Flashpoint Campaigns

[jomni]

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[Bison]

*waves*

[Capn Darwin]

A question?

[solops]

Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm just got a big and final update. I am surprised this title does not get more traffic in these forums. Does anyone play? I have had the game for a couple of years but have never jumped in due to time considerations and lack of chatter to push me into it.

[Barthheart]

OJsDad and myself spent last winter going through all the 2 player scenarios. Great fun.

[Capn Darwin]

The vast majority of traffic is on the Matrix forum and over on the Steam forums. May be more traffic next year when Southern Storm comes out.  :bd:

[Jarhead0331]

We had a 90+ page thread that was derailed by Hermann Hum and his three friends.

[mirth]

Hermann Hum and his three friends.

[Jarhead0331]

Hermann Hum and his three friends.

In all fairness, if I recall correctly, most of the 90 pages were from Hermann posting about inconsequential or imagined bugs.

[RyanE]

I think you need to be more specific.  Because it seems every thread HH is involved can be described that way.

[mirth]

Stop invoking his name or he'll appear!  :o

[Jarhead0331]

Stop invoking his name or he'll appear!  :o

Nah. He's perma-banned.

[mikeck]

I thought he only derailed the Command Modern Naval thread with his screaming about why it wasn't as good as harpoon

[OJsDad]

Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm just got a big and final update. I am surprised this title does not get more traffic in these forums. Does anyone play? I have had the game for a couple of years but have never jumped in due to time considerations and lack of chatter to push me into it.

There are a number of small scenarios that don't take that long to play, either solo or pbem.  All of the battles have a time limit.  There also comes a point that if one side or the other takes enough casualties, then there is the option to end the battle.  BH can correct me if I'm wrong, but most of the battles we fought went a little over half the time limit.  None ever went the full time. 

[Father Ted]

Does anyone play? I have had the game for a couple of years but have never jumped in due to time considerations and lack of chatter to push me into it.

Steam says I've 55 hours invested, so I obviously like it.  It's WEGO, which I think is a good thing.  There's a fair amount of autonomy displayed by your subordinates - which can be frustrating - but, again, is a good thing.  For me, however, the real hook is the way in which C and C is modelled.  If you don't pay attention, you'll find that you can't give orders when you want to.  Actually even if you do concentrate, the enemy can still intervene via ECM.  Again, this sounds frustrating, but what it does is force you to have a robust initial plan and then focus on only a few units each move.  Thus, although it's obviously quite a complex game, I don't tend to feel swamped by the number of decisions I have to make each turn - meaning it's not daunting in terms of time-commitment.