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Darkrenown posted:Wow, a bundle was pretty unexpected. How's the CC game? Have they reached out to you guys at all about this? I think Johan has a thing or two to say about price points and game quality ("PoN makes no money because it's a bad loving game, not because we sell it at too low a price point", to paraphrase). And count me into the "counters as an option"-group, please.
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Does anyone play Steel Beast? I kind of just passed it off as "Meh too much money" in the past, but it looks interesting.
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ArchangeI posted:Have they reached out to you guys at all about this? I think Johan has a thing or two to say about price points and game quality ("PoN makes no money because it's a bad loving game, not because we sell it at too low a price point", to paraphrase). They're having a conference right now where they sit in a hall together and forget to invite anyone from outside the wargaming clique who could give them useful advice. Alchenar fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Jun 5, 2015 09:57
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If nothing else the sales figures from the Humble Bundle will be interesting. It's past 5000 units now.
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ArchangeI posted:Have they reached out to you guys at all about this? I think Johan has a thing or two to say about price points and game quality ("PoN makes no money because it's a bad loving game, not because we sell it at too low a price point", to paraphrase). Nope, I just saw the newspost on the Matrix site while I was looking at Starhammer tactics and thought it was interesting.
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Anyone know of a good Stuka/Messerschmidt sim game that is not too difficult?
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That sounds far too stimulating, this is the thread for pushing around nato counters and bad sprites not flying planes!
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Saros posted:That sounds far too stimulating, this is the thread for pushing around nato counters and bad sprites not flying planes! Counterpoint: Achtung Spitfire!
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Tias posted:Anyone know of a good Stuka/Messerschmidt sim game that is not too difficult? If you mean a flight simulator, your best option is probably IL-2 1946. It's an old simulator but is easy to learn, has decent flight models, and includes more than 100 aircraft including plenty of Messerschmidts and Stukas. It's also very cheap - $9.99 on Steam, although it often goes down to $3-$5 in sales. Also available DRM-free on GoG. Other options are:
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Tias posted:Anyone know of a good Stuka/Messerschmidt sim game that is not too difficult? This seems like a contradiction in terms. A good sim game will be as difficult as it is to fly a Bf109, no more, no less (probably a bit less). IL2:1946 remains the high-water mark. Or you can play War Thunder in realistic mode.
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blackmongoose posted:Anyone tried the new WeGo space game from Slitherine? I can't remember the name (something really dumb), but it looked like an interesting way to do space combat and is fairly reasonably priced - unfortunately I've been burned on buying grog games based on interesting surface appearances before, so I'm hesitant about getting it sight unseen. I picked it up, only played a couple of missions. So far it looks interesting, you've got maneuver arcs that remind me of the X-Wing board game along with vertical movement. The missions have been "kill these guys" while showing me the basics of the controls. I'm hoping the battles get more interesting, I can see a lot of potential. I was quite surprised when a hostile ship rammed into my main ship instead of getting blown up.
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Tias posted:Anyone know of a good Stuka/Messerschmidt sim game that is not too difficult? Battle of Britain 2 is superb, and has both a strategic level and a flight level.
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Michi88 posted:Does anyone play Steel Beast? I kind of just passed it off as "Meh too much money" in the past, but it looks interesting. I tried it for a month and enjoyed it but didn't buy it because I didn't know anyone with it. If some goons do games it'd be a blast.
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Rise of Prussia gold: Darkrenown fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Darkrenown posted:Rise of Prussia gold: Thank you kind goon! I have been playing Civil War 2 and was curious about other AGEOD games.
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Alchenar posted:A good sim game will be as difficult as it is to fly a Bf109, no more, no less (probably a bit less). The Bf-109 is not difficult to fly  The Stuka, moderately so depending on bombload.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:The Bf-109 is not difficult to fly drat hard to land though.
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Pharnakes posted:drat hard to land though. You're doing it wrong then, I've never had any issues with the 109 in Il-2 1946 either when landing or taking off. Taking off: Don't gun the throttle, don't let torque take you for a spin and don't over-correct. Landing: Don't come in fast on a short runway, don't hit the ground aggressively. Flying: Your mixture is automatic, your radiator is automatic, slats lessen the chance of stalls. If you come in too hard you'll bust your landing gear same as on a spitfire. And since you don't have to deal with the cramped cockpit, the worse thing about the 109 is the canopy frame killing some visibility which isn't that big a deal if you have TrackIR
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apseudonym posted:I tried it for a month and enjoyed it but didn't buy it because I didn't know anyone with it. If some goons do games it'd be a blast. I'm kind of hesitant on buying it solely because of the no-one seems to have it bit.
