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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/6/2016 7:09:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		A billionaire like Bill Gates turns out to be a mad keen wargamer. Hires a large team of top programers to build a WWII simulation at Battalion scale and then hires hundreds of gamers (including me)on a decent annual salary to play out WWII in real time.
Well you did say fantasy :)
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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/6/2016 8:01:20 PM   
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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/6/2016 9:49:35 PM   
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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/6/2016 9:59:26 PM   
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ORIGINAL: timmyab

A billionaire like Bill Gates turns out to be a mad keen wargamer. Hires a large team of top programers to build a WWII simulation at Battalion scale and then hires hundreds of gamers (including me)on a decent annual salary to play out WWII in real time.
Well you did say fantasy :)


I don't like realtime but heck I would jump on board if I was hired by Gates to play a game.

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/7/2016 3:02:38 AM   
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If I win the Powerball lottery, I'll hire all my wargaming buddies to play every day...maybe start a development company, maybe buy Matrix and turn this ship in the right direction.

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/7/2016 9:59:32 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Zap
I don't like realtime but heck I would jump on board if I was hired by Gates to play a game.

Well you'll have to ask Bill Gates about that, he's calling the shots, not me. Knowing my luck he wouldn't even hire me in my fantasy :)

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/7/2016 10:53:03 AM   
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I often do thought experiments on how society would be like in the future, children included. I would imagine between our present culture and knowledge base and a society say 200 to 300 years in the future, we probably would be like ancient Spaniards and modern culture. They (the Spaniards) would be totally lost in today's culture.
I do that too. In trying to make a coherent system to approach a story line. One of the things that are mundane but is very important. How do you transfer money? What do you use for money? Do all these space colonies use the same currency? We have electronic money these days which moves at the speed of light. That is too slow for interstellar travel. It is perfect weather for check kiting.
Is every ship going to have its own bank vault with gold and silver? There might be gold asteroids out there that would upset the balance. Federation Reserve notes might not be worth anything 300 LY from earth. Even on another Federation planet.


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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/8/2016 5:59:14 PM   
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You start off with a ship building/design simulator like in Rule the Waves. You build a fleet. Then you fight with it using the War in the Pacific AE game engine. There would also of course be an aircraft design simulator and you would be able to design your own LCUs to fight the ground campaign.

So what you want is unit editor for WitP:AE?


More than that. Basically it would be like the game Rule the Waves where you have a relatively historically realistic budget and using that budget and a fairly realistic ship design program along the lines of Springsharp, you design and build ships to populate your hypothetical navy and then fight against your opponent with the military units you've designed and created on your budget.

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/10/2016 12:14:44 PM   
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Yeah, I can get on that.

I personally would like to see a HOI / Vicky type game (more indepth combat / army building than CK2 or EU4) but taking place in the near future...but not space based.

Maybe a grand strategy based on the time period / tech period of Battlefield 2142, or Titanfall?

Paratroopers...pshfaw, orbital drops. Mechs. Aircarriers.

Actually also would be cool in my mind would be a wargame based on Edge of Tomorrow...say what you will about Tom Cruise but I thought the tech developed in that movie was done very well and based on plausible future techs.

Sorry if I got to rambling.

Another dream for me would be a way to seamlessly tie the various time periods of the Paradox games into almost a CIV game. IE you would start in CK2 building up you family / tribe / clan...transition into a nation state for EU4 (which they do now too) then things slow down a little to a Vicky type Industrial revolution era of discovery finally to HOI where it's a slow burn to world war.

Majorly ambitious and it would still have to be broken up into segments...but it is a dream...

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/10/2016 4:20:16 PM   
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2. A quality War In The Mediterranean 1940-43 game. Focusing on individual ships (the player is in charge of convoys to/from Malta, North Africa, Greece etc) and regiment/brigade sized army units.


+1. It's surprising nobody has properly modeled the interaction between land, sea, and air in this theater. (Yes, there's a WitP scenario, but it has no AI.)


OooooH!!! That 's my fantasy too!!!

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/10/2016 7:20:22 PM   
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Road to Moscow.


+1 here.

For tactical, a game like Combat Mission but with modern graphics and a "Steel Panther-like" editor...





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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/18/2016 6:33:13 PM   
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Even Star Trek Birth of Federation is very popular too, remake would be great.


You could try "Birth of the Empires". It's good, but let down a bit by limitations of Android UI.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blotunga.bote.android

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/23/2016 6:44:20 PM   
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A world War board game that has a top commander, and his subordinates fight the battles for him.

