just found a great new online RPG called Blitz 1941, it's currently in free beta and it's great.
It's basically like this, you choose from either Germany or USSR (you can't change) and then you are given your first tank, you go and fight other tanks to win money and experience so you can buy better tanks and things like better muzzles and engines to make your tank better. Addionally you are given skill points and military points, skill points are spent on skills like temporary power boosts or the ability to disable an opponents tank with a shot. Military points are spent on permanant upgrades like increased fire power or turret rotation speed.
So anyway, on to the gameplay, you go on to the battlefield from your chosen base and the idea is to caputre your opponents base by destrying their tanks and defenses before stopping infront of their base for a while to capture it.
In the higher levels you can capture airfields which allow you to launch air strikes and many games includes upwards of 60 tanks.
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Downloading. I'll give this a go, although it'll have to fight for my time with Eve, COD2, BEEF and RO. I do like tanks though (especially WW2 flavoured).
EDIT: Installed and about to play. I'm going to start as German because I know the tanks better, although I suspect Russian will be the less popular side and so the more appealing to me.
EDIT: Installed and about to play. I'm going to start as German because I know the tanks better, although I suspect Russian will be the less popular side and so the more appealing to me.
First impressions:
Not bad actually. It's pretty simple and easy to pick up, and rather arcadey, but it is quite fun. I've only seen the first tier of tanks, but there looks to be quite a lot - there's two different Panzer IIs, and I don't think they were particularly significant on the Eastern front. The skills are a bit odd, but seem to work okay in game terms een if they aren't particularly realistic.
I've yet to work out how to create 5punk Corps, but maybe Sandwich can shed some light on this. As it stands I'm a low ranking officer in the 96th Newbie Company.
Once I've played it a bit more I'll write a review, but at the moment I'd say it was worth the free 5-10min download to have a crack at.
Not bad actually. It's pretty simple and easy to pick up, and rather arcadey, but it is quite fun. I've only seen the first tier of tanks, but there looks to be quite a lot - there's two different Panzer IIs, and I don't think they were particularly significant on the Eastern front. The skills are a bit odd, but seem to work okay in game terms een if they aren't particularly realistic.
I've yet to work out how to create 5punk Corps, but maybe Sandwich can shed some light on this. As it stands I'm a low ranking officer in the 96th Newbie Company.
Once I've played it a bit more I'll write a review, but at the moment I'd say it was worth the free 5-10min download to have a crack at.
That would be an SPG (self propelled gun), as opposed to an MBT (main battle tank). I've recreated myself as a Russian and we now have a 5punk Coy under Mr Sandwich. I do say I rather prefer the Russians, despite there seeming to be a lot more clueless (and by that I mean incapable of following the advice of the recently-n00b) newbies there.
If anyone else fancies it you'll have to post your Commander name here so Sandwich can invite you to the Company (Coy).
If anyone else fancies it you'll have to post your Commander name here so Sandwich can invite you to the Company (Coy).
