OT: Anyone know of any other good TBS games??

Gandalf Parker · #1 November 1st, 2004, 11:28 AM

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Makinus said:... it�s one of the few games that simply don�t leave my HD...

Ooooh now that always gets my attention. One of the best things someone can say about a game as far as Im concerned. The games that dont leave my machine. Or even MUST be installed in every new machine I get thru a dozen upgrades.
M.U.L.E.
Balderdash
Missile Command
Master of Magic
Stars!
Celtic Kings
Scorched Earth
and of course Space Empires
and Dominions

Those are the meat of my games directory. Everything else tends to be candy that fills a temporary spot on my harddrive set aside for the "game of the month" club.

Enigma · #2 November 1st, 2004, 07:13 PM

A really good one is the The Operational Art of War: Century of Warfare Edition.

There are dozens of scenarios and it gives the best of the old board wargame feel. I am currently playing a WWI scenario with a map covering all of Europe plus the colonies. I fully expect to be playing this game out for the next 3 years. (we are averaging about 1 turn a week - each turn takes roughly 6 hours)

I have Emperor of the Fading Suns but I do not think it works anymore with Windows XP. How do you make this game work. I do not remember if it is multi-player. It is a game that would be a great multiplayer I think.

DarkHorse · #3 November 1st, 2004, 07:36 PM

I've been keeping an eye on the development of Empire Deluxe Enhanced Edition, speaking of old-school games that won't go away. Strictly in the "Beer and Potatoes" (if I may mix metaphors) Category, but looks like it should be entertaining.

Caduceus · #4 November 1st, 2004, 09:41 PM

I played a demo six months or so ago that was X-Com developers doing squad turn-based... What was the name of that thing...

It was fun, but I didn't want to pay a subscription fee while getting whipped by people who obviously knew the ropes really well.

DarkHorse · #5 November 1st, 2004, 10:23 PM

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wildcard06 said:
I played a demo six months or so ago that was X-Com developers doing squad turn-based... What was the name of that thing...

It was fun, but I didn't want to pay a subscription fee while getting whipped by people who obviously knew the ropes really well.

Sounds like Laser Squad Nemesis. I played that for a while, was fun while it Lasted.

Makinus · #6 November 2nd, 2004, 12:45 PM

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Enigma said:
I have Emperor of the Fading Suns but I do not think it works anymore with Windows XP. How do you make this game work. I do not remember if it is multi-player. It is a game that would be a great multiplayer I think.

I have it working in Windows 98, because i have my desktop (and now my notebook) dualbooting in win98/winXP, so i use Win98 for games and WinXP for everything else...

EFS allows multiplayer using PBEM or Hotseat and there are several mods and specialized maps only for multiplayer.... but is kinda hard to find someone to play it by PBEM these days... i myself play solo with the Nova mod and sometimes hotseat with a friend that likes the game too...

Alneyan · #7 November 2nd, 2004, 12:54 PM

I have no problem with EFS on Windows XP, without any kind of specific setting (I am using SP1, and the Home Version for lack of anything better than that). There might be a problem with sound or the like, but VDMS would take care of such problems. I should perhaps go back to playing this game once of these days. Hmm.

Gandalf Parker · #8 November 2nd, 2004, 03:02 PM

I have no problem with old games in WinXP (even MoM which everyone says wont run). But I have 2 drives. My C: is NTFS format which makes WinXP run so nice, and my D: for games is the older FAT32 file format.

Alot of the problems I see with WinXP Im thinking might be in there. If people upgrade to WinXP then the harddrives stays in the older format. They dont seem to have problems with games. If people install WinXP or it comes installed, then its usually formated NTFS style which runs faster and less file problems, but doesnt seem to like older games.

Fyron · #9 November 2nd, 2004, 04:02 PM

I have never noticed any difference at all when running old games from a FAT32 partition/drive as compared to a NTFS partition/drive in WinXP or Win2k... DosBox is good for running actual DOS games, no need for voodoo magic or dual booting in that case. Games written for Win95/98 that were a hybrid of DOS and the windows layers on top of DOS don't work too well in DOSBox, and sometimes need an actual win98 install. WinXP is better at running old games than Win2k, but still not too good at it...

Gandalf Parker · #10 November 2nd, 2004, 05:32 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
I have never noticed any difference at all when running old games from a FAT32 partition/drive as compared to a NTFS partition/drive in WinXP or Win2k... DosBox is good for running actual DOS games, no need for voodoo magic or dual booting in that case. Games written for Win95/98 that were a hybrid of DOS and the windows layers on top of DOS don't work too well in DOSBox, and sometimes need an actual win98 install. WinXP is better at running old games than Win2k, but still not too good at it...

I considered DosBox to be voodoo magic. All I have to do is install my games on D: and they run fine. No reason for any program or dual boot. But I have been keeping DosBox in mind in case I ever find anything that refuses me.