How do you get into WitP?

[witpqs]

Madgamer,

Seriously, research has shown that exercising your brain, meaning actually challenging yourself, will help you keep it longer.

Now just think of the mess you would be in if you hadn't bought it! [;)]

[wdolson]

It's true.  My father is 89 and taught himself Photoshop within the last decade.  He not only is as sharp as he was 20 years ago, most people think he's in his 60s.

Bill

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: aciddrinker

if u dont live in usa, just buy from some reselers, i buyed my copy for somthing around 2€.

Not everyone lives in copy-wonderland Poland [;)]

[Anthropoid]

ORIGINAL: aciddrinker

if u dont live in usa, just buy from some reselers, i buyed my copy for somthing around 2€.

But that is ILLEGAL! _AND_ none too civil!

[Ketza]

When I was very young (10 or so) I used to read books on WWII in the Pacific. I would draw maps of the famous battles and memorize lists of ships and dream up various battles. With my hard earned allowance I would buy model ships in a quest to build my own navy.

Later I cut my teeth on AHs Midway, War at Sea and Flattop. I used to play Flattop with my High school friend Mark until the wee hours of the morning with hypothetical scenarios revolving around Guadacanal. To this day I remember the "perfect mission" where I totally leveled Rabaul with a strike from PM that hit just as dawn broke and caught his planes loaded up on the ground.

Next when I got my first computer in 1982 I played SSIs Guadacanal, Bomb Alley and North Atlantic 86.

Then of course came uncommon valor and then the masterpiece we all play now.

Its always a hit at dinner parties when you can rattle off the entire IJN navy to the ladies. A nice bonus to having a very Niche hobby since you were 10.

[:D]

[Reg]

ORIGINAL: Ketza

Its always a hit at dinner parties when you can rattle off the entire IJN navy to the ladies. A nice bonus to having a very Niche hobby since you were 10.

[:D]

I never get invited to THAT kind of party.... [:D] [:D]

[mg62]

I've always liked a mix of stategic as well as tactical simulations.  EU, Victoria, Hearts of Iron, Total War series are the types of stategic games I have enjoyed.  The Close Combat series was always a favorite for tactical, but I started to look for a Naval simulation.  I played Distant Guns for a while, which I enjoyed for the tactical play but not the stategic play. 
 
I find WitP to be an excellent blend of both.  You need to plan ahead to develope base of operations and prepare your offensives/defences and also there is a great deal of tactical game play with individual ships, single day turns etc. 
 
I've had this game for just about a year and have no real interest or time for any other games except waiting for AE.  I would say I'm hooked.

[richlove]

Ok, follow up question. Anyone out there successfully played the game on a Mac using Parallels?

[kmitahj]

I'm afraid it is not right place (pretty old thread and not quite related to the question you asked) nor right time (unfortunately very few seem to still play Classic WitP these days).

Anyway I'm sure I have seen Mac platform for Witp topic discussed a few time in past years on this forum. Getting bored waiting ( in vain I'm afraid) for the PBEM opponent I looked up and found one such case:
WitP on MAC. Post #17 by Emilio in particular may be interested to you.

You may also consider posting this question in WPAE forum where you may expect more up to date answers . I think that any MAC solution working for AE should handle Classic WitP as well.

[wdolson]

The core game engine between original WitP and AE are virtually the same, so they should work on all the same platforms.  The only hardware requirement for AE that is higher is the RAM.  Without at least 1 GB, it's going to be difficult to run, though some people have done it with 512MB.

I know people have gotten WitP and AE to run fairly easily with Bootcamp.  I would expect it would run OK with Parallels too.  One of the development team had AE running from early versions under Linux and WINE.  If it will run with WINE, it should also run with Parallels.  At least I'd give good odds of it running with Parallels.

Bill