Anyone here a fan of military wargaming?

Total Annihilation. THAT was a fun game. Supposedly, The Creator of it, Chris Taylor, is making a follow up. That’ll be great. Probably the most intense RTS I’ve ever played, if not the most realistic…giant robots…

I would love to sit and play some RTS again–simply the best most satisfying games ever. But I can’t play them unless I can get invloved, playing a several hour long fight. I don’t have that kind of time to kill anymore.

Maybe if TA2 comes out, I’ll find a way.
Too bad there’s no really good modern, 3D, RTS games around, using modern equipment.

here are a few console games i like:

my most favorite console wargame has to be Iron Storm, translated by Working Designs, on the Sega Saturn. i think the reasons i liked this game was having the choice to play as the Japanese, Germans and the Americans. i also liked the animation when attacking, seeing German dive bombers take out infantry was a lot of fun 🙂 .

i also like the Pacific Theater of Operations series by KOEI. i have played PTO I, II and IV (III was never released in the US). my favorite in the series is PTO IV. i liked the ability to customize new ship classes as new technology was gained, i also came up with a naming convention for my ships. the only problem was the battles were done in real time, and the ships would constantly colliding with other ships.

several other series i like are Advance Wars (Gameboy), Front Mission, Ring of Red (PS2), several “tactics” games like Shining Force, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Disgaea.

on the PC side:

i spent alot of hours on EU (Europa Universalis), EU2 and Hearts of Iron (i think that is the correct name). Hearts of Iron was my favorite. I remember i tried to dominate the world as the United Mexican States but failed after the US invaded, i had taken most of South America 🙂

other games i liked were the Homeworld series, Rise of Nations and a free game called Steel Panthers: World at War.

Im really curious what the computer specs required for Rome Total War is going to be. Ive seen some screenshots, and the detail is very high in the soldiers. I heard they are developing a special game engine to support that much detail. They are supposed to be making the economic/logistic part of the game more user freindly.

All I know is, I’m going to have to upgrade my video card to get any sort of decent rates.

I would imagine that min. requirements are probably P 2.4, 512 Ram, 128 MB video card or higher.

Im really curious what the computer specs required for Rome Total War is going to be. Ive seen some screenshots, and the detail is very high in the soldiers. I heard they are developing a special game engine to support that much detail. They are supposed to be making the economic/logistic part of the game more user freindly.
Plawolf- I agree that most RTS games are just Age of Empire clones. But still it takes quite a bit of skill to play well, sort of like that board game stratego except that economic factors come into play in choosing your troop strength as well as timing. A booming economic strategy wont work against someone who knows how to do an early fuedal rush.

I just miss the Total war-Shogun times when my assasins would finish enemy army commanders or even faction leaders just before the battle begins.

You can still assassinate generals with assassins in MTW, it’s just much harder.

Yah, cannons reallt stink. I tried them out in the custom mode, amassing my own grande batterie a la Napoleon, and they couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn, or a bunch of tightly packed cavalry. They’re ok for bombarding stationary, packed formations of troops though at long range.

What’s really effective are the naptha throwers- their ancient grenades can really deal a wallop to any attacking close packed infantry formations. They take out probably 50-60 men in one throw. Can cause any formation, no matter how elite, to rout usually in one or two throws.

don’t waste your money on canons in this game ( total war-medieval ), not as good as a couple of Archer units … I consentrate on a balanced infantry+archers+cavalery army and always win the day.

I just miss the Total war-Shogun times when my assasins would finish enemy army commanders or even faction leaders just before the battle begins.

i love strategy games, but have gotting a little bored with the resource management side. all the currently gen of stragety games, IMHO, doesnt have too much strategy in them at all. its just a fixed system of harvesting/mining etc, and building millions of units and crushing your opponent through sheer size of numbers.

the real ‘stargety’ is pretty much only how to get your workers/minners working at their peak efficiency. hell, sometimes all you need to do to win is to keep 99% of your attention on your ‘economy’ and building troops at peak efficency and just sending them all off to fight by themselves. only very occasionally do you really NEED to micro-manage the battle. all the games are pretty much just the same but with different units, timelines, stroies and tech trees etc.

i loved ground control because it got rid of all the mining and building and freed you up to do the fighting. it also required alot more real stragety from you as you only have so many troops, so needed to be more careful with them.

i am looking forward to the warhammer 4k RST. the reviews sound really promising, and the graphics look great!

Managing everything can be a real pain in MTW, especially when your empire gets very large, but nothing can beat MTW in terms of RTS and real-time battles. I think they address that problem in rome:total war.

The historical battles are fantastic. Playing the Battle of Stirling Bridge was awesome, just trying to hold off the English on the bridge. Bannockburn, don’t know how the English managed to lose there with the vastly superior forces.

Medieval Total War is the ultimate. Thats the kind of game you wake up in the morning and play all day for 2 days straight. The economic and map strategy part of that game is idiotic. Between each “year” you just spend like 2 minutes closing message windows about trivial junk that doesnt even effect the game. Another game I recommend is Tropico 2, which is sort of a combination between Age of Empires and the Sims. Building an island economy is very realistically done in that you got to keep track of where slaves are employed, distance they must walk, you have to maintain anarchy for your pirates or they revolt if it gets too orderly. Another I like is Pirate Hunter with a slightly expanded version called Port Royale, very fun fast paced pirating. The same developer did a game called Patrician III with the same type of game play, but based on the Hasiatic League of Northern Europe. Im trying out a game right now called Combat Mission: Africa Corps which is turn based combat. I cant really get a handle on it yet. Id like to mention the absolute best RPG Ive tried is Gothic II, very well done.

How’s the Viking add-on? The organ cannon sounds pretty nifty (is it like ana ncient machine gun)? and I hear there are additional features in defending a castle, e.g. dumping boiling oil on attacking troops?

Oops, just read the part about your not installing it yet.