Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

It's a bit weird, but the longest Panzer Corps campaign is also the shortest.

If you start up the 1939 campaign, win decisive victories everywhere, go to Moscow instead of Kiev and beath the Brits and the Sovs off the map before rolling across the Golden Gate Bridge in october 1945, you'll go through the longest time chronologically, but play less than half the included scenarios.

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Really, I wish they would just follow the course of the war. No invasion of America, no invasion of Britain.

King-Tigers don't let Tiger-I's get over-run.

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ORIGINAL: Mannock

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

It's a bit weird, but the longest Panzer Corps campaign is also the shortest.

If you start up the 1939 campaign, win decisive victories everywhere, go to Moscow instead of Kiev and beath the Brits and the Sovs off the map before rolling across the Golden Gate Bridge in october 1945, you'll go through the longest time chronologically, but play less than half the included scenarios.

One of the reason it also feels short is that the eastern front has fewer scenarios than the original Panzer General had. That is why I am recreating scenarios such as Kharkov, Sevastopol, Caucasus and Crete, to make the game a bit longer.

An idea that also would be interesting is to give the player the option to chose if he wants to command AGN, AGC or AGS during Barbarossa. As it is now, you are forced to go with AGC. Adding AGN and AGS would increase interest in the grand campaign I think.

AGN could for example culminate in trying to storm Leningrad (if you achieve decisive victories prior to that) and AGS could end up with an attack towards Rostov during the Barbarossa campaign.

Anyone interested in collaborating on all this with me may pm me. :)

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ORIGINAL: Obsolete

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Really, I wish they would just follow the course of the war. No invasion of America, no invasion of Britain.

From my observation of the PG forums over the last 10 years, it seems you are going to find yourself in the minority opinion.

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: Obsolete

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Really, I wish they would just follow the course of the war. No invasion of America, no invasion of Britain.

From my observation of the PG forums over the last 10 years, it seems you are going to find yourself in the minority opinion.

If we follow the course of the war in the game, then the player will lose. That's not much fun.

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ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil

I'm sure we could create a historical campaign which just kept to history withotu too much trouble. There would be no reward for decuisive victories though - just a warm glow inside!

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ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil

I'm sure we could create a historical campaign which just kept to history withotu too much trouble. There would be no reward for decuisive victories though - just a warm glow inside!

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ORIGINAL: rich12545

First I really like this game. A lot.

But it didn't come with enough scenarios. Same with Battlefront Academy. Great game BUT. That philosophy was to provide a basic few and depend on modders for the bulk of them. However, that didn't happen. The folks at Slitherine kept saying it's gonna happen it's gonna happen it's gonna happen but it never did. It's almost a year for BA and there have been relatively few scenarios.

It seems with PC the philosophy is the same. I just hope it doesn't meet the same fate as BA.

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I only saw one movie in my whole life were space was actually displayed at what it is, a vacuum. Except for Space Odyssey 2001 every writer and every director failed to deal with the fact that sound requires matter and that's exactly what space is not about. :)
I vivid remember the scene where the one astronaut outside the ship had to blow the explosive bolts to open the airlock hatch. The explosion was shown physically correct without sound effects and actually the lack of sound made the scene even more dramatic. Stanley Kubrick is clearly a grand master in his area, but maybe there is a grand master game designer out there too?

King-Tigers don't let Tiger-I's get over-run.

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ORIGINAL: Obsolete

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I only saw one movie in my whole life were space was actually displayed at what it is, a vacuum. Except for Space Odyssey 2001 every writer and every director failed to deal with the fact that sound requires matter and that's exactly what space is not about. :)
I vivid remember the scene where the one astronaut outside the ship had to blow the explosive bolts to open the airlock hatch. The explosion was shown physically correct without sound effects and actually the lack of sound made the scene even more dramatic. Stanley Kubrick is clearly a grand master in his area, but maybe there is a grand master game designer out there too?

Well if we are going to use a movie to start to substantiate claims, etc. I think I should remind you that this scene in particular was also critiqued as been quite poor and hence, sci/fi because any astronaut who de-compresses in space would have been automatically plastered all over the place from his own body-pressure in the vaccume within the first fraction of a second... and that's ignoring every other problem in the vaccume of space as well...

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A frequently asked question is: how realistic is the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where astronaut Bowman makes a space-walk without a helmet? How long could a human survive if exposed to vacuum? Would you explode? Would you survive? How long would you remain conscious?

The quick answers to these questions are: Clarke got it about right in 2001. You would survive about a ninety seconds, you wouldn't explode, you would remain conscious for about ten seconds.