(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:25 am
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The idea for this post comes from both a recourring thread on
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action ("What have you been playing in... (month)
(year)") and a recent post by Giftzy about the games he currently has on his
HD. Since the former evolved into a good monthly picture of the "State of
Play" (*) - with insights, commentaries, reviews etc. - but it often lacks a
"war-historical" component, I thought about doing a CSIPGW-H edition.
These are the games I currently keep on my HD, either because I'm playing
them or because they are of the "let's keep it because I could wish to fire
it up any moment now". With a single exception, I have not included the
games I have to review.
NOW PLAYING
War in the Pacific: AE (this is the exception - but the review is down the
road for obvious reasons :^D)
John Tiller's Campaign Series (I started playing the German-Polish war
scenarios on September, 1st, - third party included - and I'm finishing them
now)
Panzer General (yup, just re-installed it)
Supreme Ruler 2020 + Global Crisis
KEEPERS
Supremacy at Sea (on hold waiting for the 1.1 patch)
Warship Combat: Dreadnoughts and Battleships
The Complete Carriers at War
Dominions 3
AATF installed over ATF and TSaTC
Hearts of Iron 2 Doomsday + Armageddon + "World in Flames" Mod
TOAW III
Harpoon Classic: Commander Edition
The three original Combat Mission
Medieval II: Total War + Kingdoms + "Deus lo Vult" Mod
Galactic Civilizations II + expansions
Silent Hunter III + GWX 3.0 Mod
(*) The original BBC miniseries, not the American remake.
(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:25 am
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Whats on my HD
TOAW 3
HTTR
COTA
HARPOON(s)
TACOPS
John Tiller's Campaigns Series
WPP
SPWAW
Battle of Britain 2
CAW
Age of Rifles
WITP
PzG (re-installed last night!)
ie with one revolutionary exception (Panther Games stuff along with a
couple of less revolutionary excpetions) I am stuck in the 90s.
What's been deleted with prejudice the last 6-12 months:
HPS Punic Wars
COG: EE
Close Combat: Modern
AGEOD Campaigns of Napoleon
Wings Over Vietnam
World War I Le grande Guerre
Flashpoint Germany
Battlefront
(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:25 am
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:25 am
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Waiting that FINALLY Ralph issue new patch so that 1947 scenario for TOAW
can be updated....
Gee, c'mon! )))))
And Vinzenzo it is huge scenario for TOAW maybe biggest but you can play
with your Italian soldiers and together with German comrades defend Europe,
Italia, and part of Eastern Front in 1947.
And you can thank me that we dropped M13 tanks from Italian TO&E and insted
put some kind of licensed PanzerIVh built in FIAT factories LOL
(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:25 am
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This whole idea of butchering Panzer General in some amateurish way gave me
idea to AGAIN for 12451 time install Panzer General II and some new mod.
(Msg. 6) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:25 am
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Vincenzo Beretta schrieb:
> The idea for this post comes from both a recourring thread on
> comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action ("What have you been playing in... (month)
> (year)") and a recent post by Giftzy about the games he currently has on his
> HD. Since the former evolved into a good monthly picture of the "State of
> Play" (*) - with insights, commentaries, reviews etc. - but it often lacks a
> "war-historical" component, I thought about doing a CSIPGW-H edition.
>
> These are the games I currently keep on my HD, either because I'm playing
> them or because they are of the "let's keep it because I could wish to fire
> it up any moment now". With a single exception, I have not included the
> games I have to review.
>
On my HD:
CC TLD
CC COI
COTA
ARMA
BOB2 WOV
Red Orchestra
GG WAW
AA RDOA
HOI2
PC Normandy 44
UV
SH3
BII
BIN
Korsun Pocket
Playing now:
None, Im waiting for BTR2 and maybe Kharkov43 (its out now in Russia).
(Msg. 7) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:25 am
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On Sep 13, 9:20 am, "M. Ziegler" wrote:
> Vincenzo Beretta schrieb:
>
> > The idea for this post comes from both a recourring thread on
> > comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action ("What have you been playing in... (month)
> > (year)") and a recent post by Giftzy about the games he currently has on his
> > HD. Since the former evolved into a good monthly picture of the "State of
> > Play" (*) - with insights, commentaries, reviews etc. - but it often lacks a
> > "war-historical" component, I thought about doing a CSIPGW-H edition.
>
> > These are the games I currently keep on my HD, either because I'm playing
> > them or because they are of the "let's keep it because I could wish to fire
> > it up any moment now". With a single exception, I have not included the
> > games I have to review.
>
> On my HD:
>
> CC TLD
> CC COI
> COTA
> ARMA
> BOB2 WOV
> Red Orchestra
> GG WAW
> AA RDOA
> HOI2
> PC Normandy 44
> UV
> SH3
> BII
> BIN
> Korsun Pocket
>
> Playing now:
>
> None, Im waiting for BTR2 and maybe Kharkov43 (its out now in Russia).
