I'm always the support player. You call for fire, I'll be there. Besides, it's partly because the AI seems to hit whoever is more aggressive first.
Wargame: European Escalation
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I'm always the support player. You call for fire, I'll be there. Besides, it's partly because the AI seems to hit whoever is more aggressive first.
Panda with issues...
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So, judging by the performance of the other people Ronin and I played this evening, we're going to be JUST FINE. Despite being MUCH higher level than us, we rolled the first match after some loser ragequit when I totally destroyed his initial assault. Second match was longer, but they kept throwing points at us in the form of helicopters. I gained 45 stars or something from the second match alone.
I think they suffered from a serious amount of over-specialisation. Helos followed by helos followed by... er... helos. Lack of variety really hurt them. Then just buying the biggest, heaviest tanks they could and relying on them doing everything...
Victory through variety, I think.
Victory through variety, I think.
Panda with issues...
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It's not like we haven't had loads of practice against helos...
I feel like I should have joined in now
Next time, Gadget, next time!
The game certainly steps up a notch when sneak attacks, rushes, counter-artillery and so on are realistic prospects.
Panda with issues...
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Thinking on it now, I feel like those guys probably legitimately sucked at this game, despite their high level.
I never saw any recon except for Kiowas and they used nothing but helos and a bunch of blobbed heavy tanks.
Their entire strategy consisted of blobbing heavy tanks on the centre point, and moving a blob of helos around. Even in a few games vs the AI we realised blobbing was just a way to lose all your units really fast. Helicopters are especially fragile and are worth a ton of points. I noticed my IGLAs and Tunguskas were killing upwards of 3-5 helos a shot at times because they were all clustered together, and the missile dealt splash damage.
They didn't make good use of cover, their lack of ground recon allowed me to move units in and probe, then fall back when I spotted their blob. They had no recon and thus had no idea where I was and couldn't chase me. No use of infantry meant the woods were mine, all mine. No recon meant that their artillary just got spunked up the wall, shelling areas I could quickly evacuate, whereas my recon allowed me to hit them where it hurt with the Buratino. They forwent any attempt to take any of the side entrance point zones, which meant that they were taking forever to bring in reinforcements, whereas we could pull them n whenever we needed to.
Our widespread net of Tunguskas and IGLAs meant that taking out their air blob was like bursting a balloon, as they were being hit from all sides.
They were playing this game like it was Dawn of War or something.
'This shit's chess, it ain't checkers'
Looks like Wargame is getting an expansion:
Note the F15's.
I feel cautious about the inclusion of fighters but they did a very good job with the rest of it so I'm quite prepared to see how they go with it. What I'd really like is more maps!
Note the F15's.
I feel cautious about the inclusion of fighters but they did a very good job with the rest of it so I'm quite prepared to see how they go with it. What I'd really like is more maps!
Panda with issues...
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While proper hills are always welcome, they need to take a page out of WiC's book, and that of many tt wargames for dealing with fast jets. They need to hit the battlefield fast from an edge of the map and sweep through in a broadly linear fashion very rapidly. They've done a fantastic job of maintaining realism without compromising fun in the game so far, but the inclusion of jets needs to be handled with care, lest it end up shit like flyers in starcraft etc.
Ki!ler-Mk1
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Starcraft, lol, that is a poor comparison.
Ghostwolf67
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Great. I havent even played the first one yet as its still sitting 15,000 miles away in an amazon package and now theres a sequel. grrrrr.
dont worry Ghostwolf only 29 days to go until you can play games again. 29 days...
Traxata
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And then after that delicious date.... LAN!
Panda with issues...
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It was used as an example of how not to do flying units in games.
Panda with issues...
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New free DLC: 'Commander'
One to look at this Friday methinks.
For anyone who's been sitting on the fence for this one, Wargame is just £7.49 in the Steam sale this weekend.
Panda with issues...
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New patch: Fatal Error. More single player campaign I think:
Yeah. I'd like to see some sort of tug-of-war mode in multiplayer, which'd be my next request from them. Something a little different to the first-past-the-post destruction mode. Still, I guess they can't neglect single player people...
Panda with issues...
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Is that not what the control zones thing was?