"NWS Battleship Zeinith- Computer assist for minis- Reviews?" Topic
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| ptdockyard | 01 Feb 2014 9:11 a.m. PST |
Has anyone every used the following for miniatures games? I loved Shipbase III years ago. This looks simlar: navalwarfare.net/drbz.html Interested in hearing others experience with it for miniatures games I just bought their computer-only Warship Combat:Navies at War and it is pretty addictive. The damage effects for smaller guns and involving small vessels is far, far more accurate that SBIII ever was. Graphics are about 1989 level but that is not what I was looking for. Dave |
| HistoryPhD | 01 Feb 2014 9:42 a.m. PST |
1989 graphics on a game with a 2013 copyright? That's just plain lazy of them. |
| ptdockyard | 01 Feb 2014 10:02 a.m. PST |
It is more about the battle results that the eye candy. I prefer low level graphics with the ability to do things like switch from AP to HE or Common rounds to some arcade game with wonderful graphics and cheesy battle mechanics. |
| Allen57 | 01 Feb 2014 11:23 a.m. PST |
There is this TMP link which covers NWS sister game dealing with WWI. |
| Fonthill Hoser | 01 Feb 2014 12:58 p.m. PST |
I've used it several times and I love it. The game has even more detail than CaS, but with the computer handling the minutae the game plays very easily. I love the way it covers listing resulting from combat and its effects on whether guns can bear on targets. Torpedo combat is painless, and it includes some fog-of-war as well. The game includes all the algorithms in hard copy form as part of the rules, and some gamers play it manually instead of using the computer assist. Highly recommended. |
| ptdockyard | 01 Feb 2014 1:24 p.m. PST |
Nice! Sounds like a good investment! |
| The Monstrous Jake | 02 Feb 2014 1:36 p.m. PST |
1989 graphics on a game with a 2013 copyright? That's just plain lazy of them. It's not laziness, it has to do with available resources. If the writers were lazy they wouldn't have spent many months' worth of free time writing large chunks of fairly complex code. I don't think this was written in 2013. I heard from the NWS guys eleven or twelve years ago that they were working on it. I haven't seen the program myself but the screen shots look like they made some use of my open source D-CATR program (the next version of Shipbase III) from 1999 and added a lot of their own material. If I ever get around to finishing Shipbase 7 (the next version after D-CATR) it'll look a lot like those screen shots. |
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