Any Good Tank Sims?

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2006-02-17 05:30pm

Suggestions? I recall reading about something called Balkans on Fire, which looks interesting, but are there any fairly recent WW2-theme tank sims worth checking out?

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2006-02-17 06:02pm

The only tank sim I know of coming out soon is Steel Beasts 2, which looks bloody drool worthy. Leo2s, Bradley's, M1s, all wrapped up in an exceptionally shiny package.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2006-02-17 06:39pm

WWII? About the only decent WWII tank sim worth mentioning is WWII online.

But to get a tank you must be, A-Online, B-Qualified for it, meaning lots of hours of infanty combat first to advance your rank before you can start getting in those lovley Panzers. However selection is limited, the game requires a serious time investment to even touch a tank... and of course it's butt ugly as all hell. Oh and the tank selection is horribly limited.

As far as good tanking simulation goes, Forgotten Hope for BF:1942 does a nice job of simming the basics. But the Silent Hunter III of the land this is not. Range, armor, ammo type and speeds it does. But your not going to be able to sim anything but the pure combat factors in the rather arcadey Battlefield engine.

As for now there are no WWII tank sims out there that match up to games like IL2 or Silent Hunter III for tank sim quality.

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2006-02-17 06:40pm

Captain tycho wrote:The only tank sim I know of coming out soon is Steel Beasts 2, which looks bloody drool worthy. Leo2s, Bradley's, M1s, all wrapped up in an exceptionally shiny package.

No challengers? ah well, you can't have everything. Guess the game won't support stopping for a brew, then

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2006-02-17 08:08pm

Mr Bean wrote:WWII? About the only decent WWII tank sim worth mentioning is WWII online.

But to get a tank you must be, A-Online, B-Qualified for it, meaning lots of hours of infanty combat first to advance your rank before you can start getting in those lovley Panzers. However selection is limited, the game requires a serious time investment to even touch a tank... and of course it's butt ugly as all hell. Oh and the tank selection is horribly limited.

As far as good tanking simulation goes, Forgotten Hope for BF:1942 does a nice job of simming the basics. But the Silent Hunter III of the land this is not. Range, armor, ammo type and speeds it does. But your not going to be able to sim anything but the pure combat factors in the rather arcadey Battlefield engine.

As for now there are no WWII tank sims out there that match up to games like IL2 or Silent Hunter III for tank sim quality.

Yeah, I've played the conversions of 1942 with the various realism mods (no more machine gun fire killing a tank, etc) but I was thinking of single player.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » 2006-02-17 09:04pm

Panzer Commander is the only one that springs to mind and it's far from recent.
I would support to get Steel Beasts 2 when it's come out (the SB Pro PE is already out but it's more expensive, no campaign and it's aimed at the professional market
You could maybe check Invasion 44 for Operation Flashpoint
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