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I learned by doing the first three basic tutorials and then Operation Bayern. It's a good simple scenario that shows off carrier operations circa 1964 without the bullshit of Vietnam. As a bonus if you screw up and lose a ship your consolation prize is the key to the Hancock's nuclear arsenal  (it also taught me that Skyraiders are in fact more than capable at sinking Soviet warships and that "day-only" loadouts are still pretty good at night lol)
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Goetta posted:Uh how will I know about all the Vampires with no sound you should turn off missile alerts because 90% of the missiles in this game are secretly awful or maybe that's just because i play a lot of CWDB missions "SAM SPOTTED AHHHH!  " x 10000 *all of them miss by miles*
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The problem with the submarines appears to be connected to the presets and the commanders not knowing how cavitation works or that they should attempt to remain quiet. 1975 is within the 'keeping quiet' era. Northern Inferno, Goblins on the Doorstep.  It's a bit quick, I wasn't about to edit it down from the 6 or so minutes it takes under 1x. Select the Revenge, F3, set a course north-west, <esc>, f2, uncheck 'manual', sit back and watch. I like the addition of the cavitation speed indicator, as it's useful for me, but you'll see the sub commander just lose his poo poo at one point and head out at cruise (12 knots) whilst 'sneaking' out of harbour. Cavitation, and the AsuW trawler is on your rear end. The AI will also bounce a bit between creep and cruise, seemingly playing chicken with the cavitation limit, but always just going 'gently caress lol' and flooring it like a hotrod. _This_ is why I micromanage. I'd love a 2x speed as well. 5x is a bit a jump from 1x.
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There's a logic to just cruising if you set a course since the idea is you care more about getting there in a timely fashion than stealth but it does make dealing with large sub formations annoying rip forever Best of the West, Worst of the East
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Well Northern Inferno is fun so I guess I'll pick up the full game. Also could someone tell me how to win at retaking Iceland my boats keep boats keep getting sunk.
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CMANO is about slapfights between carrier borne harriers and yak-38s where their best weapons are their guns.
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My "Cold War Fantasy" involves an early end to the second world war when the USSR develops nuclear weapons, and captures germany and western europe mostly intact & allies with japan. Its August 1952, and a combined Soviet/Japanese/French/German task force is building an airfield on Guadalcanal to cut the sea-line-of-communication between US and Australia, and the marines have to capture guadal! Its set in 1952 with early 1960s technology with WWII 1942 battlelines (UK uncaptured, fighting in the pacific, burma, china, australia etc) I use single unit airbases to keep the simulation running quickly, also because the main mode of land attack is nuclear! This leads to 1950s carrier battles between Soviet/Japanese combined fleets and USN/UK's finest!
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Aug 5, 2016 08:36
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Graviteam Tactics: Mius Front's just released its first expansion. Set in Operation Blau, sounds pretty cool, bit steeply priced though for only two, six turn campaigns.
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First letter of the last name of the soviet marshall below the serial Alea Jacta Est 27DY3-R6IG?-AKFLN  Revolution Under Siege Gold ?Q0FM-A7DYD-TEFHM  Rise of Prussia Gold 3G3?Q-W2KJ0-V6KLE  e: added some riddles Banditu fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Aug 5, 2016 |
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Just Fyi if you leave the strings intact like that they'll be scraped by bots and taken, often really fast.
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Where are your loving riddles? Ban him!
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Banditu posted:Alea Jacta Est
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INinja132 posted:Graviteam Tactics: Mius Front's just released its first expansion. Set in Operation Blau, sounds pretty cool, bit steeply priced though for only two, six turn campaigns. Being the resident mius front Nerd Ive played a little and I deem it worthy
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Banditu posted:Rise of Prussia Gold
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Where are your loving riddles? Ban him! General Montgomery was said to sufer from ?sperger's Syndrome
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I'm about to have a grog thread trip report. I'm over at my folks' watching the Olympics opening ceremony and the computer I have access to is a flaming piece of poo poo laptop that can't run EUIV or CK2 beyond 5FPS and has constant stuttering and low frame rates running RTCW on low detail. My theory is that it will run a patched up CMBN no worse than my 1080p60FPS gaming rig does. SCIENCE!  e: Oh my sweet loving Jesus I forgot that A) The 3.0 patch is TEN loving GIGABYTES and B) It downloaded as "Files (1).zip." This is because I already have a "Files.zip." That's the CMBS+Patch installer. THEIR loving DOWNLOADS HAVE GONE FROM "game_module_version.exe" TO loving "files.zip!" gently caress THIS GENRE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWRG! Dark_Swordmaster fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Aug 6, 2016 |
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Aug 6, 2016 01:37
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So far in a small-medium engagement it... It runs slightly better...  Granted that's on the absolute LOWEST details possible, shaders off, horrible pop-in included and it's a low resolution, but still...
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But remember - nobody would buy the games if they were on Steam! I personally love the old school style multi-gig downloads and developer staff wading into flame wars on their own forums. A WITP:AE developer actually got banned from the Matrix Games forums once which I believe is the best moment in grognard wargame forum history.
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Phi230 posted:Being the resident mius front Nerd Ive played a little and I deem it worthy  I love Mius Front, I think more people should play it.
