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Alexander Seil -> RE: The best Wargame simulation you ever played. (12/14/2005 8:04:30 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Widell
1) Harpoon, I, II and III, but itīs II that takes it to the top
2) Tanks and the TOAW series, the diversity and flexibility to create new stuff overrules some of the flaws
3) Steel Panthers, countless hours spent clicking through endless formation set ups
4) WitP, no need to justify it being on the list here.....
5) Highway to the Reich, and with COTA on the way, itīll climb my list. I might be biased since Iīm beta testing COTA [;)]
6) Hearts of Iron. Havenīt tested II yet, but Iīm still playing the CORE mod for HoI I
7) Combat Mission series. For reasons already mentioned above
There are many more worth to mention. All games that probably severly threatened my social capabilities and physical fitness. The first "strategy" game I cam across was for the VIC 20 and called World at War or something like that (No - I donīt think Gary G was involved!) and the idea was to build missile bases on very basic maps. Two players head on using one keyboard. There was a gauge showing the "tension" at the top of the screen, and once the tension got high enough all the missile bases would start firing nukes at eachother and the very pixelated cities on the map
I could probably come up with a few more, but that list still represents a fair amount of lost sleep over the last (scary thought - Am I getting old or what?) 15 years.....
/Widell
HoI2 is light years ahead of its predecessor. I personally thought that the original HoI was rather poorly executed ('world market', in particular, made war over resources as Japan meaningless). Besides drastic changes to combat model and a reworked naval/air model (it's very enjoyable), there are bilateral trade agreements in hoI2 that make seizure of the SRA a viable proposition for Japan from an in-game, rather than 'historical', standpoint. Besides, as a WitP player, you will no doubt enjoy the sight of China. No less than 4 warlord states, Nationalists, Commies, Sinkiang, Manchukuo and Mengkukuo and such. China is unrealistically monolithic in WitP ;)
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