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[Mickey Bitsko]

I'd never been a big fan of strategy games until Ages of Empires came along, particularly after the Conquerors expansion. You know the reviewer's cliche "Get this game and you'll lose your job, your girlfriend, etc?" For my part, with this game the cliche becomes almost to real! How can you not like a game wherein your carefully armed and trained elite troops can suddenly and without warning get eaten by a pride of lions?

[Wonder Duck]

Hi girls and guys, I am new here, and also I like Liberace. :bye:

Ok anyway, to me, the greatest strategy game is Panzer General. I love WW2, and this game was so far ahead of the rest, it boggled my mind. It is not perfectly accurate by any means, but is so damn fun. I have the PC, Macintosh, PSX, and 3DO versions.

I have played the damn game thru so many times, i sometimes walk to work thinking about how to break thru the KV's in early scenarios.
I am happy that hundreds of modded scenarios and campaigns have been produced. I've installed and played them too.

Hey did I tell you I love Panzer General? :whistle:
Anyway I love the site and forum, and am happy to be here.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Mickey Bitsko@Nov 9 2004, 12:13 PM
I'd never been a big fan of strategy games until Ages of Empires came along, particularly after the Conquerors expansion. You know the reviewer's cliche "Get this game and you'll lose your job, your girlfriend, etc?" For my part, with this game the cliche becomes almost to real! How can you not like a game wherein your carefully armed and trained elite troops can suddenly and without warning get eaten by a pride of lions?

For me strategy started with Civilization, X-Com and Colonization, and all of them turns to be a turn based.

But I do enjoy a RTS from it's beginning with Dune2, C & C, AOE and similar. I would say that real time strategy is often more closed to Sims, where you are more observers, while in turn based strategy everything depends on your planning and actions.

[evilded]

MOO, what more do i have to say?

[Sebatianos]

Anybody knows Allied General?
Not the best TBS, but a nice enough game - has a multiplayer option too!

[Mad_Dog]

Yup i love strategy games but my favorite must be spcamo's spmbt and spww2.Both are based on the steel panthers engine (came out in 1996 i think)but have been updated and revised right upto a couple of months ago.The games are DOS based but run quite happily in winXP with vdmsound and Mousectl.The only system they dont run in is windows 2000 and for those with mx440 cards which dont have vesa support.
when i say that the games have been revised up till tthe present time i mean that the spcamo team have done wonders with the engine.There are now 15 levels or more of terrain(instead of 3 as in original SP and spwaw) many many new icons and weapons systems and terrain details as well as a brand new tile set of houses.They truely are great games and are and always will be free.In the spring of 2005 the team will be bringing out a windows version of their spmbt to the delight of all.You can find the download link below and by typing spcamo in google you will find the team's main site(which seems to be down atm so i cant link u to them)

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/SPCamo/index.htm
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[Mad_Dog]

Yes i have panzer general and allied general both of which i thought were superb in their day and still very good now though i have to admit that i havent played them in a while.I see that u can get hold of pacific general on HOTU.I only found this abondonware site the other day and have to admit that i think its the best site i have been to in regards of quality of games /download speeds and compatability with my XP system.I would like to thank the team and please keep up the good work k: .regards Mad_Dog

[Morrin]

Originally posted by Mickey Bitsko@Nov 9 2004, 05:13 PM
I'd never been a big fan of strategy games until Ages of Empires came along, particularly after the Conquerors expansion. You know the reviewer's cliche "Get this game and you'll lose your job, your girlfriend, etc?" For my part, with this game the cliche becomes almost to real! How can you not like a game wherein your carefully armed and trained elite troops can suddenly and without warning get eaten by a pride of lions?

Age Of Empires 2 is still the one and the best LAN strategy game ever!

[Eagle of Fire]

Sorry, but it can't beat Starcraft (the original, without expantion) unpatched.

[Morrin]

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Nov 17 2004, 09:06 AM
Sorry, but it can't beat Starcraft (the original, without expantion) unpatched.

It can. I didn't like starcraft. Actually it was very boring and repeating. Nothing new to warcraft.