winSPWW2

[Korgan]

It's cool. Turns take too long, and it's as user-friendly as a spiked dildo, but the gameplay's great. There's a nice comprehensive advice section in the manual, and surgical precision is rarely needed as you're not a dumbfuck and stick to a few general principles from The Art of War.
What I wanted to ask is, any Soviet campaigns to download? The traitorous nazi-loving devs didn't include any, and randomly generated ones feel a bit pointless.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Try mentioning wtf you are talking about before assigning it to an acronym in the future.

 

[Fens]

Try mentioning wtf you are talking about before assigning it to an acronym in the future.

normally i'd agree but this is actually called winSPWW2.

-> http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Camo_Works ... _page.html

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Wow, color me surprised as all fuck.

I guess I'll check it out then.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Has anyone here bought a physical version? How many pages does its manual have?

 

[Shuma]

it's steel panthers with changes made after the codebase went public.

the SP stands for that. hopefully you know what WW2 abbreviates

 

[GarfunkeL]

I'm unaware of any Soviet campaigns for SPWW2. SPWAW has two, IIRC. The scale is slightly different between them since one uses SP2 engine and the other uses SP3 engine, though I think they did downscale it. Gah, I've only been playing SPMBT lately so might be talking out of my ass.

Steel Panthers World War 2 is from Matrix
Steel Panthers World at War is from Camo Workshop
Steel Panthers Main Battle Tank is also from Camo and is the 1950-2020 version.

 

[Abraxas]

Has anyone here bought a physical version? How many pages does its manual have?

53 pages, around 20 of them being a guide through the tutorial scenario, and 8 of gameplay notes, the rest is installation instructions and description of menus and things like that.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Steel Panthers, one of my favourite series. Might as well play a bit, which usually means for the rest of the day.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Has anyone here bought a physical version? How many pages does its manual have?

53 pages, around 20 of them being a guide through the tutorial scenario, and 8 of gameplay notes, the rest is installation instructions and description of menus and things like that.

Oh. I guess I'll stay with the freeware version then.

 

[markec]

This looks sweet, Steel Panthers is one of my favourite strategy series and its time for another replay.

 

[Abraxas]

Oh. I guess I'll stay with the freeware version then.

If you don't mind lower resolutions that's the way to go. The other perks of the pay version were something about the scenario editor and secure email play I think.

 

[poocolator]

remember, boys:
suppressive fire is your best friend

 

[Norfleet]

Yes, well, you know the rule: Suppressive fire, won't. Friendly fire, isn't.

 

[poocolator]

Tell that to the AI.

 

[Elwro]

The Matrix version, which I bought a few years ago (it was sold eventually for $3 around here since no one was interested in it) includes some big-ass Mega-campaigns I never tried. Too bad that it doesn't seem to include bigger resolutions.

 

[GarfunkeL]

I hate the addition of extra-opportunity fire. No matter how much you suppress the enemy, no matter how much they have already fired, there's always a chance (based on squad xp, I think) that they'll get a magical extra opportunity fire. It wouldn't be bad if a unit would only get one or two per turn but they are unlimited.

 

[Korgan]

A shame that reloading guns isn't simulated in any real way. No matter whether a tank destroyer is expecting enemy armor or infantry, it'll instantly load and op-fire the right round.