D. A re-make of North Atlantic '86. Now that game was a CLASSIC, the best of the 3 grigsby games from the 1980s. Imagine this time "China Sea 2016" where China now is the aggressor and the various nations which surround the China Sea are opposing China's advances. Just take the War in the Pacific game engine and there you go.
Now that is a very interesting idea. But the WitP game engine would have to be tweaked considerably to include all of the various types of missiles. (North Atlantic '86 stretched its game engine almost beyond what the operating system could handle, and it still had to make compromises like each plane carrying only one air-to-surface missile.)
And some speculation would have to be done for the size of China's navy by 2016.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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Sorry, I can't stand Schwerpunkt's games. I bought a few and was terribly disappointed. I want the "A" team to develop some games, not some minor-league outfit.
As soon as they have finished they "Skyrim" project Bethesda will start working on "The Elder Wars: Char Asiab" promptly. [8|]
ORIGINAL: Rusty1961
Sorry, I can't stand Schwerpunkt's games. I bought a few and was terribly disappointed. I want the "A" team to develop some games, not some minor-league outfit.
As soon as they have finished they "Skyrim" project Bethesda will start working on "The Elder Wars: Char Asiab" promptly.
I think he meant something like Panther Games or Gary Grigsby, not the lowest common denominator.
All I know is that outdated game company Schwerpunkt, gives tons better service than the current Combat Command Matrix Edition development team does. It's a pity too, because the game has the potential to be a classic with just some minor tweaks, but alas no support, and a recent release too.
I lost my copy of the reference card for RGW, and Mr. Dockal sent me a brand new one. This was seven years later. No questions, just showed up in the mail. That's service. I will put up with clunky interfaces for that kind of small developer service. Yep, just call me a Schwerpunkt fanboy. Looking forward to the next one.
Sorry for being OT.
Combat Command Matrix Edition Company, The Forgotten Few
All I know is that outdated game company Schwerpunkt, gives tons better service than the current Combat Command Matrix Edition development team does. It's a pity too, because the game has the potential to be a classic with just some minor tweaks, but alas no support, and a recent release too.
I lost my copy of the reference card for RGW, and Mr. Dockal sent me a brand new one. This was seven years later. No questions, just showed up in the mail. That's service. I will put up with clunky interfaces for that kind of small developer service. Yep, just call me a Schwerpunkt fanboy. Looking forward to the next one.
Sorry for being OT.
That's the kind of thing that makes me want to get one of their games. It's like Aegod. They have a guy on the French forum of Aegod who bought WW1 from another website and bought the gold upgrade from Aegod. He's having trouble and Philippe Thibault offered him a link to the full Gold game so that he can get squared away. I bought AACW from not on Aegod website and mentioned there I was having trouble getting it restored (from computer crash) and he offered to let me download the game and trusted that I had a serial number.
Anyway, long story shortened, I might have to look into actually buying a Schwerpunkt game.
"Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit" John III Sobieski as he entered Vienna on 9/12/1683. "I came, I saw, God conquered."
He that has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time. - Anacreon
I want to see a faithful reproduction of Vietnam War 1965-1975 from Victory Games make it to the PC
There an Advanced Tacics Gold scenario that ports over the Victory Games (no AI since AI is not programed to follow special rules).
There are two things that I'm waiting for in the Matrix lineup that scratches this modern war itch. But still no sight of imminent release.
1) John Tiller Campaign Series: Modern Wars
2) Flash Point Middle East
I really would love a redo of the Steel Panthers line.
Love the game, but the graphics are just so out of date. The game play is awsome! Would love an upgrade to bring the graphics up to date.
Is there a game that plays like SP, that is newer?
Thanks
Regarding "been there done that", there's a fuzzy, blurry, line between a game being boring because it's just a rehash of the same thing as yesterday and a game being boring because someone decided to try something radically new and ended up ruining what was once a great game.
To me Age of Empires III is probably a combination of both bad aspects of the above. I played AoE II to death and so AoE III is just more of the same, yet it also incorporates new things like "trade routes" which to me do nothing positive for the game.
I also think many of us are getting to an age (in both computers and in our own lives) where computer gaming is losing a lot of its novelty. There are only so many ways you can package an RTS game or a TBS game before you start to realize you've been playing the same thing over and over for the past 10 years.
WW2 is safe turf. If you go backward, people don't like playing with a drop in tech. If you go forward, you get the drop in scope, among other things. Personally, I am very uncomfortable creating a game from a situation of ongoing suffering, like Afghanistan; I'm thinking mainly of first-person games in saying that. I'm probably in the minority there. The same goes for Vietnam, unless it was accurately portrayed as a Vietnamese war for independence against Western colonialism. Then I'd be in. [:D]
Yeah, I fully agree, I want a game that I can go out and stomp on commie socialists in N. Korea, now I can fully support a game like that. Of course it must be accurately protrayed, or I wouldn't play it, you know lots of dead commies all over the place.
Combat Command Matrix Edition Company, The Forgotten Few
WWII might be "safe turf" - and it's only my thoughts - but there are lots of battles out there that would be "safe turf" - Cold War Germany, Vietnam, 6 Days War and Yom Kippur, The Falklands conflict....they're all desireable - and not just by a handful of people...especially for the younger generation who are growing up with less and less actual knowledge or interest in the second world war.
Personally the two areas of warfare I am interested in are WWII and the Napoleonic period.
Warfare post-Hiroshima (with perhaps the exception of the Falklands) just does not interest me. All those missiles, nukes, smart bombs and stuff; no thanks.
Just my 2 cents.
Now Maitland, now's your time!
Duke of Wellington to 1st Guards Brigade - Waterloo 18 June 1815
My greatest sadness when it comes to this topic is that no one makes semi-realistic sci-fi or science-fantasy wargames any more. Wh40k on computer was used for some relatively realistic games before Rites of War and Firewarrior shifted it into the realm of arcade to never come back again.
A realistic Wh40k wargame centred around the Siege of Vraks or stuff like that could be quite awesome.
