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IJN (mostly) web page
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:28 pm
by whippleofd
I was out surfeing while waiting on the AI to run a turn and stumbled across this page quite by accident. It looks like a very interesting read.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/kaigun.htm
Whipple
RE: IJN (mostly) web page
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:15 am
by acmejeff
Great site, we need to get this guy interested in playing our game!
RE: IJN (mostly) web page
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:32 am
by mlees
ORIGINAL: acmejeff
Great site, we need to get this guy interested in playing our game!
Maybe his is. Any one of you chuckleheads could be him...
RE: IJN (mostly) web page
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:20 pm
by Mark VII
That site been around for a couple of years. They wrote the Book "Shattered Sword", an even better read.
ORIGINAL: Whipple
I was out surfeing while waiting on the AI to run a turn and stumbled across this page quite by accident. It looks like a very interesting read.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/kaigun.htm
Whipple
RE: IJN (mostly) web page
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:15 pm
by Iridium
It's been around for at least 8 years to my knowledge. However it hasn't changed all that much cept for the sub page for finally being completed.[:'(]
RE: IJN (mostly) web page
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:25 pm
by m10bob
A real measure of the last time it was updated, is the fact the game page is exactly as it was maybe 6 years ago?
It does not even list UV nor WITP, and gives its' highest ratings to SSI's "Pacific War" and Microproses' TF1942.
(Both of these firms have been defunct for years.)
BTW, IMHO, TF1942 was the best 1st person Naval surface game ever created.....[8D](I always felt like John Wayne in the film "In Harms Way"..
http://www.combinedfleet.com/games.htm
RE: IJN (mostly) web page
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:44 pm
by The Duke
The site was created by one of the co-authors of Shattered Sword, the excellent new book on the Japanese perspective of the Midway battle.
RE: IJN (mostly) web page
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:02 pm
by Big B
ORIGINAL: m10bob
A real measure of the last time it was updated, is the fact the game page is exactly as it was maybe 6 years ago?
It does not even list UV nor WITP, and gives its' highest ratings to SSI's "Pacific War" and Microproses' TF1942.
(Both of these firms have been defunct for years.)
BTW, IMHO, TF1942 was the best 1st person Naval surface game ever created.....[8D](I always felt like John Wayne in the film "In Harms Way"..
http://www.combinedfleet.com/games.htm
From M10bob's link....
Task Force, 1942, by Microprose. A ship-to-ship tactical simulation of the fighting around Guadalcanal, with a strategic engine slapped on top of it. Entertaining in the tactical mode, but the strategic mode is kind of hokey, because it really doesn't encompass enough of the elements of the actual Guadalcanal campaign (plus, it's ludicrously easy to win on either side of the ball). Pet Peeve about this game: ships sustaining any sort of moderate damage in the tactical module are recalled home for repairs and never, ever return. What's the good of a repair yard if you can't get the ships back into the fight sometime? Contains a scenario editor for creating encounters between squadrons of your choosing, which is a good thing (I'm particularly fond of the Yamato vs. a single U.S.Fletcher-class. Short, but exciting.)
Man, and I thought I was a Fanboy![X(]
RE: IJN (mostly) web page
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:42 pm
by String
ORIGINAL: m10bob
A real measure of the last time it was updated, is the fact the game page is exactly as it was maybe 6 years ago?
It does not even list UV nor WITP, and gives its' highest ratings to SSI's "Pacific War" and Microproses' TF1942.
(Both of these firms have been defunct for years.)
BTW, IMHO, TF1942 was the best 1st person Naval surface game ever created.....[8D](I always felt like John Wayne in the film "In Harms Way"..
http://www.combinedfleet.com/games.htm
They still add content though. TROM's mostly, but every now and then an article will pop up.
RE: IJN (mostly) web page
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:59 pm
by Terminus
A cool site, to be sure...