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[DaveyJJ]

The title says it all!

http://www.slitherin...games/bbc_ba_pc

This brand new, tactical WW2 game from Slitherine is so firetruckin' awesome, I've sullied my new i3 iMac to add a Boot Camp partition on to play only this game. Fantastic editor, brilliant graphics, superb tactical gameplay, frantic action make this title a huge recommendation in my books. Dare I even say I want this title to make the leap to OSX even more than Rome Total War (gasp!). Yes, I do. It's that good.

If you have a way to play it and enjoy WW2 titles, stop reading this and buy it, immediately.

Firetruckin' awesome fantastic fun.

[dojoboy]

No way to play it, or at least not set up yet.  What about FoG?

[DaveyJJ]

dojoboy, on 10 August 2010 - 08:23 AM, said:

No way to play it, or at least not set up yet.  What about FoG?

I bought FoG, yes. But BA is so utterly brilliant in terms of gameplay and graphic style, and has a freakin' editor ... amazing title. I'd pay $100 to get this on OSX right this second if the devs said it was coming.

[Mister Mumbles]

DaveyJJ, on 10 August 2010 - 11:30 AM, said:

..and has a freakin' editor ...

There he goes again. Davey just goes bonkers over any game with an editor.

Doesn't look too shabby actually. Maybe if it makes the jump to Mac. After my second affair with bootcamp I just gave up on Windows on a Mac. Dual-booting is just too much of a pain, as is Windows.

[Frost]

DaveyJJ, on 10 August 2010 - 05:52 AM, said:

The title says it all!

http://www.slitherin...games/bbc_ba_pc

This brand new, tactical WW2 game from Slitherine is so firetruckin' awesome, I've sullied my new i3 iMac to add a Boot Camp partition on to play only this game. Fantastic editor, brilliant graphics, superb tactical gameplay, frantic action make this title a huge recommendation in my books. Dare I even say I want this title to make the leap to OSX even more than Rome Total War (gasp!). Yes, I do. It's that good.

If you have a way to play it and enjoy WW2 titles, stop reading this and buy it, immediately.

Firetruckin' awesome fantastic fun.

*BZZZT*

(Sotto voice) DaveyJJ, you are fined one credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute. The new censor to be used effective immediately is frak.

[DaveyJJ]

Frost, on 10 August 2010 - 08:10 PM, said:

*BZZZT*

(Sotto voice) DaveyJJ, you are fined one credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute. The new censor to be used effective immediately is frak.

Frak.

[the Battle Cat]

DaveyJJ, on 11 August 2010 - 05:04 AM, said:

Frak.

WATCH YOUR FRAKIN' LANGUAGE!

[Sargiel]

This is just fraked up!

[DaveyJJ]

Really fun and tense first win in the Normandy campaign (Normandy and Bulge campaigns are unlocked after a player wins their first scenario in the Africa campaign).

Moving my forces off the beach, capture two causeways, then move forward and capture a small town, all while trying to link up inland with elements of the 501st airborne who are holding the small town against an aggressive counter-attack. Lost some armour, I did, to a well-placed 88mm emplacement and a couple of Stugs that just wouldn't die until a well-timed naval barrage chewed one of them up, and while I managed to sucessfully assault two MG positions, never could find the darn German mortar unit that was holding up, and mauling, my right flank infantry units. In the end, managed to just barely hold off a determined counter attack and enough victory positions to count as a win.

Next scenario? Canadian troops holding off an attacking group of German armour to try to hold onto four vital positions.

The game's force buying screen is awesome ... you have a set force, know the basic terrain conditions and mission, and then get to buy additional historic forces to augment the base units for your side. Great game overall and with the 1.3.5 update and unlimited zoom (even seeing off the edge of the board) the devs are certainly responding and listening to player concerns (heck, they even through into the patch an informal MP mode to allow one machine to let a player play both sides ... and are planning a proper fix in the next patch).

Awesome frakkin' game ... buy it now!

[dojoboy]

DaveyJJ, on 13 August 2010 - 02:04 PM, said:

Next scenario? Canadian troops holding off an attacking group of German armour to try to hold onto four vital positions.

The only, and I mean only chance you have, is that this is a video game.  Otherwise -->    Canadians

DaveyJJ, on 13 August 2010 - 02:04 PM, said:

Awesome frakkin' game ... buy it now!

Just balanced the check book.  I'm gonna have to wait.  I am hopeful a Mac version will come, since FoG arrived.

[dojoboy]

Pip (from Slitherine) posted that a Mac version is currently being built.  No ETA, just however long it takes to get a quality port he said.

[DaveyJJ]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

This news and just getting home from the firetruckinest awesome movie I"ve seen in many, many years (Inception) has just made my night.

P.S. The Canadians in Normandy, especially the landings, were perhaps the most successful of armies in the region. Original histories from the 60s and 70s have been re-examined by people like Prof Terry Copp (Cinderella Army : The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944–1945, 2006; and Fields of Fire : The Canadians in Normandy, 2003) that show how vastly under-rated the Canadian armies were once considered.

P.P.S. Test: Name the only one army on D-Day that actually reached their planned objectives despite the heaviest beach defences (except for the Yanks at Omaha) and lack of accurate naval pre-bombardment that did nothing to the defenders? That would be our lads on Juno ... "A single troop of four tanks of the 1st Hussars reached the division's final objective line before nightfall (the Caen–Bayeux highway), but was forced to pull back because they had passed the supporting infantry. By the end of D-Day the 3rd Canadian Division had penetrated farther into France than any other Allied force, advancing roughly 10 km at the cost of almost 1,000 casualties, including 335 killed ..."

[PipFromSlitherine]

Thanks to this thread's enthusiasm we have made a Beta of the Mac native version of the new Battle Academy Demo available exclusively here.  Just pop over to the Mac Strategy forum and download it!

The Mac version of the full game is in final Beta at the moment, and is cross compatible with all existing user content from the PC version.  You can also play online against PC players using the integrated PBEM++ system.

http://www.insidemac...showtopic=42180

Cheers

Pip