The Great War: Western Front

Started by SirAndrewD, August 24, 2022, 06:28:12 PM

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SirAndrewD

Looks like Petroglyph is taking on WW1 with an RTS that has a "strategic layer".

Empire at War World War I??




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Gusington



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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2109370/The_Great_War_Western_Front/

RTS  :-\.  I might be able to handle it at the speed the trailer showed.  <:-)
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ArizonaTank

#3
I am generally excited for a game with this subject and scope.

However the game it looks like they are doing has me a little wary.

I can't put my finger on it exactly, but the very short snippet of gameplay makes me wonder if it is little too "arcade-like" for my tastes. More Cossacks III than Combat Mission. I'm not really expecting Combat Mission...but I would like to see a game where an A-7 is a rare and very slow beast...as it was in real life.

Anyway, will wait to see how it all shapes up as they get closer to release.
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SirAndrewD

Yeah, I wasn't enamored of the hordes of A7V's rushing trench lines.
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JasonPratt

I seem to recall there WAS in fact a WW1 game based on the Cossacks engine! -- I vaguely even recall buying it (from NWS maybe)...
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Quote from: JasonPratt on August 27, 2022, 11:47:57 AM
I seem to recall there WAS in fact a WW1 game based on the Cossacks engine! -- I vaguely even recall buying it (from NWS maybe)...

I don't know about that. But there was / is a game called "World War 1" that is an RTS / strategy game based on the Blitzkrieg engine...done by "1C". The game is currently on sale for less than a dollar on Steam.

I have it, played it a bit...just wasn't very impressed. No real attempted realism as I recall.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/361380/World_War_I/

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SirAndrewD

I don't remember a WW1 game on the Cossacks Engine. 

I do remember American Conquest, because one bundle version of the game put my friend Brien's face on the cover (he was a reenactor) without asking his permission.
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Pete Dero

Quote from: JasonPratt on August 27, 2022, 11:47:57 AM
I seem to recall there WAS in fact a WW1 game based on the Cossacks engine! -- I vaguely even recall buying it (from NWS maybe)...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/285480/The_Entente_Gold/


   

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SirAndrewD

Wow...never knew about those. 

I remember buying this one and being supremely disappointed as a youngster...

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Sigwolf

Quote from: Apocalypse 31 on August 27, 2022, 03:47:49 PM
Don't forget

https://store.steampowered.com/app/361380/World_War_I/

Used the same Enigma game engine as Blitzkrieg
It would be hard to forget... ArizonaTank posted it 3 messages before yours.    :D

Gusington

I have been waiting for a game like this since...almost since the actual Great War, it feels like.

I bought all the games posted above and each was more craptacular than the last :/

Hoping Western Front can be far less craptacular.


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Destraex

Cautiously excited about this. It certainly does not look cutting edge and what makes me wary is that the soldiers look like they may be individually controlled like an age of empires game which might get very messy.
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W8taminute

Definitely interested in this.  My hopes are great but my expectations are low.  Even so I'm keeping my eye on this one. 
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