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I am pretty sure Africa Corps is a stand alone, you do not need the original nor the expansion packs to run it.

But liquidAgua are you not being a little too picky or even selling yourself short here. I find War in the East extremely complicated at first, no way I would have thought that I could even manage the game but after a little practice and reading many AARs here the game did start to make sense and truly enjoy it. Although it is not a starter game by any means, keep it for a future purchase.

I absolutely love Paradox Games the creates of Heart of Iron series (now they do come second to Matrix/Slitherine though in my book) but they have plenty of game yo may like, not all WW2 games but some worth a look. I do recommend the HoI3 series and like mentioned here buy an entire package at pretty reasonable rates either at Gamergate or Steam or almost anywhere else. That should be within your parameters of game style and of course you can set whatever you want to do or want the AI to do.

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games

If yo are able to wait a little bit, Commander: the Great War is due out November 11th (I hope) now it is WW1 but without saying too much, it could fit in with some of your gaming choices.

Anyhow, not sure what else we or I could recommend but please by all means let us know what you chose.

Good luck

Sure. The problem with Paradox games is my old PC and its bad graphics card doesnt meet the HoI3 requisites, and there isnt any demo to crash-test
The problem with games with tons of units arent them, it's me: Even when I play Civilization I cannot withstand having too much cities or units! [:D]

It's almost sure I go with SWiE or Panzer Corps. I just need some time to read their manuals.

ORIGINAL: LiquidAgua

Sure. The problem with Paradox games is my old PC and its bad graphics card doesnt meet the HoI3 requisites, and there isnt any demo to crash-test
The problem with games with tons of units arent them, it's me: Even when I play Civilization I cannot withstand having too much cities or units! [:D]

It's almost sure I go with SWiE or Panzer Corps. I just need some time to read their manuals.

Try HOI2 or better yet AoD,I think its $7

I just wanted to say welcome to the forums. [:)]

ORIGINAL: LiquidAgua
SWiE is a good candidate. Panzer Corps is another one... yes, its a different genre, i know, but its cool, just it seems to have not replay value, and i'm confused with expansions, don't know if Africa korps needs something to work.

Of the two Panzer Corps is by far the most polished, SWiE is a good enough game but is still rather rough round the edges in regards to AI and balance/historicity in particular.

For Panzer Corps I would suggest going for the original release Panzer Corps Wehrmacht unless you are particularly keen on North Africa as if you like it you can add on the nice DLC scenario/campaign packs at your leisure. (EDIT my mistake the DLCs will work with either Wehrmact or Afrika Korps so either is a good option)

Finally I bought SWiE, and downloaded Panzer General Forever (free), which is almost the same than Panzer Corps. In fact Im using Panzer Corps manual to play Panzer General Forever.

I have some problems undestanding SWiE yet, I did its tutorial and now I'm reading the manual playing with a almost neutral country (portugal). The first thing I noticed is that its map editor doesnt work, always crashes. The second, and more important, is that you can play with 25 countries, yes... but 15 of them are useless because you cannot even declare the war since you dont earn any diplomacy point :S

Thanks you!

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

I just wanted to say welcome to the forums. [:)]

And I just wanted to say...nothing.

Liquid I still think Battlefronts Strategic Command series is perfect for what you are after...

What are your reason for that wodin?

My main reason to prefer SWiE over SC Global conflict is that it hasn't hexs, just squares, you have to control an entire alliance (too much map for me in the Global Conflict version) and it seems that you cannot flank with units or do any tactic, Russia is treated like Allied. However I love some features like engineers, morale, and a real naval map.

Just think it had alot of things your after...I've had my eye on the WW1 game forawhile..but still haven't bought it.

The SC games have a demo i think..give them a try...

SWIE I'm pleased you bought though as I'm mates with Les (Doomtrader).

I do understand the not being able to attack from more than one side..however flanking at that scale isn't really an issue as such.

The SSG games where great but they where operational with no political aspects..but combatwise are what your looking for aswell.


If you like SWIE then I'd recommend the big brother Time of Fury as it has alot of things your after that are missing or streamlined in SWIE.

ORIGINAL: parusski

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

I just wanted to say welcome to the forums. [:)]

And I just wanted to say...nothing.

lmao there's 2 seconds of my life I'll never get back.[:'(]