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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 7/30/2006 7:07:02 AM   
sapper_astro

 

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Status: offline 		Carriers at war: The ultimate Strategic sea wargame. Nothing comes close in my experience.

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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 7/30/2006 1:23:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		I loved CAW too, sure wish I new a way to get those 5 1/4 disks unstuck from DVD player

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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 7/30/2006 8:18:20 PM   
Arnir


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Status: offline 		I think that there is a strong need for a tactical carrier simulation like CaW or Carrier Strike.  I want to be in charge of the task force and select the ordinance and the search vectors, etc.  I miss that style.

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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 7/31/2006 4:59:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		"LOVED Carriers at War. Played it on my Commodore 64 actually. But with Grigsby's WIP and Uncommon Valor do we need it?"

Yes, we need CAW.  WIP is a much larger scale.  I think it has 12 hour turns, where as CAW can be run drop down to 5 minute turns.  I loved arming individual squadrons, watching their progress as they armed, fueled, and took off.

You could coordinate strikes from different carries to arrive over target at the right time, and as someone here already pointed out, choose search vectors.  The player in CAW is given a lot more control over a carrier battle than they get in WIP or UV.



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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 8/11/2006 10:21:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		I STILL play CAW on my Macintosh. Believe it or not, it runs without a hitch under System OSX, in "Classic" mode. For that matter, so does Battlefront, at least scenarios done in 256-colours. Warlords II runs as well!

I just think it's amazing that SSG's games are so stable and continue to run after so many years... I really wish they were still being produced for Mac. I bought KP, but can't get it to run on VirtualPC.



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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 8/15/2006 1:49:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		CAW again! I played it so much in the past and have such fond memories. As far as I'm concerned producing CAW again is a no brainer. It not only played well- its re-playability allowed for giving it another go after a loss in a scenario to see if you could do better next time.

I'd buy it in a heartbeat...

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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 9/11/2006 4:23:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		There's a bunch of games from teh 80's that had great "presence" - the gameplay subject matter and systems were all spot on and I'd love to see them updated!

CAW is definitely one, Europe Ablaze another.

Dar I mention other companies?? ;)

SSI did "Fighter Command" and "USAAF" - both strategic/operational simulations - people ahve gone off those now as they're too "simple" - graphics and glitz is favoured over content (although there's still good content coming out too....)

Some up-to-date versions of those classics would still be classic IMO!

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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 9/15/2006 1:15:30 PM   
KarlXII


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Status: offline 		Personally I would like to see an improved version of Eastern Front and Western Front from SSI by Gary Grigsby. Those games were suberb. Not only did they include every single vehicle, squad they had readiness, supply, leaders abilities and best of all. Factories where you could choose to produce different kinds of equipment. I lack that kind of complete overview in todays strategy games that either focuses only on tactical battles och operational battles without the production/resource management.....and still be in quite a low level. Gary Grigsbys World at War did not impress me because of its grand scale and lack of detailed management of troops and frontlines. Though it did include all other aspects.

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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 9/24/2006 10:53:40 AM   
ravinhood


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Status: offline 		Yeah bring back CAW and EA (Europe Ablaze). I played the chit out of both of those games. Much more than I did the battlefront series. I just couldn't get into that probe, attack, defend stuff, I felt I didn't have enough control over what was going on. Carrier FORCE (before carrier strike) I enjoyed as well. Played the Midway scenario so many times I could do it with my eyes closed and this was back in the day of the commodore 64 and keyboard only interface. ;)

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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 9/28/2006 6:27:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		CAW is (not was) a wonderful game. Even with the current great crop of carrier focused games like WITP & UV, the player community is still in need of a solid tactical level carrier game. A remake of CAW or at the very least using the essential design elements of CAW in a new game would fill this void nicely.

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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 10/1/2006 2:18:51 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: ChuckBerger

I STILL play CAW on my Macintosh. Believe it or not, it runs without a hitch under System OSX, in "Classic" mode. For that matter, so does Battlefront, at least scenarios done in 256-colours. Warlords II runs as well!

I just think it's amazing that SSG's games are so stable and continue to run after so many years... I really wish they were still being produced for Mac. I bought KP, but can't get it to run on VirtualPC.





I've actually gotten KP to run on my Mac, but it's because it's an Intel Mac and I'm using Boot Camp to run Windows XP. Runs like a charm!



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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 10/2/2006 9:04:08 AM   
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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 10/2/2006 2:56:18 PM   
jeffthewookiee


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ORIGINAL: Joe 98

Where did you get a copy of Windows XP???



It's not like they are difficult to find... you don't need a special 'Mac' copy, you just need a normal installation CD with XP SP2 or later on it.

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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 10/3/2006 3:11:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		My point is that you had to buy it. This makes Macs very expensive.



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RE: Bring back Carriers at War and Europe Ablaze - 10/3/2006 3:17:53 PM   
jeffthewookiee


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ORIGINAL: Joe 98

My point is that you had to buy it. This makes Macs very expensive.




You can get an Intel Mac mini for 600 dollars. A copy of Windows XP OEM might cost around 140 dollars. That's not a lot of money for a computer. Especially when you consider all the software that comes standard with the Mac that you'd have to spend money to get on Windows... for example a DVD player, DVD creator, Photo editing software, pro audio software, music software... And you never have to worry about the stupid 'Security Center' pestering you to death or asking you to install auto-updates every day.

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