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Vulcan
Mar 3, 2021 10:11:52 GMT
Post by teophrastusbombastus on Mar 3, 2021 10:11:52 GMT
That's the later DOS PC version of the first computer TBS I ever came across back in the Spectrum days. It followed "Desert Rats" and preceded "Operation Market Garden", the two other titles in the series, that I know of. In chronological terms it followed (nearly) seamlessly the previous title being set on the Allied assault on Tunisia, in 1942-43. Levels of organization depicted ranged from Battalion, through Regiment and Division, to Army. Units were stack-able. There were HQ units that boosted the supply status of the other nearby units. Strength was given in direct figures, that is: (independent) infantry Battalions were 900 strong, infantry Regiments 3000 and infantry Divisions were comprised of 3 Regiments plus HQ, also 3000 strong. Tank Regiments' strength was expressed in much lower figures, from a very rusty memory, maybe 90 for the Germans and 120 for US. Of the Italian tank numbers I have no recollection and the British had Tank Brigades but I also haven't any recollection of the exact number. There were supplementary Army HQ units, again, 3000 strong. Units could be ordered to adopt "transportation order" and thus move much faster, exclusively on roads, but if they bumped on dismounted enemies the losses were catastrophic. The game had a sort of "off map" air attack function, unlike the previous "Desert Rats". I've mentioned Strength and Supply; there was another parameter considered for combat, Morale. I think Terrain too. I don't remember about Weather.
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Vulcan
Mar 5, 2021 15:59:51 GMT
Post by jeff on Mar 5, 2021 15:59:51 GMT
I played the old Command Decision game a lot. Seems like I liked it pretty well. Axis and Allies PC version. I think I even had a copy of Avalon Hill's 'Third Reich' PC version. But, as I recall I did not like it as much as the board version. OH ! Empires in Arms Napoleonic game. The board game version was awesome, but the PC version was terrible. I think I missed the Political Phase part of the game. Wheeling, and Dealing with real players. The computer makes for a terrible person to make deals with. I used more than a few concepts from EiA for the political part of PGX.
John Tiller's Battleground:series were about my favorite PC games. Battleground:Waterloo, and Bulge. There was also one on the Quatre Bra, Prussian battle part of the Waterloo campaign. The Graphics, and gameplay were pretty great. The AI...oh well. That's the hard part ain't it ?
Curious...how did you guys start wargaming ? My first Wargame was in like 1969, or 1970. My Brother introduced me to a friend in High School who played Avalon Hill games. I went over one night, and we played Battleline's (?) 'Battle of Britain'. I was hooked at first playing. He had Tactics II, Waterloo, D-Day, and Stalingrad, then I started buying them up. I think they usually came out with about one new game a year. I got PanzerBlitz for Christmas probably in 1972. I thought that was the Greatest game in the world. With a little work, it still is. Squad Leader series, then SPI hit the world with it's new Game about every week.
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Vulcan
Mar 6, 2021 11:54:18 GMT
Post by teophrastusbombastus on Mar 6, 2021 11:54:18 GMT
A big negative on table top wargames here. Not in the sense of me having anything against them. Maybe I should say a big void.
At the time of my teens that was something we saw on foreign specialized magazines. In my case the Military Modelling magazines a neighbour got from the one shop in the city that had it. Not long before that same neighbour went away to make a living elsewhere he took one or two examples from a trip abroad. I saw it but never played it and don't remember what it was exactly. To me it was something with little cardboard squares with drawings and numbers on over a cardboard map.
He went to France frequently and occasionally to England or the Netherlands. The one who brought Diplomacy, Dungeon's and Dragons rule books, many kits including the first metal kits I saw live and more.
Before all that he was already the focal point of a group of teen neighbours who wargamed using plastic kits. Of which I still have a collection tucked away in a few boxes. There was a season we went to his grandmother's basement to play Allies across a 2 meter scenario against a local fellow who played German side. So, yes, I've been in basements for wargaming, not necessarily alone.
He was - still is wherever he is living - a visual artist, gifted for drawing and sculpture. We could see it in his dioramas and kits and I actually have a few of his drawings he left behind at his parents'.
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