Sgt_K Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Anyone remember Mech Brigade (1985 Strategic Simulation by Gary Grigsby), a WEGO title for the C64? I loved that game and wore out my 5 1'4 inch disks before I stopped playing it in about 1990. It was amazing and before CMBO I never saw another WEGO title. By the way is anyone guarding the Fulda Gap? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 I played it on one of the first PC's installed at a fortune 200 company I worked. Came in on weekends to do it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntarr Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 1986 is probably the greatest year ever for releases. Small list of amazing classics. http://gotcha.classicgaming.gamespy.com/1986n.htm 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shredder Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Mech Brigade - still one of my all time favorite games. I got Flashpoint Germany from Matrix thinking it would be similiar, but it doesn't have the same appeal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtweasle Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Mech Brigade was WEGO? Could've swore it's turn based "I go - you go" like Kampfgruppe, and another similar one from around that time. You sure it was WEGO? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holman Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 I remember it as I-Go/You-Go. It was basically Kampfgruppe with different unit stats. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtweasle Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 That's my thinking too. Been years now of course, but I played both of them so much I went through 3 C64 power bricks! (really!) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMuhammed Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 That's what I was thinking. I loved that game. I also had a little SSI tactical game that I think was real time but I can't remember the name. It was lots of fun though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynaman200 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 The Steel Panthers predecessor games were wego if I remember correctly. Of course "we" meant the computer and the player. Although there may have been hotseat play. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 I've played all the SP games and none of them were WEGO. There was opportunity fire during an opponent's turn...maybe that is what you are thinking of? Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mPisi Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 There was a neat little game called Robosport which was WEGO back in 1991-ish. Multiplayer up to 4 over LAN, or against the computer. Capture the flag, hostage rescue, etc missions with squads of robots. Robots armed with rifles, MG, rocket launchers, grenades. There was also a web-based WEGO strategy game in '99, Webwars: Fortunes of War. Ancient setting, multiplayer to 10+. Most fun multiplayer I've ever done. The server would take orders from players, and generate the next turn when all orders were in, or the deadline passed, so it always kept moving. I think this would be a good way for BFC to implement real multiplayer. Only lasted a year before the dev team split up and the server died. This screenshot shows an orders phase for my Macedonians, getting ready to explore the board and put a hurting on the Romans, Persians, Germans, etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Roposport ROCKED! I still have a Mac version of it, box adn all. But it's about to go into the trash after all this time. No reason to keep something that can't run on any computer made in the last 15 years The first WeGo game I ever played was Chris Crawford's Eastern Front for the Atari 400/800 computers. Still have it, the box, manual, paper map, etc. A bunch of years ago I fired it up just for the heck of it. Very simplistic, but hey... with only 8k of RAM in the basic system, it wasn't like there was much computing power for Chris to tap into! Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zemke Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Gary Grigsby is the Greatest Computer Wargame designer of all time! "War In The Pacific - Struggle Against Japan 1941 - 1945" is one of the finest games I have ever played. I seem to never get tired of this one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 I have more time logged into War in Russia than probably any other wargame other than CMx1's three games. Actually, WiR might rival CMAK time! And that was written for a 32k 'puter if I remember! Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knaust1 Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Originally posted by Zemke: Gary Grigsby is the Greatest Computer Wargame designer of all time! "War In The Pacific - Struggle Against Japan 1941 - 1945" is one of the finest games I have ever played. I seem to never get tired of this one. fully agreed :cool: think of War in the South Pacific for a meager C64 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 It amazes me how much playability programmers could squeeze into those tiny games back then. Intellivision is a legend in my opinion for their skill at squeezing replay value and great gaming onto a friggin' cartridge smaller than a 3.5 floppy. Sea Battle comes to mind, wasn't WEGO, but still rocked! Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedy Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Yep you can do a lot if you don't waste your time on flashy things like graphics. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Ahh, but back then Intellivision graphics blew Atari out of the water. It was a superior product and programmable to boot. Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinkins Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 War in Russia was a great game. But thinking about it .. all the basic math functions needed to compute a wargame existed on the very first PCs. It just took time to crunch the numbers. And graphics had to be minimal due to limits on hard drive, memory and speed. The reason chess programs are so good these days is speed. The math calculations were around in the 70s-80s but the processing power was not. Kevin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammelman Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 I personally preferred War In The Pacific to WIR because WIP was much more dynmaic with the movement. You could really have unexpected things happen, where WIR was very much in your face, and the field changed little. WIP was flawed however, as American if you held Wake Is. the Japanese would kill all of their units trying to take it - until the game ended in their defeat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammelman Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 And for all the people who want to play either of these fine games (hopefully BFC doesnt cancel my access to board for this) you can download them provided for free by Matrix Games at: War In The Pacific Download Page and War In Russia Download Page 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynaman200 Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 > I've played all the SP games and none of them were WEGO. Not SP, the games were in the eighties. You would give orders and then the computer would carry them out. One of the titles was "Typhoon of Steel". I forget the other ones. It was squad level combat with clunky eighties style SSI graphics. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Ah, Typhoon of steel...loved that series. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 A decent series from the 90's was Tigers on the Prowl...the gandaddy of POA2. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Originally posted by dynaman200: Not SP, the games were in the eighties. You would give orders and then the computer would carry them out. One of the titles was "Typhoon of Steel". I forget the other ones. It was squad level combat with clunky eighties style SSI graphics. AHH DUH...sorry, reading comprehension is on the blink today. For some reason I was thinking successor games...ie; SPWAW, WINMBT, and SPWWII not what came before. Does anybody know if Computer Ambush was WEGO? My brother loved that one. Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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