<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Peter Fisla<br/>
Nope <E>;)</E>, a squad that beaks does not suffer any casualties. However a squad that breaks by a large margin will be replaced by a lower quality squad type. A squad that suffers casualties is reduced to half-squad, a half-squad that suffers ...

I would buy it. I think it would be my first choice too, since I don't have any computer game for the pacific theater.

HOS is a computer game, published by Matrix Games. Lock'n Load Publishing publishes board games. Even though Mark Walker is involved in both, they're still separate companies.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: PDiFolco<br/>
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Melee targeting is broken imho, <br/>
- attacker should not be able to target SMCs <br/>
- attacker should be forced to divide attacks as much as possible, ie only be able to target a unit twice if it has already been targeted once...<br ...

<t> I don't think your criticism is fair. The board game has fixed scenarios as well (as do most other computer games, I think), it's just that's it's easier to do whatever you want with a board game. Besides, you don't always need to, because many people (like me) don't get to play the board games ...

<t> Supplies is important, for operational level games. I wouldn't want to see apples or any other food represented in a game at the same scale as Lock'n Load. I'm reminded of a scene in Saving Private Ryan: When planning an attack on a german MG position they drop all their equipment, except their ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: z1812<br/>
If you can get by some of the issues and think of it as more a board game than a computer game you will probably like it.
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I think this is the right attitude. We finally have a computer game that is true to the board game ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Numdydar<br/>
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The Close Combat series models individual solders along with their mental state and capabilities. So it is even a smaller scale than this one.
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I would say it's about the same scale. I like Close Combat, but it ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Horvo<br/>
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I've played through most of the scenarios now and I've thought of something that would alleviate one of my frustrations. Right now when I am searching for targets it will often tell me there is a 30% chance of damage, but then when I click to ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: zgxzz<br/>
I understand.But I wonder, since we've already move this game from board to computer,why must 100% the rules on board,those rules are easy because of restriction,in the meantime,so easy a game might be less interesting,otherwise,why we need computer.but ...

That they are TOO powerful is not a fact, it's an opinion, and I disagree with it. I like the fact that they are powerful.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: wodin<br/>
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Mark but they would know the enemy was there in game as they'd have just been fired on by it, which is the part that bugs me..you get fire don by a unit then next minute it's as if they'd not existed and they just disappear, this is where the ...

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I am Chinese and my English is not very good,I try to say,I've played many many many PC games base on world war 2,Western games,Japanese games,Russian games and my Chinese games.<br/>
I feel that Japanese games and Chinese games ...

<r> How would you make them less powerful? This hero was probably extremely lucky on the die rolls. In a game with dice rolling there is bound to be a bit of luck, and sometimes unlikely things happen. Just enjoy the story this creates, and go on. Maybe you were unlucky in this game, but the next ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: macob30<br/>
I think I have read earlier Mark saying that the rule system was not very good for big maps. For a boardgame, very probably. But the strong point of PC is that the player don't have to care about a lot of details: dice rolling (there could be a lot ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: wodin<br/>
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The spotting rule..I hate it. If there could be an option to change the rule so that if a unit has fired then it stays visible at least to the unit it fired at I'd be so happy. AT the moment it just feels very odd and not right at all being ...

My laptop has an i3-23xx (don't remember the last two digits) with no dedicated video card, and it has no problems. The game is 2D, after all.

Yes, that's how I understand him too, but my additional suggestion is that you subtract the number of shaken squads in the target hex from that second roll, and get a hero on 1 or less. That way, heroes will be more likely in stacks of shaken squads.

Yes, but then you would have subtract the number of shaken squads. But that's just as easy I guess, and is more in line with how other kinds of tests are done (like spotting and laying smoke).

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: markhwalker<br/>
To be honest I sometimes think.... and this is almost 11 years after I designed the game, that heroes pop up too often. The number of heroes would be hard to change without a rewrite on some of the scenarios, but we might be able to tweak the ...