Wargame: European Escalation - zomg T-55 rush lololol

[FunkMonk]

The sequel, AirLandBattle, looks great: http://youtu.be/pAs4FcDkXEs

Game is in beta right now. I'll probably buy this. I loved the first one and the multiplayer for ALB is supposed to have up to 20 players.


Also, the singleplayer campaign is supposed to be played out on a dynamic campaign map and can be played against a human opponent.   

[The Brain]

Got the original. Seems pretty neat.

[Alcibiades]

Grabbed it, it's interesting.  Still in beta though.

[FunkMonk]

Bought into the beta and in my very first game I bumped into Alci 

Of course we won both games we played and he absolutely cleaned up in the second one, scoring half our teams' points in all.

Meanwhile I didn't know what half my units could do so I just requisitioned tried-and-tested Challengers, fusiliers, and mortar carriers and swept up someone playing a Soviet deck. I think all he built were Spetsnaz and T-64s 


Also the aircraft are really fun and useful. This game is good.

[Warspite]

Having sat at work all day reading about 1980s British defence procurement, I couldn't resist snapping up Wargame: EE. Can't wait for AirLand Battle. And surely the next sequel set in our own decade. Wargame: SEQUESTER

[Warspite]

Oh my god, blowing up Warsaw Pact tanks with Chieftans is. So. Much. Fun.

[FunkMonk]

Supposedly an update to allow players to customize their decks is in the works soon. Squee.

edit: And it got patched in just hours after I posted. 

[FunkMonk]

I've spent more time creating decks than actually playing the game. 
There's nothing quite like seeing your customized Warsaw Pact armored column blaze across an open field for glorious communism and then watching in horror as 11,000 TOWs zoom in on your tanks.  still won that match though. My ZSUs shot down a lot of aircraft.

[Alcibiades]

Are the ZSUs good?  I usually go with SAMs, but...

[FunkMonk]

Are the ZSUs good?  I usually go with SAMs, but...

The radar-based AAA is pretty good. In a recent game I deployed about six gun AA vehicles around and behind my main attack and they chewed up the NATO aircraft attacking me. They even took an F-117 down to one health and stunned it long enough for it to get finished off by my ally's SAM.

The regular, non-radar AAA is not nearly as accurate as radar AAA but it's still okay. It's good to use them to stun enemy aircraft so your SAMs can finish them off. It's good to put AAA right near your tank spearhead because those always attract enemy aircraft.

I remember in WEE I hardly ever used AAA because they were only useful if helicopters were stupid enough to come too close to your tanks. This game actually gives me a reason to deploy them now.

Edit: 10v10 matches are something alright. 

[FunkMonk]

I've gotten 30+ hours out of this game and it's not even out of multiplayer beta yet. 

[Syt]

Sequel announced:

http://www.wargame-ee.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=112&t=34684

Red Dragon will add ChiCom, Japan, N-Korea, S-Korea and ANZAC.

[Razgovory]

Odd that Taiwan isn't there.

[FunkMonk]

This series of games is one of those gems that a lot of people haven't played.

[jimmy olsen]

So what's the scenario? Able Archer goes hot?