Hey MasterTank!!!

[AfterTheRain]

Are you a tank fan? How about Tank games?

If so have you ever played Steel Beasts?

[Mastertank1]

Are you a tank fan? How about Tank games?

If so have you ever played Steel Beasts?

I'm a gung ho amatuer military historian, and I design both board and computer combat simulation games as a hobby.
Haven't played Steel Beasts.
Currently obsessed with a game called The Art Of War:Century of Warfare because it's a wargame CONSTRUCTION KIT!
It lets you build your own wargames!
It comes with a database including most of the military weapons, from muzzle loading rifles to ICBMs, that have ever been used in modern warfare.
I use it to create hypothetical wars (Russia vs China, for example) and also to design units in detail, right down to how many squads of what type are in the division, and then play them against existing units under computer control to see how well they do.
My best design ever was what I call my new model armored infantry divison; everything in the division, including the HQ, the Quartermasters, the field kitchens and the field hospitals, is mounted in armed armored vehicles so that no component fails to keep up, and the rear echelon can defend themselves effectively in the event of a breakthrough by the enemy, or hold the flanks in event of a friendly breakthrough of the enemy line.
Sorry man, I get carried away by my enthusiasm for this stuff!

Mastertank1

We who play and dance are thought mad by they who hear no music.

[AfterTheRain]

Get a copy of Steel Beasts, then join the website and be part of a tank army.

The US and German Armies use it as a training tool.

[Mastertank1]

Get a copy of Steel Beasts, then join the website and be part of a tank army.

The US and German Armies use it as a training tool.

Verrry Interrresting! I'll look into it.

Thanks

Mastertank1

We who play and dance are thought mad by they who hear no music.

[AfterTheRain]

http://www.steelbeasts.com/

You can get the original game from Amazon and other websites relatively cheap. Just make sure you're getting a disc with a written game manual included.

[General Zod]

I'm a gung ho amatuer military historian, and I design both board and computer combat simulation games as a hobby.
Haven't played Steel Beasts.
Currently obsessed with a game called The Art Of War:Century of Warfare because it's a wargame CONSTRUCTION KIT!
It lets you build your own wargames!
It comes with a database including most of the military weapons, from muzzle loading rifles to ICBMs, that have ever been used in modern warfare.
I use it to create hypothetical wars (Russia vs China, for example) and also to design units in detail, right down to how many squads of what type are in the division, and then play them against existing units under computer control to see how well they do.
My best design ever was what I call my new model armored infantry divison; everything in the division, including the HQ, the Quartermasters, the field kitchens and the field hospitals, is mounted in armed armored vehicles so that no component fails to keep up, and the rear echelon can defend themselves effectively in the event of a breakthrough by the enemy, or hold the flanks in event of a friendly breakthrough of the enemy line.
Sorry man, I get carried away by my enthusiasm for this stuff!

Mastertank1

We who play and dance are thought mad by they who hear no music.

MT

Can you design your own tanks on that game? Say like an M26 Pershing tank that had a 90mm on it normally but in this scenario has a 105mm main gun with a muzzle brake and have that battling Tiger tanks How hard is it to play?

[Mastertank1]

MT

Can you design your own tanks on that game? Say like an M26 Pershing tank that had a 90mm on it normally but in this scenario has a 105mm main gun with a muzzle brake and have that battling Tiger tanks How hard is it to play?
...you can't redesign equipment, but you can take a real WWII unit, say a division or a regiment, and substitute a tank with a 105mm main gun, like the Walker Bulldog late model or the M60 mbt for the Shermans or Pershings that were the original equipment, in equal or different numbers, while leaving the rest of the unit unchanged. I've done that, and just for example, the US 1st Armored Division re-equipped with Bulldogs beats the 2nd SS Panzer Division reinforced by one of the Tiger battallions, although it's still a real fight. If you give the 1st Armored M60's instead, it crushes even the best German division head to head.

The design phase is harder, or at least more time consuming than the actual play. You have to design the terrain map and victory conditions as well as build the units brick by brick.
The play is relatively easy; you move all units, then resolve combats. After that, any units that w3ere not used yet or have more movement left can move again, and any new combat is resolved. Then it's the other side's turn.

Mastertank1

We who play and dance are thought mad by they who hear no music.