Steel Panthers III question: help

[Osiris]

HI

I found a version of steel panthers on the web and its brigade level at 250m per hex..does anyone know anything about this version and does it work on windows xp

heres the link:

http://yhst-12000246778232.stores.yahoo....3brco.html

Steel Panthers III lets you fight larger tactical battles using the same easy to use interface featured in Steel Panther I and II. This tactical wargame includes 6 campaigns and over 40 scenarios. Engage in brigade size battles from virtually every major historical conflict from 1939 to date, plus hypothetical battles, such as NATO 1988 and Holy War 1999.

New 200 yards per hex and platoon size units let you control entire brigades, even divisions. Get key reinforcements during gameplay. And be assured of limitless armored conflict with the improved Random Scenario Generator, which includes more powerful scenario editing features.

[Tide1]

Hi Rene

I remember that game. I don't think it will run using XP. If I remember correctly it came out mid to late 90's

Gary

[Grumbler]

Yes, although you might have sound problems. The game is 10 years old, so there is NO WAY the correct sound drivers can be with the game, unless you are running what was a state of the art computer 12 years ago. That would be an early Pentium or a 486 of some sort. Maybe a P2.
If you really like the scale 200 meters per hex, 6 to 30 minutes per turn, there are better games then SP3 out there. TOAW and Tac Ops spring to mind. I have heard good things about BCT but I've never tried it.
I went and looked at the box and it said;
486/66 or greater
16MB RAM or greater
1MB SVGA crd required
Hard drive required
Mouse required
2X CD-ROM required
DOS v6.22 or greater
Supports Sound Blaster Family

IIRC, v6.22 was windows 3.1
I have run the game in Windows 98. No idea how it will do in XP or Vista. Since nothing seems to run in Vista, I doubt that SP3 would either.
If you have major problems, try DOS Box. It is a bridging program, or what ever they call that nowdays. It converts DOS calls to their WIndows equivalent.

What you might want to do is go over to the TOAW part of the Blitz. They are Operations guys and would be more up to speed on an operational level game thn us tacticians. I think there has just been a new version of TOAW released.

[Iwo Jim]

I have a copy, the game will run in XP but without any sound....

[Cross]

Hi Osiris,

IIRC SPWAW was developed using the SPIII game engine. Whereas SPWW2 was originally developed using the SPII game engine.

So you may well get more info/help from one of the SPWAW sites:
These are both still active.

http://spwaw.com/phpBB2/index.php

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tt.asp?forumid=9

Or perhaps Panzer Leo (H2H) could help you out.