FPS's
Americas Army ( 2.1 downrange )
Rainbow 6 3: Raven Sheild
Chrome
Planetside
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield vietnam
RTS's
Empires: Dawn of the Modern World
Rise of Nations
Rise of Nations: Thrones and patriots
Age Of Mythology
Ground Control 2: Operation Exodus
Tabletop
Warhammer 40k
I used to play all the warcraft/starcraft/AOE/C&C games for years until one fime day i came upon(sounds bad)a single copy of STW:WE which forever ruined me for any other stategy game.Then we had MTW and then of course MTW:VI which put the final nail in the coffin of the standard format games.Now the only other games i can bear to play for any lenght of time(a week tops) are Homeworld1+2 and Championship Manager 03/04.Everything else just pales in comparison to the mighty TotalWar series.
Bring on Rome TW............QUICKLY
"Go tell the Spartans,stranger passing by that here,obedient to their laws we lie."
I was just thinking about those. Can't believe I forgot them.Originally Posted by [b
Although CC5 was Normandy, not ABTF.
CC1- Bocages
CC2- ABTF
CC3- Russian Front
CC4- Battle of the Bulge
CC5- Normandy
The last two were my favs, although I got a lot of play out of Russian front. So many tanks....
Cheese. Cheese attracts the beer-filled. The hungry. The not-so-hungry. The famished. The sammiches. Cheese. Cheese is my ally!
Tabletop:
Middle Earth, BattleTech, Axies and Allies
PC:
Age of Rifles, the Panzer General series (up to People's General), Civ, Romance of the three kingdoms (pc versions only), Ghengis Khan, Machiavelli the Prince (not a wargame but funny), Europa Universalis, MechCommander, the TW series of course.
I played C&C, AoE and other RTS (cossaks was quite good) games but they aren't my favorites.
Alex
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason (Voltaire)
Also cossacks is a very good game
Still waiting for Cossacks 2
A man's real possession is his memory.In nothing else is he rich,in nothing else is he poor
Shakespeare
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
I like the blizzard titles, and Age of E was ok, ground controll was a lot of fun, but I think that we are headed into a great coupel of years for war games. Dawn of War, RTW, The Lord of the Rings game. It seems devlopers are doing a good job pushing war games beyond the typical RTS formula.
All you can do is pray for a quick death... which you ain't gonna get -Mr. Blonde
CnC (have all but tiberian dawn)
Blitzkrieg 2 (Generals: Zeros Hour total conversion)
Rise of nations
Cossacks BTW
American conquest fight back -if you want an RTS that nearly as complex as MTW play this
Warcraft 3
If you havin' skyrim problems I feel bad for you son.. I dodged 99 arrows but my knee took one.
VENI, VIDI, NATES CALCE CONCIDI
I came, I saw, I kicked ass
TOAW on PC
On the floor back in the day....there was a War In The East game from GDW I think that took up my whole floor and took forever to play, but we loved it. It covered WW2 Russia campaign, everything.
D
Really enjoyed Lords of the Realm and its sequel. I played the original on the Amiga and it was one of the best games I had. I thought the sequel was even better Brilliant stuff But the less said about Lords of the Realm 3 the better. Has anyone played that and thought it good?
As for Total War. Well its the perfect RTS game for me. True, the diplomacy is somewhat lacking but I'm still playing the damn game ever since it came out and I can't say that with many games that I have bought over the years.
Now when Rome comes out I'm sorry but I will be a recluse
. Total War heaven
yep, MTW is the ultimate in this area although an infusion of civ 3 type diplomacy would be awesome.
liked Rise of Nations for the nice graphics and treatment of things lik flank and rear bonuses and little micro.
AOE/AOK still holds some strange charm partly due to it being my intro to RTS.
Before I discovered total war I played the C&C games an awful lot, with RA2 being my favourite. I still play a lot of MoH: Spearhead in the fps genre, not quite sure if that counts as a 'war' game but very enjoyable nontheless
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee
MoH...I'm VERY dissipointed in those games, I wanted squad based real lifeage, WWII combat, that would of made it a great game, but its too special ops...Ew...
Also.
Splinter Cell
Ghost Recon
Rainbow Six 3
Delta Force 2 ( I wish it still worked, best online game ever)
Delta Force Black Hawk Down
Comandos series.
B-17 Flying Fortress.
I pledge allegiance to the underworld One nation under dog,There of which I stand alone,A face in the crowdUnsung, against the mold
Without a doubt
Singled out
The only way I know
Stepped out of the line,Like a sheep runs from the herd
Marching out of time,To my own beat now
The only way I know
One light, one mind,Flashing in the dark
Blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts
"For crying out loud" she screamed unto me
A free for all,Screw 'em all
You are your own sight
I want to be the minority,I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority,I want to be the minority
Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
Operation Flashpoint
Civil War Generals 2
Caesar 3
Pharaoh
(ok, the last two are city builders, but you can still make little armys)
Maedhros, for space strategy I always find that the Homeworld series exceeds many expectations. You did however say you wanted something new, so perhaps you already have tried them?
