Curious to know if any other battles are being worked on.

[born2see]

con20or wrote:

If you want to see just how far flight sims have come - look at this

Wow! The graphics are amazing.

B

[rclark14]

Hi, looks really super- keep me psoted on best games- I enjoy the youtube scenerios- sometimes they are misleading- what do you think of Men of War- how good?

[SouthernSteel]

Best game I ever came across was men of war 2 - chains of command. You could signal your fleet etc - something i really enjoyed. Plus all games only ever have three sail settings - none, battle or full.

Feel free to ignore this post entirely, but if anyone know's of a game Im missing let me know!!

NTW added some to the naval battles. I haven't done a close comparison, so really they're bound to be quite similar, but still.

I'm still going to wait patiently for one of the big studios to put out a WWI game, and until then I shall wait for the RO2 mod.

Edit: Ah! And for the love of God, don't ever cave and buy those mystery game packs off eBay. Even for $1, you will likely be disappointed. Prison Tycoon? Sign me up!

[Jack ONeill]

All,

Sturmovik is the only other game I have running right now. An excellent counter to SOWGB. It has just been patched up to 4.10.1 with new aircraft and some serious fine-tuning of the flight charactoristics. Cliffs of Dover is still in the teething stages. Still a lot of bugs. When it runs it runs well but when it doesn't - oh well. (Bf-109 is STILL my favorite to fly. I ALMOST never get shot down in it - LOL!).

Jack

[Michael Slaunwhite]

After reading the Guns of August, I think someone should come up with a mod or even game for perhaps the most ignored war of all - as far as computer gaming goes: WWI. Especially in the first month, the combat was fluid and hadn't yet settled into trench warfare so it might not be as boring as everyone thinks.

The reason why WWI games are few, and far between is because this particular war is Trench Warfare. There isn't much that can be done if you are wishing to be historically accurate.

Later.

[Willard]

The Seven Days:

Oak Grove
Mechanicsville
Gaines Mill
G&G Farm
Savage's Station
Glendale and White Oak Swamp
Malvern Hill

Almost 250,000 troops engaged on 7 maps.
ANV and AOP are at the most comparable levels during the war at a 4:5 force ratio.
Add in a strategic campaign layer with carryover.
You probably could later add an expansion pack throwing in Fair Oaks and some Williamsburg/Yorktown scenario maps incorporating a full dynamic Peninsula Campaign variant.

[Rello]

ETW and NTW must be seasoned to taste, I think (ie modded). I was playing ETW when it first came out and some of the problems with the combat were so severe that even I took to going into the files and modifying values. Now that the mods for it are more complete, I find it a much better game. I actually never played NTW stock, Kester got me into the Napoleonic Total War Mod (cool to see some of TheLordz modders showing up here) straight away, so I've only really dealt with that.

Definitely. I've never ever played NTW vanilla in MP, that says a lot. Too arcadish and often with casual and immature players. Modded is totally another experience: historical battles at battalion or regimental level are an amazing sightseeing and with some house rules (like column before square) and realistic stats a decent level of historical realism can be achieved but..but it uses to crash on long battles. This alone is the worst game killer, you cannot really play a 2 hours battle just to get a desync/crash at the end before the outcome has been decided. I've been desperately asking for a save routine but CA really doesn't care about custumer and MP players. That's why we're starting to MP with SOW, I will trade off any graphic for a higher reliability (not to mention that SOW is much more realistic regarding structure of command and formations).

[SouthernSteel]

I've been desperately asking for a save routine but CA really doesn't care about custumer and MP players. That's why we're starting to MP with SOW, I will trade off any graphic for a higher reliability (not to mention that SOW is much more realistic regarding structure of command and formations).

Yeah, the developers dropping ETW like it didn't exist was a real kick in the shin for me as a gamer. What kind of team drops supporting a game only months after they release it (and then refuses to release modding tools, etc)? I got NTW because it was relatively cheap, but I'm not surprised they've pretty much already abandoned it too. Too focused on releasing new games for $ instead of supporting what they've got out now. Good thing the TW series attracts lots of good, dedicated modders, or the games would decline in popularity big time.

[rclark14]

How good is the Blue and Gray mod for ETW- is it worth loading?

[Rello]

How good is the Blue and Gray mod for ETW- is it worth loading?

I've been helping Primergy (one of the modder) for map making, but I think it mainly deals with SP.
I'd be glad to develop some CW scenarios but my main interest is napoleonic and furthermore I don't want to put any competitor against Norb :laugh: