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warnergt · Jun 21, 2002, 11:06 AM

Aw man! Wouldn't this be a great game for OS X with online gaming?

They struggle to bring these 3D games to the Mac and overlook the
classic 2D games.

k2man · Jun 24, 2002, 04:17 AM

I love this game! I played it in college in 1989, then bought the latest version 2 years ago and have been playing regularly. I emailed the publisher about carbonizing it, but they seemed pretty uninterested. If I get time, I might try to convince them to hand over the source code to some college student who might take a crack at it for fun. Also, I'd love to see a few key enhacements, but it's still a great game as it is. It's all-out war, and the slower pace makes it more strategic.

P.S. Love those battleships. There's very little that 4 battleships, working together, can't accomplish...

Leonard · Jun 24, 2002, 12:11 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by k2man:
I love this game! I played it in college in 1989,<hr /></blockquote>I was addicted to it in University, me and a few friends would play it all night long. The new real-time strategy games simply do not compare. I just loved surrounding a bomber or group of bombers by a bunch of fighters. The bombers would be safe to destroy the enemy. After University, I found a similar game, I think it was called Empire Deluxe or somthing like that. It was very similar except with a few slight differences in the rules.

CharlesS · Jun 24, 2002, 02:14 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Leonard:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by k2man:
I love this game! I played it in college in 1989,<hr /></blockquote>I was addicted to it in University, me and a few friends would play it all night long. The new real-time strategy games simply do not compare. I just loved surrounding a bomber or group of bombers by a bunch of fighters. The bombers would be safe to destroy the enemy. After University, I found a similar game, I think it was called Empire Deluxe or somthing like that. It was very similar except with a few slight differences in the rules.<hr /></blockquote>I would surround my *cities* with a swarm of fighters. Some enemy bomber comes in from 20-30 squares away, and surprise!

k2man · Jun 24, 2002, 04:27 PM

I never got into using bombers, at least playing against the computer. I'd make them only in the final rounds of the game, when I knew they would just quicken the clean up. As for defending against them, it never really worried me. I'd usually have fighters patroling my frontiers, and would catch them as they sat in mid air waiting for their next turn.

The newest version of StratCon has a lot of depth that isn't obvious. Artillery pieces change the game immensly, and give a great advantage to playing a defensive war (I like building up tons of artillery on an island, and using jets to patrol the coasts. Anything that comes within 3 squares of land gets toasted, included enemy battleships.

Also, helicopters are quite deadly. I've defended citites from massive assaults with just one or two copters. You have to retreat your choppers at the end of every round so they're out of range, but then you can swoop in again for a few kills then next round.