Amazing lack of movement here II

The team behind the award-winning game Advanced Tactics is back with a new and improved game engine that focuses on the decisive early days of World War II! Decisive Campaigns: The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris is the first in an innovative series of operational World War II wargames that also include a strategic element. The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris simulates Germany’s military successes in Poland and France in 1939 and 1940 (including also a hypothetical “Sea Lion” invasion of Great Britain).

Moderator: Vic

Post Reply
User avatar
Sensei.Tokugawa
Posts: 341
Joined: Mon Apr 05, 2010 9:06 pm
Location: Wieluñ, Poland

Amazing lack of movement here II

Post by Sensei.Tokugawa »

Kind of replicating my post at RUS forums here, but it's equally unbelievable that such a great wargaming system receives so little attention here. Currently DCI + BCII along with AGEOD games - ancient ones, RUS, Espana 1936, early American Wars and the following titles (though dunno about Napoleonics ) are the most advanced wargames that cover virtually every aspect of warfare very convincingly and can still be turn based and retain its PBEM module which is a must for a wargame to be anywhere near a realistic battlefield simulation - even Command Ops and CMANO are a different breed, they're real time and CMANO is hardly playable against a human opponent, but for Baloogan's mod which I have never tried so cannot tell for sure ...
"-What if one doesn't make it?
-Then we know he was no good for SpetsNaz. ..."
V. Suvorov, "Spetsnaz;the Story behind the Soviet SAS"

...No escape from Passchendaele .../ God Dethroned, "Passiondale"

User avatar
DeriKuk
Posts: 355
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:44 am
Location: Alberta
Contact:

RE: Amazing lack of movement here II

Post by DeriKuk »

Hi Burroughs. You are right. Victor's system deserves a lot better. It is definitely one of the better translations of the older hex-based board wargames. Alas, it does not have the crash-bang-boom, pretty pictures and 3-D representations so popular with folks who want to play silly (and highly unrealistic) tactical games. Game tactics are about as realistic as TV reality shows, and about as dull; and that goes doubly for FPSs. (OK, I'll make an exception for Close Combat, but even that has turned bizarre with the Tiger-destroying rifle grenades.) That said, I have to add that "Case Blue" is a big disappointment. If I want to play a stale-mated WW1 Western Front, then I'll play another game; not Case Blue with WW2 units and terrain.

It could be that I am old school- and I am old. Grand-operational and strategic level games are so much richer and more fun than simpleton electronic miniatures.

Now is anyone up for a campaign game of "Decisive Campaigns: The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris"?
barkman44
Posts: 344
Joined: Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:40 pm

RE: Amazing lack of movement here II

Post by barkman44 »

Agreed where else can you play case white?
I find the ai annoyingly good in it's policy of withdrawing.
they are hard to cut off.
ORIGINAL: burroughs

Kind of replicating my post at RUS forums here, but it's equally unbelievable that such a great wargaming system receives so little attention here. Currently DCI + BCII along with AGEOD games - ancient ones, RUS, Espana 1936, early American Wars and the following titles (though dunno about Napoleonics ) are the most advanced wargames that cover virtually every aspect of warfare very convincingly and can still be turn based and retain its PBEM module which is a must for a wargame to be anywhere near a realistic battlefield simulation - even Command Ops and CMANO are a different breed, they're real time and CMANO is hardly playable against a human opponent, but for Baloogan's mod which I have never tried so cannot tell for sure ...
Ardaeshir
Posts: 7
Joined: Sat Sep 18, 2010 8:05 pm

RE: Amazing lack of movement here II

Post by Ardaeshir »

Yep, still a good game. Recently played it in RL with a friend who has it and I'm actually consider buying myself a copy.

True, it has some historical issues (1939 in particular), but its nothing that a simple mod or patch can't change.
"Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today!"
Post Reply

Return to “Decisive Campaigns: The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris”