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Sensei.Tokugawa -> RE: Getting Started (6/4/2014 10:34:20 AM)
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Alright, I am sticking in my 5 cents. Bought the game a few days ago, have been through four scenarios so far including all the tutorial ones and Splendid George 1985, read the manual and had some hours of sleep within that time - a great feeling. I have never thought I would get back to any real time wargame that has only a solitaire module and you're doomed to brush with the AI. I have been wargiming mainly in the PBEM mode, had some ship, submarine and aircraft simulators,but have never gootten into that really for a couple of reasons, I started to prefer first tactical, then opertaional and finally back to strategic level where I started off with Paradox games a few years ago when I did not even know I was a wargamer.I got myself excited with Jane's Fleet Command, but could not deploy SEALs or naval SpetsNaz so it went off the radar and now we have CMANO - plain great, I can even perform a full blown amphibious assault on top of all the great things. I miss the pictures that even Haropoon series had, it's a fast way to indentify a vessel type visually - something that matters in naval / air operations right, but if that's only an eye candy I an do without, I prefer a hard core simulation instead.
However, I am missing the helicopter range to see the radius of an ASW mission I am thinking of launching,I couldn't have traced that so far. It was pretty hard to see if I have any troops onboard, either marine infantry or SOF - sometimes they are shown in magazines among other weapons type, but not visible in OrBat for some reason, sometimes it takes to see the troop capaticty of a vessel if they are loaded. In Splendid George my FFG was constntly heading way off the AO with a hstile intent against an invisible target even with the targets of opportunity off.Guinean AF was launching their air interception missions with single aircraft of a lesser quality against multiple rebel airborne targets which got their jets wiped out in half.
Generally same same story as with Command Ops - first you think the game plays by itself, but they you find out there's lost to be done in order to augment the level of success. The enemy AI is not bed, but as a newbie I was doing pretty well with all the things I had to learn on the job.And yes, a genuine interest in the topics covered helps, I always read and learn a lot about the theatres and conflicts I wargame and the tools of the trade involved.
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