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But it did lead to a problem. Example: I receive turn 7. But the PC crashes. Aaarg! need new hard disk.

Originally posted by Adam Parker
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However, I do have one thing to ask:

Elmo you've got me stumped. LOL... fess up. Who are you?

Can someone kindly explain the mechanics of how this is gonna work?

Originally posted by dwinston
The HPS series takes way to long and is not particualry user friendly. It is very much like a traditional board game.

V4V/WaW had several key functions that made it much easier to play - the big one being seniding a HQ unit to an objective and all the subordinate units automatically went to the objective as well.

While HPS can go all the way down to the company level, generally the battalion level seems the easiest to handle (unless you need to spread your line out and don't have the troops to do it.)

The combat mechanics of WaW were much faster and games could be completed within a reasonable amount of time. HPS turns take forever.

The detail in HPS is excellent, and tghe gameplay seems to be accurate, but there are some design imprvements that would really help (like using the HQ to send units in a direction or helping you identify units within a command which is dsperately needed given the huge amount of units on the screen).

Maybe Matrix could get the rights to the V4V and WaW game system and publich some additional games.

Thoughts?

Originally posted by dwinston

Maybe Matrix could get the rights to the V4V and WaW game system and publich some additional games.

Thoughts?

Originally posted by Joe 98
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HP needs a "combat advisor" that comes with SSG's Korsun Pocket.


It is one on the great innovations of wargaming.

Originally posted by Black Cat
Some things I discovered by reading the manual and asking on the various HPS Forums.

First in the opinion department:

1. Your "reasonable amount of time" to complete is someone elses just right.

Which is fine.

2. Some people think the Game is " user friendly" since it`s basically a point and click/drag system.

True.

3. The Game is very fast on a fast machine if you use the F8 key to speed up the AI phase, which usually takes less then 90 seconds in the large HPS Campaign Games .

That does nothing to speed up your turn, moving countless units, which is what I at least was mentioning.

In the facts department:

4. You can let the AI move any or all your units to an objective by 2 clicks of the mouse.

Only until you make contact. Then, unless you want to see some real strange stuff/take huge losses, you have to move them manually.

5. The V4V and WaW games had 1/10 of the units on Map compared to the HPS large scenarios.

Because they had the scale right, operational, instead of trying to mesh two different scales.

6. You can highlight all units within a Formation, and each counter in every formation is color coded according to unit, you can also get the command radius of each HQ with one mouse click.

Yep.

7. Almost all units can breakdown to smaller units and then recombine.

No thanks. To many as is

I too would like to see Matrix republish the old V4V and WaW Games.

Yep.

Originally posted by dwinston
First in the opinion department:

3. The Game is very fast on a fast machine if you use the F8 key to speed up the AI phase, which usually takes less then 90 seconds in the large HPS Campaign Games.

I use that and it is much quicker - but still slow (of course my machine is only 733mGHZ

In the facts department:

4. You can let the AI move any or all your units to an objective by 2 clicks of the mouse.

How?

Highlight any unit in the organization you want to move. Alt - right click to where you want them to go.

6. You can highlight all units within a Formation, and each counter in every formation is color coded according to unit, you can also get the command radius of each HQ with one mouse click.

I know how to highlight all the units in a formation, but how do you get the command range? The problem is that with all the units it is difficult to see the hightlighted ones, particularly if they are stacked. V4V/WaW mad it much easier to see (of course they had less unites as well).

There's a hot key, can't remember it off the top.

I too would like to see Matrix republish the old V4V and WaW Games.

Originally posted by Wilhammer
Tiiler's Philosophy:

PzC: Series. A lot like old SPI titles, like Panzer Group Guderian, or Drive on Stalingrad, or even like GDW's Operation Crusader or Suez '73, White Death.

Originally posted by Paul Vebber
Keep your eye out for Battlefields - it is our own "WEGO" operational level game (battalion sized units, 1km per hex, 8 hour turns) - WITH FULL EDITOR and over a dozen VFV-WaW quality scenarios. NOte the use of "clock time" in coordinating the plotting of moves and combat!

http://www.battlefieldsww2.com/

Originally posted by PeterF
1- One of the screenies featured horders of units and mountainous stacks. Can BF avoid the counter inflation that some say plagues the John Tiller clones?

2- Using WEGO, on an operational scale, how does the designer handle the initiative factor?It's possible to imagine, for example, units defending in a front reacting illogically to an attacking force.

Originally posted by elmo3
Speaking of stacking, which Erik just did, it's a bit too abstract in KP for my liking compared to PzC. An across the board, no pun intended, four units per hex means that four flak btlns are considered to take up as much space as four infantry regiments.