Favorite wargame?

nikb · #1 January 6th, 2000, 06:56 AM

These postings have made me think back a wee bit...

I quite liked Tanks by SSI (I think that was the name) - I seem to recall that I liked fiddling round with the editor.

Back in the days of tape loaded games (Oh those were the days...not), I liked two other games which the name escapes me - one was set in North Africa and another was Bunker Hill (or something like that).

I also liked a stick figure type cricket game which you had to code from one of the magazines - but that won't be of much interest to you guys living in the states.

Nik

albert · #2 January 6th, 2000, 07:16 AM

SALVO II is my favorite game. It's World War One and the Germans have much tougher ships than the English. But either side can win in this game. I know 3W is out of business, whatever happened to Michael Smith, who designed that game?

nikb · #3 January 6th, 2000, 08:49 AM

Here is another one that I played alot and can't remember the name...

You had generic blue and red forces with tanks and other material such as cannon. Tanks were light, medium and heavy and it took various amounts of damage to destroy them. When destroyed it left little blobs of metal on the landscape. I used to play this one until I think I started dreaming about how to win each scenario.

It was a reasonably shallow game...but...boy it was fun. Any idea what the name was? Makes me want to go and see if I can find the disks...well until H&M and WDK2K turn up.

I also liked V for Victory series such as Market Garden (name again) by Atomic.

What are your least liked games?

Cheers
Nik

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Tim Brooks · #4 January 7th, 2000, 03:00 AM

I remember playing an SSI game called Gettysburg: The Turning Point. I used to play this game until my eyes crossed. You couldn't tear me away from it. Awesome. Horse & Musket reminds me of this game quite a bit.

reimero · #5 January 8th, 2000, 04:31 PM

Well, since you asked, the game I liked least was Three-Sixty's Patriot. Man, that game was awful!!! I was sooo looking forward to playing it after playing Harpoon, which was very well done, and it was the pits! The learning curve was steep, the graphics were poor, confusing and cheap, and the realism seemed to be... lacking.

On a related note, the game that got me excited about the possibilities of computer wargaming was Harpoon, which I first saw on an Amiga in Europe. The graphics weren't the most spectacular, but since the designers knew graphics would be hard, they made the interface look like a radar display. It does a great job with FOW (even throwing in fishing trawlers and news helecopters you need to ID.) Actually, I still think it's one of the better-done wargames out there, especially of those designed for DOS. But because the graphics are less than intensive (but by no means crappy - the map modelling is very well done) it means that the game is using even more realistic data and weapons behave as one would expect. I still have it and would play a lot more frequently if I could find a DOS driver for my mouse

WendellM · #6 January 15th, 2000, 09:37 PM

"Well, since you asked, the game I liked least was Three-Sixty's Patriot"

I never played Patriot, but I had similar high hopes for Wargasm. That game's graphics are awesome, but the unit control is terrible. When I play TacOps, I visualize Wargasm - maybe DiD (if DiD is still in business) could sell the engine to Major H! On the other hand, HnM's graphics are my idea of functionality. The icons have more men if the unit is larger, and you can see all the units' disruption or morale numerically at a glance (an improvement over Dragoon, though I prefer that game's sharper unit icons over the newer ones which are smoother, but seem a bit "out of focus," at least in the demo).

Wendell

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nikb · #7 October 24th, 2000, 08:38 PM

In the weekend I fluked a site where you can download old games. I fell upon Perfect General II (it was PG I that I had previously played to death).

Downloaded the beauty and got stuck into the game play.

Wow...its funny how things date and badly at that. It wasn't just the graphics that had dated, it was alot of the actual game play. Now I'm scarred, its ruined a fond memory I have had since the mid 20's.

You tend to forget how things advance over so short of time. I think that game was only put out in the mid 90's. Hell, I would hate to see some of the older games I was playing in the late 80's and thought were super techno games.

I was going to see if I could crank up Tanks - but I do not won't to ruin that memory. I cherish those days!

Nik