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Lionfish -> What Type of Game? Questions & Solutions (11/29/2007 6:13:55 PM)
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Tactical, Strategic, Operational….????
I will preface that I am a long time, yet novice gamer. I have played the original Steel Panthers, Panzer General, West Front, etc. However, I am not a Gronard or super knowledgeable as far as games.
Life changes, you get married, have children and don’t have (or create) the time to play.
However, I am slowly breaking out those old games – that will not run anymore on my modern Vista machine.
So of course I come to Matrix games for some insight, help, and possible purchase. Here is the rub, WHAT TO GET???? I can’t learn and play them all.
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What's the difference?
Now the confusion starts (for me anyway). It seemed in the old days (not too long ago, but seems a life time in game technology) – that it was fairly easy to tell the difference in scale and type of war-game – but not there are so many choices and hybrids.
So I have some questions and finally a suggestion (based on the question)
There are WEGO, IGO-YOUGO, RTS, RTS-PAUSE on top of that there are radically different scales. Too such extent that I can’t tell the difference when they stay “Tactical”, “Strategy”, etc.
From my limited experience it seemed fairly easy to determine the difference.
TACTICAL?
Steel Panthers was individual tanks, line of sight (LOS), and range fire affects, etc. It would call that tactical.
Campaign series (WF, EF, etc) was similar but the hexes were bigger and the counters represented more than 1 tank. However it was still affected by LOS, Range of fire, etc.
So there is a scale difference, but the tactical game mechanics are similar.
STRATEGIC ?
Then you jump up to bigger scales and ICONS that represent larger groups, LOS and Range fire is no longer part of the game mechanics. Scales are sometimes exceed 100km. These are more operational games. I always called them strategy games - for lack of a better word.
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Looking for a game!
So I am looking for a Steel Panthers / Campaign series type game where LOS and similar mechanics come into play. I have old versions of both and would rather try out something new, however I can’t seem to find anything out there. Looking for suggestions!
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Suggestion for Matrix Games
They should create a Game Matrix!!!
Games listed vertically, and information listed horizontally.
Example:
Game________Genere_____TURN TYPE______Map Scale______Unit Size______TAC/STRAT
Steel Panther…….....WWII…………..IGOUGO………………1KM…………………....Single…………………..TAC
That would be very helpful for people….
Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions?
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