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Screenshots?
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:06 am
by barbarossa2
I can't see any screenshots of this game. I would love to see some. For some reason, all of the JPGs in the Updates are missing, or broken. Will this be anything like the old Avalon Hill game? The strategic level planning of the air war over Germany?
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:03 am
by barbarossa2
I guess I mean: Is it anything like the 1971 Avalon Hill "Luftwaffe" title in scope?
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:48 am
by Reg
ORIGINAL: barbarossa2
I guess I mean: Is it anything like the 1971 Avalon Hill "Luftwaffe" title in scope?
That title may not be as archaic as you think.....
See
Luftwaffe (2nd Edition) 2007 - BoardGameGeek.Com
If you want to get a general impression about the scope of the game, have a look at the following After Action Report which contains screenshots;
AAR Swift vs Fochinell. This is the old game but there are other threads contain preview screenshots of the 'new' BTR game.
BTW, the Matrix website is undergoing maintenance and all the pictures may not display properly until they have finished the site upgrade.
Edit: Since the Matrix screen shots aren't working, here is one that is to tide you over....
BTR Screenshot
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:33 am
by barbarossa2
Thanks for the info Reg, I think I would like to pick this one up. Something different for a change. ;D
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:32 am
by Reg
barbarossa2,
Have another look at
AAR Swift vs Fochinell. The screenshot graphics are working now.
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:47 pm
by geozero
I do hope that the graphics are better than the screenie shows. They essentially look like the original graphics from way back when... [:D]
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:47 pm
by wiking62
Hi geozero,
The AAR from Swift and fochinell is the old game - version: BTR1.05x6. This was an updated OOB from the old Bombing the Reich forum developed by Jean Claude Lorusso.
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:10 pm
by Hard Sarge
we were talking about Black Thursday (which every force has one)
well, I guess this run is Black Saterday
with the LW planes highlighted
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:11 pm
by Hard Sarge
and the same shot but with the RAF highlighted
(just showing so you can see the different highlights, I normally run in box mode)
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:34 pm
by Hard Sarge
59 to 24 ending score for losses
you don't really want to lead off with your It Ground attack boys, bad things are sure to happen, but it showed what I was looking for
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:49 am
by davidjruss
Hard Sarge ,
Re the screenshots - I see buttons for " clock speed " etc - how do you zoom the screen in the new games?
Davidr
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:21 am
by vils
Yeah! Screenshots finally!
That made me wanna hijack this thread and ask a few followup questions if pos?
1. Will Battle of Britain part of EG hafve nightbombing (or above 41 variant)?
2. Any tweaking in nightfighter procedures in ETO part of game?
3. Is it possible to now exclude recon reports on highest msg lvl?
As for Black Thursday,
From what ive read it was called Black Week Oct 8 onward 1943.
In this week, there was a Black Thursday Oct 14 1943, the 2nd Schweinfurt Raid, where 8th suffered horrible losses to a fairly poor bombing result..
100th BG was literally shredded to pieces..
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:30 am
by Hard Sarge
ORIGINAL: DavidR
Hard Sarge ,
Re the screenshots - I see buttons for " clock speed " etc - how do you zoom the screen in the new games?
Davidr
Clock speed, there are four speeds the battle can run at, 1,x2,x4,x8 (but to be honest, if in combat, you should be in x1 and the game jumps speed pretty well if nothing is in the air, I know alot of people like to speed it up at night, but for me, turning off messages, and turning to Urban targets (the icons are off the map, plane box mode, speed the game up better)
Zoom Levels, look on the side panel of buttons, at the top is a + and a - , those will let you get a zoomed in or zoomed out view
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:35 am
by Hard Sarge
there are zoom levels of 0 to 4 (so 5 levels) (with the data side it is fun, sometimes you have to count 0 as 1, and other places 0 is 0)
here is the zoomed out
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:38 am
by Hard Sarge
and here is zoomed all the way in
this one is more for detail work during plotting, very HARD to see what is going on this level for when the game is running, and the other one, is really, too far out, other then to just watch things
on the mini-map, you can (if it shows with the res) a little box, that matches where you are looking, even zoomed all the way out, it does not cover all that much of the map
RE: Screenshots?
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:58 am
by Hard Sarge
ORIGINAL: vils
Yeah! Screenshots finally!
I been posting screenshots ?
That made me wanna hijack this thread and ask a few followup questions if pos?
1. Will Battle of Britain part of EG hafve nightbombing (or above 41 variant)?
Yes, there is Night bombing, Night combat in both BoB and BoB41, bombers, night fighters, early radar, inturders, Fire
2. Any tweaking in nightfighter procedures in ETO part of game?
Yes, radar, scanners, detectors have been reworked some, Stream nighterfighters can get into fights, so you can escourt the bomb raid, inturders are still better, but escourt have a better chance then before (of course, it was pretty much 0 chance before, but i have seen 4-5 kills in a night with my streamers)
3. Is it possible to now exclude recon reports on highest msg lvl?
that is still on the wish list, I do know it was a major area Harley wanted to get to, but can't say if or when we will be able to mod, add on, take away from the messages, Odd old game, thee are 3 levels of reports you can pick, but we know there is a 4th level
As for Black Thursday,
From what ive read it was called Black Week Oct 8 onward 1943.
In this week, there was a Black Thursday Oct 14 1943, the 2nd Schweinfurt Raid, where 8th suffered horrible losses to a fairly poor bombing result..
100th BG was literally shredded to pieces..
well, as I said, every force, had there Black Days, for BC it was in Dec, a bad weather front moved in and as Shaggy said, some 35 planes were lost over England trying to find there way home
and there were other bad days, the last raid on Hamburg before the game begins, the raid ran into a massive weather front
one of the ones most will not know about, is the Russian night para drop, I believe it was the only large drop the Russian made, only for what ever reason, they made the drop from 10,000 ft, and right in the path of a oncoming Panzer Corps
(most drops are made between 500-1200 ft)