>
> Michael
Playing Now:
Russo-German War 41-44
CC: The Longest Day
No Retreat - Boardgame via vassal
Ukraine '43 - Boardgame via vassal
ASL Starter Kit 1 - Boardgame via vassal
Hard Drive:
Conquest of the Aegaen
Highway to the Reich
War Plan Pacific
TOAW III
CEAW
American Civil War
Napolean's Campaigns
Some really good games put out in the past on pc but the cupboard's
been pretty bare this year as noted by many. I'm spending much more
time on Vassal than with pc games although there are some good pc
games in the pc pipeline that will be automatic purchases: Battle of
the Bulge and Lock n Load Stalingrad.
(Msg. 8) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:46 am
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I'm currently immersed in yet another titanic game of WitP. (I expect
to get AE very soon)
Games I currently have installed on hard drives or playable from
bootable CDs:
Wargames...
CC: COI
CC: WAR
SH
SP:WAW
TOAW:ACW
WITP
Other stuff...
Civilization 4
Deus Ex
Deus Ex - Invisible War
Dungeon Lords
Galactic Civilizations 2
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
Pharaoh
Railroad Tycoon 3
Red Baron 3D (heavily modded)
Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell - Pandora Tomorrow
Starships Unlimited: Divided Galaxies
Thief 3 - Deadly Shadows
Two Worlds
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:25 am
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> Red Baron 3D (heavily modded)
Gee, when I see current games I miss so much creativity of Dynamix.
Jeff Tunnell is my facebook friend - I see that he has a band as well.
Genius...
After dissolving of Dynamix, many exDynamix employees went to Microsoft to
work on their Flight Simulators etc...
But Dynamix was really great producers...
Let's see:
Project Firestart
Aces of the Deep
The Adventure of Willy Beamish (finished on Amiga)
Betrayal at Krondor (one of best RPG's EVER, finished it 4 times!)
Caveman Ugh-Olympics (played it on C-64 hehe)
Heart of China (good adventure)
Red Baron
Rise of The Dragon (finished it on Amiga)
(Msg. 10) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 1:00 pm
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:19 pm
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Playing WW2 time of wrath now and enjpying it.
Vastly improved over orig.
(Msg. 12) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:25 pm
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"Vincenzo Beretta" wrote in message
> The idea for this post comes from both a recourring thread on
> comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action ("What have you been playing in... (month)
> (year)") and a recent post by Giftzy about the games he currently has on
> his HD. Since the former evolved into a good monthly picture of the "State
> of Play" (*) - with insights, commentaries, reviews etc. - but it often
> lacks a "war-historical" component, I thought about doing a CSIPGW-H
> edition.
>
> These are the games I currently keep on my HD, either because I'm playing
> them or because they are of the "let's keep it because I could wish to
> fire it up any moment now". With a single exception, I have not included
> the games I have to review.
>
> NOW PLAYING
- Silent Hunter 3 + GWX.
- Silent Hunter 4 & I'm waiting on the u boat missions to arrive in the
post to try them plus the mods. These two DVDs cost $10 each via e bay.
- Taking a break from WITPAE, the kamikaze freighters & the stingy allied
air replacements were both really starting to get to me. I'll restart soon
though.
Tonight I'm playing Reds (Russian Civil War, GMT), yesterday I played
Twilight Struggle (Cold War, also GMT). Where are the computer games about
that stuff?
(Msg. 13) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:24 pm
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"Vincenzo Beretta" wrote in message
> The idea for this post comes from both a recourring thread on
> comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action ("What have you been playing in... (month)
> (year)") and a recent post by Giftzy about the games he currently has on
> his HD. Since the former evolved into a good monthly picture of the "State
> of Play" (*) - with insights, commentaries, reviews etc. - but it often
> lacks a "war-historical" component, I thought about doing a CSIPGW-H
> edition.
>
> These are the games I currently keep on my HD, either because I'm playing
> them or because they are of the "let's keep it because I could wish to
> fire it up any moment now". With a single exception, I have not included
> the games I have to review.
>
> NOW PLAYING
(Msg. 14) Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:24 pm
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We're supposed to _play_ the games? Wouldn't that cut in to our time
bitching about them?
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:25 am
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In article <28435973-6aee-4d89-929a-
713db60b4ddb.DeleteThis@y21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, says...
What's on my hard drive:
Wargames:
TOAW 3
West Front
East Front
Rising Sun
CMBB
Battleground: Waterloo
Battleground: Napoleon in Russia
Battleground: Prelude to Waterloo
(+ a shedload of NIR Project modded battles of the above)
HPS Jena
HPS Eckmuhl
HPS Wagram
HPS Napoleon's Russian Campaign
HPS Waterloo
Campaigns on the Danube
HTTR
Just realising how behind-the-curve my collection is. But with gaming
time so limited and my backlog with regard to the above list so long, a
new offering needs to be utterly compelling for me to buy it. (I took
one look at the new Barbarossa games screenshots, shuddered and thought
"no thanks".)
Non-Wargames:
Fallout 3
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion*
Far Cry 2 (some great points, but ultimately got bored with it)
Falcon 4 Allied Force
Silent Hunter 4
Silent Hunter 3
Currently played games: Oblivion, Fallout3, HPS Jena, CMBB.
Holdit
*I only got Oblivion because it was on special offer and it was by
Bethesda - I guessed I probably wouldn't like it. Wrong, and the backlog
gets even longer...
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