RE: A World Divided and HoI Doomsday
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:41 pm
GKar, thanks for the welcome and suggestion to read this thread. As you know I poured an incredible amount of time into trying to modify HoI/HoI2/DD. W@W-AWD and "Making History - The Calm and The Storm" are both getting attention from me now. Both have a lot of potential to be more enjoyable for me than HoI.
I've bought "Making History" (and I'm eagerly awaiting the first patch so it is no longer "fantasy land"). I'm considering buying AWD (there are many nice people here playing AWD!).
All three games have different appeal. I can't really comment on AWD as I don't own it yet and have not tried the W@W demo but it sounds like more of a "beer and pretzels" quick game. I have to admit the three months per turn is seriously disappointing. I like to get immersed in a game and play a single campaign for months not hours.
"Making History" really sounds more my speed. "Making History" really looks like turn based HoI. Still I'm sure there are many that love HoI's real time hour by hour aspect. But I think weekly turn based is very near perfect for me. I'd love to see AWD go to monthly turns, then it sounds like it would be a strong candidate for my "casual" gaming.
From what I know of all three, they are all fantastic ways to get into World War II and enjoy researching WW2 in more depth. I never enjoyed playing HoI but I certainly loved researching and trying to use their game system to create a realistic simulation.
I've bought "Making History" (and I'm eagerly awaiting the first patch so it is no longer "fantasy land"). I'm considering buying AWD (there are many nice people here playing AWD!).
All three games have different appeal. I can't really comment on AWD as I don't own it yet and have not tried the W@W demo but it sounds like more of a "beer and pretzels" quick game. I have to admit the three months per turn is seriously disappointing. I like to get immersed in a game and play a single campaign for months not hours.
"Making History" really sounds more my speed. "Making History" really looks like turn based HoI. Still I'm sure there are many that love HoI's real time hour by hour aspect. But I think weekly turn based is very near perfect for me. I'd love to see AWD go to monthly turns, then it sounds like it would be a strong candidate for my "casual" gaming.
From what I know of all three, they are all fantastic ways to get into World War II and enjoy researching WW2 in more depth. I never enjoyed playing HoI but I certainly loved researching and trying to use their game system to create a realistic simulation.