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#1 7 OCT 2010 at 10:19am
acctingman Centurion Posts : 39 Joined: 13 JUL 2010 Status : Offline	I'd love to recreate ww2 either through miniatures or PC gaming. Miniatures = way too much $$ on lead and way too much time painting, but more realistic and more accurate than ANY PC game. I'd give my first born for a killer all encompassing WW2 stragtegy game that included all theatre's, countries and historical units. So, far this is what I've come up with. Arsenal of Democracy for Land conflict and possible naval conflicts. WiTP:AE only covers Pacific, but still....$80 vs thousands in miniatures...it's a no brainer. I'm thinking it would take just as much time to play out all the possible scenario's using mini's as it would be to play WiTP:AE to its end. The only thing PC games do not cover is aerial conflicts. This will have to be done with minis. Sorry...yes, this was a bloggish rant and meaningless. Sorry for the wasted 3 minutes you spent reading my drivel
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#2 7 OCT 2010 at 1:33pm
spec10 Centurion Posts : 236 Joined: 3 JAN 2009 Status : Offline	Since you're happy with WitP which covers only the Pacific, I think it's fair to include this one for the aerial part: http://matrixgames.com/...Day.to.Bombing.the.Reich
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#3 7 OCT 2010 at 2:46pm
rossntu Commander Posts : 1272 Joined: 24 DEC 2008 Location: 0 Status : Offline	Ok I'm now going to ask a stupid question- (can you tell I've never been into minitures!) - why can't you buy prepainted minatures? Or can you but people like a variety in their models? Just interested why people would spend all that time painting if there was an alternative.
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#4 7 OCT 2010 at 3:00pm
acctingman Centurion Posts : 39 Joined: 13 JUL 2010 Status : Offline	*Originally Posted By ross_ntu* Ok I'm now going to ask a stupid question- (can you tell I've never been into minitures!) - why can't you buy prepainted minatures? Or can you but people like a variety in their models? Just interested why people would spend all that time painting if there was an alternative. Not a stupid question at all. The reason I do not want to do miniatures is two-fold. 1) the cost, approx, of 1/300 scale minis for land combat and aerial gaming for ww2 (this is trying to buy at least several pieces of everything....2x M4 shermans, 2x tiger 1, 2x etc, etc) would cost in the thousands of dollars. 2) time sink Also, there are not many pre-painted options out there. There are some, but for me who wants a representation of everything used in WW2, there are not a lot of options (other than painting your own). That's why I have to stick to PC games. I'd rather pay $300-400 for PC games than $5000 for minis Think I'm going to buy Arsenal of Democracy and call it good. Once I'm done with that, then I might look at WiTP:AE I'm going to have to stick with aerial miniature gaming as there are no real options for good aerial strat games on the market for the PC.
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#5 7 OCT 2010 at 4:45pm
rossntu Commander Posts : 1272 Joined: 24 DEC 2008 Location: 0 Status : Offline	Gosh! Didn't realise how expensive miniatures were! That's a serious investment- I can understand your decision to spend the money on games instead.
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#6 8 OCT 2010 at 5:14am
Iain McNeil Centurion Posts : 430 Joined: 13 FEB 2004 Location: UK Status : Offline	If you're looking for a WW2 PC game with a tabletop feel try Battlefield Academy. The Flames of War players are loving it and FoW is probably the most popular ww2 miniatures system. http://slitherine.com/games/bbc_ba_pc Iain McNeil Slitherine We've got History under our skin [link=http://www.slitherine.com/]http://www.slitherine.com/[/link]
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#7 8 OCT 2010 at 5:17pm
destraex Global Moderator Posts : 6232 Joined: 8 MAY 2001 Location: AT, 3D Status : Online	I think accting man is looking for what I would also like. What we really need is HOI3 combined with total war. Throw in a realistic supply system and all the varieties of vehicles and equipment that actually work in their intended roles. Combine games that have naval/air and ground combat a bit like silent hunter did with destroyer command. ITs a game that I cannot ever see being made unless somebody like CA games takes it on and modders get to it. The best your going to get for now is HOI3 or Highway to the Reich style games. Medieval Real Time, Mount and Blade style Historical Combat.
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#8 13 OCT 2010 at 12:06pm
r6751 Centurion Posts : 26 Joined: 19 DEC 2009 Location: 0 Status : Offline	*Originally Posted By acctingman* I'd love to recreate ww2 either through miniatures or PC gaming. I'd give my first born for a killer all encompassing WW2 stragtegy game that included all theatre's, countries and historical units. OK. The only thing my game doesn't have is the historical units. All units in the game are generic types. We've got three levels: strategic, operational, tactical. We have three services: army, navy, air. We also have diplomacy, economic, espionage. As for time and money: Free to play. The turns are 11 days (not counting weekends) which represent a game month. We are under way and looking for players, particularly for the Allied side. January 1940 and Europe is aflame. Normally, folks download the base rules and get the other 8 manuals as players. For Wargamer Forum members, mention this offer in an email and I'll let you have the whole 9 manuals. I want you to join us! Game Web Site for more info.
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