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Sid Meier's (well, his studio) still making Civilisation, the space-sim genre is getting reborn from several different directions at once, Dominions is going mainstream, Obsidian kickstarted an RPG primarily on the premise of making it old-school and hardcore, loving Train Simulator exists on Steam and makes big piles of money with ridiculously overpriced DLC. It's just thoroughly unpersuasive for them to claim that the Wargames market is unique in some unspecified way.
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Tomn posted:What tactical Civil War games are there, actually? The last one I remember playing was Civil War General 2, and I'll admit I got that off Home of the Underdogs while that was still up. Besides Tiller's Civil War games, there's also the Scourge of War series. That latter one is in real-time, but uses the real-time dynamic well enough that it enhances the game (army organization delegation, couriers, very-real fog-of-war). The drawback is that the control scheme is unwieldy. Even if you were delegating your brigades correctly, Myst from the 90s still did it better, never mind Total War or Wargame:EE/ALB Davin Valkri posted:"Cross of Iron. GOG repackages old games* and sells them for  tops; Matrix does the same and the price doubles.* And I doubt anyone would argue that stuff like Capitalism 1/2 and Fragile Allegiance are so out of line with what Matrix offers gradenko_2000 fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Sep 27, 2013 |
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The best experiment would be to convince the guy from Panther games to take the original Conquest of the Aegean and Highway to the Reich and put them on gog.com and see what happens. Those games can't still be selling even on Matrix given they've been completely supplanted, and they're still good enough to fit right in with the gog selection.
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I have a phone. I want Command, not WitE. Are there any good grog lite phone titles anyone would recommend?
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I just noticed that John Tiller's Panzer Campaigns Touch was released for Android and Apple poo poo. Downloading now. They also have Modern Air Power which is pretty cool on my Nexus 7.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:I have a phone. I want Command, not WitE. Are there any good grog lite phone titles anyone would recommend? Battle of the Bulge for iPad is a great game, I'm not sure there's any good phone games though. Not enough screen to let you get a good view.
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Speaking of GoG, CM Beyond Overlord and Statcom European Theater are like four bucks. Old games should be cheap.
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John Tiller's Modern Air Power is on Android. It's free, and it's very much like Harpoon / Command. There's also Combat Mission Touch. I'm not sure if Battle of the Bulge from Shenandoah Games is compatible with iPhones, but if it is that's golden too. Megadyptes posted:I just noticed that John Tiller's Panzer Campaigns Touch was released for Android and Apple poo poo. Downloading now. They also have Modern Air Power which is pretty cool on my Nexus 7. 
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Sep 27, 2013 17:56
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Mr. Showtime posted:If you stream more, you should save the videos on Twitch so that those of us who are at work/otherwise busy can watch them after. You'd be my hero fuf posted:Yeah please do this. I thought it was recording; I was hoping to watch myself and see how to improve. Apparently no one could hear the glorious fleet command OST music I was playing either when I was showing off the ICBMs. I'm thinking of streaming more command this weekend after I finish at work.
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Tomn posted:What tactical Civil War games are there, actually? The last one I remember playing was Civil War General 2, and I'll admit I got that off Home of the Underdogs while that was still up. Some slimy fuckhead started a Kickstarter (or IndieGogo, one of those, can't recall which) claiming to be aimed at recreating CWG2, but from the pitch alone it was obvious he had actually _done_ fuckall and gave no indications he had anything approaching the skills to do so. If I ever hit the lottery, I'm buying Norm Kroger away from the horrible scumbags that run Stormfront Studios and plopping him at a desk, highly paid, until he puts out modern, updated, but otherwise just as groggy versions of both Wargame Construction Kits because nothing except maybe TOAW has come as close to giving you like an entire era of conflict in one box. Goddamn, those games were amazingly fun.
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Baloogan posted:I thought it was recording; I was hoping to watch myself and see how to improve. Apparently no one could hear the glorious fleet command OST music I was playing either when I was showing off the ICBMs. They removed auto archiving on twitch, you need to opt in on your settings page.
