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The MilHist thread brought up this article and I wanted to share: Why Cold War Warsaw Pact Tactics Work in Wargaming and the follow-up I always felt that the Red Turn scenarios from UOC were so much easier and straightforward and less puzzle-gamey to play through, and even in WITE that applying constant pressure to wear down the Heer until you start getting rout results was a more manageable strategy than trying to create and seal pockets with Panzer Divisions.
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gradenko_2000 posted:The MilHist thread brought up this article and I wanted to share: Why Cold War Warsaw Pact Tactics Work in Wargaming Good read. Soviet doctrine is really fun in wargames, UoC especially. I had a really entertaining game in DC: Case Blue which involves getting slapped extremely hard by Germany until around late august / september where you can start to really push reserves into a weakened sector of the front (for me it was near Rostov). Its really satisfying to crack out multiple full strength divisons on weakened Heer tanks and infantry worn down by attrition and rivers then break through and not stop until entire army groups are encircled and destroyed.
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Apr 20, 2015 10:23
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gradenko_2000 posted:The MilHist thread brought up this article and I wanted to share: Why Cold War Warsaw Pact Tactics Work in Wargaming I don't think I've read a more  post than that in some time. Must be a blast at parties.
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Apr 21, 2015 02:12
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Is there a Decisive Campaigns (any of them) learning AAR anywhere? I own the game but I'd like to get to know it a bit better.
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Apr 21, 2015 05:04
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V for Vegas posted:I don't think I've read a more I can handle the smug. I wish he'd had an editor though.
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Apr 21, 2015 05:46
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Dirt Worshipper posted:Is there a Decisive Campaigns (any of them) learning AAR anywhere? I own the game but I'd like to get to know it a bit better. I made a brief and bad guide for WtP here. I'm sure there's better guides around though. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=383266742
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Apr 21, 2015 09:16
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 SCOURGE OF WAR MULTIPLAYER TIME! When? Saturday! Afternoon-ish GMT Where? CTS Mumble! Why? Because I want my money's worth! Mods? gently caress you no.
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Apr 21, 2015 15:43
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I don't own it, but someone please record it for posterity / stream it. I'm having too much fun reading up on Alikchi/Lord Windy's WITP game and want to see more groggy goon-versus-goon action.
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Apr 21, 2015 15:49
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I'm not clever enough to stream things but my ideal outcome is that we make it a regular weekly event and work our way through the battle.
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Apr 21, 2015 15:53
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I'm up for that!
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Apr 21, 2015 16:17
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I'll stream/archive. That'd be Saturday morning-ish for those of us in 'Merica right?
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Apr 21, 2015 16:50
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:I'll stream/archive. That'd be Saturday morning-ish for those of us in 'Merica right? Yeah, I'm being deliberately vague to allow time for a group consensus to emerge.
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Apr 21, 2015 16:51
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What version? I own all of it so it doesn't matter TO ME but... That said, I can't install Chancelorsville because Matrix is staffed exclusively by giant loving shitlord idiot jackass fuckbags and I don't have a download link on my product page after registering the serial and both my support ticket and forum thread have gone unanswered for two months because of their aforementioned condition. I guess now that we're finally showing interest again I'll resubmit the issue and see if they can take the cocks out of their mouths for five seconds to be helpful.
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Apr 21, 2015 17:44
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gently caress yeah. I have work at 4pm CST, ~10pm Eurotime, so there's definitely a great big window for me. Are we doing Gettysburg, or a different game?Dark_Swordmaster posted:What version? I own all of it so it doesn't matter TO ME but... I can give you the install .exe for Chancellorsville. dublish fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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Apr 21, 2015 17:44
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Does anyone have the link to that gorgeous WITP map mod again, the one Alikchi and Windy are using in their LP? I had it installed, but apparently updating WITP to the patch that came out a couple weeks ago nuked it for me and it's loading with the default map again.
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Apr 21, 2015 18:58
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Drone posted:Does anyone have the link to that gorgeous WITP map mod again, the one Alikchi and Windy are using in their LP? I had it installed, but apparently updating WITP to the patch that came out a couple weeks ago nuked it for me and it's loading with the default map again. Baloogan posted:TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO ANYONE HAVE THAT LINK TO THAT GODDAMN AWESOME LOOKING MAP MOD FOR WITPAE???? RR THE WORLD WONDERS Of course they had to rename it to something like Yamato Damashii
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Apr 21, 2015 19:08
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First time in my 10+ years on SA that I had a probation rescinded. edit: I got probation for that all caps post ^^ I'm making some web tools for my WITPAE PBEM: https://secure.baloogancampaign.com:8081/map Right now writing something to do my map tiling so I don't have MapTiler.com all over the place. Baloogan fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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Apr 21, 2015 19:11
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Drone posted:Does anyone have the link to that gorgeous WITP map mod again, the one Alikchi and Windy are using in their LP? I had it installed, but apparently updating WITP to the patch that came out a couple weeks ago nuked it for me and it's loading with the default map again. I have a variant of it, you can pm Alikchi for his version or I can send you what he put together for me and Samolety.
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Apr 21, 2015 22:44
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Baloogan posted:First time in my 10+ years on SA that I had a probation rescinded. edit: I got probation for that all caps post ^^ I had to reread your post carefully because at first I thought you were going to recreate WITP using Command Ops.
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Apr 22, 2015 05:13
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Any Goon opinions on Making History: The Great War? Its got good reviews on steam, but I'm a little hesitant all the same, looks like it could very easily be a HOI3/Supreme Ruler mess.
