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From: Michael Llaneza <maserati@s...>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 09:07:01 -0800
Subject: Re: [OT]

There's a demo for Steel Beasts - gunnery range, tutorials, and a 
platoon scale action. Relatively small download at ~40MB.

Brian Burger wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Chen-Song Qin wrote:
>
>>On a similar note, a *very* good recent game is Steel Beasts.  Which
is
>>sort of a hybrid modern tank simulation/wargame.  You could command up
to
>>a company of tanks as a part of a battalion-sized unit.  It was
actually
>>playtested by a bunch of ex-US Army tankers, and one of the people in
the
>>company that made it is an ex-Bundeswehr tanker. (The game simulates
the
>>M1A1 and the Leopard 2A4)  The graphics are so-so for pure eye-candy,
but
>>the engine is awesome for displaying large terrain accurately. (Max of
>>something like 1600 km^2 at 5 m terrain resolution in their 3D engine,
>>really long and realistic horizon distance)
>>
>
>A good friend of mine (and GZG gamer) is also ex-Bundeswher; he was/is
an
>Lt. commanding a reserve panzer platoon; he got a beta playtest release
of
>Steel Beast, and helped proof their 2A4 model for accuracy.
>
>I still haven't bought the program, but the beta he showed me was
pretty
>spectacular.
>
>Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
>- http://warbard.iwarp.com/games.html -
>
>>
>>On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, oglover wrote:
>>
>>>M1 Tank Platoon 2 is getting in years now but is a really good
Mechanised
>>>game; but I don't think you can get better than Coy level though.
>>>
>>>A really old game now, but really enjoyable was Team Yankee. Graphics
are
>>>badly outdated and it was purely scenario driven but I loved it for
an
>>>Armoured or Mech Inf Coy level game.
>>>
>>>I'd be interested if anyone knows of any other games at Coy/Bn level
too!
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Owen
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>>>>[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Laserlight
>>>>Sent: Sunday, 25 November 2001 4:33 PM
>>>>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>>>>Subject: [OT]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Anyone have a favorite computer game, company/battalion level, WW2
or
>>>>later?
>>>>
>>>
>>
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>
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