PC GAMES (Defence/Military, Strategy)

[Kirkzzy]

Has anybody played the new COD? It will only be released in South Africa late November 2011.

Don't bother with Call of Duty, played until Black Ops (traded that one in) it has become a novelty in the gaming industry. All they care about is MASSIVE EXPLOSIONS AND GUNS!!

I suggest Battlefield 3 if you want a fun experience but that isn't a total arcade shooter (CoD) or hardcore simulator (Arma).

 

[dragonfire]

Played CoD MW3 in the Campaign mode a couple of weeks back - it was good but it didnt feel like a generational difference in gameplay like it was between MW and MW2. Solid everything but is a complete continuation from MW2. Sad tht Soap dies (oops did i just let it out.. considering it is quite a few months old it shd be alrite )

 

[hassata]

In terms of flight sims, you can't do much better than Eagle Dynamics A-10C. These guys did the desktop sims for the NG. Takes me about 10 minutes and 30+ checklist items to get the thing started and ready to taxi. Just awesome.

BF3 is great, especially with a regular squad. Working together any half-way decent squad can move through and dominate a map within minutes.

Killzone 3 for the PS3 with MOVE controls is currently taking most of my FPS time. MOVE controls work great with MAG as well.

 

[jamwal]

Nuclear Strike was one of the best and most detailed games ever released. Back in 1999, they had pictures and video footages of actual weapon systems. Thats the game that really got me hooked

 

[rand0m]

ARMA 2 for the win, it generally attracts a older & patient community that your fanboy console shoot em up game. It has outstanding graphics but does need a fairly beefy PC to play.

The Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2 is also an awesome squad based game but is losing its community here in Aus.

 

[Prosper]

Here's my 2 cents.

Medal of Honor: Warfigher: Medal of Honor Warfighter | Australia.
Play your country special forces (including Australian SAS) in this first person shooter game. You can play USA, English, Canadian, Finnish, Swedish, Polish, Korean and a couple of other nations special forces to achieve strategic objectives. Yet to be officially released but the beta version released on Xbox suggest it looks pretty good.

Tropical Stormfront: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...50cm9waWNhbHN0b3JtZnJvbnQuYW5kcm9pZC5mdWxsIl0. - an Android based strategic game (or RTS) where you can play USA, England, Russia, China, Japan, India and Brazil in a more contemporary settings. I've asked the developer of any chances of including Australia in this which he said they will look into it when they have more time and resources available.

 

[Linda Lullaby]

Hi everybody,

I wonder if you guys could suggest one or three games that would suit my interest.

I'm not looking for big explosions and nor a game centered on a micro-level, a "one-man-army" type of soldier.

Rather, I am looking for a strategic game played from the position of a field marschal.
Preferably including factual geostrategic issues, as in economical-geographical (natural resources), politricks etc., contemporary but also regarding the comming decades (WWIII etc).

Likewise a similar game from a field marchal point of view but historical could also be interesting, if it's good enough to stimulate macro-level strategic thinking.

And yea, if it matters the computer I'm using is an i5 notebook (with external screen).


//L

 

[mAIOR]

Here are my suggestions:

Harpoon 3: Very good game. Complex like hell and the pro version of it is used by some military iirc.

A free Harpoon like game: Global Conflict Blue 2.
Global Conflict Blue : Warfare Sims <- links here. Very solid open source game. Brilliant. No other words to describe it. The fact that people bother to make such a game without being paid, makes me take my hat off to them

A new, improved version of Harpoon: Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations.
Check out their website and videos. Not done yet but will be getting it ASAP. Very nice indeed.
Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations : Warfare Sims

DCS World: Eagle Dynamics jewel and battlefield simulator. It's ambitious plans for the future include a true warfare environment and best of all, the basic version is free. You get an Su-25T with an advanced flight model and avionics and you can amuse yourself blowing stuff up. If you decide to buy their modules, you can buy either study sims that have all the (possible) aircraft instruments and avionics (like the A-10C or the Ka-50) or, the more casual simulator Flaming Cliffs 3 which although not as detailed as their dedicated modules, are realistic enough to give you an idea of weapon platform. Plus, as a modular platform, it has plenty of third party modules being developed for it. This will bring a lot of extra content. They're also developing a harpoonesque module (still a long way to go) this allows you to jump into the JTAC shoes and coordinate land and aerial assets. Including other players.


ARMA III - It's ARMA. It's still an alpha but it's awesome.

 

[Locutius]

These are great suggestions. Thank you.

Have to rope some mates in.

Regards
Loc

 

[Rimasta]

Naval war artic circle, defcon, theatre of war, world of tanks, to name some that aren't here.

 

[mAIOR]

I'd stay away from Naval War. The game is just rubbish. Sensors don't work as they should, game is buggy as hell, the best altitude for a plane to cruise is sea level since no detrimental effects are really modulated and, a C-130 lands close to mach 5. It's a huge lemon. Some missions crash just because too many assets are present...

 

[lastranger]

The top games that I love to play are 1) Shogun2 total war 2) Medieval2 totalwar 3) War in the Pacific

 

[Dragoon95]

I love Medieval II Total War and I have the mods Stainless Steel (More historically acurate) and Broken Crescent for it. World of Tanks, World of Warplanes and World of Warships are great for historical accuracy when it comes to tanks, planes or ships! I'm also going to get Rome II Total War when it comes out.

