Panzer Command Ostfront

[Bootie]

Fred whats your take on Panzer Command?

 

[Fredrocker]

You didnt really ask me that....

I do own the game and the previous versions..... here is my take

1) Making a scenario is difficult, even with the so called 'Google Map' import...
2) No on map destruction... craters, buildings etc... Makes no good eye candy during battle....
3) Great volumes of Equipment means you can play with some cool Armor....
4) Infantry fighting is just plain bad.... Looks bad, feels bad... have to play armor only IMO
5) CPU HOG.... and I am running a quad core 3.2 overclocked to 3.63... other games run great... even single core...
6) Victory Points are simple, and I am spoiled now with VP's in CMBN, vs take the flag mentality....
7) Armor fights seem pretty good...
8) They stress it is platoon level commands, well I can do that in CM by clicking on the HQ twice and feeding all my units a command, in PCO you have to give a platoon command and back out to give units individual commands...
9) I still play sixty second turns though they give you some kind of mixture if you want 40/40, etc
10) The AI does a good job with attacking and defense, though I think it is overkill when using Arty...
11) Not popular, not one game recorded at Da Blitz... (hope that is not a bad word round here... )

and last but not least....

I give it a 5.5 out of 10 in todays market... but if it was 2002 and it went up against CMBB, I would give it an 8.0 and CMBB a 8.0...

I have only played about 8 battles in it... now its in the bullpen and my starting pitcher is Cy Young... (sorry baseball analogy)

Sorry but Bootie asked me to hijack your thread... you should move this Sir Boot

 

[Bootie]

You didnt really ask me that....

Sorry but yep.... I tried my first game yesterday with 7thCav and hate to say but I expected a little better. Perhaps it is my complete noobiness but it does feel like this has just been released at the wrong time.. like you said 8 years too late!!??

I do own the game and the previous versions..... here is my take

Be interesting to see if we feel the same.

1) Making a scenario is difficult, even with the so called 'Google Map' import...

I havent bothered making a scenario so cant really comment... the google map import seems a great idea though?

2) No on map destruction... craters, buildings etc... Makes no good eye candy during battle....

Yeah strange considering we had on map destruction in CMBO a decade ago.

3) Great volumes of Equipment means you can play with some cool Armor....

Havent delved deep enough into the game to judge on this just yet.

4) Infantry fighting is just plain bad.... Looks bad, feels bad... have to play armor only IMO

Yeah the graphics even on the infantry is very dated. Combat feels wooden.

5) CPU HOG.... and I am running a quad core 3.2 overclocked to 3.63... other games run great... even single core...

Maybe I havent played on a big enough scale yet but it seems ot run fine for me.

6) Victory Points are simple, and I am spoiled now with VP's in CMBN, vs take the flag mentality....

Yeah the flags died with CMAK in my opinion.... the new CM offers so much more flexibility in scenario design.

7) Armor fights seem pretty good...

Really... I found it all quite confusing.

8) They stress it is platoon level commands, well I can do that in CM by clicking on the HQ twice and feeding all my units a command, in PCO you have to give a platoon command and back out to give units individual commands...

Yeah I had to get 7thCav to explain this one to me. Bulky and not user friendly at all.

9) I still play sixty second turns though they give you some kind of mixture if you want 40/40, etc

I just dont get the game turn system. Doesnt do it for me. Seems over complicated.

10) The AI does a good job with attacking and defense, though I think it is overkill when using Arty...

Havent felt the urge to play the AI yet. Not sure I will be playing the game again to be honest.

11) Not popular, not one game recorded at Da Blitz... (hope that is not a bad word round here... )

No the Blitz is our Brothers in Arms. Even here the ladder has been up for 3 weeks or so and not one report and very little interest. I am going to pull it and wait and see if it picks up at other sites. If it becomes popular I can easily reinstate it.

and last but not least....

I give it a 5.5 out of 10 in todays market... but if it was 2002 and it went up against CMBB, I would give it an 8.0 and CMBB a 8.0...

Im in agreement... it promised quite a bit but I think perhaps they listened too much to folk providing an input and in trying to please everybody have ended up with a game that IMO is bulky unplayable and visually a catastrophe.

I have only played about 8 battles in it... now its in the bullpen and my starting pitcher is Cy Young... (sorry baseball analogy)

Ive played one and to be honest dont think I will be continuing unless it bats a home run on the next update.