Cool oldies: Over the Reich/Achtung Spitfire

CCIP · 12-04-06, 01:15 PM

Anyone ever played these?

It's a two-part series of 1996/1997 that, at its more basic, is a tactical wargame (and in one limited mode - strategic) - and at higher difficulty levels, about as close as one gets to a 2D, turn-based flight sim

It seems terribly addictive - a real joy to play. Hard as hell, too - even at simpler difficulty levels, going up with a flight of Hurris against a larger force of Me-109's is as merciless as it should be. The graphics, cartoony though they might be, are actually quite cool.

I recently came across them by accident (yes I realize abandonware is discouraged at subsim; but I was simply too young when snagging a real copy was still realistic) and have enjoyed them quite a lot. In fact I'll even try to trace them down on e-bay somewhere now.

12-04-06, 01:15 PM	#1
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Cool oldies: Over the Reich/Achtung Spitfire Anyone ever played these? It's a two-part series of 1996/1997 that, at its more basic, is a tactical wargame (and in one limited mode - strategic) - and at higher difficulty levels, about as close as one gets to a 2D, turn-based flight sim It seems terribly addictive - a real joy to play. Hard as hell, too - even at simpler difficulty levels, going up with a flight of Hurris against a larger force of Me-109's is as merciless as it should be. The graphics, cartoony though they might be, are actually quite cool. I recently came across them by accident (yes I realize abandonware is discouraged at subsim; but I was simply too young when snagging a real copy was still realistic) and have enjoyed them quite a lot. In fact I'll even try to trace them down on e-bay somewhere now. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)