I Miss Panzer General

[Anonymous]

This game was the best. Is there a modern day equivalent?

[Doug Erickson]

Advance Wars on the GBA is like PG Lite with anime characters.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, that and PG2 rocked. I wonder if it plays on XP.

I loved the somewhat branching campaign with the possibility of invading England and the US. Super elite german scout units taking on tanks. Yeah, that's the stuff...

[Jason Becker]

PG I/II were cool games. Easy to get into, but still offered some good strategy with inundating the player with tons of statistical data.

[Alan Au]

Uh, you mean "without" inundating the player, don't you?

- Alan

[Jason Becker]

yea, I need to remember to preview my posts more...

[ydejin]

Yeah, that and PG2 rocked. I wonder if it plays on XP.

I tried loading up "People's General" the other day and didn't have any luck. I can't remember if I was on XP or just '98 with a newish version of DirectX. Anyway it seemed to have major redraw problems, so I'm assuming there's something they did which doesn't agree with the latest versions of DirectX. I did manage to get Allied General running.

[Ben Sones]

Unfortunately Advance Wars is missing the one element that made Panzer General (and Fantasy General) great games: persistent armies. Building your forces over the course of the campaign was half the fun.

Don't get me wrong--Advance Wars is still a fine game, and I understand that the limitations of the platform make it hard to keep track of that much save info. Still, it's no Panzer General...

[Jason McCullough]

Yeah, that and PG2 rocked. I wonder if it plays on XP.

I tried loading up "People's General" the other day and didn't have any luck. I can't remember if I was on XP or just '98 with a newish version of DirectX. Anyway it seemed to have major redraw problems, so I'm assuming there's something they did which doesn't agree with the latest versions of DirectX. I did manage to get Allied General running.

Download the Application Compatability Toolkit from microsoft and fool around with it; you should be able to get it working.

[Nick Hyle]

This game was the best. Is there a modern day equivalent?

The last/latest PG game, Scorched Earth, actually added a skirmish mode, sort of.

Dunno about XP, though. Live dangerously.

Nick Hyle

[ydejin]

Download the Application Compatability Toolkit from microsoft and fool around with it; you should be able to get it working.

Great. Thanks, will try that when I get a chance.