Who Is Still Playing SPWAW?

[m10bob]

Of course I am still playing..

[JEB Davis]

ORIGINAL: Falcon1

Shouldn't be too hard to test this out. Just start a battle with 10000 points and see how many formations the game lets you buy. I'll do it when I get home from work.

How did it turn out?

[JEB Davis]

ORIGINAL: Falcon1

Shouldn't be too hard to test this out. Just start a battle with 10000 points and see how many formations the game lets you buy. I'll do it when I get home from work.

How did it turn out?

Or are you still at work? [;)]

[Alpha77]

I fired it up again after 2 years or so.Was quite active in PBM back in the days too. I wonder if there still people playing PBM ? And what version I have H2H 7.1 and 8.4 (enhanced) which should be the latest ? My old forum nick was Frank W. btw.

I played Stalingrad campaign in H2H there were a few errors though - examples AT guns behave as bunkers or a special T34 type which has an MG instead of main gun (I could not find that model at all in the database so it must be designers added one)....I tried to fix the T34 error cause later int he game it seems this model is used massevely (until the pocket scens only very few of the wrong T34 showed up so no big deal). While I fiddled with editor and copied the "corrected" scen back in the campaign folder I fucked something up it seems. I miss no the LAST scen of the campaign (the option staying in Stalingrad). Can someone send it to me ? Please PM me.

It seems this T34 model (T34 M42E ??) has a bit better armor, so it often bounces 88mm shells [X(]

[planner 3]

Lately I left the Old GIrl to play Panzer Corp, but alas I found their method of utilizing GME for various mods to be too confusing which relegated this old man to the Vanilla version updated to 1.11 so I probably will remove it and stay with SPwaw and its affilliated discs. I should have said that trying to install a mod in GME was a flipping headache, and the game itself installed peculiar. Both MATRIX and slitherine were helpful but .......... getting too old for this and time is flying so its back to my old love SPwaw. Amen brother

[Alpha77]

To my above thread: I found out I have the camp on my 2nd pc so have the scenario I was missing.

Also while I tried to correct the error in one of the Stalingrad scens I came to the idea to make a single scen from it. And add some goodies. And the best: Instead your elite core force you now have a reinforced Alpini company and a huge bunch of other Italian + German toys to play with. I post the scen in the scen thread. However it was made with H2H so maybe some errors in other versions.....

Heres the scen:

http://spwaw.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t ... d471860f84


I can also report that I saved one half of the 6th army - means I ended the Donnerschlag fictional part of the camp [:)]

@ planner: What is GME?

[Falcon1]

ORIGINAL: JEB Davis

ORIGINAL: Falcon1

Shouldn't be too hard to test this out. Just start a battle with 10000 points and see how many formations the game lets you buy. I'll do it when I get home from work.

How did it turn out?

Or are you still at work? [;)]

Ooops! Sorry I forgot this for a few days. I was in fact limited to 100 formations.

[planner 3]

ALPHA GME short for JSGeneral MOD Enabler, used to allow various user camps/scenarios to be loaded without disburbing the vanilla version of said game, European gamers seem to love it, to each his own. Go to Slitherine for more info on same.. adieu

[JEB Davis]

Danke, Herr Falconi.

[soldier1]

no doubt one of (if not the best) tactical war games around. A true classic but alas i don't play it anymore. Perhaps I'm shallow but its just too bloody well dated and obsolete for me now and i can't really go back.

To Planner 3 (is it Chief ?). GME may take a little bit of time to understand but its really not that hard to work out. Put a bit of mental effort into its set up and its simple to use. I'm no fan of it either but I use it for my modded eqp file and its much better than having multiple installs.

[TerribleIvan]

I still play SPWAW off and on...

[planner 3]

Aye soldier, Chief it is. In re to GME, using it was no problrm, but installing mods in the correct places in GME is. At the moment my xp machine no longer has any vesment of Panzer corps, my win7 may follow suit and then I'll stay with the old girl.

[Krec]

The game has never left my HD. Been playing ALOT of WOT this past year but SPWAW H2H is still the best tactical WW2game out there.

[Dollar Bill]

Still playing as it's the best representation of the type of game I love. Takes me back to the origins of these games, the original Avalon Hill games I played when young.

The only problem is that after playing the free version of SPWAW, I bought the General's Edition a few months ago and it's been fine using the fix that stops Explorer, another color problem has popped up. Greens and reds are fine, but other color mixes are messed up. In particular, smoke is such a strange mix that it obscures everything around it and some other colors are wrong. Still not the psychedelic mix from before the "fix" but still a big problem.

I tried an older video driver but that didn't help. Any suggestions from anyone (is there anyone still out there?)?

[JEB Davis]

I don't personally know a fix, but you might have better luck at the Depot.

[Dollar Bill]

Thanks, Jeb. There must be some computer-smart people around.

[tide1530]

I still play. I have the Shrapnel, Matrix and Enhanced versions on my hard drive.

[BigDuke66]

I played it centuries back but when I wanted to get back into SP I decided to go for WinSPMBT and WinSPWW2, looks like they didn't stop work on these games even when only small things were added the huge list alone of OOB refinements makes them look very interesting.

[forgorin]

ORIGINAL: KG Erwin

The thing about SPWaW that fascinates me is not in the tank vs tank battles, but campaigns that involve primarily infantry forces. Of course, I focus on the Pacific theater, in which armor played an important but secondary role. For the USMC, the Shermans and the flame tanks were vital in destroying Japanese fortifications in the "corkscrew and blowtorch" techniques in the 1944-45 battles. This type of war was a bloody slugfest, but the Marines fought two different wars from 1942-45. In 1942-43, it was primarily in the jungles of the southern islands, in which the Japanese still relied on the offensive. In 1944-45, the fighting switched to amphibious assaults on barren rocky islands and attrition war. The 1942-45 USMC campaign is a tough one to get through, and using "low-carnage" settings makes it even tougher. I end up definitely appreciating the Marines' reorganizations through each year to upgrade their firepower, and one fully realizes why the Marines did this.

In the past 5 years, the Enhanced SPWaW crew built upon the earlier work I did on the USMC OOB, and I must say that it is now one of the the most historically accurate OOBs in any tactical game. This is primarily due to the magnificent work of author Gordon Rottman in his detailed reference books which served as our sources. I bought nearly every book Mr. Rottman wrote on the USMC in WWII, and these volumes are valued parts of my military history collection.

I agree the tank vs tank aspect is the best. I like how the armor values coupled with penetration chances are based on luck plus mathmatics. Most games use hitpoints so you just keep shooting at a tank to wear down its hitpoints which is tedious and repetitive. Steel Panthers is much more interesting cause a brewed up tank is very good thing! Also, there is suppression and damage to systems to add more reality.

And where is Wild Bill? He is the best mission designer in the world!

[mkr8683]

Bill got religion, he's getting old, and he's had some serious ailments, so he doesn't game anymore. But the old warrior is still sprightly. I keep up with him on Facebook.

Nothing at all against the godfather of SP:WaW, but losing out on Wild Bill is another blow to the old gal, I'm afraid [:(]