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RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 6:06 pm
by gamer78
UK design and The Commonwealth player base is ok for Balkan Wars? I don't think.[;)] They will not have any interest. They won't even know geography maybe in WW1.
Spanish and Russian Civil Wars would be excellent for me with bigger map and more units. American and Napoleonic Wars could be good too.
RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:00 am
by FOARP
ORIGINAL: gamer78
UK design and The Commonwealth player base is ok for Balkan Wars? I don't think.[;)] They will not have any interest. They won't even know geography maybe in WW1.
Err.... Well, I'm going to assume this was said with humorous intent. People in the UK don't know as much about the Balkan wars as they do about WW1, but they don't know zero either, as the UK has a long involvement with the Balkans, including in this period.
It's a niche interest to be sure - but you know, I think it would be a niche interest even in the Balkans? It's not like there's many Serb/Croat/Bosnian/Greek/etc. game dev companies that are producing games covering that period. In fact the only game company I know of that's producing games covering the Serbian front of WW1 is not based in the Balkans as far as I know.
That doesn't mean there isn't a market for it - it just means no-one ever really tried to see if there was much interest in it.
ORIGINAL: gamer78
Spanish and Russian Civil Wars would be excellent for me with bigger map and more units. American and Napoleonic Wars could be good too.
Agreed on all of those.
RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 10:22 am
by PanzerCro
I still hope for WW3 game...something like People's General in Strategic Command world
RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:00 pm
by gamer78
Hi FOARP. Not one word of M.Kemal in WW1 and full of Anzac event does seem not to offend The Commonwealth gamers for me. Although he had peaceful messages..
And yes French can do best in American Civil War game. And Americans can do JTS Serbia'14.
Cheers.
RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:23 pm
by Hubert Cater
ORIGINAL: gamer78
UK design and The Commonwealth player base is ok for Balkan Wars? I don't think.[;)] They will not have any interest. They won't even know geography maybe in WW1.
Spanish and Russian Civil Wars would be excellent for me with bigger map and more units. American and Napoleonic Wars could be good too.
Hi Gamer78,
Our Classic WWI game package includes a 1912 First Balkan War campaign, which can be found here:
https://www.matrixgames.com/game/strate ... lassic-wwi
It also includes a Russian Civil War campaign as well.
Hope this helps,
Hubert
RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:35 pm
by Hubert Cater
Our Classic WWII package also includes a Spanish Civil War campaign within the Weapons and Warfare subpackage:
https://www.matrixgames.com/game/strate ... assic-wwii
Hubert
RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 3:09 pm
by mdsmall
My first vote would be for a U.S. civil war version of Strategic Command. It has a completely different map from the European theatre and features that are unique to North America, such as a major role for river forts and river boats. The campaign has very different intensity and time-scale depending on the theatre - from a grinding war of attrition in the East, to a war of movement in the West, to a free-wheeling range war in the trans-Mississipi, plus small amphibious invasions around the coast by the U.S. player. Leadership plays a major factor in combat and helps give the South a fighting chance until the North finds better generals. Maintaining the integrity of the railroad grid, or disrupting it, is a critical strategy for both sides. Plus there are great political variables to add to the mix e.g. the election of 1864 in the North, or a possible shift in allegiance in some of the border states. Years ago Victory Games put out a strategic level Civil War board game that demonstrates the potential for this scenario.
RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 4:44 pm
by DonCzirr
The more the merrier I say !
Lots of fun was to be found in the classic WWI Breakthrough and Weapons and Warfare releases.
I would also be in favor of more modular releases - Like Balkans 1, Balkans 2, Civil War, Franco-Prussian etc as DLC.
That would allow for quicker focused releases and more purchasing granularity to deal with the various responses we see above like "I like this period .... but not that period ... please don't focus on such and such and give my era priority".
Seems like other framework software from other publishers like Wars Across the World and Paradox do quite well with that model ....
RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 6:35 pm
by Tanaka
ORIGINAL: mdsmall
My first vote would be for a U.S. civil war version of Strategic Command. It has a completely different map from the European theatre and features that are unique to North America, such as a major role for river forts and river boats. The campaign has very different intensity and time-scale depending on the theatre - from a grinding war of attrition in the East, to a war of movement in the West, to a free-wheeling range war in the trans-Mississipi, plus small amphibious invasions around the coast by the U.S. player. Leadership plays a major factor in combat and helps give the South a fighting chance until the North finds better generals. Maintaining the integrity of the railroad grid, or disrupting it, is a critical strategy for both sides. Plus there are great political variables to add to the mix e.g. the election of 1864 in the North, or a possible shift in allegiance in some of the border states. Years ago Victory Games put out a strategic level Civil War board game that demonstrates the potential for this scenario.
Yes yes yes!! So many great economical, technological, political, and military decisions and events to be had!!
RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 5:40 am
by gamer78
My brother said 'you'll like it..'. He doesn't know much about wargaming or any strategy games. That's when I started in this game in 2012. It was in Battlefront forums. Devs more responsible at the time now it is in pure English forum Matrix games. Hard to put any leader, conflict other than English&American..
Still I like Hubert and Bill designs I'll buy what they do. American Civil War would be indeed good no news about it yet?
RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 9:35 pm
by Arakred
Boer war.
Spainish american war
Boxer rebellion
Phillippine american war
Sino Japanese war
RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 11:15 pm
by Arakred
Any chance you are working on an update to the new WWI game?
The mods look amazing!!!!
RE: Balkan Wars / Franco Prussian etc ?
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 5:57 am
by shri
+1 for Franco-Prussian War and Balkan Wars
had it had a world map then Russo-Japanese war.