JcDent

A T-55 experience

Military history, video games and miniature wargaming.

RPGs, single player FPS, RTS and 4X, grog games.


Passionate about complaining about Warhammer.


Catholic, socialist, and an LGBT+ ally.


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JcDent
@JcDent
  1. As far as I know, this is the most serious Cold War game on Play Store.
  2. The only other real Cold War game is Twilight Struggle.
  3. Twilight Struggle doesn't even give me a single T-62 to drive through Fulda Gap.
  4. I know John Tiller games from DOWNLOADING A DEMO APK ON MY PHONE LIKE 8 YEARS AGO.
  5. It's not available on my device BECAUSE MY DEVICE IS TOO NEW1
  6. Does that look like a phone friendly interface?

Any of you nerds want to make a game for Android and need ideas/excitement about tanks guy?


  1. One of the games mentions that newest thing is some fixes for Android 5.



FortifiedNichePodcast
@FortifiedNichePodcast

While these may not be the definitive reasons why the game didn't survive, I could take them.

When your game has basically two factions and one of them has more off table support options than other has unit choices total, you have fucked up. The three Skinnies units looked weird even when flipping the book in a vaccuum.

And then the game itself is imbalanced, which is a comolaint we make in every episode. No surprise it died.


JcDent
@JcDent

They're barely in the book. They can be anything you wants as long as they're not identical to MI/not able to take them on 1:1. Putting three units and making them the weird tribal faction suuucks.

At the same time, if you draw units for the Federation from every incarnation, maybe you have to consider the same for the bugs? The book gave them weapons because they were very-nonracistly red Chinese.

Maybe it was a good time to give them weapons that Skinny allies bolted onto some of Warriors or Tiger Warriors?

Just do anything to have a game where one of the factions has all the options, the other has five sculpts total, and the third basically doesn't exist.


For a GW metaphor, it would be like a game of Space Marines vs. Votan vs. Ynnari (using only models released as Ynnari)