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gohuskies posted:But remember - nobody would buy the games if they were on Steam! I personally love the old school style multi-gig downloads and developer staff wading into flame wars on their own forums. Was that Symon? symon posted:We will no longer continue to support our scenarios on this forum. quote:How wonderful. Someone who spends years urinating on the the game system, puking on it day after day, and you think you should admonish "me" for finally sticking a sharpie in his butt. It wasn't that sharp and it wasn't that personal. What in the world were you thinking? Nonetheless, he is a consummate rear end in a top hat, and you and everyone else knows that. But someone finally called him on it, and the little PC weenies are out and about, and you don't know what to do, so I guess I'm just chopped liver. What a peach.
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Nice milieu... NOT!!!
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Popete posted:
Is it just a shinied up version of Operation Star? If I'm totally lost in the first game will I be just as lost in this one too?
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I just noticed that the CMFB patch 1.01 fixes the posture of German half-track passengers, so their heads don't stick way up over the sides in such a ridiculous way anymore, exposing them to fire. I remember bitching about that on the Battlefront forum a long time ago. There was a flame war with the die hard grognard loyalists who always insist there's nothing wrong with the game. Battlefront listened though! It only took them five games to do it! 
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Yooper posted:Is it just a shinied up version of Operation Star? If I'm totally lost in the first game will I be just as lost in this one too? Well, the UI is merely just standard grog bad now instead of "WHAT THE gently caress IS THIS poo poo" bad of OpStar. Although the campaign map still has nothing but absolute disdain for your need to know things like: What type of armored vehicle is in this unit? Is it it a halftrack? a Tiger Tank? A group of goofy looking pedestrians that at one point had a vehicle? (not joking, this happened to me several times). I like it though because its a more hands off battlefront game with a decent campaign system and awesome visuals.
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dtkozl posted:I am an idiot. See, I thought that was Marius, too; guess you're not the only idiot. Problem with remembering the history of Rome is that there's so drat much of it Going back to the AJE Marius vs. Sulla (vs. Mithridates) scenario: My favorite part of it is how Sulla gets a Lucullus unit who can go around to the Roman allies and borrow a navy. It was just such a fun little minigame in the scenario, especially since you can lose a navy to the weather at any drat moment. Really made for some hard decisions and some nail-biting turns Yeah, it's me. I'm the guy biting my nails in a turn-based game
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Grognard Games Megathread - A Sharpie stuck in your butt, forever.
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So my long-term PBEM opponent, Lockmart Lawndart, has retired and while Saros is kicking my rear end, we only mange 1-2 turns a week. I'm looking for a new PBEM partner to help scratch my WitP:AE itch, playing the Japanese side using the Focus Pacific mod that I developed with support from the AE community. Focus Pacific by default has Soviets active, which makes things more challenging as the Japanese, but if you're a new player we can use an alternate version that has Soviets off, which should make things significantly less challenging. My game with Saros has been plagued by economic issues on the Japanese side, but since then the Japanese economy has been significantly revamped. In the new version Japan is 85% self sufficient for resources, with 15% needing to come from new expansion. Transportation of that additional 15% is made possible by large increases to the number of transport ships available, along with additional escorts for those ships. Additional aircraft reinforcements, aviation support and other quality of life improvements to the Japanese side have also been added. Anyone up for a game? paradigmblue fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Aug 7, 2016 |
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As my other PBEM I'm playing allies, I'd prefer japan if possible. I'm not good at WITP, if possible I'd like to play a Japan++ scenario if there is one heh...
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Baloogan posted:As my other PBEM I'm playing allies, I'd prefer japan if possible. I'm not good at WITP, if possible I'd like to play a Japan++ scenario if there is one heh... I think Focus Pacific with active Soviets off would qualify - it frees up a lot of AV and aircraft that you can use elsewhere. I'll PM you with my contact info. paradigmblue fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Aug 7, 2016 |
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baloogan@gmail.com
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paradigmblue posted:I think Focus Pacific with active Soviets off would qualify - it frees up a lot of AV and aircraft that you can use elsewhere. You can always declare on the Soviets after a month or two! Our game should speed up now, it's just the Japanese turns have so many moving pieces at once they take an age to play. Not having to plan/manage two major amphibous offensive operations and three land wars (in asia even) simultaneously should definitely smooth things out.
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in Command what's the difference between an anti-surface patrol(naval) and a sea control patrol?
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anti surface is going after ships primarily, will fire on subs and planes secondarily sea control goes after surface and subs, its kind a combination of all the anti-whatever types http://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/Patrol_Missions
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Is Thirty Years War a grog game? i just assume matrix=grog at this point
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Lapsed into Silent Hunter 4 again. Getting depth charged by Japanese as we speak. Good times.
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Top Hats Monthly posted:Is Thirty Years War a grog game? i just assume matrix=grog at this point As an ageod game, the poor performance and torturous interface qualify it as grog. If you want TYW battles, skip ageod and buy pike and shot campaigns
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Top Hats Monthly posted:Is Thirty Years War a grog game? i just assume matrix=grog at this point You don't really get more grog than someone licensing the AGEOD engine
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Playing a 30yw game that has 0 diplomacy options is dumb imo. 
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