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Yet another vote for Age of Rifles.

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What computer wargames ought to be made? What historical situations would you like to see simulated on the computer?

Anything tactical covering FIW, AWI or 1812
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What computer wargames ought to be made? What historical situations would you like to see simulated on the computer? ...

Operational-level recreation of Op Desert Storm w/all historic political and economic factors, and not another 1st person shooter.

Honorable mention: all the Crusades in the same game w/a map of Europe to the ME.
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What computer wargames ought to be made? What historical situations would you like to see simulated on the computer?

Anything tactical covering FIW, AWI or 1812

Check HPS "Early american battles" Series.
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Tanks, and AOR.

I would also like to see a game that simulates the Atlantic Raiders, Graff Spee, etc...
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What computer wargames ought to be made? What historical situations would you like to see simulated on the computer?
If Howardian 1930s fantasy alt 'history' is allowed I'd like to see a game that simulates the 'Hyborian Age.' Tactical battles and/or grand strategy.

I've been looking forward to the Conan: Total War mod (Link) for M2TW, but I'm beginning to wonder whether it will ever be released.
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Check HPS "Early american battles" Series.

I have them, I thought this thread was about games to be made this decade ?
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Check HPS "Early american battles" Series.

I have them, I thought this thread was about games to be made this decade ?

Well, then what's the problem?HPS updates the games to modern Status.So what you are basicly saying is that you want a game about those wars with fancy graphics.[8|]

Unless you are graphics hore, the HPS games you have are fine.
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The North African Campaign at battalion/squadron level.
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War in the [font="compatilfact lt regular"]Mediterranean [/font]- Admirals edition

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I'll second this.

A real time naval game along the lines of John Tiller's HPS naval campaigns with updated graphics and cutting edge interface tools would be great too.

A Solomons air/land/sea game with 10 miles per hex.
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The North African Campaign at battalion/squadron level.

Hey I'm not hating this either. [;)]


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Well, then what's the problem?HPS updates the games to modern Status.So what you are basicly saying is that you want a game about those wars with fancy graphics.[8|]

Unless you are graphics hore, the HPS games you have are fine.

What ?

Are you really arguing since HPS coved the FIW, AWI and 1812 there is no point in anyone else taking a fresh look at the era ?

HPS has covered WWII in the past ‘n present should all developers scrap anything covering WWII also ..............


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Well, then what's the problem?HPS updates the games to modern Status.So what you are basicly saying is that you want a game about those wars with fancy graphics.[8|]

Unless you are graphics hore, the HPS games you have are fine.

What ?

Are you really arguing since HPS coved the FIW, AWI and 1812 there is no point in anyone else taking a fresh look at the era ?

HPS has covered WWII in the past ‘n present should all developers scrap anything covering WWII also ..............


According to that mentality we should still be driving Model T’s……………[:D]
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I would like to see more on the Korean War. For a war of it's nature and size very little has been done on it.

I would also like to see a monster WW3 game done in mid 80s Germany using a WEGO engine. One that pulls out all the stops and includes something like news headlines, politcal decisions and negotiable peaces that determine victory using logical criteria instead of cold lifeless points.
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Looking through this thread my favourite suggestions have been:

1) Polish-Soviet war
2) Ottoman conquests
3) Russo-Japanese war

Greco-Persian wars would be nice, too.
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An operational/tactical continuous time hybrid for the 18th century. Not too keen on HPS, mainly because - well, hexes are already barely tolerable in battalion level games, as they are too much of an abstraction of critical issues of frontage, smaller base units, and it just gets worse. Not meant to bash those games, it's just that if a new game was made, it ought to offer improvements, and overcome these issues.

I also really wouldn't mind a truly small-scale tactics game, where you control individual soldiers, a la JA2. Just don't make it "patriotic riflemen-hiding-behind-trees-and-rocks" worship, if it's AWI.
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An operational/tactical continuous time hybrid for the 18th century. Not too keen on HPS, mainly because - well, hexes are already barely tolerable in battalion level games, as they are too much of an abstraction of critical issues of frontage, smaller base units, and it just gets worse. Not meant to bash those games, it's just that if a new game was made, it ought to offer improvements, and overcome these issues.

I also really wouldn't mind a truly small-scale tactics game, where you control individual soldiers, a la JA2. Just don't make it "patriotic riflemen-hiding-behind-trees-and-rocks" worship, if it's AWI.

Especially when considering the FIW ,

Early in the conflict British officers refused to adopt the tactics being deployed by the French learned from Canadians and Native America’s and simply massed line troops on many occasions deep in wooded terrain against loosely deployed skirmishes and intern took a beating irregardless of a superior force as seen in the battle of Fort Duquesne.

I would really like to see a fresh look at the colonial wars, and again as you stated drop the hex’s and expand the liberty to deploy a variety of period tacticsTurn base or real time. I also wouldn’t mind seeing the historical fatigue being implemented of just trying to move your troops across such terrain as experienced in the FIW ‘n AWI.

And yes, lets also work on updating the graphics to this decade.......[:'(]
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I Would love to have a Model "T" !!!!
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And yes, lets also work on updating the graphics to this decade.......[:'(]

Yes - but not just for eye candy. Smoke/visibility are an often-neglected part of black powder warfare, large or small scale. Steel Panthers paid more attention to that than any 18th/19th century game that I can think of...

As for the model T - I'd take an 800, but the CGI variant... that one ages better. ;)
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A remake for Steel Panther. Maybe with better resolution, graphics and sounds updated to modern standards. If not 3D, better :)


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