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#3411258 - 10/16/11 10:48 AM Achtung Spitfire  
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Cyrill Offline
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Anyone still plays this old classic? I still sure do. It has a superb campaign mode, pilots gain ranks and skills in a rpg fasion




and you control everything from isometric view in turn based combat.


Planes can have engine failuers, there a g-stalls, banking, altitude etc. All real life tactics apply! Meaning with 190 you will want to boom n zoom and with spitfires dogfight.

Campaign starts in 39 and lasts till 43. You can fly for RAF Luftwaffe or French.



There is even an dynamic BoB in 40's



This reminds me of Battle of Britain 2 Wings of victory but in strategy mode ! very fun.

I highly suggest to everyone who has not yet played this to give this fantastic game a go.

Example of the atmospheric soundtrack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMq9kPWHBtQ

Inline advert (2nd and 3rd post)

#3412428 - 10/17/11 11:29 PM Re: Achtung Spitfire [Re: Cyrill]  
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Love it...and was it Over the reich?

Based on a superb boardgame. The Whistling Death was the last boardgame made not to long ago.

#3432520 - 11/12/11 05:03 PM Re: Achtung Spitfire [Re: Wodin]  
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Play ”Over the Reich” and Acthung Spitfire from time to time on a Vista portable. Both are very challenging ACM and with good ac modeling. Both are played 2D and turn based(30sec intervals??) . The player needs to be able to visualize (like in the board game) the vertical dimension at the highest (General) difficulty.
I initially had trouble loading the games on a Vista portable... I tried to run via Dos box etc –No Joy . Then tried MSVirtualPC thanks to Hagler’s site. Both of my original copies patched and are working fine. http://home.comcast.net/~hagler11/otr/subpages/run_otr-as.html
The abondonware versions for free download on the web do not patch as far as I know

Last edited by Vox; 11/12/11 05:05 PM.

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