Wargame: Red Dragon

Nefaro · December 15, 2016, 04:13:47 PM

Quote from: jomni on December 14, 2016, 08:33:10 PM
Act of War (2005) is the original title before Wargame. It was very good. Not typical as Jarhead stated.
The latest iteration after Wargame is Act of Aggression (2015).

I didn't play Act Of War very long, so it may not have been another Command & Conquer or Age Of Empires style game. Just struck me that way in my short time.

demjansk1942 · December 18, 2016, 01:59:31 PM

I wish this game had the option of turns like Battlefront games with a We Go system

Did they offer a slower fix for all three games?

Jarhead0331 · December 18, 2016, 02:20:07 PM

Quote from: demjansk1942 on December 18, 2016, 01:59:31 PM
I wish this game had the option of turns like Battlefront games with a We Go system

Did they offer a slower fix for all three games?

Yes. There is a trainer that lets you set game speed for both European Escalation and ALB.

demjansk1942 · December 19, 2016, 08:23:12 PM

Thanks for the info

undercovergeek · January 24, 2017, 07:59:05 AM

Quote from: AchillesLastStand on December 13, 2016, 02:57:16 PM
Really wish they would have done a WW2 Wargame instead of Act of Aggression. It would have sold like hotcakes and gotten much better reviews.

Apart from ruse does anyone know the nearest game to a ww2 red dragon?

And it's not company of heroes :P

Pete Dero · January 24, 2017, 08:34:39 AM

Quote from: undercovergeek on January 24, 2017, 07:59:05 AM
Quote from: AchillesLastStand on December 13, 2016, 02:57:16 PM
Really wish they would have done a WW2 Wargame instead of Act of Aggression. It would have sold like hotcakes and gotten much better reviews.

Apart from ruse does anyone know the nearest game to a ww2 red dragon?

And it's not company of heroes :P

Theatre of War series http://store.steampowered.com/sub/14301/
Graviteam Tactics series http://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Graviteam
Men of War series http://store.steampowered.com/sub/47303/
Blitzkrieg 3 ? http://store.steampowered.com/app/235380/
Officers ? http://www.matrixgames.com/products/367/details/Officers.-.The.Matrix.Edition

Jarhead0331 · March 07, 2021, 09:00:19 PM

I've been playing this game again and I forgot how absolutely totally friggin' awesome it is. I've got to say the entire Wargame series is actually my childhood dream game come true...seriously, I used to play with little toy soldiers that I took out of a box. This is basically that, with awesome details, graphics and sound. I love seizing and holding objectives and then calling in CAS to rain fire down on platoons of enemy soldiers. The destruction left in the wake of battle is also fantastic. You can tell how intense a battle was by looking at how badly scarred the terrain is.

Just an outstanding game all around.

solops · March 07, 2021, 10:13:01 PM

Quote from: Jarhead0331 on March 07, 2021, 09:00:19 PM
I've been playing this game again and I forgot how absolutely totally friggin' awesome it is. I've got to say the entire Wargame series is actually my childhood dream game come true...

Referring to Wargame: Red Dragon?

I bought the Theater of War series on sale,but never downloaded it. Is it similar? All of these games look similar in the ads and I get really confused. The only one I ever played a bit was Mius Front. Oh and I really played the original Combat Mission-Beyond Overlord a bit back in the early 2000s. Since then so many look-alikes came out that I got overwhelmed and gave up figuring out which one was "best".

Destraex · March 08, 2021, 02:59:58 AM

Theatre of War is NOT similar to Red Dragon at all.
Theatre of war is more like a clunky 3D version of close combat.
Combat Mission I suppose is a more realistic but clunkier version of close combat in 3D.
Red Dragon's main differences are that it is a cold war setting and that you can zoom out to the clouds or in to see a soldiers face almost instantly seeing everything in between along the way.
Red Dragon also involves bringing in forces with points as the battle progresses.

Solops what kind of game are you after exactly?

demjansk1942 · March 08, 2021, 05:48:21 AM

This game was free the other day on Epic. Not sure if the week ended for the freebie

steve58 · March 08, 2021, 10:31:43 AM

Quote from: demjansk1942 on March 08, 2021, 05:48:21 AM
This game was free the other day on Epic. Not sure if the week ended for the freebie

Still free until this Thursday ~11am.

Destraex · March 08, 2021, 04:34:44 PM

Just found this

Destraex · March 09, 2021, 03:57:11 AM

Man there are so many things I feel horrible about in the interface for red dragon vs sd2.

Jarhead0331 · March 09, 2021, 07:24:34 AM

I don't think it is fair to compare the two games...at least, not with respect to things like UI, mechanics, etc. There is like 4 to 5 years of development time between the two games. I have no complaints about the Red Dragon interface whatsoever. Whatever it has works for me. I only wish they could figure out how to make the rewind feature work in the replays.

Pete Dero · March 09, 2021, 08:27:30 AM

Quote from: Jarhead0331 on March 09, 2021, 07:24:34 AM
I don't think it is fair to compare the two games...at least, not with respect to things like UI, mechanics, etc. There is like 4 to 5 years of development time between the two games. I have no complaints about the Red Dragon interface whatsoever. Whatever it has works for me. I only wish they could figure out how to make the rewind feature work in the replays.

Difference # 3 : planes are handled differently

The game doesn't handle the planes differently regarding speed but ww2 planes are slower than modern planes !
It seems to me he knows little about the equipment in ww2 and looks at this as choices the game designer made instead of accepting the game tries to reflect reality.