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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:55 pm
by woof woof !
Were any of you guys ever into pure strategy games ? Pre computers and games consoles I was heavily into board and table top games. I've Just spent £65 on a game that's already two years old and modelled on the board war games of old. Can't wait for it to arrive and get stuck into to some serious wargaming.

If anyone's interested here's a review'

    click >  War in the East

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:10 pm
by metalhead
woof woof ! wrote:Were any of you guys ever into pure strategy games ? Pre computers and games consoles I was heavily into board and table top games. I've Just spent £65 on a game that's already two years old and modelled on the board war games of old. Can't wait for it to arrive and get stuck into to some serious wargaming.

If anyone's interested here's a review'

    click >  War in the East


nah I'm not into pure strategy, just strategy, the best one I've played is Company of Heroes, the most realistic strategy game I have ever played and still play it.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:23 pm
by RedSi35
metalhead wrote:
woof woof ! wrote:Were any of you guys ever into pure strategy games ? Pre computers and games consoles I was heavily into board and table top games. I've Just spent £65 on a game that's already two years old and modelled on the board war games of old. Can't wait for it to arrive and get stuck into to some serious wargaming.

If anyone's interested here's a review'

    click >  War in the East


nah I'm not into pure strategy, just strategy, the best one I've played is Company of Heroes, the most realistic strategy game I have ever played and still play it.


God i hated those games, Commandos:Behind Enemy Lines as well, i just didnt have the patience.

But i love the Red Alert and Command & COnquer series of games, i could play them all day. Civilisation series too, love them.

Populous on the Amiga...................................a long time ago.....probably before a lot of you lot were born lol

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:41 pm
by heimdall
Populous was a great game but I still remember playing Elite on the BBC Micro, was completely hooked on it, I played it again recently and the graphics look so lame compared to modern games :-)

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:01 pm
by RedSi35
heimdall wrote:Populous was a great game but I still remember playing Elite on the BBC Micro, was completely hooked on it, I played it again recently and the graphics look so lame compared to modern games :-)



Nostalgia isn't all it's cracked up to be lol

Downloaded winuae a while ago which came with about 4000 amiga games.......................................conclusion...............................it's just not the same as it was 20 odd years ago. Yeah it was nice playing a few of the old games ( sensi soccer, IK+, Lemmings, Skidmarks, The Chaos Engine etc ). Just not the same on a PC.

Best left where they were............... :(

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:15 pm
by damjan193
:D I on the other hand loved Commandoss, my all time favorite strategy game. Age of Mythology, Age of Empires, Rome and Medieval Total War, Company of Heroes are few other strategies worth mentioning... nothing like Commandos though :D. Damn I'm getting nostalgic.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:29 pm
by RedSi35
damjan193 wrote::D I on the other hand loved Commandoss, my all time favorite strategy game. Age of Mythology, Age of Empires, Rome and Medieval Total War, Company of Heroes are few other strategies worth mentioning... nothing like Commandos though :D. Damn I'm getting nostalgic.



It was "agahhghghghghggghhghgingly" frustrating though wasn't it?

Jesus.....................those Germans had the best f*cking eyesight EVER lol.............................................and those f*cking dogs..........AAGGAGAGGGGGGHHHHHHHH those dogs.

Gonna slap that game  :grinning:

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:01 pm
by metalhead
[quote="RedSi35]God i hated those games, Commandos:Behind Enemy Lines as well, i just didnt have the patience.

But i love the Red Alert and Command & COnquer series of games, i could play them all day. Civilisation series too, love them.

Populous on the Amiga...................................a long time ago.....probably before a lot of you lot were born lol[/quote]

Haha, I love Company of Heroes, and Civilization is one of my favorite turn based strategy games. I was playing Civ 5 not long ago and I was Bismarck, those germans and their panzers..ooof.. conquered 60% of the pangea map! haha.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:41 pm
by Kharhaz
metalhead wrote:
woof woof ! wrote:Were any of you guys ever into pure strategy games ? Pre computers and games consoles I was heavily into board and table top games. I've Just spent £65 on a game that's already two years old and modelled on the board war games of old. Can't wait for it to arrive and get stuck into to some serious wargaming.

If anyone's interested here's a review'

    click >  War in the East


nah I'm not into pure strategy, just strategy, the best one I've played is Company of Heroes, the most realistic strategy game I have ever played and still play it.


I love strategy games. I'll have to have a look at that War in the East. Funnily enough I reinstalled Company of Heroes a couple of days ago and forgot how awesome that game is. I have got Command & Conquer the First Decade, Civilization 5, all the Dawn of War games, Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition but one I used to play all the time was Lords of Midnight. Originally on the old speccy, which I still own, it was remade for the PC years ago. Still a classic.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:20 pm
by damjan193
RedSi35 wrote:
damjan193 wrote::D I on the other hand loved Commandoss, my all time favorite strategy game. Age of Mythology, Age of Empires, Rome and Medieval Total War, Company of Heroes are few other strategies worth mentioning... nothing like Commandos though :D. Damn I'm getting nostalgic.



It was "agahhghghghghggghhghgingly" frustrating though wasn't it?

Jesus.....................those Germans had the best f*cking eyesight EVER lol.............................................and those f*cking dogs..........AAGGAGAGGGGGGHHHHHHHH those dogs.

Gonna slap that game  :grinning:

Yeah it was a bit frustrating at times, mostly when I first started playing the game. But I got used to it fast because I really love that kind of stealth games which require a lot of thinking and planning a strategy. I also liked it to be perfect. My approach, the way I handled the situation, the way I went past my targets had to be perfect :D. I used to spend hours on just one situation, it just had to be handled perfectly :D. Man, the good old gaming days.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:38 pm
by metalhead
Kharhaz mate are u up for some COH game sometime?

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 3:10 pm
by laza
woof woof ! » Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:55 pm wrote:Were any of you guys ever into pure strategy games ?[/url]



Started playing Campaign Series game East Front back in 98 and still playing it online against human opponents via pbem 14 years later

Enjoy the squad battles games with pbem  from HPS

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 3:18 pm
by dawson99
laza » Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:10 pm wrote:
woof woof ! » Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:55 pm wrote:Were any of you guys ever into pure strategy games ?[/url]



Started playing Campaign Series game East Front back in 98 and still playing it online against human opponents via pbem 14 years later

Enjoy the squad battles games with pbem  from HPS


I used to play command and conquer many moons ago

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:17 pm
by RedSi35
dawson99 » Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:18 pm wrote:
laza » Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:10 pm wrote:
woof woof ! » Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:55 pm wrote:Were any of you guys ever into pure strategy games ?[/url]



Started playing Campaign Series game East Front back in 98 and still playing it online against human opponents via pbem 14 years later

Enjoy the squad battles games with pbem  from HPS


I used to play command and conquer many moons ago



Loved the C&C games. Red Alert 2 was my fav, with all the cheesy video sequences. Had some epic 8 player online battles on that.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:40 pm
by Kharhaz
metalhead » Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:38 pm wrote:Kharhaz mate are u up for some COH game sometime?


Yeah no probs, I'll have to get some practice in though to give you some sort of a game !