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05-23-2007, 12:00 AM
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Apologies if this is in the wrong section but does anyone know any good WW1 strategy games? I bought that dreadful entente rubbish and only bothered a couple of times with it
Ideally I'd love 'Cossacks with trenches' type of thing but so far no joy. any hints / pointers?
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05-24-2007, 12:54 AM
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I have played a few good
WW1 flying games but nothing really that interesting
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05-24-2007, 10:58 PM
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Country: | The only WW1 game I can think of is Blazing Skies, which was on the SNES. Next nearest would be Empire Earth on the PC. It goes from cavemen throwing rocks to battle mechs and space ships, one of the ages is World War 1. It's an RTS game which can be picked up pretty cheap now | |
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05-24-2007, 11:05 PM
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Country:  | Red Baron II with mods rocks. From strategy I don't know, except the "Ancient war on the skies". And it sucks.
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05-26-2007, 08:46 AM
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Country:  | Red Ace Squadron was ok. Nice flying feel but not so real graphics. But I loved it. It was those WWI games by Little Rockets that taught me to fly in my computer.
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05-27-2007, 01:20 AM
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Country: | Well I know there is a few WWI Aircraft Games
But I think what me and Rog want to see is some WW1 First person shooter games
Which would be cool
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05-29-2007, 07:50 PM
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Country: | I just love Cossacks on the PC - once you get the resources side of it under control it combines tactics & strategy. I play it a lot and get myself into tricky spots just to see if i can get myself out of them.
But I'm always thinking where's cossacks 6 or whatever when the arty gets bigger and you can construct trenches, decide where when to try a 'big push' or even try the behind the lines amphib option to turn the flank.
'Entente' was a cossacks 'development' or just rip-off but very badly concieved and executed, pay the postage and it's yours!
TBH I think a WW1 1st person shooter would be a bit odd - up the line, reserve, 'rest', repeat ad nauseam (maybe a bath every other week) until a sniper or a dirty great shell ends that phase and you get the slow ambulance-journey phase. A tactical strategy game however would be really interesting - for me at least | |
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05-29-2007, 07:53 PM
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Country: | There isn't much interest in WW1... the sequel was more popular...
the third in the series may be the last release however.
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05-31-2007, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by comiso90  There isn't much interest in WW1... the sequel was more popular...
the third in the series may be the last release however. |
Good gag!
I agree about the interest point - the game market is driven by what interests kids in the US aged 14-20 (hence the accuracy issue in many games).
Interest in WW1 seems to occur later in life (did with me anyway).
Oh well the price of being a kidult I suppose | |
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Originally Posted by Soundbreaker Welch? Comiso that's a chilling statement. | Yeah, and it would look good on a T-Shirt!
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06-02-2007, 04:46 AM
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06-02-2007, 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by rogthedodge Apologies if this is in the wrong section but does anyone know any good WW1 strategy games? I bought that dreadful entente rubbish and only bothered a couple of times with it
Ideally I'd love 'Cossacks with trenches' type of thing but so far no joy. any hints / pointers?
R | You could do Hearts of Iron (great game) and install the WWI mod...
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06-03-2007, 11:38 PM
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Country:  | It is because WWI ultimately was a war of stalemate which doesn't help its chances of a game being created. It was basically a meat-grinder type situation and ultimately even those of you that are interested would not be fond of a historical game that stuck to the truth. Disease, poor conditions. Being able to be out of the fight before the game really began. Ugh, no way. This is why a WWI game will never take off except at a large scale tactical level... | |
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06-04-2007, 01:56 AM
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