 

[lastranger]

You should try War in the Pacific if you like WW2 based games. The original was called Pac War and first appeared in the 90's and was developed by Gary Grisby, probably the best war game developer of all time, its available from Matrix Games and the latest upgrade was done in 2008 so its not really that new. You hold the appointment of I would say a theatre chief like Nimitz, MacArthur and Yamamoto. The units are individual ships, airforce squadrons, brigades and divisions. Very accurate and intense gamming. I would recommend for expert gamers but those with time on their hands to learn it will probably love it. Its turn based and 1 turn is equal to 1 week. IMHO its the best war game ever made with Medieval2 coming a close second.

 

[Rimasta]

I'd stay away from Naval War. The game is just rubbish. Sensors don't work as they should, game is buggy as hell, the best altitude for a plane to cruise is sea level since no detrimental effects are really modulated and, a C-130 lands close to mach 5. It's a huge lemon. Some missions crash just because too many assets are present...

Yeah it does have its bugs but I haven't found anything like it. I disconnect from the Internet and the game runs much smoother FYI. Not many games let me attack American carrier groups though.

 

[SpudmanWP]

My son and I started playing World of Tanks last week and I am hooked.

As a tanker myself, I can appreciate the effort involved to create a 10 tier tank game that is accurate and balanced. It works the way it should with LOS, armor, AP, HEAT, etc behaving well.

Best feature of all; as a Free to Play (FTP) type of game, they did not restrict the best tanks to only paid customers. Paid customers will gain experience faster, be able to build bigger squads, have a bigger garage, and have some nice toys. However, FTP customers will still be able to get to Tier 10, use all the classes of vehicles, build a squad of three, etc.

The servers do a good job of balancing the game too. The normal way to play is to pick a tank from your garage and join a random battle. The server looks at everyone in the lobby and puts together two teams of tanks (up to ~15 players each). Each team will have a balanced load of each of the 5 types of vehicles (L/M/H Tanks, AT Guns, & Artillery) and will balance the Tiers (a two Tier spread). The spread means that in a random game you will not see a vehicle more than 1-2 Tiers above and a 1-2 Tiers below your own Tier (at least at the lower Tiers). However, if you join a game with a Platoon of mixed Tiers, you are graded on your group's highest Tier.

Overall, it’s a fun, addicting game that is accurate and free.

Funniest thing I see…. Noobs who charge headlong into battle….. with an artillery piece because they saw the HUGE damage index for a low Tier.

Word of advice… if you like to snipe, get a small (low) AT gun and stay back. Let the tanks find the badguys and snipe when they appear.

 

[Waylander]

In WoT it's tank hunters for me. With no other class of vehicles I have so much fun, apart from the Tier 8 french heavy.

Panzerjäger ftw!

 

[SpudmanWP]

I'm liking the AT-1 with the 76mm gun.

While it is not as accurate, I can hit anything LOS and take it out with HE.

It also benefits from being REAL small and hard to hit (I love being completely hidden by small bushes and being protected by event eh shortest walls.

 

[Dragoon95]

My son and I started playing World of Tanks last week and I am hooked.

As a tanker myself, I can appreciate the effort involved to create a 10 tier tank game that is accurate and balanced. It works the way it should with LOS, armor, AP, HEAT, etc behaving well.

Best feature of all; as a Free to Play (FTP) type of game, they did not restrict the best tanks to only paid customers. Paid customers will gain experience faster, be able to build bigger squads, have a bigger garage, and have some nice toys. However, FTP customers will still be able to get to Tier 10, use all the classes of vehicles, build a squad of three, etc.

The servers do a good job of balancing the game too. The normal way to play is to pick a tank from your garage and join a random battle. The server looks at everyone in the lobby and puts together two teams of tanks (up to ~15 players each). Each team will have a balanced load of each of the 5 types of vehicles (L/M/H Tanks, AT Guns, & Artillery) and will balance the Tiers (a two Tier spread). The spread means that in a random game you will not see a vehicle more than 1-2 Tiers above and a 1-2 Tiers below your own Tier (at least at the lower Tiers). However, if you join a game with a Platoon of mixed Tiers, you are graded on your group's highest Tier.

Overall, it’s a fun, addicting game that is accurate and free.

Funniest thing I see…. Noobs who charge headlong into battle….. with an artillery piece because they saw the HUGE damage index for a low Tier.

Word of advice… if you like to snipe, get a small (low) AT gun and stay back. Let the tanks find the badguys and snipe when they appear.

I am so annoyed they nerfed the arty in the 8.6 update. It's useless now. Up until the beginning of this year though you couldn't do most of the things you can do now unless you had gold like three man platoons, premium ammunition and consumables but they decided to allow players to purchase these items with credits as well as gold.

If you enjoyed WoT I highly recommend you try WoWP which is currently in Open Beta. All your stuff will get wiped when the game releases but you do have an advantage by learning how to play before the game is released.

WoWS should be coming out in Alpha soon so look out for that as well.

 

[SpudmanWP]

I started playing at 8.6, what did they do to nerf arty?