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RE: Amazed with the AAR Activity
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 8:09 pm
by zuluhour
Capt'n I think its time for a repost.
RE: Amazed with the AAR Activity
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:00 pm
by sdevault
ORIGINAL: n01487477
working on WarInTheWest and then combining East and West into a mega title (details might be inaccurate & scuttlebutt). Actually while I really have enjoyed playing GG games over the years, maybe it is best that he doesn't...
I heard something about this as well.
ORIGINAL: n01487477
Good things never age ... If only I could get my girlfriend to realise this.
I heard something about this as well.[:D][:D][:D]
RE: Amazed with the AAR Activity
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:02 pm
by sdevault
ORIGINAL: JeffK
So you'll get the Hellcats in about 2015-6??
Unfortunately land combat isnt one of AE's greatest parts. Works OK in island combat but isnt too great when larger forces fight on land.
I expect your "Global War" game out for my retirement.
By my timetables you may be right. 2015 will probably be pretty close.
RE: Amazed with the AAR Activity
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:58 pm
by Treetop64
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
The game is spectacular. The forum community is spectacular.
Some of the old salts were kind of growing jaded - a natural byproduct of "familiarity breeds contempt" when you've been around too much and too long. But fresh faces keep arriving daily, so that the game is refreshed and renewed. It's incumbent on us old timers to not be jaded by the newbie questions. Yes, we've been through it before, but we can either step aside to let others chime in, or we can take a breath, rejuvinate the senses, and mentor.
Some of the best entertainment around has come from newbs in the past year. What an amazing game!
Truly, I expect to be playing this game a decade from now (by then I should be in my sixth or seventh match) unless a WitPAE II comes along in the meantime. If it doesn't, I can easily accept the current game as long as the forum members are still around to provide competition and entertainment.
+1
Few games reach a level of "epicosity" like WitP-AE. I still remember when it all started as I pondered picking up a copy of Uncommon Valor (but didn't) at Fry's all those years ago, to actually buying a copy of the original WitP several weeks later.
Got the same fever with the original IL-2 Sturmovik to the latest version of IL-2: 1946 today, and the old Combat Mission: Barbarossa and Afrika Korps (now with
all of MikeyD's and Andrew Fox's high-res textures for both games).
RE: Amazed with the AAR Activity
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 12:55 am
by bigred
FYI, one of my favorite quotes:
Feltan:
I concur with your thoughts on WITP-AE being a work in progress. Thank God that it is; we should all consider ourselves very fortunate.
After having spent a considerable amount of time developing military simulations (that are used within the military, not commercial ones), I regularly have to pinch myself and remind myself that this "game" is actually available. I am not sure if it has occured to many players, but if this product had been available, say, 25 years ago the Defense Department would have seized it on the basis of national security, slapped a Top Secret classification on the whole thing, and we would never see it again. The potential applications for WITP-AE to modern day planning would have been too great to allow this to float around to potential adversaries. Warts and all, WITP-AE is a great acheivement; it is really the only product of its class.