I’m looking to get a new tank sim for the computer. I was wondering, which one is fairly using to play but is fun?? don’t care about the era though.
I do not know of any tank sim games. I love my Panzer General 2.
mark956
Ehmm… Oh! You’ll love this… Microprose’s M1 Tank platoon 2… Its an oldie but goodie, and rather inexpensive too.
I have always enjoyed Armored Fist and Armored Fist II. M1 Abrams simulator made by NovaLogic for PC. They just came out with Armored Fist III, but I haven’t tried it yet. Great game right down to the crew’s fire commands being shouted out in the thick of it.
Chuck
i’m a big fan of microprose and sid meier.
there used to be a great one called 1944 across the rhine by micropose but that was in 1995
there are a couple of M1 Abrams games out there but there all old
My fav is Battle Field 1942, You can do every thing from drive a tank, fly a plane to be a sniper. You can play it online at no charge! Its pretty fun.
Opperation Flashpoints a great PC game, you can walk and shoot, drive a Jeep,Humvee, M48, M1A1, T72, helicopter, jets its sutch a cool game and theres loads of add ons for it
BF42 w/Desert Combat mod. M1A1s, T72s, BRDMs, Scuds, MLRS, M1974 arty, HMMVs WTOWs, M2s and dune buggies. oh, and Armored FIST2 is good too. just wish it ran on XP. AF3 has been out for a while now. didn’t like the hud in the demo for that as i did in AF2
For tank sims alone, you can’t top the Armored Fist series (although a bit dated but still a blast to play) Also Panzer Commander (but it’s really dated)
For the best of both worlds, Battlefield 1942. Online Multiplayer is awesome. I recently have been playing Call of Duty. No tank driving but I give it a 8 out of 10.
you get to Drive a T24/85 near the end of Call of Duty (only from looking at it from the outside)
Give Steel Beasts a look. Very good.
Battlefield 1942. I play the Desert Combat, And EOD (vietnam) mods. you get to get in tanks (including M1 [;)]) and you can fly get on ships, aa guns, pretty much all aspects of war. Its the best game ever[:p]
Try Combat Mission (either Barbarossa or Normandy). It is a strategy game but you get to command lots of tanks. It is mostly historical and the cool thing about it is the realistic characteristics of the personnel and equipment (inc. tanks) in the AI. I mean when you command a 75mm armed sherman to fire on a tiger, most of the time the shell would just bounce off.
strategy wise : go with blitzkrieg , or combat mission,… sim wise go steel beasts gold totally kicks A@#! although very hard to get to a science![8D]
I love Frontline Command. Again it is a strategy title, but I really got into it.
Good range of AFV’s with reasonably real attributes, ie Tigers are a real pain, early Shermans are weak etc.
-panzer elite is prety cool, ww2 era tank sim(prety realistic but kinda hard at first)
-steel beasts is a lot like panzer elite but deals with more modern equipment which makes it a bit harder than panzer elite because of all the modern equipment / targeting systems
-any game in the combat mission series, they’re strategy games that focus on combined arms small unit tactics (platoon level up to about 2-3 battalions in the larger scenarios) there’s are demos available at www.battlefront.com. barbarossa to berlin deals with the east front , beyond overlord deals with the western front and afrika corps is north africa , crete and italy. i would highly recomend cmbb and cmak these are prety much the only games i have played for longer than a month in many many years. cmbo while good is starting to be a bit dated the graphics are so-so and the other 2 have more options/tweaks that make them more realistic. its hard at first because of the historical accuracy but this is also what makes it so great.