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First World War?
11-03-2018, 06:13 PM, (This post was last modified: 11-03-2018, 06:16 PM by Embis.)
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RE: First World War?
(11-03-2018, 10:17 AM)Warcry Wrote: I'm considering to buying Squad Battles: First World War.  Any suggestions in that series to purchase?

An excellent decision sir. Big Grin

All are good you can't make a bad choice  here so I would go purely with what interests you most, but here's a bit more information that might influence your choice

You will see there are two Vietnam titles, if I was going to pick one of those over the other I would choose "Tour of Duty", though that's just a personal preference I couldn't point to any major reason why. 

There are some excellent  "whole game" Mods available. Basically, You install the base game twice, then install the mod over one of those games and "hey presto" Magic4 You have two games for the price of one. 

the whole game mods available are:
  • "World at War",  Chechnya, African wars, Gulf War etc- base game ="Pacific War"
  • "The Long War", The War on Terror, 21st Century Taliban  / US/ Coalition)- base game ="Soviet Afghan War"
  • "Red Star over Europe",  1980's Warsaw Pact / Nato  -base game ="Vietnam"
  • "Arab Israeli war" - base game "Soviet Afghan War"
  • "Africa at War" post WW2 African conflicts)  -base game ="Pacific War"

The whole game Mods are difficult to get hold of, for reasons I won't go into here, so you need to know where to look for them...and you could start by looking in my direction. Wink

The talented Ritchie '61 produced some excellent graphic mods for the whole series and those are available posted in a thread here. I would consider these mods an essential upgrade, the original graphics are very poor.

My top three personal favourites of the SB series are: Eagles Strike, Red Victory. Tour of Duty. but thats purely personal, they are all good,

Game play is fast, most games can be played through in an hour. The Eastern Front titles aren't as "static" as the Panzer Campaign Eastern Front games because of the scale, house to house fighting is represented much better at this scale.
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First World War? - by Warcry - 11-03-2018, 10:17 AM
RE: First World War? - by Embis - 11-03-2018, 06:13 PM
RE: First World War? - by Embis - 11-03-2018, 06:29 PM
RE: First World War? - by Warcry - 11-03-2018, 07:27 PM
RE: First World War? - by Embis - 11-03-2018, 07:36 PM
RE: First World War? - by Warcry - 11-03-2018, 08:00 PM
RE: First World War? - by Embis - 11-04-2018, 03:21 AM
RE: First World War? - by 19 Delta - 11-04-2018, 09:09 AM
RE: First World War? - by Warcry - 11-04-2018, 01:58 PM
RE: First World War? - by Der Landser - 11-04-2018, 03:30 PM
RE: First World War? - by Warcry - 11-04-2018, 09:23 PM
RE: First World War? - by KG_RangerBooBoo - 11-05-2018, 12:06 AM
RE: First World War? - by Der Landser - 11-05-2018, 03:40 AM

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