Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze

Battlefront features the power of battalion-level combat in some of this period's most bloody and intense conflicts: Saipan, Market Garden, Novorossisk, and Gazala. Players will have realistic control over their soldiers, with a tactical scale just large enough to make a telling difference in the strategic picture.

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Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze

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Cool! Now all you gotta do is bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze!!

Used to play nothing but CAW EA and BF back in my old Mac SE days.

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+1 for CAW
You would definitely corner the market in Carrier wargames. Of the recent games I think at last count there were ..... none. :)

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What a great idea..
Isn't that bizarre?
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I agree ...bring back Carriers at War!
Thanks heavens it runs well in Dosbox.....
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ORIGINAL: dudalb

I agree ...bring back Carriers at War!
Thanks heavens it runs well in Dosbox.....

...think how well an updated version would run on XP[X(]
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ORIGINAL: JSS

ORIGINAL: dudalb

I agree ...bring back Carriers at War!
Thanks heavens it runs well in Dosbox.....

...think how well an updated version would run on XP[X(]

With a scenario editor! Even if only the originals scenarios are included we can make our own for the battles around Guadalcanal.
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...think how well an updated version would run on XP[X(]

Well it run just fine on my XP without DOSBOX or anything else. I does not fill the screen and runs faster than it should but it's perfectly playable. Same for the original Battlefront except that it is too fast for comfort.
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Yeah but imagine CAW with updated graphics and all?  That would be a hoot.
Isn't that bizarre?
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Never played CaW. Sounds like it was a great game.
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Here's another vote for an updated, modernized CAW. Loved that game.
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Yeah but imagine CAW with updated graphics and all?  That would be a hoot.

Well Rob, you're very close to SSG ... tell them to get on with it. [;)]
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:)
Isn't that bizarre?
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ORIGINAL: RedMike
Cool! Now all you gotta do is bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze!!
Used to play nothing but CAW EA and BF back in my old Mac SE days.
Regards,
RedMike...out
I agree, bring both Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze back !!!!
Great news that the Battlefront game is coming back. I wonder if it will have the same system of command. It was great !
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I remember when I bought CaW some 18 years. I was on Australia for vacation. I was so trill. Of cause, at the time, I did not haved a computer with me. So I read the rules book again and again before I came back home.  Them I played this title at least a million hours. WW2 South Pacific (from QQP if I well remember) was also very cool at the time because this one was playable with a other dude via modem.
 
I will love to see this master piece redone. [:)]
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Another enthusiastic vote for CAW!  Please!  Please! 

I know Gary Grigbsy is working on a more detailed tactical carrier battle game, but I enjoyed CAW much more than Gary's last carrier game.  I hoping for  good things from Gary this time around as well, but SSG did it right the first time.  I really liked the extra zoom in level found in the C-64 CAW version.

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Leave Carriers at War where it is: in the grave! It's too old. And before you say anything, I played it with great enthusiasm back in the day, but it's just so damn dated now...
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Leave Carriers at War where it is: in the grave! It's too old. And before you say anything, I played it with great enthusiasm back in the day, but it's just so damn dated now...


Always need a becon of light, eh[8|] Perhaps a new version wouldn't be so dated[:D]
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My problem with it is that they can't do much improving on the game if they're just gonna make a re-thread of it. Look at Matrix Pacwar and War in Russia. It has to be the same game, and the world's moved on...

I have CCAW set up for DOSBox, and I think I've played it all of ONCE...
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ORIGINAL: Terminus

My problem with it is that they can't do much improving on the game if they're just gonna make a re-thread of it. Look at Matrix Pacwar and War in Russia. It has to be the same game, and the world's moved on...

I have CCAW set up for DOSBox, and I think I've played it all of ONCE...
The world may have moved on, but has the essence of WWII carrier warfare likewise moved? I don't see how it could really, since it is very firmly grounded in historical fact. Are we saying that battles like Coral Sea and Midway didn't really happen? Or are we saying that they did happen but must now be viewed from an FPS perspective, because the gaming world has 'moved on'? It would seem to me that there are plenty of people who would like to refight those battles on their current PCs and operating systems, and for the life of me I can't see anything wrong with that.

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Didn't say that either. To each his own; but this thread was full of people wanting the game back, and I felt entitled to express my opinion as well, different though it may be...
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