Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: ekcut

I'm asking the matrix community if there is a game that is right for me.

I prefer playing the games as a small fish in a big pond.
Whether infantry Squad, tank platoon, or Aircraft Squadran.

When I play Eagle Day, I controlled just one Squadran.
I enjoyed following the "careers" of the pilots in my squad while the war goes on around us.
There just wasn't much "man management" do be done. Other than experience there was no difference in pilots.
It was fun seeing pilots become aces, or get flamed but there just wasn't much immersion at that level.

Is there a game, whether airwar, ground, or sea that has "individuals" with unique skill sets that can grow or burnout that you can manage through the war?
I cared more for my pilots kill totals and deaths, then I did for the wars outcome (not very patriotic eh?)

With so many strategy sims, it's tough to identify if any have this "game within a game" capability.

Thanks

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ORIGINAL: 2ndACR

Scourge of War is the one you want. Once you start playing multi player, you can control just a Brigade of troops in a battle of Gettysburg with either a AI commander above you or even another human commander. The larger battles, you are a small fish in a much larger ocean. Playing full historical with camera locked to what you can see, and you will know exactly how it feels to get lost in some deep woods at Chance and stumble upon the battle long after you should have arrived for support and get plastered by the enemy, or how it feels to think you side is winning the battle only to find out when the game ends that you were basically the last on your side to survive the battle as the enemy main thrust went left instead of right where you were.

Co-op battles are a blast against the AI even with a couple of friends, we do them all the time, some are brigade each with 1 either div commander of even the AI as commander. Depends on how much time we have and such. Basically nothing can match the total immersion the game offers. Whether camera locked or with it not locked so you can fly around and watch the battle unfold over 5 miles of ground.

P.S. skills do not grow beyond your skill levels, but I feel you would love the game as you can become very attached to your little sprite guys, and it can be very sad looking over the battlefield and thinking "dang, I won but look at the cost" from all the little dead sprites.

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ORIGINAL: nim8or

Anyone remember the terrific AAR for WITP: AE where the AAR narrated the story of a single destroyer through the war? It was very popular while it ran. I think this kind of idea applies to more games than you might initially think if you have a creative mind.

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ORIGINAL: ekcut

Thanks for the suggestions!

Falcon 3.0 was the first game I played this way.
It was the first game I played in which your AI buddies were more then just cannon fodder.

You could set up a mission and then lawn dart on takeoff and your wingmen would continue the mission, maybe even successfully, they would bomb targets, shoot down planes etc etc.
If I recall correctly they had 3 ratings. Air combat, ground attack, and flying skill. This ratings would improve as they survived missions. They also got fatigued so you had to man manage them and sometimes take lesser pilots to give your studs a rest.
The thing I thought was most clever, you could send them to wargames, and play with them in practice mode to improve their skill. If they got shot down, no biggie, as you don't really shot at each other in wargames, but if they pranged on landing or had a midair collision then they died in your campaign too.
I. LOVED. THAT. GAME!

Anyways, Nelmsm said it best. There is nothing like playing the game with the goal of keeping your buddies alive!

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ORIGINAL: flanyboy

Does Falcon 4.0 have something like that? I always ignored the AI pilots in Falcon 4.0.

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ORIGINAL: ekcut

Thanks for the suggestions!

Falcon 3.0 was the first game I played this way.
It was the first game I played in which your AI buddies were more then just cannon fodder.

You could set up a mission and then lawn dart on takeoff and your wingmen would continue the mission, maybe even successfully, they would bomb targets, shoot down planes etc etc.
If I recall correctly they had 3 ratings. Air combat, ground attack, and flying skill. This ratings would improve as they survived missions. They also got fatigued so you had to man manage them and sometimes take lesser pilots to give your studs a rest.
The thing I thought was most clever, you could send them to wargames, and play with them in practice mode to improve their skill. If they got shot down, no biggie, as you don't really shot at each other in wargames, but if they pranged on landing or had a midair collision then they died in your campaign too.
I. LOVED. THAT. GAME!

Anyways, Nelmsm said it best. There is nothing like playing the game with the goal of keeping your buddies alive!