The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[mongers]

I am playing Populous 2, off of Gog.com, and enjoying it.

[Drakken]

In honor of Armistice Day I bought Strategic Command WW1 + Expansion today.

AARs may or may not follow.

Me interested and wanna know more.

[Camerus]

In honor of Armistice Day I bought Strategic Command WW1 + Expansion today.

AARs may or may not follow.

Me interested and wanna know more.

Yeah, I've been considering buying it for months.  I love the Strat Command WW2 series.  Air power.   

[Tamas]

Tactical turn-based WW1 combat, on the Squad Battles engine!

http://www.johntillersoftware.com/SquadBattles/FirstWorldWar.html

[Tamas]

Altough it only has the Western Front and Gallipoli 

[Syt]

In honor of Armistice Day I bought Strategic Command WW1 + Expansion today.

AARs may or may not follow.

Me interested and wanna know more.

I have played so far: 1 turn. It seems to hit the middle ground between the simplistic Guns of August and the convoluted WW1 Gold.

[Tamas]

Syt I think the purchase was: a mistake.

Commander: The Great War is just out, and while even more abstracted in some ways than SC:WW1, it is quite neat, and the AI is ruthless. Plus turns don't take an eternity.
I had some good fun with SC but I think this Commander game will be my lightweight WW1 game.



Anyways, quite interesting designer doc on the WW1 tactical game. I am SOOO purchasing it when I get home:
http://www.johntillersoftware.com/SquadBattles/FirstWorldWar/notes.pdf

[Ed Anger]

Ugh, John Tiller.

[Tamas]

Ugh, John Tiller.

The Squad Battles games are quite nice.

[Tamas]

Oh and ED, since WW1 Gold was too much for your elderly mind, you really ought to check out Commander: The Great War. Big abstraction (a "battleship" is actually meant to be a whole fleet for example), but easy to manage, and even easier to screw up. Hard decisions and a good AI.
Great game, too bad it's not big on alternative scenarios.

[Ed Anger]

Ugh, John Tiller.

The Squad Battles games are quite nice.

They may be, but the graphics gave me eye cancer.

[garbon]

Hey you guys hear anything about AGEOD's WW1 game? I heard it was really fun.

[Tamas]

Hey you guys hear anything about AGEOD's WW1 game? I heard it was really fun.

oh ha-ha! Do not blame me for the inability of the others here. 

They pretend to be hard core strategy gamers, but then fail at grasping anything more realistic than HoI

[Syt]

Sorry, I wanted to like WW1, but the interface was absolutely horrific, and trhe battles kept crashing for me.

[Tamas]

Sorry, I wanted to like WW1, but the interface was absolutely horrific, and trhe battles kept crashing for me.

It's just a shtick Ed is playing on me.

WW1 (Gold) is much better now, but I understand it was hard to get into. I had an easy time because I already knew (and PBEMed) the boardgame which got converted with it. It's one of those games you need the full manual for even with an interface which works better.