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Friend of mine is streaming command at the top of the hour (40 minutes) at http://www.twitch.tv/Kushan04
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Michi88 posted:I'm kind of hesitant on buying it solely because of the no-one seems to have it bit. You can get it monthly now as well, its definitely worth the  to try for a month and see if the singleplayer is enough for you.
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Battle Academy https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=cnHu3xX46rbwEH8V Frontline: Road to Moscow https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=6vY4Vuu7kETTqnrw
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Chump Farts posted:Frontline: Road to Moscow https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=6vY4Vuu7kETTqnrw Thanks!
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Alchiki is currently performing an excellent impersonation of the Soviet High Command in our Case Blue game.
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Alchenar posted:Alchiki is currently performing an excellent impersonation of the Soviet High Command in our Case Blue game. Now THAT is a game I wish would go on sale. That or the old SSG games. I've been trying to get back into Battle for Italy and I like the system but suck at not having a lovely beachhead. Edit: Anyone want to do Commander the Great War? I tried to play single player since I haven't in a while and I was in Berlin by May 1915 on normal. I don't think the AI has kept up with the patches. Chump Farts fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jun 7, 2015 |
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Chump Farts posted:
That reminds me; anyone have an opinion / review on "Piercing Fortress Europa?" And ditto on the SSG request as I'm tempted to buy both of their East Front specific games one of these days.
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apseudonym posted:You can get it monthly now as well, its definitely worth the Edit* I'm dumb and now I can read! Will give it a go with a month trial, if anyone else picks it up give me a shout. So the time limited only has single player then? Michi88 fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Jun 7, 2015 |
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Alikchi posted:I'd never played a Close Combat game before and I'm really enjoying Caen, this is a good deal. If you like Caen you would also probably like Close Combat 3: The Russian Front The games are pretty similar, but in CC3 there are no "strategic" moves to make, you have a platoon and requisition points to reinforce units or add new ones. The campaign is quite fun and goes from the barbarrosa all the way up to the capture of berlin, so by the end you can have some elite units with hundreds of medals, kills, etc. The last time I played there were only 3 soldiers to survive the whole war and they were on the mortar team.
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So happy: I found a copy of http://www.amazon.com/Numbers-predi...9X22QA03VW3QBNJ at my local used book store. It's Col. Dupuy's first publication of the quantitative approach to modeling and predicting combats that formed the backbone of a lot of 80s and later wargaming, and has been cited in a Whole Lot of military history... inaccurately, usually!
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Battlefront humble bundle, please. Thanks, Humble Bundle. Wherever you are.
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Michi88 posted:Edit* No the time limited version is the full game, they set it up a year or so ago so that you could either buy the $100+ full game forever or you could also buy it in time segments. I enjoyed it a lot even sp, so I'll look into picking it up and we can have some goon tanks.
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apseudonym posted:No the time limited version is the full game, they set it up a year or so ago so that you could either buy the $100+ full game forever or you could also buy it in time segments. Sounds good, I played around with it for a-bit and it really isn't that hard to get a hang of, though I really need to work on my gunnery
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Michi88 posted:Sounds good, I played around with it for a-bit and it really isn't that hard to get a hang of, though I really need to work on my gunnery Its not hard to pick up at all. I really want to try one of the platoon sized maps with a goon per tank. That'd be such a great clusterfuck.
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apseudonym posted:Its not hard to pick up at all. I really want to try one of the platoon sized maps with a goon per tank. That'd be such a great clusterfuck. I feel like the common phrase will be " How the hell did you manage that"
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In Caen, do campaign battles not let you add extra troops? In the first battle, I'm stuck with one squad/platoon/whatever the scale is being only two bren sections. I had three support slots it wouldn't let me fill either. I won, but still, would have lost fewer men.
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Chump Farts posted:In Caen, do campaign battles not let you add extra troops? In the first battle, I'm stuck with one squad/platoon/whatever the scale is being only two bren sections. I had three support slots it wouldn't let me fill either. I won, but still, would have lost fewer men. The battlegroup system is really bizarre. Yeah sure, make me attack into a city with an unsupported Panther company, what could go wrong. Oh look I lost all my Panthers to infantry AT teams, quelle surprise.
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ArchangeI posted:The battlegroup system is really bizarre. Yeah sure, make me attack into a city with an unsupported Panther company, what could go wrong. I never cared for that campaign system- I liked 2 or 3 better, where you just had one battlegroup that changed over time. The only problem is in CC3 it descended into a tankfest in the second half of the grand campaign.
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You can combine the infantry units with limited deployment slots available with Tank units and run one infantry platoon with a tank platoon. The campaign system is a bit weird to be honest.
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Pharnakes posted:I'd try steel beasts if others are going to. Screw it I'll pick it up. Who would be interested in a goon MP game next weekend? Maybe 12PM PST/ 3 EST / ??? moon time on Saturday?
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