away I usually forget to put them in lol.Originally posted by DaveT:Remember when they used to make you wear your earplug case from your breast pocket as a sign of how much the Army values your hearing? Or am I just showing my age?
I still have one and keep earplugs in it.
Dave
Been looking pretty hard at those electronic ear muffs though. The good ones are rather expensive-$300 or so...
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Thanks for posting that, hadn't seen it in awhile.
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What's up with the difference in the pricing for the download and mail option for Tac Ops versus all the other games? $25/$25/$40 versus Strategic Command at $25/$25/$25 for example.
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Cool, thanks for the info guys. Now to get my opponent to quit changing the turn names lol!
Flames of War
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Heh, I like a lot of their models as well. I have nearly a thousand infantry from Battlefront NZ, two companies each of US, Brits and Germans for NWE 44-45 and a company each of Brit and US Airborne and a company of Brits for Africa. And a bunch of vehicles.
I just play other rules with them.