New Tactical Carrier Battle Games on the Way

[Zakhal]

ORIGINAL: Whipple

ORIGINAL: Zakhal

You can try it now:

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=177 (includes manual and 1946 addon)

It doesnt have the graphics of WITP but its still enjoyable.

Thanks for the link you provided. Now if I may trouble someone for some tech help. When I unzip the file, I get a Cstrike.arj file.

The cstrike is packed twice (propably accidently or somthing). You need to unzip the cstrike.arj too (hopefully your zip can do arjs too).

What do I do with it? I would imagine I would also need to get sometype of DOS immulator since I'm running XP?

You can use vmds sound or dosbox to run it. I highly recommend dosbox because it allows you to directly slow down the game if needed. ( dosbox.sourceforge.net )

When you have the dosbox run it and then type:

mount e e:\games\strike (if your cstrike is installed on e drive folder \games\strike)
e:
cd games
cd strike
cstrike

ingame ctrl + f11 to slow down the game ctrl + f12 to speed it up

[Sneer]

ORIGINAL: Joel Billings

The War in Russia game is using a totally different design than WitP, so putting it on hold has nothing to do with the land combat engine.

my comment was sarcastic as ground combat in witp is far below ground level and i feel its shortcomings in my PBEM

[Oliver Heindorf]

I always loved the old Gary G. title, I played it nights over nights and could get enough of it.

good decsion, I dont need a WiR anyway.

a strong "buy" !

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: wild_Willie2

It would be very interesting to see how this is actually implemented!!!

The 15 minute turns means 4 turns per hour and if we use, let's say 8 hours per carrier engagement, it means that just carrier vs. carrier battle would take 32 turns alone!

I seriously wonder if UV game retrofitted with such great 2nd game pack would be playable in our lifetime (i.e. who would play so many PBEM turns)... [:D]


Leo "Apollo11"

[Ron Saueracker]

Well seeing as they are making all this effort on UV, perhaps some of the resultswill trickle down to WITP. At any rate, I'm assuming some work will go into the WITP A2A model...can't be too hard.

[Prince of Eckmühl]

Anything new on CS?

PoE

[DuckofTindalos]

It's still being worked on.

[AW1Steve]

[:)] Say Prince , I have to ask ,is your Avatar a Samoyed? [:)]

[Canoerebel]

So, this isn't the "big announcement" we're waiting for in WitP, right? 
 
How many of us that have moved on from UV to WitP will be willing to return to UV, even with the deluxe enhancements?  I don't think I will.  I much prefer the vast scale of WitP which gives players so much more room to work with and so many options.  UV was a blast, but when you got right down to it (IE, had played enough), there really weren't a whole lot of options available.  Japs either attacked through PM, through Luganville, or sat back on defense.  I don't want to go back to a more restricted game.

[jshan]

I really wanted to go back to Russia with Gary. WIR is a must have.

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

So, this isn't the "big announcement" we're waiting for in WitP, right?

No. This is for Carrier Force; nothing to do with WitP.

[Admiral Scott]

Maybe we will hear something on December 7th.

[Grotius]

Interesting. I've been betting all along that "the big announcement" would include incorporation of Carrier Force into WITP. Sounds like I'm wrong.