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ORIGINAL: Crossroads

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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653
Also a computer game from the 1990's. I've got it fired up on my W98 machine

Lucky you! I've heard it indeed requires a W98 setup and will not run on XP or newer. Is it so?

I recall playing "Nato Commander" over Commodore 64.



Maybe I should check whether is is still available for my CBM64 emulator for PC .

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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653
Agreed. I think one of the graphics modders made some tiles that were similar. Maybe if they come across this thread they can send me what they have and we can see how it looks. Of course, the mechanics are very different between 3R and TOAW, but I think we are talking about the possibility of a similar scale and unit count, followed by whatever else we can make similar, and end up with a non-monster that is Risk-like. BRP's and Exploitation seem unatainable, as well as Naval aspects.

I agree if it is a RISK we end up with it is not worth the effort.

Then again, BRP's have to do with reinforcements (if looked simply at), that can be somehow controlled, based on certain events? Mike's 1942-1945 mentions the effect of bombing for an example? Exploitation I could replace with the TOAW game mechanics. Naval aspects have to do again with being able to supply remote areas as the African Theatre of War, also whether one feels if it is possible to risk invasion to England. Some rules / events could perhaps be used here as well.

And, while the map you pictured has the exact same scale as TR, it could easily be e.g. three times bigger and still be not a particularly large. Then, a total of some 600 units made available to players, and perhaps we would be ending up with somthing that is more TR and less RISK.

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ORIGINAL: Oberst_Klink

Like Retro stuff?

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ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
I've made a couple of 50km/hex scenarios covering Barbarossa (Soviet Union 1941) and the final year (Germany 1945).

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ORIGINAL: Crossroads

I compressed the pics too much, the sc prints look like cr@p... In reality they are very much like the TR boardgame pictured in the OP.

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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653

The Russkies too !

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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653

Hi Crossroads !

Hardrive failure at the end of March has set me back. I'm working on several projects for the 3.5 release, and I had to spend weeks working on stuff for those. One of the things I did have backed up was the 3R scenario, so I'm still able to work on it, but its very event heavy and tedious. I did lose the graphics file, if anybody knows what it was, do tell, thanks!

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What about the saps who are not 'on the inside'?

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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653

Well, I made a bit of a mistake when I started working on this, in that I used 3.5 to put it together (I had no idea that 3.5 would take this long). If I had done it with 3.4, I could have posted it already.

It might be possible to import the separate components into 3.4, and then have them recombined for that version. I'll look into it.

And again, does anybody know where I can get the graphics that are seen in the previous posts ?

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... hit F8 and export it as a 3.4 scenario.

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ORIGINAL: Telumar

Yes, just save and open that file with 3.4. Voila!

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I am afraid I am not much of an beta tester myself ...