Comments on: Guns, Germans, and Steel http://tleaves.com/2008/01/29/guns-germans-and-steel/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Troy Goodfellow http://tleaves.com/2008/01/29/guns-germans-and-steel/comment-page-1/#comment-4686 Troy Goodfellow Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:36:15 +0000 http://tleaves.com/2008/01/29/guns-germans-and-steel/#comment-4686 Slitherine actually had little hands-on design with Commander. It's really a Firepower game, with Slitherine mostly helping in QA and publishing contacts. (And it's much better than Legion Arena, which I think is probably the weakest Slitherine game since it has a brilliant little engine that got completely wasted.) Commander at War had some major AI problems at release (I haven't played since the latest patch), but it's a solid design in many ways. I especially like how it models the Battle of the Atlantic; Germany's best shot at winning in the west is to weaken the convoy shipments, handily identified by their value. You can't stop the flow of goods to England and Russia, but you can slow them down. Likewise, the Allied player can't neglect the seas or England won't have enough Industrial Production power. Slitherine actually had little hands-on design with Commander. It’s really a Firepower game, with Slitherine mostly helping in QA and publishing contacts. (And it’s much better than Legion Arena, which I think is probably the weakest Slitherine game since it has a brilliant little engine that got completely wasted.)

Commander at War had some major AI problems at release (I haven’t played since the latest patch), but it’s a solid design in many ways. I especially like how it models the Battle of the Atlantic; Germany’s best shot at winning in the west is to weaken the convoy shipments, handily identified by their value. You can’t stop the flow of goods to England and Russia, but you can slow them down. Likewise, the Allied player can’t neglect the seas or England won’t have enough Industrial Production power.

]]> By: peterb http://tleaves.com/2008/01/29/guns-germans-and-steel/comment-page-1/#comment-4687 peterb Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:53:22 +0000 http://tleaves.com/2008/01/29/guns-germans-and-steel/#comment-4687 Fun Fact: If you google for "Guns, Germans, and Steel", you will see that most of the hits are from people who read Jared Diamond's book, and think it is really called that. Fun Fact: If you google for “Guns, Germans, and Steel”, you will see that most of the hits are from people who read Jared Diamond’s book, and think it is really called that.

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