Looking for a new game to play, and have settled on a few. Need your thoughts

[MengJiao]

I eventually picked up CLOD and modded it.  But barely touched it since I have others sims that give a better experience.  It looks pretty, I suppose.

That's so sad, and speaks volumes. Thanks for being honest.

  I would say you might as well skip CLOD.  For me BoS now fills the WWII flight sim spot and , though it is not quite as pretty, it is more fun.

  Or, as I may do soon -- just do all your flight simming in DCS.  It's not even as pretty as BoS,  but it has a great editor.

[Nefaro]

I eventually picked up CLOD and modded it.  But barely touched it since I have others sims that give a better experience.  It looks pretty, I suppose.

That's so sad, and speaks volumes. Thanks for being honest.

  I would say you might as well skip CLOD.  For me BoS now fills the WWII flight sim spot and , though it is not quite as pretty, it is more fun.

  Or, as I may do soon -- just do all your flight simming in DCS.  It's not even as pretty as BoS,  but it has a great editor.

Yeah, may as well put that money towards BoS if you really want a modern WW2 flight sim.  Despite complaints about BoS, it will still probably end up in a better condition than CLOD was left.  Plus you'll have more flyable aircraft. 

[Slick Wilhelm]

I eventually picked up CLOD and modded it.  But barely touched it since I have others sims that give a better experience.  It looks pretty, I suppose.

That's so sad, and speaks volumes. Thanks for being honest.

  I would say you might as well skip CLOD.  For me BoS now fills the WWII flight sim spot and , though it is not quite as pretty, it is more fun.

  Or, as I may do soon -- just do all your flight simming in DCS.  It's not even as pretty as BoS,  but it has a great editor.

Yeah, may as well put that money towards BoS if you really want a modern WW2 flight sim.  Despite complaints about BoS, it will still probably end up in a better condition than CLOD was left.  Plus you'll have more flyable aircraft.

Yeah, but, the Battle of Britain! How can I ignore that? Is it that bad?

[Bletchley_Geek]

Napoleon Total War: Darth Mod - This is interesting me. Is the strategic game any good? The tactical side looks good.

If you're interested in that, then I can't help suggesting you to check out Ultimate General: Gettysburg. The designer is Darth himself.

[jomni]

Bought CLOD. Played some training flights but never went back to it. Never really caught my fancy.

[MengJiao]

I eventually picked up CLOD and modded it.  But barely touched it since I have others sims that give a better experience.  It looks pretty, I suppose.

That's so sad, and speaks volumes. Thanks for being honest.

  I would say you might as well skip CLOD.  For me BoS now fills the WWII flight sim spot and , though it is not quite as pretty, it is more fun.

  Or, as I may do soon -- just do all your flight simming in DCS.  It's not even as pretty as BoS,  but it has a great editor.

Yeah, may as well put that money towards BoS if you really want a modern WW2 flight sim.  Despite complaints about BoS, it will still probably end up in a better condition than CLOD was left.  Plus you'll have more flyable aircraft.

Yeah, but, the Battle of Britain! How can I ignore that? Is it that bad?

  IT's not bad, it's just kind of a dead-end that has been superceded by BoS in my opinion.  Might as well skip straight to BoS.

[JudgeDredd]

I eventually picked up CLOD and modded it.  But barely touched it since I have others sims that give a better experience.  It looks pretty, I suppose.

That's so sad, and speaks volumes. Thanks for being honest.

I would say you might as well skip CLOD.  For me BoS now fills the WWII flight sim spot and , though it is not quite as pretty, it is more fun.

  Or, as I may do soon -- just do all your flight simming in DCS.  It's not even as pretty as BoS,  but it has a great editor.

Yeah, may as well put that money towards BoS if you really want a modern WW2 flight sim.  Despite complaints about BoS, it will still probably end up in a better condition than CLOD was left.  Plus you'll have more flyable aircraft.

Yeah, but, the Battle of Britain! How can I ignore that? Is it that bad?

There was very little about "Battle of Britain" in that game. True - the era was right and the equipment was right - but the actually playable missions and "campaign" related to nothing like a Battle of Britain.

I do concede it was (is?) a beautiful looking game moreso than I've seen on BoS (the English countryside is pretty cool)...but looks alone were not going to save it from people noticing the severe (and I mean severe) lack of anything BoB. It was also bugged to hell.

It may be worth the price now - as a jump in and shoot crap kind of game - but I wouldn't buy it because it says Battle of Britain on it

Though I believe there are mods out, I don't know to what extent they provide that Battle of Britain experience so can't comment - my comment is relating to my humungous disappointment on release!

[MengJiao]

Yeah, but, the Battle of Britain! How can I ignore that? Is it that bad?

  It was Okay for the Battle of Britain, but I would play a scenario in Burning Blue and then see what happened if I set up the same
events in CLOD.  In CLOD the losses were horrendous (AI vs AI), in reality and in Burning Blue losses were about 25% of what
CLOD would give you.
  I'm sure all flight sims work out that way, I guess because most players want as much experience of spectacular explosions as possible
(as do I), but I'm just saying if its the Battle of Britain you want , Burning Blue is more like it than CLOD.