OT: WitP:AE 3

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: bighinvegas

I would gladly settle for a refresh of the game that ran in Windows 10 without having to manipulate things to get it running. There was a time that "Can't get control of the screen" was dangerous to my blood pressure.

Having subs target the largest ship in front of them would be nice too. US subs and commanders used tonnage sunk as a waty to keep score.

Well, look at all of the video cards that came out since the game was introduced. The processors as well.

Subs would not always target the largest ship in front of them, they would target the ship that they were best positioned to attack.

[fcooke]

Darter and Dace for example. They out some CAs rather than trying to get to the BBs. Although there is a case to be made that IJN CAs were more dangerous than their BBs.

[Tanaka]

ORIGINAL: Alpha77

ORIGINAL: Treetop64

No kidding. Seeing how games have evolved in recent years. Prettied up but dumbed down. Appealing to the lowest common denominator and their wallets.

Cough* Total War Series *cough

I also do not like Steam at all, the interface is not very good imho it uses to much resources and I could not get my AGEOD Civil War2 to run again.

I had downloaded a mod from Ageod forum, but it would crash.. so I deleted the mod to get my working vanilla back. But it now also crashed. So I used steam to "reapir" it but it would still not work. I deinstalled it and downloaded from steam again, still no luck. So for what is steam good then at all ? Better buy a game on CD/DVD, the problem then however is very often even then you need steam or some online tool to run it (which was the case for Empire TW/NapoleonTW I found an edition with both games for ca. 10,- a while ago. However it seems still to require steam ! ..even when I bought the physical media [8|]

Yes I noted these steam updates too. I did not want to update it, but just get my Civil War game back [:-]

It's a common problem we all seem to have with CW2 on Steam and don't know why Ageod will not fix it. But you can get it to work. Go into the game files and launch the exe set as Administrator. That will work. It may crash the first time but try again and it will eventually load.

[RFalvo69]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: Anachro

I still shudder when I think of Hearts of Iron 4.

I stopped at HOI2.

HoI2 and 3 are good games - exp. with the mods (HoI3 must be upgraded to the Their Finest Hour expansion though).

HoI4 is just dire. The simulation engine is marginally less realistic than Risk, and the AI is so incompetent that the only true challenge is to conquer the World starting as Portugal. It has been done, BTW.

[haegint]

Just saying, HoI 3 (and all DLC) is on Steam sale right now, still until 24 August!

I finally bought it. I played HoI2 a lot back at the times and liked it tremendously. I also hear that HoI4 is pretty shallow and dumbed down, does not interest me in the least.

[mind_messing]

Funny, I went back to HoI 3 fairly recently as a nostalgia trip. Was nice to play a few games again, but the pretty clunky naval combat reminded me why I jumped to AE.

I think HoI 4 was an improvement in some respects but a massive step back in others. I was excited by the equipment mechanics, for example, but as a whole package it was quite "meh".

[haegint]

Yeah... guess naval combat and mechanics were never the forte of HoI, HoI2 was pretty bad in that as well. Still I tremendously liked it and wasted countless hours with it [:D]. In fact I dabbled in it recently again (Arsenal of Democracy actually), before deciding to come back to a 2nd round of WITP AE. Happy gaming!

[Ian R]

Has anyone played whatever the latest version of TOAW is (IV?)?

If so, did they fix the naval part?

[Bo Rearguard]

ORIGINAL: Ian R

Has anyone played whatever the latest version of TOAW is (IV?)?

If so, did they fix the naval part?

They have a thread on all the changes made to the naval module. It's been vastly improved from what it was, but I've rarely played TOAW IV scenarios with opposing naval forces in them so I couldn't really say how much better it is.

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4292790