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Apr 22, 2015 09:43
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I haven't played The Great War but I've played the others and they are basically HoI3 lite. Very simplified combat and economy mechanics but it was pretty fun for the price. Definitely nothing like the clusterfuck that is Supreme Ruler. It's like if Axis and Allies was trying to be more like Hearts of Iron.
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Anyone has heard of Order of Battle: Pacific from Slitherine ? There's a twitch stream starting up http://www.twitch.tv/slitherinegroup e: stream over mmtt fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Apr 22, 2015 |
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Apr 22, 2015 19:02
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So I downloaded/bought Command Ops 2 because it was free. How is this supposed to work? At what level should I be issuing orders to troops and how often should I muck around with them?
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Apr 23, 2015 05:38
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gradenko_2000 posted:So I downloaded/bought Command Ops 2 because it was free. How is this supposed to work? At what level should I be issuing orders to troops and how often should I muck around with them? I find the battalion level is best. Return to St Vith gives you three battalions.  Don't muck around with them too much - giving new orders paralyses your troops for a while as the new orders filter down. This scenario is pretty easy, just give your units orders to attack the first town across the river and they will sort themselves out to do it without much interference. Then start moving them up to St Vith.
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Oh hey, that's from my Lets Play. Glad to see someone read it! You can find the rest of the Lets Play here : http://goo.gl/bjV7lH Command Ops can get really messy when you start to micromanage. Your officers can usually do a decent job, but sometimes they get really stupid and are just plain stuck. Instead of trying to control individual companies just set sequential Attack / Move orders exactly where you want the Battalions to go. Leapfrogging up your supplies and artillery to Lommersweiler helps later on too. I still have to install Command Ops 2. I was put off by the exceptionally Grogy pricing model.
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mmtt posted:Anyone has heard of Order of Battle: Pacific from Slitherine ? The screenshots make it look pretty similar to Panzer Corps. Looks interesting but I hope it's more than just essentially a Pacific Theater reskin of Panzer Corps.
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Apr 23, 2015 17:45
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Here, enjoy some Red Thunder tournament pics... "Sehr gut! Und now, step 2: Fritz, erect ze 'FREE WODKA' sign to lure ze Sowiet Panzer within 200 metre effective range..."  It was supposed to be a milk run but they just had some bad Luchs...
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Apr 23, 2015 17:58
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Pornographic Memory posted:The screenshots make it look pretty similar to Panzer Corps. Looks interesting but I hope it's more than just essentially a Pacific Theater reskin of Panzer Corps. There's front lines so I think it must have some kind of logistics system akin to Unity of Command at the very least.
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Apr 23, 2015 18:00
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i lost the war early, but i can solidly recommend end all wars if you are into ageod -- they finally found a good scale to let them keep some of the stuff they wanted to do in PoN (blockading trade networks, for example) while still being fundamentally a war game. it owns and is good.
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One thing I found worth the micro in command ops are AA companies. They can really produce prodigious amounts of pain so long as you keep them away from enemy tanks but the AI tends to keep them in the rear.
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Pornographic Memory posted:The screenshots make it look pretty similar to Panzer Corps. Looks interesting but I hope it's more than just essentially a Pacific Theater reskin of Panzer Corps. It looks like a civilisation mod in those screenshots!
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Apr 23, 2015 18:36
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Reminder, Scourge of War: Gettysburg on Saturday at around, oh lets say 3pm GMT. Be installed/patched etc.
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Apr 24, 2015 00:24
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Nenonen posted:Here, enjoy some Red Thunder tournament pics... "Hey, weird that he's uploading pictures without having uploaded the turn..." Welp, guess who's dropbox was having a fit for the last week  e: Have a gif as a token of apology, wherin an armoured car bounces a T-34 shell. http://i.imgur.com/i6W4TTL.gifv Generation Internet fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Apr 24, 2015 |
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Apr 24, 2015 00:36
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Nenonen posted:Here, enjoy some Red Thunder tournament pics... What have you been doing to those poor cows? 
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Apr 24, 2015 01:56
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uPen posted:What have you been doing to those poor cows? It got confused and thought it was a Fuchs 
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Apr 24, 2015 02:05
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So it's a Matrix game, which makes it a grognard game: Qvadriga is half off on the Humble store this weekend. Anyone have it and can say how it is?
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Apr 24, 2015 19:03
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Drone posted:So it's a Matrix game, which makes it a grognard game: Qvadriga is half off on the Humble store this weekend. I think Grey had a video lp? It's pretty weird because it's turn-based and the graphics are bad yet it seems like an interesting and fun game all the same.
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10 bucks is about a good price for this game. It's a very, very cool coffeebreak game - the kind you launch for a race or two, mourn the death of your favorite auriga and then go do something else. Not something you'd marathon all night, but if you want a light game to gently caress around every now and then, it's good at that.
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Lichtenstein posted:10 bucks is about a good price for this game. It's a very, very cool coffeebreak game - the kind you launch for a race or two, mourn the death of your favorite auriga and then go do something else. Not something you'd marathon all night, but if you want a light game to gently caress around every now and then, it's good at that. It's out for tablets too and I've wishlisted it for awhile, but I doubt it'll ever go on sale there. Games like that are what I use my tablet for 
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RPS released a list of "The 50 Best Strategy Games of All Time." I'm feeling fat and sassy that my client, Unity of Command, made the list at #22 - they even linked to my interview from back in the day of Ante Turadic about the game's AI! What games are missing? Which ones shouldn't be on there or should be higher up?
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