Having Multiple players on one team (side). Commander and Chief lays out the plan and regulates the economy, military forces, Battle lines etc. While His subordinates (army officers) engage the enemy on the field...going one step further, entering into Squad level fighting.
Of course the Commander can take position on the battlefield too.
Simulation, Strategic, Tactical all in one.



This.

And it uses the Steel Panthers: World At War engine for the tactical portion.

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 1/25/2016 9:19:20 PM   
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The John Tiller ACW campaign games all combined into a single, huge, regimental level game with the appropriate mechanics for unit production and reinforcement and a fairly complex supply system. Leadership rules to allow promotion/demotion of all division level and higher commanders. Ability to reorganize armies, corps, and divisions.

Naval rules for blockade, bombardment, and invasions.

My favorite games taken to the ultimate extreme!


Yeah I would love to see the Tiller games go full on absurd too. The 1300+ turn Campaign Overland scenario is about as close as we will ever see to what your thinking. While doing the entire war at that scale would be extreme I would settle for at least some more operational or theater based games at that scale. Give me a huge map of the Mid Atlantic between March and November of 1862 and or 1863 would be perfect.

I would love to see the Panzer Campaign games go the the extreme as well. Combine War in the West with the Panzer Campaign scale.

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 2/3/2016 9:50:02 AM   
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First,... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/webeharebrained/battletech?ref=card

and then this as stated from Eric Rutins - "Steel Tigers is what you have all been waiting for...." I know that I am!

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 2/3/2016 10:09:45 AM   
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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 3/23/2016 10:46:48 PM   
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Or any space game that uses Orion Pirates ( Real-time tactics, Space flight simulator game), for space battles.

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 3/23/2016 11:16:39 PM   
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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 3/24/2016 6:38:30 AM   
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY9IGWgkITc

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 3/24/2016 9:59:35 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Mobeer

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ORIGINAL: RisingSun

Even Star Trek Birth of Federation is very popular too, remake would be great.


You could try "Birth of the Empires". It's good, but let down a bit by limitations of Android UI.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blotunga.bote.android


Cool, never noticed this one was even out. Thanks for the infos.

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 3/24/2016 12:20:02 PM   
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First release, then modules of all the other nations no more complicated than the first release. Oodles of scenarios, using the not over blown new rules. Oodles of maps, and just new terrain choices and no over blown new rules.

Nah that's not my real fantasy. My real fantasy is I finally meet a real man on a date (not the rejects I seem to find) and he's a total war gamer and when he finds out I'm also a total war gamer (when not making models) in addition to all the things you want in a wife he runs off to find an engagement ring before someone else steals me. And I live happily ever after (because I can make him take out the garbage or refuse to finish my turn until he does :) ).

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 3/24/2016 2:12:59 PM   
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My real fantasy is I finally meet a real man on a date (not the rejects I seem to find)...


You must be awfully hard to please...


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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 3/24/2016 2:17:47 PM   
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My real fantasy is I finally meet a real man on a date (not the rejects I seem to find)...


You must be awfully hard to please...



On the other hand remember that her choice pool is a bunch of wargaming nerdy dorks!

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 3/24/2016 4:22:10 PM   
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On the other hand remember that her choice pool is a bunch of wargaming nerdy dorks!


A group to which she claims to be a proud member herself. I would think her man troubles have more to do with the old saying, "a woman over 40 is more likely to be struck by lightening than to get married."

Men that age are no longer controlled by an insatiable sex drive that drives them to do dumb things without much forethought and tend to view women who want a long term relationship with a critical "what's in it for me" eye.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but most people have settled in to comfortable existences by 40 and big changes are usually not on their life agenda's any longer.

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 3/24/2016 5:00:50 PM   
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Actually.... it's been my experience, men up to 65 want sex on the first date. All of ya. The only reason I can't comment on over 65, is I've never dated or talked to anyone older than 65.

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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 3/24/2016 5:18:27 PM   
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Actually.... it's been my experience, men up to 65 want sex on the first date. All of ya. The only reason I can't comment on over 65, is I've never dated or talked to anyone older than 65.


Well then, that should be your next strategy (over 65)...a no-brainer.


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RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? - 3/24/2016 5:58:21 PM   
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Now my dream is that the series is a success and leads to many more titles. Hopefully some at a larger scale, since the first title will only let you send one lance into the field at a time.

The first game will have you playing as a mercenary commander in the 3025 period going through a story-driven but semi-dynamic campaign. My next tier dream game would of course be a title where you pick from multiple Inner Sphere/Clan factions and play a dynamic campaign set during the Clan invasion. Where your successes further the war effort, ending up with you either going on the mission to wipe out Clan Smoke Jaguar, or invading Terra and fighting Com Star.

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