Hister
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Great. Will center my focus on Simonitich then.
Will probably just go with the Combat Commander Pacific and its extension and ditch CoH and OST for the time being.
A Victory Lost was made by the guy who made The Fire in the Sky. Nice.
I was already checking on Grand tactical combat series - the Mercury mission but game costs too much. Will pay a bigger attention to it from now on.
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Thank you a bunch Zveroboy1! I am fully on board with you regarding the board games - they do give you a whole lot of different feeling when you play them. Maybe has something to do with physicaly being able to move stuf around, the sensorical aspect of it, etc. I started with war boardgames with Risk back in the day but then PC games took over until a year or so ago when a friend introduced me to war boardgames again with Columbia Games Julius Caesar. A whole new dimension opened for me.
Own 3 Columbia games (+Pacific Victory, Napoleon), GMTs Sekigahara, Empire of the Sun and some others. Preordereda bunch of new GMT titles and am ordering Silent victory, D-Day at Peleliu, ECA The Doolitle Raid, Combat Commander Pacific+battle pack and yet to see if I will order FoF2, Conflict of Heroes Guadalcanal, Old School Tactical Vol III and its extension and WarfighterWW2 Pacific.
Excellent clarifications on FoF2. Also glad the content fits inside the box aftr you unpack everything - that was my mig gripe with it. Am closer to getting it now that you explained it to me.
Which grandtactical and operational games would you suggest for me to check out? I've seen Stalingrad '42 from Simonitich take a lot of cool praise.
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5 minutes ago, Zveroboy1 said:
I play tabletop wargames from time to time, but not so much wwii tactical. I have Fields of Fire though. It is a good game, I think the designer is serving in the Marine Corps and he has published several wargames; his Musket & Pike series is very good. I have the first edition covering Normandy, Korea and Vietnam, not the one about the Pacific theatre that you are interested in but it is the same rules really.
The game deals with command and control issues with some interesting and unique mechanisms. It is not at all like ASL and takes a much broader view of the topic, putting you in the shoes of a company commander. The "board" is actually made of rows of cards that you pick randomly according to scenario instructions.
One of the Hue scenarios below :
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I hesitate to recommend it as your first foray into tabletop wargaming because the rules are a bit of a mess to be honest even though this is technically the third edition. It is not for the faint hearted and you should be prepared to invest a lot of time browsing the game forums trying to decipher the finer points of the ruleset and be ready to face lots of ambiguous situations. But it is a rewarding game, eminently replayable that models elements of command and control and company level engagements that almost no other wargame tackles.
Yeah, I did list Fields of Fire 2 on my list (see below). Thank you for the input. I believe FoF system is the most serious take on tactical level of them all and would come closest to what Combat Mission simulates, right?
It is a real shame GMT released such a bad manual on each 3 releases - so not like them. Also, the box that the game comes in is way too small I hear - I don't wanna have my shiny boardgames stored in a random shoe box, blimey!Would these rewritten rules help me getting on with the game or would I still need to search around?
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/187173/rules-rewritten-and-reorganized-11x17-charts
I am intrigued with this game, alot.8 hours ago, Hister said:I am into the WW2 Pacific theater and am choosing between Fields of Fire 2, Warfighter Pacific, Combat Commander Pacific, Conflict of the Heroes Guadalcanal and Old School Tactical Volume III.
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OK, CC Pacific is defenitely on my buying list now.
Again, I have seen lots of praise for Old School Tactical Pacific - has any of you played that system on how do you find it especially against Combat Mission? People state this is their go to tactical ww2 game but this might be just 'cos it is something new.
*Addendum: I will play my tactical boardgames mostly solo.
Thank you for standing for boardgames.
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Thank you domfluff - CC does come up awfully lot. Have you perhaps also played any Old School Tactical games and if yes how does it stack to CC?
Will check the no Retreat! series.
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OK, undersood - not much sense going in tactical level games when Combat Mission exists.
CM doesn't cover Pacific though so I might have an excuse to try one nevertheless.
Thank you for your input guys.
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Ha, not many then, eh.
Still, if some soul is out there do come forward and let me know if it is worth taking the plunge - boardgaming has a special feel to it that PC games don't have.
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As the title says - interested to learn what other players here think on this topic.
Recently discovered tabletop wargaming and am in the process of aquring a bunch of games among which are also tactical level boardgames. I am wondering if CM players think playing CM games is all it is needed in the tactical level universe or are there any CM players who love to take their phisical board games for a ride? Which tactical level boardgame systems do you liek the most and why?
