More screenshots from Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm!

The new Cold War turned hot wargame from On Target Simulations, now expanded with the Player's Edition! Choose the NATO or Soviet forces in one of many scenarios or two linked campaigns. No effort was spared to model modern warfare realistically, including armor, infantry, helicopters, air support, artillery, electronic warfare, chemical and nuclear weapons. An innovative new asynchronous turn order means that OODA loops and various effects on C3 are accurately modeled as never before.

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More screenshots from Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm!

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Here for you more screenshots from the upcoming game by OTS!


Basic Game Options
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Mission Briefing
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NATO Defenses
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Select Scenario
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Start Game
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Welcome Screen
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WG at Game Start
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Thanks for the screens!
OTS is looking forward to Southern Storm getting released!

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Can something be done about the rivers? They just don't look right.

bear in mind when I ask this that I don't know if they are BETA screen/finished art/WIP or what
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JD it is a very stylised map..I getting used to it..we have been told we can mod it but the colours of the towns and cities have to be like that due to the coding of the map..or something like that. So I presume all terrain has been designed that way for a reason. In one way I like the fact everything is obvious and easy to see on the other it certainly isn't the best map I've seen. Yet it has a charm of it's own.

I'm sure someone will get to modding it. Maybe I will.
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@ Wodin and JD - As Wodin was saying the maps and art use a very specific set of colors so they can get picked up by an automated routine to set map values. Takes a job that was hours down to minutes. Per map!

We also wanted items to be visually distinctive. That being said, you can of course make your own maps (with a bit of effort) and you could take the map art file and redecorate it with your favorite paint program since the map values are in a separate file. As long as you aren't trying to change the terrain that should work fine. [8D]
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Just not over keen on the colour. It looks too BLUE!
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Here is what a major river map that has the Weser on it looks like zoomed out. The map graphics are also moddable.

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ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

Just not over keen on the colour. It looks too BLUE!


I understand. [X(] It was not easy getting all of these map items to play nice with the auto map values routine and MR was pacing back and forth waiting for us to make it work.
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Every map is the same size. The maps are routinely larger than the battle area for the scenario. That gives lots of room for maneuver and it also allows for the maps to be used for more than one scenario. Different parts of the maps can be used for multiple fights. Especially if the force size is small to medium.

Edit - while maps can be used to create more than one scenario, we did not. Each scenario in the game has a specific map created for it. Except one. This map has two scenarios for it because of the lay out of the terrain.

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Given the apparent flexibility inherent in the maps which appears to be linked to colour/content, then the blue is a small price to pay.

By the way - perhaps I should've come across positive as well as negative - the maps are really, really nice. I guess I made the error that by only mentioning the blue rivers and not liking them I thought the assumption could be made I liked the rest....but they are great looking.
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One of the reasons I do like the brighter blue is when you zoom out the map it is still immediately apparent where the rivers are. As you can see in the map I show above.

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These maps really are great. I can only imagine how great the scenarios are going to be. I too thought the blue was a bit much, but I get the reasoning and seeing it on the zoomed out map, MR is right - it does make it very clear where the rivers are.

This just can't get released soon enough!
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@ demiller - We are hard at work to hit our summer release date.
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Capn, you and MR and the rest of the team take whatever time you need to wrap this one up right. My impatience is simply the result of having really enjoyed FPG and from know MRs scenario work from Panzer Command Ost Front. You guys do great work, and this looks to be a long way toward the NATO-Pact game I've wanted to play for a long time.

Keep up the great work!
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@ demiller - Thanks. That is our plan!
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I'm really looking forward to this... the excellent screen shots display the obvious lineage and yet evolution from FPG. ( a good thing,IMHO!).

I've actually fired up FPG again and started to re-read Tom Clancy's 'Red Storm Rising' just to stay in the mood. LOL
As others have said...'this could be the one I've been waiting for...' thanks...

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I'm glad you liked my scenarios in Panzer Command Ostfront. We worked a long time on that game!!

Hopefully some of the scenarios we have set to release with this game will also be competitive for you.

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Also good for " getting in the mood" is IRON X's "Red Storm Over Europe" mod of the HPS's "Squad Battles Vietnam" game. who said world war three had to be in 3D ?

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Hmmmm...Vietnam to Cold War mods....or Cold War to Vietnam mods....might have something there. [:D]

But then that would mean a mostly infantry game wouldn't it? Hmmmmm..... [8D]

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