I finally got into this game.

[Perturabo]

It was definitely my best spent money on wargame, ever. This game is simply beautiful, if there's any game that could be called "Art", it's definitely Command Ops.


By the way:

Am I weird?

[Rosseau]

My wife would not understand it, but would not disapprove either [;)]

But seriously, compared to the evil, violent trash sold at the major sites, we are quite sane and respectful of history.

[Perturabo]

ORIGINAL: rosseau

My wife would not understand it, but would not disapprove either [;)]

But seriously, compared to the evil, violent trash sold at the major sites, we are quite sane and respectful of history.

Well, thinking in these categories, I would call wargames an epitome of violence and evil in gaming, except that I wouldn't use the word "trash".
The battle that I'm now playing is basically a massive battle of attrition with 3 corps on my side which during the course of the battle are going to be reinforced with 10 divisions. The same with the opposite side.
So by the end, there will be about 180,000 soldiers involved on each side and quite probably most of them will become casualties.

It's violence and evil on scale that is almost unimaginable. If common games are like gladiatorial combat, our games are like taking the whole thing to a next level and starting massive nation-destroying wars just for sport.

[Rosseau]

I was thinking more along the lines of Postal II, Dead Island, and all that junk. Blood spurting from innocent victims. Real war is horrible, but I play these as an intellectual exercise. I would guess that combat veterans might have a hard time playing a realistic game like the CMx2 series. And, I did download your AB mod [:)]

[RangerX3X]

ORIGINAL: Perturabo


Am I weird?

Please tell me the pink chits are not Elite Shock Units [:)]

[Thomasew]

ORIGINAL: RangerX3X

Please tell me the pink chits are not Elite Shock Units [:)]

Well, .. that would certainly explain the .. Shocking Pink [X(]


Cheers
Tom

[Perturabo]

ORIGINAL: rosseau

And, I did download your AB mod [:)]

What do you think about it?

ORIGINAL: RangerX3X

ORIGINAL: Perturabo


Am I weird?

Please tell me the pink chits are not Elite Shock Units [:)]

How did you guess it[:D]?

[Perturabo]

Similar scenario - this time with companies as main units.

My forces is one line corps and one assault corps, enemy forces is one line corps.

Command Ops is probably the only game where it's possible to have multiple corps which are represented on map down to single companies.

[Arjuna]

How many units have you got in total for all sides?
How big is the map?
What was the performance like - eg how long did it take to go through an hour of game time?

[Perturabo]

ORIGINAL: Arjuna

How many units have you got in total for all sides?
How big is the map?
What was the performance like - eg how long did it take to go through an hour of game time?

500 on my side and for now about 400 on enemy side (200 are reinforcements, though and aren't on map yet).
The map is 10x16km.
About 30-60 seconds per minute. I have an ancient computer, though - with a Celeron 2,4Mhz single core CPU and 1GB of ram. I'm not sure if it wasn't faster before. I tend to have high CPU use problems with Firefox, so it may be slowing the game down.
EDIT
With a free CPU it's 10 seconds per minute.

[Arjuna]

OK so a small map and pretty slow. My benchmark is 1 hour of game time per 1 minute of real time.