If not, then I implore you to take up the baton at the soonest possible moment. HW1, albeit aged, is nothing short of jaw dropping. It still has its graphical moments when I admire the sheer beauty they achieved with the tech they had back in 99, a real tear jerking plot which was extremely well written, a theme tune in the credits written especially for the game by the ProgRockers 'Yes' (legendary stuff) and the title of the first ever truly three dimensional strategy game.
There may have been older RTS's that utilised 3d terrain and so on, but in HW you move your ships up down left right, where ever you see fit.
HW:Cataclysm was the standalone sequel though not well recieved by many, developed separate from Relic (makers of the original) by Barking Dog Studios. It's story line was somewhat disatisfactory but it did have very good multiplayer.
The latest installment HW2 is also very good and slightly simpliler control wise than HW1 which was sometimes faulted for its conplexity.
No prizes for guessing my favourites eh?
Let us be patient. These severe afflictions
Do not from the ground arise,
But oftentimes thesse celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.
Yeah in single player it is a little 'one man band' but when playing as part of a clan it can be very tactically complex at times, although having said that my clan's idea of tactics is 'Buggrit Let's all run over the bridge straight away'
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee
I play AoE+exp (my friend is supposedly best in Canada)
AoE2+exp, I used to play starcraft, Rise of Nations but only when i'm really really bored, and dont laugh star trek armada II. And may I just say that I was dissapointed by both Age of Myhologu and especially warcraft III I LOATHE how you can have a better army and then some idiot comes up and slaughters the entire army of abominations ith spell casters that can turn them into sheep, sheep for god sakes
Board Games I play are Axis and Allies, Risk and Napoleon in Europe.
There is a new axis and allies that came out called axis and allies d-day. It's two or three players and you have to storm normandy.
from the ashes of the old world shall arise the new order
I.R.I
Board games...
-Stalingrad (Avalon Hill)..easy and tough: difficult duo;
-Napoleon at Lipzig..funny scenario with those english rocket launchers.
Miniature games(still boardgame)
-warhammer fantasy battles, second edition. 2 hours to play a turn, but funny..with realm of chaos expansion next to 1400 pages
PC:
-Panzer general..I love that german tank invading Washington DC
Paperi si nasce
this is gonna be a long list...
PC
Heroe's of might and magic 3, and all the various expantions ect using this engine, it is the best turn based strat there is even now.
Command and conquer, the original, and still the best. Red alert was good fun and all, but red alert 2 really lacks in places and tiberian sun is just a load of crap.
Warcraft, I got each one as it came out, starting with the original, and warcraft 2 is still great, I don;t hold much store in graphics and 3d, and thats mainly where warcraft 3 scores over the older.
Starcraft, though it doesn;t match some other RTS it;s funny and the movies are cool
Age of empires, only got age of kings and the expantion, played them religiously untill I got MTW, and realised just how crap they were in comparison...
Bladurs gate 1 and 2, they both rock, especially as I;m an avid Roleplayer in ral life, and they ust run so fast compared to real tabletop...
Icewind dale, same goes
Homeworld 1 and 2, space combat really does it for me, to the point that I buy anything with bog ships and explosions...
Diablo 1 and 2, these do;t rate as highly as baldurs gate and co, ut for kill action they canlt be ebaten when you need to unwind after a hard day.
GTA 1, 2, 3 and vice city, all of them rock
XCom, all of them, barring intercepter which is rubbish, these brought me into turn based strat in the first place...
Incubation, aother turn based thriller that rocks, and is far more combatty than XCom.
i think thats all the important ones...
I was trying to find some help in the ancient military journals of General Tacticus, who's intelligent campaigning had been so successful that he'd lent his very name to the detailed prosecution of martial endeavour, and had actually found a section headed "What To Do If One Army Occupies A Well-Fortified And Superior Ground And The Other Does Not", but since the first sentence read "Endeavour to be the one inside" I'd rather lost heart.
I really don't play to many games, although I have a decent collection. As far as war games goes I play MTW (of course, what else), Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne (not the frozen toilet), and Fire Emblem. Although I used to play AOE also.
Everyone in the entire world has a photographic memory... but only a select few have film.
PC games: XCOM - all versions were excellent, Civilization 2 (better than 3 imho)
Board Games: Squad Leader, Republic of Rome, History of the World, Pax Britannica
Miniatures: DBM
These have all taken up more weekends/holidays than I care to recall.
Deus Vult
oops - forgot Star Fleet Battles among the board games
Deus Vult
PC : The original CnC(probly my first proper PC game) and then all the others from Red Alert2 onwards, also bin playin quite abit of Call of Duty latley although had it for a while, oh and BF1942.
Tabletop : Used to be quite a fan of the LoTR games but lost interest due to lack funds/opponents, still got the figures in ma room, must get round to throwin them out soon...
Console: Has to be the MoH series, best shooters on PS2 ever IMO, for now anyways....
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys.Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death
- Sun Tzu, the Art of War
Has anyone played Lords of the Realm 3 and liked it? (if you did I'd suggest you're clinically despressed.)
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