God this brought back memories, and not all of them good. The artillery issue was absolutely ridiculous (Though I did like the concept of the pre-bombardment as in RL.) and this from a strong advocate of artillery. Because of it the AI as pointed out never really to some degree stood a chance depending on the battle. And flanking maneuvers were definitely a piece of cake, and it got to a point where I would just stop executing that maneuver against the AI and just "
slug it out" on the main line of attack/or defense.
I honestly thought though it was better then SP1 but, it really wasn't much better, if at all, than SP2 (Which I enjoyed more.) and possibly was a step backward to some extent.
Fear not!! My ever "shrinking gut" tells me Andy and Don are far from pulling "
rabbits out of the hat" in regards to the software and game play that, will render games like SP3 a long distant memory. Of that I'm sure. SP3 was pushed out to fast and SSI was under pressure and would change hands about three or four times until UBI-SOFT bought them out and is now barely a "shadow" of it's former self.
I my opinion SP3 offered little to the player over SP2 however from a developers point of view the three games combined offered a very good platform to take a broad spectrum of the good, the "needed" and bad and apply them to another platform/design.
Thank you all for this topic, it was a nice diversion from the norm and brought back many good memories from where many of us started from and truly learned there are different meanings to the term "
I'm having an all nighter..." though I have to admit, some of the other meanings are fun too!!!
From the point of view of cutting my teeth, learning game play tactics, play ability and other factors...
A. First a
HUGE THANK YOU to Mr. Charles S. Roberts he started so many of us down the road to war-gaming.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1574/tactics-ii
B. I received my degree from
Avalon Hill with so many good games I owned.
C. Got my Masters from
SSI with the intro to PC Gaming.
D. But received my PhD. from
SPI with my thesis papers "played on"...
1812/
Ardennes Offensive/
Austerlitz/Battle of Stalingrad/
Bundeswehr/The Battle for Cassino/
Chinese Farm (And not whom the title implies.)/Don will like this...Canadian Civil War/
Desert Fox & War/R
ed Star White Star including update (Favorite)/Fighting Sail/
Sixth Fleet and Star Force plus so many more.
I owned at least close to 60 board games mostly from A & C above, now I remember why in my dish washing days in high school I never had a BIG savings account!?!
But I had so much fun though.
http://www.spigames.net/index.html
http://avalonhill.wizards.com/
http://www.abandonia.com/en/company/...lations%2C+Inc.
http://playitagainproject.org/companies/ssi/
Para 5 of the last ref MIGHT be useful to someone out here-maybe?
Regards,
Pat
