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Started by Syt, June 26, 2012, 12:12:54 PM

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Caliga

Quote from: garbon on September 12, 2014, 08:42:08 PM
It is fun but hardly fun enough to debase oneself with such a post. :o
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Syt

Reommended Curators on Steam. My top suggesestion:

NeoGAF. Their slogan: "Games we buy but never play."

Steam knows me too well. :(
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Grey Fox

Yeah, that's us Gaffers. Talk about video games, never actually play games.
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Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Scipio

Abyss Odyssey is a pretty fun roguelike with some wonky fight mechanics.
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Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

MadImmortalMan



HMS Hercules and the Greek army waiting for the Germans at the gates of fire. SR1936
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

grumbler

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 26, 2014, 02:54:10 PM
HMS Hercules and the Greek army waiting for the Germans at the gates of fire. SR1936

HMS Hercules was razor blades by 1939.  And she didn't look at all like that.  And she seems to have a Greek flag symbol, like the soldiers do.  Is this an alt-hist sort of game?
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Razgovory

Well the infantry are carrying RPG-7s so I'd guess a lot of time travel is going on in that scenario.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

MadImmortalMan

SR1936 is an adaptation of SR2020, which is slightly future. In this case, Hercules is a US Colorado class battleship that I bought the plans to make. :P

Anyway, the Germans didn't get down through Yugo for another couple years, so I had a bunch of escorts and a second BB there by then. Even so I barely survived it. And I was way the hell in debt (Greeks, duh).
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

grumbler

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 27, 2014, 02:15:41 AM
SR1936 is an adaptation of SR2020, which is slightly future. In this case, Hercules is a US Colorado class battleship that I bought the plans to make. :P

Anyway, the Germans didn't get down through Yugo for another couple years, so I had a bunch of escorts and a second BB there by then. Even so I barely survived it. And I was way the hell in debt (Greeks, duh).

So, a fantasy game (Greece building battleships, even obsolete ones?).  And Greek ships were RHS (Royal Hellenic Ship) not HMS.  And Colorado didn't look like the model, either!  :lol:

But, if it's fun, none of that matters.

Though I don't know what a SR1936 or SR2020 is.  Aren't they Italian biplanes?
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Richard Hakluyt

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 27, 2014, 02:15:41 AM
SR1936 is an adaptation of SR2020, which is slightly future. In this case, Hercules is a US Colorado class battleship that I bought the plans to make. :P

Anyway, the Germans didn't get down through Yugo for another couple years, so I had a bunch of escorts and a second BB there by then. Even so I barely survived it. And I was way the hell in debt (Greeks, duh).

I've been wondering whether to get this, it is clearly not that accurate a representation on WW2 but how is it in terms of fun and gameplay?

MadImmortalMan

It's not too bad, but it's very unpolished. The level of accuracy they shoot for in the units is extreme, so they really only get them close for the big players. I mean they actually have it down to how many men per tank x how many tanks per unit = manpower required to build and stuff like that. Obviously, the icons are not so precise. Even the Nagato looks like an Iowa. Some are pretty good though.

And because it's basically Supreme Ruler 2020 brought back in time with some events added and stuff it's a bit clear that it's not suited to WW2 in various ways. For some reason I do like the engine though. The economic model is fairly complex. Much better than HOI in that way. Much more potential. Lots of complexity.

"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Razgovory

Quote from: grumbler on October 26, 2014, 04:35:09 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 26, 2014, 02:54:10 PM
HMS Hercules and the Greek army waiting for the Germans at the gates of fire. SR1936

HMS Hercules was razor blades by 1939.  And she didn't look at all like that.  And she seems to have a Greek flag symbol, like the soldiers do.  Is this an alt-hist sort of game?

Or you know, the mod simply uses old art assets.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

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In SR2020, I enjoyed invading Indiana and Michigan with my Ohio.
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