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Sep 27, 2013 19:55
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Yeah, it'll stick around about a week and then poof. Just go to your past broadcast and click "save forever." Found the change the hard way when losing two full Vampire Bloodlines playthroughs I did for a friend.
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uPen posted:They removed auto archiving on twitch, you need to opt in on your settings page. Right! Thanks! I was worried I'd have to record locally somehow.
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Baloogan posted:Right! Thanks! I was worried I'd have to record locally somehow. I still can't see your stream from the other day 
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smr posted:Some slimy fuckhead started a Kickstarter (or IndieGogo, one of those, can't recall which) claiming to be aimed at recreating CWG2, but from the pitch alone it was obvious he had actually _done_ fuckall and gave no indications he had anything approaching the skills to do so. Norm founded Storm Eagle Studios with Jim Rose.
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smr posted:If I ever hit the lottery, I'm buying Norm Kroger away from the horrible scumbags that run Stormfront Studios and plopping him at a desk, highly paid, until he puts out modern, updated, but otherwise just as groggy versions of both Wargame Construction Kits because nothing except maybe TOAW has come as close to giving you like an entire era of conflict in one box. Goddamn, those games were amazingly fun. While I'm sure that the people at Stormfront are horrible scumbags, being white supremacists and all, Norm Koger formed Storm EAGLE Studios, most famously for their Jutland/Distant Guns games and Steam-wannabe DRM client that actually manages to be better than Matrix and Battlefront and HPS Sims combined.
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Mr. Showtime posted:I still can't see your stream from the other day If he hadn't opted in to archiving before the stream that stream is lost to the ether, never to be found.
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Yeah, that first stream is gone. Thank god too, I really hosed up my positioning. Naval bombardment requires you to actually pay attention to your ships OR you can set up 'no go zones' in areas the shore-based artillery can reach.
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smr posted:If I ever hit the lottery, I'm buying Norm Kroger away from the horrible scumbags that run Stormfront Studios and plopping him at a desk, highly paid, until he puts out modern, updated, but otherwise just as groggy versions of both Wargame Construction Kits because nothing except maybe TOAW has come as close to giving you like an entire era of conflict in one box. Goddamn, those games were amazingly fun. Putting in an early request for Age of Rifles to be done first.
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Baloogan posted:Yeah, that first stream is gone. Then you'll just have to stream some more. 
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Going live at 5pm PDT. http://www.twitch.tv/baloogancampaign
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Baloogan posted:Going live at 5pm PDT. Thanks for streaming this. Playing the game is easy but like all simulation stuff playing it right and actually winning these scenarios is a whole other matter.
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Welcome  That was fun! I'm aiming to stream more throughout the weekend. Edit: working on uploading it to youtube. Baloogan fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Sep 28, 2013 |
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Whoops, may have lost my temper with the grognard brigade.
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gradenko_2000 posted:While I'm sure that the people at Stormfront are horrible scumbags, being white supremacists and all, Norm Koger formed Storm EAGLE Studios, most famously for their Jutland/Distant Guns games and Steam-wannabe DRM client that actually manages to be better than Matrix and Battlefront and HPS Sims combined. Storm Eagle + Battlefront = Stormfront ergo all wargamers are hidden racists (to be fair, there is a number of players who play the games while dressed in an original SS uniform with a Stielhandgranate shaped buttplug up their rear end - but enough about myself)
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Baloogan posted:Welcome Nice! Even though I didn't participate in chat I really enjoyed your stream, looking forward to the next one!
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I'm aiming to do another one at 5pm PDT if I can get some sleep. Whenever youtube gets around to processing these, these links should work. (1 hour for the first one, 4+hours for the next two). Episode 1 Part 1 Air Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddhTe4skXdk Episode 1 Part 2 Submarine Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXX7eLRO7xw Episode 1 Part 3 Syria Sandbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SvmrfAJS5E
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The game does look interesting. Shame about the price.
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I also have figured out a way to live stream the game to google earth.   Google earth is available here http://www.google.com/earth/index.html I'm going to TRY to stream it, I have no clue if my computer, my connection or my webserver can handle it! Streaming live in 1 hour. http://www.twitch.tv/baloogancampaign
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NOT LIVE KML data from previous images: http://geostream.baloogancampaign.com/BalooganCampaign_Episode2_Part1_Update.kml
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Quick thanks to baloogan. Great stream tonight. Gonna watch a few more before I commit to it but it seems good. The google earth simulator is pretty awesome and you should all check it out. E: stupid iPhone jaegerx fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Sep 29, 2013 |
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Thanks for watching!
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Has anyone been able to get Crown of Glory to work with DxWnd? I noticed that it is hosted on sourceforge these days, so I downloaded it to try and get some matrix games to run as a window. Korsun Pocket worked just fine, so it looks like a clown only crapped on a section of your monitor. No luck so far with CoG:EE. I am guessing Battles in Normandy and Battles in Italy will work since Korsun Pocket did. E: after looking at Korsun running normally, it doesn't look like DxWnd does such a good job with it after all, though it does run it. vyshka fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Sep 29, 2013 |
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That Syria scenario was classic - let's just see what would happen if Israel fired a dozen 1mT nukes at Damascus. Had to pick this up - I'm now fiddling with creating a Konfrontasi scenario where Australia and Indonesia have a dust up off Christmas Island over people smugglers.
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Another great stream, Baloogan! I'm definitely going to pick this up even for :$matrix$: when my next paycheck rolls around. Does the game model really small vessels like speedboats? I just read a really interesting report on the naval part of the Sri Lankan Civil War and I think that'd be awesome to replicate, but I don't know if it'd work because the insurgents mostly used really tiny speedboats. (Also, maybe it would be a lot less awesome than I think it'd be.)
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V for Vegas posted:Had to pick this up - I'm now fiddling with creating a Konfrontasi scenario where Australia and Indonesia have a dust up off Christmas Island over people smugglers. OBJECTIVE: STOP THE BOATS
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I've just discovered the ability to plot courses for torpedoes and control their sonars so that they don't turn on until the absolute last minute. As a consequence, I've been having tons of fun setting up battles between a lone Seawolf and three/five/ten/one hundred Russian subs and steering my ADCAPs right up into their stern without them ever knowing I was there. Surprise, motherfucker  .Actually, that scenario is fun from the other side, too -- find the ghostly American submarine before it sinks all of yours. It's too bad the AI isn't a little smarter about torpedo management, though; Seawolf class subs are absurdly amazing and it's absolutely possible to get a solid enough fix on undersea contacts to drive torpedoes straight into them at ~15-20nm with nothing but passive sonar. If the AI would do that (and steer them to come in at a different angle) instead of having them go active early enough to give you a fighting chance, it'd be a LOT harder to track the source down. I usually give myself a destroyer with an ASW helo if I'm going to be playing OPFOR, though, because otherwise your submarines will never ever actually get to the place the torpedo appeared to come from without the American sub having gleefully zipped away at speeds in excess of your flank speed without ever having been detected. Command is a lot of fun.
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I really really don't have €77 at the moment  e: wait no I'm not that sad for not being able to buy the game atm since there's some performance issues and devs have the gall to point out that the problem may be ~spyware~, on a forum of hardcore pc users in tyool 2013 VVV your images are breaking my tables Koesj fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Sep 29, 2013 |
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V for Vegas posted:That Syria scenario was classic - let's just see what would happen if Israel fired a dozen 1mT nukes at Damascus. This game really shines when you just think up a situation... This thread just made me stand back and go WOW.    Kickass Harpsichord posted:Another great stream, Baloogan! I'm definitely going to pick this up even for :$matrix$: when my next paycheck rolls around. Example of bringing in already-preset installations:  This might be a good example for a heavily armed speedboat. There are quite a few small vessels. Note the RPGs! You can do things like adding a MANPADS system without making database modifications.  Mr. Showtime posted:Command is a lot of fun. I've started a small website to keep track of my streaming and also document neat things that I find out about the game (eg icebreakers can go though sea ice at the poles, neat edge case!) http://baloogancampaign.com/ YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/baloogan (I'm not going to post any more streaming videos in here, I don't want to clutter up this thread).
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