Official Game First Impressions thread!

Panzer Command: Ostfront is the latest in a new series of 3D turn-based tactical wargames which include single battles, multi-battle operations and full war campaigns with realistic units, tactics and terrain and an informative and practical interface. Including a full Map Editor, 60+ Scenarios, 10 Campaigns and a very long list of improvements, this is the ultimate Panzer Command release for the Eastern Front!

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Yay I get to start one. So, who's already downloaded it and what's your impression of the download speed and installation speed and stuff like that? [:)]
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Those who have downloaded it at this point must have some awesome connection speed. I'm downloading at 330KB/sec, 37 minutes left. Currently reading the manual again whilst I'm wondering whether picking the 7th Panzer campaign will give me a core of Panzer 38(t)'s, considering that the division had no Panzer III's on June 22 as far as I know.
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Those who have downloaded it at this point must have some awesome connection speed. I'm downloading at 330KB/sec, 37 minutes left. Currently reading the manual again whilst I'm wondering whether picking the 7th Panzer campaign will give me a core of Panzer 38(t)'s, considering that the division had no Panzer III's on June 22 as far as I know.

That's correct. The 7th Panzer Campaign core force that starts the campaign in 1941 is as follows:

7 x Panzer 38t Medium Tank
5 x Panzer IIB Light Tank
3 x PanzerGrenadier Squad
3 x Opel Blitz Truck
2 x SdKfz 222 Armored Car

If you play the full long campaign through to August 1st, 1944, that can be over 90 battles and if you survive there are some very nice equipment upgrades along the way. The 7th Panzer Campaign is harder at the Historical level than the 1st Panzer Campaign.

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I was pleasantly surprised that it's only $35. Especially after the WitP-AE and WitE mon$ter$ (which I did buy, but ouch!), this makes it so I can't afford not to buy it.
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313 KB/Sec. Approx. one hour left. [:)]
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313 KB/Sec. Approx. one hour left. [:)]

Thank goodness they released it in the middle of the day just think what it's going to be like when the school kids get home and dad gets off work. [:)]
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Hi All,

Downloading now. 220kb/sec. Another 1.5 hours. As Diablo said; thank goodness they released it in the middle of the day.

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Let them do their homework first. War is not for kids. [:D]
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1st Panzer is rolling across the open steppes...

I'm really liking the grass - my infantry don't look nearly so vulnerable! Computation speeds seem better than PCK even with a larger map and more units. Massive kudos to all involved, especially those who have volunteered their time.
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thank goodness they released it in the middle of the day.

~19:30 or so for me.

I'll start with the 7th Panzer campaign now. I enjoy a challenge. Hopefully, I won't run into many T-34's as the 37mm gun on the Panzer 38(t) is not going to cut it against any non-1930's model tank, not to mention its ~26mm armour being rather weak.
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3hrs later it's finally downloaded an installed phew I'm tired. [:)] After the "Waltons" episodes I'll give it a go. Watching the Waltons is like going back in time to the good old days when life wasn't so fast and a radio was the big thing for home entertainment. [:)]
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Very interested to hear about this one. I haven't played any of the previous games in the series. I do like these sort of games. Spent hours playing Combat mission series and love the Shock Force series.

For some reason this series never interested me, but I may have to give in a buy as it looks pretty good.
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Very interested to hear about this one. I haven't played any of the previous games in the series. I do like these sort of games. Spent hours playing Combat mission series and love the Shock Force series.

For some reason this series never interested me, but I may have to give in a buy as it looks pretty good.

I would recommend you give the demo a try then. it should give you a good idea of how the game plays and how well it performs on your system.

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This is closer to what you would remember CMx1 playing that it is CMx2. But it's not a clone and it has it's own personality. I think you'll find it both different and immersive if you give it much of a try.

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I'm still on the fence. So someone post the flaws please. [:D]

That being said, from pure demo comparison it seems more immersive than CM:N.
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Dang, they released it on the same day as the Combat Mission Normandy demo!...[:'(]

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I played the CM:BN demo while waiting on this to download and I just hated all that bocage. All I really saw was tracers going out of one bocage into another, plus I played it RT to see what all the hype was about and it felt like playing Company of Heroes or TOW and didn't feel like Combat Mission at all. All my tanks got destroyed because I was busying trying to assault and take a damn house with my infantry (this is why RT sucks). So, needless to say it didn't impressah me much.

Once I get used to this command system I'm pretty sure PC:O will be the cats meow. I already like the demo play (had to turn grass off but no biggie about that).
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Well this ain't good. First random game I setup I get :"Panzer Command has stopped working" Windows will try to determine what caused the problem but never did.
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Well this ain't good. First random game I setup I get :"Panzer Command has stopped working" Windows will try to determine what caused the problem but never did.

You might look in the log file which is in the Log folder and see if anything is there.

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From futher testing it has something to do with trying to setup a random battle with 40:0 second default turns. I made up 3 diffenent ones and they all CTD, but, when I made a 60:0 one it worked as well as the regular player made scenario's work. But, 40:0 is not working in random battle setups.

From the Log: 5/12/2011 5:43:54 PM: Cannot load animation mesh: C:\GAMES\Panzer Command Ostfront\Data/Infantry/Russian Rifle 42/russian_regularrifle_02.x

In all 3 crashes that ^ is the common denominator.
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