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Grand Strategy Wargames emphasizing playability
- Thread starter chuft
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chuft
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It's really just a question of time scale. It has nothing to do with realism or depth of play.
In a game with 4 hour turns, the German attack on Brest Litovsk in 1941 would be a long drawn out affair. In a game with two week turns, it would be one die roll, or perhaps just an overrun during the movement phase.
The bigger the time scale the more dramatic and fast moving the combat. 4X games tend to have very large time scales so their combat tends to be very dramatic.
Strategic Command and its brethren have good time scales. It's just that games like that seem to be rare on the computer.
In a game with 4 hour turns, the German attack on Brest Litovsk in 1941 would be a long drawn out affair. In a game with two week turns, it would be one die roll, or perhaps just an overrun during the movement phase.
The bigger the time scale the more dramatic and fast moving the combat. 4X games tend to have very large time scales so their combat tends to be very dramatic.
Strategic Command and its brethren have good time scales. It's just that games like that seem to be rare on the computer.
GarfunkeL
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Yeah, stop with the fucking excuses. You're a gigantic faggot. TOAW allows units to be destroyed in turn. You have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
GG's World at War plays like a beefed up Axis and Allies. The most important decisions being who and when to attack, and balancing research and production. It doesn't leave much room for maneuver given the scale, so Word in Flames it is not, but it plays pretty quickly, which makes it ideal for PBEM.
You can get a 4 player game finished in a reasonable time frame, like 1 month.
I really liked it as a replacement for Axis and Allies, even though I missed the maneuver aspect of more detailled wargames.
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