From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Review wanted of V for Victory
Date: 1 Sep 92 07:07:09 GMT
Reply-To: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
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In article <BtvHnA.LrM@news.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Citizen daniels@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel R. Sawyer) writes :
>lordbart@sol.acs.unt.edu (Williams Bartholomew Eston) writes:
>
>>Could anyone give me a good rivew of V for Victory, I am interested
>> in getting it, since I love strategy/war games, but just would like
>> someone elses input...
>
>When I saw V for Victory on the store shelf, the drool glands started. I am
>eagerly awaiting Velikiye Luki, based on the Eastern Front.

  As am I.  Armored warfare on such a massive scale and such flat terrain.
It's gonna be fun..

  An advantage Daniel missed:

  You are the commander of either a German or American Army.  Yes, that's army,
as in a bunch of divisions grouped together.  And just as the commanders of the
real armies, you have "staff assistants."  They can and will do _every_ thing
for you.  You don't even have to play!  You can select every facet to control :
movement, supply allocation, artillery support, and air strikes.  Granted, I
don't always agree with the computer's choice of moves/attacks, but if you are
new to wargaming or are intially swamped by all there is to control, you can
have the computer control all, some, or none.  I usually let the computer only
handle supply, and I give the allocations the once over every day, for I am the
only one who knows what divisions will be on the offensive and need more
supplies.  This is not to say I don't trust the computer, I just can handle
everything with out any help.  It's not a hard game once you get the hang of
it.

  Also, the latest version, v1.1, comes with two versions of the game, one of
these is for the folks who have FPUs.  Both versions are color or B&W but I
believe I did notice a speedup with the FPU version over the old v1.0.

>Disadvantages:  The "intelligence" of the computer player could use some
>work.  This is the only medium level complaint.  If you are going to play
>someone else, this is no problem, or if you like to play both sides at the
>same time.  I got tired playing the computer, so I started playing solitare
>which isn't so bad as it sounds if you have the reatlity levels of limited
>intelligence and fog of war on.  Of course, there are a few bugs but nothing
>major.

  I will agree with this.  The computer is not very agressive.  Okay, I'm
currently playing the American side and all is going well, so I can understand
why I attack more, but I have attacked 110 times to the computer's 10 attacks,
and I have left some units of mine in bad positions, yet they rarely get
bothered.  The computer has tons of artillery, but usually only uses it for
support of friendlies and supply interdiction.  I try and use all my arty every
turn, attacking units that have a good chance of being wiped out.

>OVERALL RATING ON 10 POINT SCALE: 9
>
>Although I don't play it much anymore (200 MB Hard drive and only have 4MB
>left!) because I need HD space, its a great game and will provide hours
>of fun for a long time.  
>
>In other words BUY IT!

  I whole-heartedly agree with this!  If you are a gamer, serious or not, (I
fall in the middle) this is a great game for all.

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