And now ? (WinSP dreams)

[PatG]

blazejos said:
Third version in series WinSPWWI 1890-1930
We have not many games about Great War

Lots of interesting but little known fights going on in Europe between 1918 and 1930. Push it back another 30 years, perhaps in another series, and one could cover the American Civil war, the Crimean war, the Franco Prussian war, The Russo-Japanese war, the Boer War and the colonial exploits of Great Britain and other European powers.

[PDF]

PatG said:

Lots of interesting but little known fights going on in Europe between 1918 and 1930. Push it back another 30 years, perhaps in another series, and one could cover the American Civil war, the Crimean war, the Franco Prussian war, The Russo-Japanese war, the Boer War and the colonial exploits of Great Britain and other European powers.

I don't think the SP game system will be very good at simulating anything before the 30's - ie when the squad wasn't the basic tactical unit on the battlefield, and with few or no vehicles ...
I'd prefer other game engines for that.

[PatG]

PDF said:
I don't think the SP game system will be very good at simulating anything before the 30's - ie when the squad wasn't the basic tactical unit on the battlefield, and with few or no vehicles ...
I'd prefer other game engines for that.

A single "squad" icon can hold up to 255 men to make an ACW double company or half-regiment. This gives prototypical density and basic unit size. C&C and cohesion wouldn't be quite the same.

The real deal breaker is the AI pick-lists. While a purpose designed pre-1900 engine will be better than extending the SP one, there is still a very valid case for SPWWI and a lesser one for actions in earlier periods with wide spread use of repeating arms.

[halstein]

The game "Age of Rifles" covers the period 1840-1914 quite well, so I don't think a SP is needed. The SP-series don't have formations like line and column, wich you need for pre-WW1 stuff.

Halstein.

[cbreedon]

Age of rifles goes to 1914.... SPWWII starts at 1930 16 year gap of cool stuff... WWI, Russian Revolution, Mexican Revolution, expansion of Poland, German Freikorps exploits, same in Austria. All sorts of mayhem to recreate :-)

[Dracula]

Yes and of course the game had CORPSES on the battlefield when a unit is destroyed

I want corpses for sp series !!!

Cheers

Vincent

[PatG]

Dracula said:
Yes and of course the game had CORPSES on the battlefield when a unit is destroyed

I want corpses for sp series !!!

Cheers

Vincent

Play the Great Battles ancients series if you want corpses. Men horses and Elephants - and they even float down stream if they get killed in a river. If things get too gory, there is even a "clear corpses" button - the Romano-Greek version of bulldozers and lime wagons.

[PDF]

Agreed Narwan, I think the simplest fix would be to just remove any smoke ability to infantry (except engineers/pioneers and so on).

[blazejos]

That all is right but when we start SPWWI in the year where first Maxim HMG vere interduced we have battles in the modern type. I hear that the wars in South Africa in 1899 was the first modern war in the style like during all XX century (First use of barbe wire and HMG). Than we can see a Balkan wars were first aircrafts and truck were used. Than the Great war and first tanks and heavy bombers on battlefield and for end civil war in russia what was with all modern toys like armored cars , aircrafts , tanks and was high manoeuvrable war like WWII. We can see too in this version some battles in civil war in china in 1920-30 and rusian-japan fight in china 1929.

[cbreedon]

All sounds great when can I pre-order :-)