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Treacherous question
12-18-2020, 11:19 PM, (This post was last modified: 12-18-2020, 11:32 PM by phoenix.)
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RE: Treacherous question
PC. Best match of unit scale to map detail level and time per turn. Best graphics. Excellent, top-notch historical research (though PB has that too, and FWWC, but the graphics in those 2 is much less to my liking, the FWWC graphics are really awful with those strange hard hexes everywhere, dominating the view, cluttering everything, which is a great shame because otherwise I'd be playing that series a lot too...) PC maps are the maps which most look like a map of the actual place. PB maps would be excellent too, if they went down the line of the latest PC maps, with smoother, more fluid natural features and got rid of the 3D elements on the 2D map, which make the maps look a bit 'toy-like' imho. PC is the title, for me, where the graphics are fine and you are most able to read a book about a given campaign and it will be there in the game, recognisable from history. PB and SB and the finer detail games all lose out when it comes to the turn-based LOS and hit mechanics, I think, since getting damage historical over an entire scenario seems to mean it looks unhistorical each turn, and this combined with the weirdness of the LOS mechanic (discovering tanks right in front of you only the next turn etc etc...) means they're not really for me. i don't 'feel' the probs with these same mechanics at the higher scale, for some reason. MC is great, but hypothetical, which I don't go for. So, yeah, PC is the one, for me. It also beats all the Nappy titles, the P&M titles and the ACW titles for similar reasons, to do with match of scale to unit and time and the operation of the LOS and hit mechanics.

Oh. Was I meant to only say what I liked about PC? Sorry.
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Treacherous question - by Fhil - 12-18-2020, 11:07 PM
RE: Treacherous question - by phoenix - 12-18-2020, 11:19 PM
RE: Treacherous question - by Mr Grumpy - 12-19-2020, 02:48 AM
RE: Treacherous question - by Outlaw Josey Wales - 12-19-2020, 12:38 AM
RE: Treacherous question - by larsonney - 12-19-2020, 01:02 AM
RE: Treacherous question - by phoenix - 12-19-2020, 03:10 AM
RE: Treacherous question - by Mr Grumpy - 12-19-2020, 05:46 AM
RE: Treacherous question - by jim pfleck - 12-19-2020, 08:52 AM
RE: Treacherous question - by lezgo killemall - 12-19-2020, 09:14 AM
RE: Treacherous question - by Steel God - 12-20-2020, 01:28 AM
RE: Treacherous question - by Liebchen - 12-20-2020, 06:48 AM
RE: Treacherous question - by Mr Grumpy - 12-20-2020, 07:18 AM

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