Uncle Sick
One of Freddy's beloved
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2003
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Anyone but me play this?
http://wargame-ee.com/
RTS, but definitely not StarCraft-memorize-build-orders-click-fast-to win. More along the lines of the Close Combat series (which I loved way back then), the graphic are excellent and the atmosphere is terrific.
I've only played it for a few hours but I'm hooked to the point where the wife wants me to play Skyrim again since I slip into 'the zone' as soon as the Leopard 1's are moving across the map.
The game tells stories by creating a connection to your imaginary troops. Morale is a strong factor in W:EE.
In one game I had a pair of Cobra attack helicopters. The pilots started as rookies in the initial deployment phase.
For the entire game I carefully used them at hot spots to repel the red tide. In the end, they made Top Gun Tom Cruise look like a pussy, sweeping in, skimming over tree tops, shredding mot. infantry with their chain guns and routing and damaging tanks with their Hydras. Veritable angels of death.
But then, near the end of the game I got sloppy. I had them on their final attack run near a bridge that was threatened by Soviet motorized infantry and had failed to notice that they'd pass near a village I hadn't reconnoitered properly (good recon is vital. There is no actual fog of war.. just T72's knocking down your command vehicles, blowing up your FOB's and smoking your Lucky Strikes if you don't pay attention).
They got shot down by MANPAD infantry over that village.
I actually felt going pale. I didn't save... since there's no save game irl.
Retribution was swift in the form of 8 155mm tracked howitzers raining death on the village for 5 minutes.
It was terrible and it was awesome to feel such ownership.
I rarely feel this strongly about games anymore.
http://wargame-ee.com/
RTS, but definitely not StarCraft-memorize-build-orders-click-fast-to win. More along the lines of the Close Combat series (which I loved way back then), the graphic are excellent and the atmosphere is terrific.
I've only played it for a few hours but I'm hooked to the point where the wife wants me to play Skyrim again since I slip into 'the zone' as soon as the Leopard 1's are moving across the map.
The game tells stories by creating a connection to your imaginary troops. Morale is a strong factor in W:EE.
In one game I had a pair of Cobra attack helicopters. The pilots started as rookies in the initial deployment phase.
For the entire game I carefully used them at hot spots to repel the red tide. In the end, they made Top Gun Tom Cruise look like a pussy, sweeping in, skimming over tree tops, shredding mot. infantry with their chain guns and routing and damaging tanks with their Hydras. Veritable angels of death.
But then, near the end of the game I got sloppy. I had them on their final attack run near a bridge that was threatened by Soviet motorized infantry and had failed to notice that they'd pass near a village I hadn't reconnoitered properly (good recon is vital. There is no actual fog of war.. just T72's knocking down your command vehicles, blowing up your FOB's and smoking your Lucky Strikes if you don't pay attention).
They got shot down by MANPAD infantry over that village.
I actually felt going pale. I didn't save... since there's no save game irl.
Retribution was swift in the form of 8 155mm tracked howitzers raining death on the village for 5 minutes.
It was terrible and it was awesome to feel such ownership.
I rarely feel this strongly about games anymore.