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Whytfyjrd -> RE: When? (7/7/2007 12:43:19 AM)
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I most heartily second Son_of_Montfort's suggestion to try People's Tactics (available here). I played this addictively for about 3 months in 2005-2006, and had several __great__ PBEM games with some buddies. The game is a snap to learn, due to well-written documentation and a very, very good User Interface.
At first glance, the game may seem "simple." But gameplay --- the various ways you can construct units, management of logistics (easy to adjust, but important to success) the FoW, the technologies you pursue --- is very rich and tense. And then there's your conduct of the battle: you are the Supreme Commander, but your knowledge of the enemy is limited, and so you bite your knuckles as you decide whether to defend, retreat, attack, bluff, etc. This game brings out the Rommel in you!
From what I've read here and in the PT forums, there'll be some additions and improvements to the game engine, without changing its ease of play. You'll get a pretty good idea of how well AT will play, except that it sounds like AT will have more/better features, and more/better graphics, and just more gameplay "goodness."
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ORIGINAL: Son_of_Montfort
--- snippage --- Reminds me of Command HQ or Empire, back in the day.
Ahhh, that brings back great memories. I played Command HQ for about 3 years in the early nineties with a group of local friends: via local phone calls and 2400 baud modems (correct terminology?). LOL, in fact I recall I bought my first computer upgrade because of this game: you had to have a 286 to run it! Goodbye, 1986 IBM PC with the Hercules graphics card (so I could play Empire), hello VGA graphics (or was it SVGA?) with ... 128KB? ... RAM. In any case, that game was "simple" but a ton of fun to play. The first RTS game and IMO still the most fun I had gaming. In any case, I think Advanced Tactics will be that sort of game: playable for years and lots of fun.
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