Grand Strategy game?

[dinsdale]

ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Don't worry SeaMonkey I agree with you also.

So Dinsdale you gonna buy HOI 2? I'm not hehe

Lol, it might be a good game, I'll keep an open mind, but I won't buy it until the final patch is released, or if it hits the bargain bin. CK was the final nail in the coffin for me.

We all have our preferences, I don't like monster games and actually like Risk and Axis and Allies type games. I still prefer those games you can play in an evening 4 to 6 hours.

There's another A&A game in development, but I believe it's an RTS.

That new Gettysburg game coming out by HPS looks like my cup of tea also, bunch of scenarios 310 I believe, and most likely many that can be played out in 4 to 6 hours.

But wasn't Tiller the same man who designed and wrote the Battlefield series. There are a couple of shorter Waterloo scenarios. Also, there's a primitive command/control in Battleground where you can order larger groups of units. I never really liked it that much, but YMMV.

One other game you might like; Highway To The Reich. I would say it was the best game of last year, and most of the scenarios are a couple of hours at most.

[ravinhood]

Yeah I saw that other Axis and Allies game, plays like Rise of Nations, woulda been great if it had been more Total Warish and not rts micro-management for each battle.

This RTS trend, will be so happy when it dies out and everyone gets back to making turn based games again. LOL fat chance eh?

Oh well Disco dancing died out, so I expect RTS will die out someday haha

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RTS is ok. As long as you have a pause button [:D]. When I play HoI I use it everytime I need something done Defies the purpose of RTS, doesn't it

[SeaMonkey]

Dinsdale,

Your right, HttR is one of the finest games out...a superb engine...it and SC are presently the only games residing on my HD. If all RTS was like HttR we would be in Hog-Heaven, but alas they are not. Now something special that may are may not pan out is Supreme Ruler 2010. It is both RTS and turn mode, you can play either way. To be brought to us soon by the boys at Battlegoat...a real bunch of Grogs...their first game... it is precedent setting.

Allright back to Eindhoven... them dastardly Boch are trying to slip a reinforced battalion into the 101rst's landing zone and with painfully realistic order delays my forces are scattered and in disarray after just arriving...where the hell is that Irish Guards when you need them? Wait...is that them back down Hell's Highway, what the hell....they're going to have tea? Sorry Irish......no!! Its the Coldstreams....hope the gunpowder fumes don't spoil their cake.

[macgregor]

I'm assuming HOI isn't a matrix game so then all games are up for discussion. TOAW aCoW has some interesting strategic-level scenarios. Of course, you can't conduct strategic warfare with aCoW. It seems like a great idea was started, yet never finished. Anything involving naval units is pathetically under-represented and the HQs cannot set up beachheads. All supply sources must be pre-programmed. I guess that makes it sound pretty lame(which in some ways it is) but in some ways it's fascinatingly detailed. It seems to be destined for the scrap heap of good ideas left unfinished.

[dinsdale]

ORIGINAL: SeaMonkey
Now something special that may are may not pan out is Supreme Ruler 2010. It is both RTS and turn mode, you can play either way. To be brought to us soon by the boys at Battlegoat...a real bunch of Grogs...their first game... it is precedent setting.

I've been following it for a while. It's going to be about a year late when it comes out, hopefully it will surface despite Strategy First's financial problems. Looks like an excellent game and BG seem to have spent a long time polishing it since the beta started.

[Oleg Mastruko]

ORIGINAL: dinsdale

ORIGINAL: SeaMonkey
Now something special that may are may not pan out is Supreme Ruler 2010. It is both RTS and turn mode, you can play either way. To be brought to us soon by the boys at Battlegoat...a real bunch of Grogs...their first game... it is precedent setting.

I've been following it for a while. It's going to be about a year late when it comes out, hopefully it will surface despite Strategy First's financial problems. Looks like an excellent game and BG seem to have spent a long time polishing it since the beta started.

Ugh! Now THAT is a game I am prejudicial about [:D] Seems awfully (over)ambitious, and it's their as you said first game.

Does anyone remember Super Power, another very ambitious game that was abysmal failure a year or two ago, by some Canadian company? I wish well to developers of Supreme Ruler and will most probably buy and support their game, but frankly, based on available info these guys bit FAR more than they can chew (IMO) and will get burned.

It's not a WW2 nor history game anyway (though I don't mind [:D])

Oleg

[Koper]

ORIGINAL: Oleg Mastruko

Does anyone remember Super Power, another very ambitious game that was abysmal failure a year or two ago, by some Canadian company?(...)

Yes, actually - they are in preparing a sequel... [8|]
Maybe this time it will be something playable?

Experience certainly pays off in this genre - "Spartan" mentioned by Ravinhood on the other thread is actually 3rd title of Slitherine Soft. that covers ancient times grand strategy and is visbly better then their previous titles.

[dinsdale]

ORIGINAL: Oleg Mastruko
Ugh! Now THAT is a game I am prejudicial about [:D] Seems awfully (over)ambitious, and it's their as you said first game.

Does anyone remember Super Power, another very ambitious game that was abysmal failure a year or two ago, by some Canadian company? I wish well to developers of Supreme Ruler and will most probably buy and support their game, but frankly, based on available info these guys bit FAR more than they can chew (IMO) and will get burned.

Superpower was crap yes, but first time developers have also been able to create works such as Baldurs Gate, while established devs have created such disasters as MOO3 and GI Combat.

The good thing about battlegoat is that they've spent the extra time and have done an extensive public beta, hopefully that will leave a polished and absorbing game.

[SeaMonkey]

Now don't go guoting me on this, but when SR2010 was first hitting the web I had a few emails going back and forth with the developers. They said that if this game gets decent support they will port the engine into a WW2 game...for SR2.