Steel Beasts Pro Players?

[JudgeDredd]

Purchase and registration/activation was pretty painless

Challenger II looks superb.

I had no idea what to do - so I'll have to look at the controls tomorrow and assign keys (I don't want to use joystick for this)

Best advice, pick a vehicle you enjoy and learn the shit out of it. If you try to take on multiple vehicles at once you'll lose your mind. The Leo/Abrams/Chally/T72 are all very unique, with much different fire control systems. Your head will explode from constantly having to reference the manual.

Also, I prefer mouse over stick in game. Just feels another and easier to navigate to UI/Map

That is defo sounds advice...something I've never been good at and always have my head exploding!

Just to choose...Leopard or Challenger???  :-\

[Nefaro]

Good advice. I started with Abrams then found out the Leo is more complicated.

I recall the Leo 2's fire control system being easier to use than the M1A1's in the first SB.  That not the case anymore?

[Yskonyn]

Haha! Asid's conversion conquest is going well I see! :)

[JudgeDredd]

Well I really like Microprose M1 Tank Platoon 2. Superb game and graphics actually still hold up.

Others have hit the market, like the T-72 sim...but I don't do Russian armour. The playable Challenger and leopard sold me.

Price of this and implementation always made me hold off on this one. But the monthly sub to give it a go is absolutely fine with me. I know...paying for a demo...when would we ever have thought this day would arrive back in the golden age...but it has and I'm not fussed. £6 is such a small amount to try and see if something suits. I'd rather that than £80 to shelve it.

Anyway - one month - £6 - see what it's like.

[jomni]

Good advice. I started with Abrams then found out the Leo is more complicated.

I recall the Leo 2's fire control system being easier to use than the M1A1's in the first SB.  That not the case anymore?

I dunno.  I remember the Leo commander can do more than an Abrams commander.
Or maybe just because I got so used to the Abrams.

[Skoop]

The m1A2 has all the capabilities of the Leo now, plus the site looks better and higher power zoom.

[JC______]

I absolutely love the M1A2 SEP and its hunter-killer capabilities. I wrote this short piece a while back:

http://kriegsimulation.blogspot.com/2014/02/steel-beasts-prope-30-hunter-killer.html



Sorry for blowing my own horn.

Cheers,

[Asid]

Nice pic JC :)

[JC______]

How are you, Asid?

Thanks! A tad big ... I will re size it when I get home.

Cheers,

[Asid]

How are you, Asid?

i am good thanks :)

[Jack Nastyface]

Yeah...the M1A2 is deadly.  The 50X magnification is a nice game changer, and I like the new rounds (primarily the MPAT) that came with the 3.0 upgrade.  That upgrade, by the way, also had other amazing game changers, notably playable Javelin and Stiletto missile systems.  I know there's lots of talk about the price of this game, but I have spent probably hundreds of hours with SB and now SB Pro PE, and it is a game I will always come back to.  Unfortunately for me, I am gaming on a crappy system so I can't play that much anymore, but as soon as I upgrade my system, SB Pro PE will probably be the first or second game I install.

Sabot up!
Jack Nastyface

[Yskonyn]

Oh my god, you just called it a game!

[Jack Nastyface]

Ouch...I guess I did.  Well, no going back.  Please select an appropriate meme for my response:
1.  Oh yes I did!
2.  I call 'em as I sees 'em
3.  Oh yeah?  You and what army?
4.  That's just how I roll.
5.  Bam! There it is!
6.  Not.

[jomni]

I absolutely love the M1A2 SEP and its hunter-killer capabilities. I wrote this short piece a while back:

Ah so later M1's can do the same thing the Leo's were doing before.  Nice to hear.