A little info from Strategy First... - Page 2

Will · #1 September 19th, 2005, 05:21 AM

Well, technically 'Winter' (in the Northern Hemisphere, at least) is December 22 - March 20/21.

I guess the Aussies won't be seeing SEV until around July 2006...

Randallw · #2 September 19th, 2005, 05:42 AM

Well I was planning to import it anyway as I didn't expect it to be in stores here. On the other hand I have seen O.R.B in the shop here and that's a strategy first game.

NullAshton · #3 September 19th, 2005, 08:33 AM

O.R.B. is a really old game. I've had it for a couple of years now...

Renegade 13 · #4 September 19th, 2005, 03:30 PM

No, it's not an RTS at all.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #5 September 19th, 2005, 03:32 PM

Real time combat, yes. You'll be duking it out in real time, and the battle map covers the entire system, so no attacking isolated tankers when there's a massive fleet in the next sector unable to help.....

You can warp during combat, and when you land on a planet (with troops, mind you, not with a diplomatic envoy

) you can fight a tactical ground battle. I don't know if tactical ground combat is real-time too, but what I do know is that you can call in orbital bombardments (WOOT) if you have the appropriate ships.

Don't believe me? Just take a gander at some of the space and ground combat screenshots and look at the control buttons in the lower right of the screen. Exactly.

Ed Kolis · #6 September 19th, 2005, 04:01 PM

Wait a second... the battle map covers the entire system??? How the heck is a ship in one sector supposed to instantly warp over to another sector for combat, then warp back to its previous location to continue whatever it was doing on the strategic map?!? You've got to be kidding...

Puke · #7 September 19th, 2005, 04:20 PM

maybe combat can span multiple "days" and ships can end up in different sectors at the end of it.

or maybe SIU is wrong. or the screenshots are deliberately doctored pieces of mis-information. although orbital strikes sound pretty cool.

Renegade 13 · #8 September 19th, 2005, 06:18 PM

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Strategia_In_Ultima said:
Real time combat, yes. You'll be duking it out in real time, and the battle map covers the entire system, so no attacking isolated tankers when there's a massive fleet in the next sector unable to help.....

You can warp during combat, and when you land on a planet (with troops, mind you, not with a diplomatic envoy

) you can fight a tactical ground battle. I don't know if tactical ground combat is real-time too, but what I do know is that you can call in orbital bombardments (WOOT) if you have the appropriate ships.

Don't believe me? Just take a gander at some of the space and ground combat screenshots and look at the control buttons in the lower right of the screen. Exactly.

Ahem...this post contains some misinformation. Please note that Strategia is NOT a Beta tester (as far as I know)!

Fyron · #9 September 19th, 2005, 08:54 PM

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Strategia_In_Ultima said:
...the battle map covers the entire system...

Doesn't seem this way to me.

There is a detailed combat model for troop invasions though.

Kamog · #10 September 20th, 2005, 04:00 AM

Huh? It is really going to be real time combat? Not turn-based?