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It's looking good.

I'll have to post the pics I recently made of a small unit of Late Imperial Roman cavalry (15mm)

Just in appreciation.

Cool. Should go well with Empire: TW, too.

Got $6 and 30% off this week? This'un's a tank game; 3rd person, but with very accurate damage modeling. A classic that didn't reach enough of its target market; dev'ed by Germans working with museum originals nearby.

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/panzer_elite_se

Ogre ftw?

When I found a copy of Treadmarks for $3 at Best Buy, a tank racing game with early deformable terrain, various models, speeds, weps etc.- coded by a young guy who lived just long enough to see it go gold, and blessed by The Carmack on a Make-A-Wish visit (in OpenGL no less- where's the OSX port?), I actually thought of an [MA] Treadmarks. But there were no more to be had, and other reasons against. Years ago, maybe '04ish.

HistWar: Grognards from Battlefront has been cancelled.

He LIVES!

Welcome back, Bat. We wuz worried about your sudden disappearance.

sturner wrote:

He LIVES!

Welcome back, Bat. We wuz worried about your sudden disappearance.

I'm not dead yet. Oh, wait...

user wrote:

Hey, Bat, I just picked up a copy of Armed and Dangerous for the Xbox for $3.

Looks like it'll run on a 360, too.

Cool beans. I only have a few console games; backwards compat seems to vary. Halo 2 never shed its ghosting problem, but at least it scales to 1680x1050 and likely higher; my Halo 1, recently found, currently only goes to a 1280x960 window (cutscenes play at 720p). Maybe an update will improve that first time I fire it up while on XBL, and meanwhile FSAA actually seems to work pretty well in it. Ear was right about some of the shaders being better too; one can only guess what might've been with a bit more dev time. I still think HPC was shoved out early to debut the same day as Half-Life 2. By the time Gabe 'fessed up it wouldn't ship 9/30, HPC was likely Gold.

(DX9 does give HPC some polish and texture filtering it lacks on console, and when I think of it on 5870s, Voodoo-5 style supersample AA and angle-independent AF... )

But yeah, cool. Dunno 'bout controller issues, but hell, reefdog used to fire it up and let it run for hours just to hear the music. Good stuff, I miss it. (Must... finish... new... rig...)

Last edited by Bat (2009-12-07 4:26 pm)

Gold - PT Boats: Knights of the Sea  [Dec 21, 2009, 1:12 pm ET]

Battlefront.com announces that PT Boats: Knights of the Sea, and the English edition of the World War II naval combat game is on track for release on Christmas Day, the worst shopping day of the year. They offer a $10.00 discount on preorders, saying preorder customers can download the game immediately on release day while waiting for the DVD to be delivered. Here's word on the game: "'PT Boats: Knights of the Sea' is a full-blown naval simulation, and more: combining key elements of a strategic, tactical and action simulator, the game allows the player to control each crew member separately - or command whole groups of ships in a strategic layer!"

Long-delayed, its once-l33t DX10 grfx should still be pretty spiffy.

Series?.. what all I've been missing, as someone who still has his early '80s Yacquinto pen and paper IC games.

Ironclads: High Seas. PC Game. Totem Games. $19.99

Passed Inspection: Great graphics, challenging AI, realistic physics, nice interface, neglected topic, useful editor

Failed Basic: No multi-play, lack of weather and land.

Totem Games’s Ironclad series just keeps growing in response to gamers’ wishes. The first version was turn-based and focused on littoral and harbor clashes. The turn-based engine produced some strange situations such as ships sailing past opponents without receiving fire. The next version, Ironclads: High Seas, fixed that problem with a real-time engine but didn’t afford players much latitude in creating scenarios. Totem has responded not only by releasing a scenario editor but also by including two new ships for this game of naval combat in the American Civil War.

The game is available by download from www.totemgames.ru. Activation requires a one-time exchange of emails; answers from Totem Games are timely. The game is DRM-free.

Angels in the Detail
Ship graphics are superb. Spars, rigging, smokestacks, deck guns and hatches are finely detailed. Hull planks and gun ports are shown clearly, down to holes and scorch marks from hits. Fires blaze and ships keel over. Stack and gun smoke are persistent and drift realistically. Speed and damage percentage can be seen by holding the mouse tip over ships. An info panel at the bottom of the screen describes details such as flooding amounts, current and maximum ship and group speeds as well as gun number, position and type. Wakes and bow waves reflect vessels’ speeds and courses. Unfortunately, the sea state is always smooth.

Zooming in and out, rotating and tilting views allow players to either look at the big picture or be on the same level as the crews.
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http://www.armchairgeneral.com/ironclad … review.htm

I wonder if there're demos...

This sounds interesting.