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And Good Lord, how it sucked...

Well, there wasn't that much to choose from. Maybe it sucked more once you had something to compare with .

Not a TOAW of course.

RTM would have been a crap game anyways that's probably why it never got published or finished. They don't abandon great games yah know, just the sorry ones.

I think so too. It was the wargaming equivalent of MOO3, that is the state it would have been released in, if ever released .

Marcus

I don't agree RH. I've seen plenty of great games down through the years stopped in mid life because of market change or perceieved market change. More than a few game series were also killed by their companies because of poor sales or mergers. Than you have the series that should die because the companies killed them. Take COD4 it is the most awful crap. The first COD was a tremendous game singleplayer and multiplayeer but since then all they have cared about was multiplayer with idiot NPC's thrown in. The newest Fear is also quite bad the original was the best shooter I had ever played. Now the AI can't even walk. Although from what I've read the original Fear team is onto another project and the company that had the rights to it are the ones who messed it up.
 
Back on the subject, I bought all of the UMS's when released because all of their ideas were great. The battles and campaigns were ones that for the most part still haven't been redone. To bad they couldn't make them work on a computer. For shear volume of great wargames the mid 1980's was the best time. Only within the last year with mostly Matrix's help are we approaching the amount of choice we had then. I still can't believe that some designers can't make games as well as some people could with just a C64 to work with.

My dream would be for Sid Meier to redo Operation Crusader. What a fantastic game (for its time).

He could do that instead of making kiddie remakes of everything.

marcus

Yeah now Operation Crusader was the perfect been n pretzels game of the 80's. I really enjoyed that one. I liked it better than the desert one or the stalingrad one for some reason. I think because it felt more like AH's d-day than any of the others. Correct me if I'm wrong, but, didn't you get a choice of landing sites in OC like you did in AH's D-Day or am I just dreaming that?

Who played "Ancient Art of War in the Skies"? lol I think that game was about as fun as one could get for another beer n pretzels type of game. I got a kick out of the animated flying combat sequences that changed the trenchline as you won and lost. I had some lopsided U shaped lines I want yah to know playing that one. Quite fun though.

I think it was released http://pc.ign.com/articles/131/131163p1.html

oops,guess it wasnt

At least Road To Moscow was never sold.

Not true I have a copy of a released version. It plays like Operation Crusade. Here's site: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=6392&d=30

ORIGINAL: diablo1

At least Road To Moscow was never sold.

Not true I have a copy of a released version. It plays like Operation Crusade. Here's site: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=6392&d=30

You are thinking of the 64 version..That one was about 10 years earlier.

I was thinking of the 64 version as well,it was pretty screwy,east was the top of the monitor,map was sideways.I liked the random events,such as Hitler gets assasinated or Africa Corps defeats the british and gets sent to eastern front.

Ah, this thread brings back some memories. Wonder what ever happened to "Ravinghood". Yes, I misspelled it on purpose. Did he get banned or just leave? 

ORIGINAL: Slick Wilhelm
Ah, this thread brings back some memories. Wonder what ever happened to "Ravinghood". Yes, I misspelled it on purpose. Did he get banned or just leave? 

Ban. Everyone cheered.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

There were fireworks and canapees...

I think he came back under a different name.I think he was banned under the new name as well.

As I recall you got banned not to long ago didn't you bairdlander? [:)]

Thats right,but I didnt come back under a different name,like some people.[:D]

I miss him sometimes...It got a bit boring after he got permabanned....But I understand why he did...