I am into the WW2 Pacific theater and am choosing between Fields of Fire 2, Warfighter Pacific, Combat Commander Pacific, Conflict of the Heroes Guadalcanal and Old School Tactical Volume III.
What say thee?
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16 minutes ago, Bud Backer said:
It’s really frustrating how different systems show different performance issues, or lack of them. I have no stuttering, swirling patterns or flickering shadows. I’m able to run the game with all graphical options maxed out, and I assume you can too. My only “problem” is that really really huge maps like Cassino or the master maps take 20 seconds to load in the editor. I tried this on both Windows 10 and Mac OS Catalina.
It’s something that I see mentioned on forums for just about any game I play. Someone (sometimes me) has graphical performance that diverges from what many others can achieve and it’s very difficult to resolve. I hear your pain.Thank you for your input Bud. I personally am not so sure this observed divergence of performance is really as big as some say - it might also have to do with how different people perceive things. For some playing on 15 - 20 frames per second is great while for others it is completely unplayable as I learned on this forum.
I can't play this game on max settings at all. I can't play with shadows and shaders on, nor with 3D model quality set to anything above improved on a what was top tier computer hardware-wise one year ago if I want to keep my frames above 20 FPS in most scenarios. The ony thing that I haven't tried is using the Nvidias g sync technology with it which some people say makes the game much more smooth and less stuttery across the board. These monitors are still on the pricey side so haven't splurged on one as of yet. Would have to really see it with my own eyes to be able to determine if it is worth it.
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4 hours ago, Bulletpoint said:
I haven't read anything about better performance or fixed graphical glitches, so my guess would be that the game still stutters, swirling patterns appear in plowed fields, shadows still flicker on and off as the camera moves, and that shading still appear on the terrain facing the sun
It is what it is then. One can not have everything. Would be so good if this aspect would be adressed though.
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23 hours ago, MikeyD said:
I frankly don't know what was or wasn't done to the game engine (as opposed to module pieces) since the last patch. My guess is nothing particularly dramatic. If Charles did tinker under the hood without informing anyone then expect it to show up in across-the-board title patches. Because BFC doesn't like it when one title gets ahead of the others game-engine-wise.
Thank you MikeyD. You don't experience any better shadow rendering and faster less stuttery camera movement?
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Seen a couple of posters mention that their game runs better with the latest content/patch. Was something done on this front by the devs and how better would you say your agme runs now if at all?
Devs, can we expect such performance patches for other titles too?
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Yeah, it is like when my wife is feisty - no matter what I do it often ends as a wrong move.
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Yes, indeed - new vehicles/units should come out with deisgnated scenarios and one campaign tailored for them. Seems the most reasonable packaging to me.
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Haaaaaa, awesome! Thank you Steve.
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This should be cheched into by the devs I suppose. CM's screenshot was taken while another game was being disscussed:
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Excellent, thank you and defenitely a route to follow - hotfixes have been dearly missed with Battlefront in the past.
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FINALLY!!!
Installed them so long awaited patched without a problem. Thank you for finally deliveringthem Battlefront&Friends. -
The Battlefront devs are actually Greeks disguised as the US guys - the delays are the ultimate proof of their Greekness!
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I now installed the new 418.91 driver and the problem remains. Uh oh.
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If you have more then hundred games installed on your PC and among those games many recent that haven't gotten a proper driver support yet, then you need the latest drivers.
If you sport only old and older non recent games then sure, you can install an older Nvidia driver and forget all about it.
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No, the current driver is still the driver version that made havoc in my PC: 418.81
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Ah so they made a new driver yesterday, I missed it. They might have solved the problems introduced in the previous one with this one. I will try how it goes, wanna get my full monitor surface back.
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15 minutes ago, Blazing 88's said:
One of the main reasons I update the video cards manually. Also, I am not one to just update them right away anyways. If all is working well.....
I never and I man never had such a global driver issue and I have been using a PC since I was 10 years old. That makes for 20 years of no problems in that department where you don't even think not to update as soon as the official driver pops up.(Yea I know, Nvidia's drivers weren't around back then but still...).
Any tactical level boardgames played by CM owners?
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Yeah, I was musing when reviewers were at awe about the "granularity, detail" of certain tactical level boardgames when in CM that would be regarded as utter abstraction.
Thank you guys, my vision regarding boargame tactical level is clearer now. If CM would have a Pacific core game I would probably avoid buying any tactical level boardgames for it- I for sure am not interested in getting me tactical boardgames that cover any TOO that CM already covers.
Operational and grand tactical that play well in solo mode is gonna be my main focus for WW2 boargames besides storytelling ones like Silent Victory and Doolittle Raid from now on.