World War One: ISH

[PurplePoot]

World War One: ISH Version 3.0 (Download)

A World War One strategy game made by me with testing and support from Clan WW1 (now dead) and Clan QUAM and various more minor groups, World War One: ISH relives the Great War in its trench warfare, massive artillery usage, naval combat, deployment of chemical weapons, and much, much more from the strategic perspective. Following a historically accurate timeline, there is little deviation from the actual course of events that is not caused directly by the players' actions during the game. Will the war remain an Entente victory, or will the Centrals triumph?

(Info moved to the map thread)

I hope you enjoy the game as much as I enjoyed making it!

 

[bounty hunter2]

PurplePoot and a map? That's an interesting combination. I'l be glad to check it out as it looks quite promising. Although the water is too blue, and I can see a lack of dodoads in the pictures, still quite nice.

 

[PurplePoot]

PurplePoot and a map? That's an interesting combination. I'l be glad to check it out as it looks quite promising. Although the water is too blue, and I can see a lack of dodoads in the pictures, still quite nice.

There used to be a lot of doodads, but I deleted them due to the fact that they had an annoying tendency to get in the way. Now there are only trees in strategic locations, as well as cliffs.

 

[Deathcom3s]

Nice to see you going back to your roots.

The idea seems good and original, I hope you finish it.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Is it possible to play with Finland?

 

[Deathcom3s]

Is it possible to play with Finland?

Did finland really even play a big part in WWI?

 

[PurplePoot]

They were controlled by Russia.

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Death, it's already in the public beta phase. I don't announce maps before then because I never finish them (this was a first in a while).

 

[cell_destroyer]

poot add the doodads back ._.

 

[Deathcom3s]

They were controlled by Russia.

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Death, it's already in the public beta phase. I don't announce maps before then because I never finish them (this was a first in a while).

Hmm, i'll have to go play it.

How long did it take you to get the shape of the continents right, or at least fairly accurate?

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Oh yea, my fault. I mixed WW1 and WW2. Happens sometimes.

 

[PurplePoot]

Hmm, i'll have to go play it.

How long did it take you to get the shape of the continents right, or at least fairly accurate?

James7 did it, and I'm not sure how long it took him. He does Europe terrains a lot, though.

 

[PurplePoot]

Haha, whoops, I forgot a few people. I'll add them as I remember/they whine.

 

[Zack1996]

GO PURPLEPOOT!
Even though I have yet to try the map, I am assured it will be of great quality because you made it
I can't believe how long it has been since you stepped down, I miss you as a Mod.
I will feedback ASAP!
EDIT: I tried it and I found the map less impressive then I thought it would have been. I expected PurplePoot to have done some good spells and such for the map
However, the gameplay itself is rather interesting and fun. I like how Merchant ships sail around and stuff.

 

[Captain Griffen]

Gameplay before flash, boy. That's what makes a map good, and this map's good. Spells would just make the map worse and more of a clusterfuck.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Make it good Poot, I love great concepts but I hate lousy results. And don't put the 'Netherlands went to war too'-event in the game, they didn't fought allong..

 

[PurplePoot]

TDB, I ended up including Netherlands and Denmark as options for Germany and GB to declare war on because they are otherwise so 'in the way' of the coast (especially for Germany). However, they don't declare war automatically.

Zack, spells of that sort have no place in a world war one game, for a few reasons:

• There are a lot of units (and that's on purpose), and thus speed needs to be taken into heavy consideration. Combined with the fact that enuming all these units would be slow in itself, that means complex or area of effect spells are unfeasible.
• Last time I checked, there were no mages in world war one (Even medics are pushing it).
• Quite frankly, for the spells that are in, flame strike (gas) and heal (medics) work just fine - I don't see why I should code custom spells for something which has a default spell which works exactly the way I want it to.

As CG said, flash will come later if at all. I'm not really sure what it needs (if anything) in that department, though.

 

[Zack1996]

Ok, maybe custom spells is not such a good idea
Anyway, how come there are not Gererals or Commanders and such. I don't know why but I like heroes in games.
Anyways, I don't know why the trench has about 7 duplicates of the same ability. I have no idea how a unit can have so many abilities . Why is it like that? Cos it looks really weird with seven abilties used at once.
Also, maybe there could be a way to increase the amount of gold those Merchant ships provide you with. Maybe it could be based on how much goods you have and stuff.

I didn't get to try this map with others so I might not be giving the best feedback

 

[PurplePoot]

Generals - I'm considering it, but I do not by any means want them to be "super units" if they exist.

Trench - That is a display bug on Commonwealth/British trenches and will be fixed as of 1.3 (Already done, but I'm doing some more changes in the mean time).

Merchants - Perhaps, but I don't want them to be too strong. They're already a lot of income for the allies in the first place, especially if they manage to defend Sevastopol, Cyprus, Sicily, Ireland, etc.

 

[Zack1996]

Hmm... I was just thinking, since Generals are kinda for planning attacks and such, maybe they should just be support units who can "Plan" an attack. It should probably have a channeling time of about 20 seconds or something. If the General finishes a plan, all allied units will gain morale from having a solid plan, thus being able to perform better in combat or something.
Also, maybe there could be something like an Artillery that can bomb stuff from really far away but with some requirements for each shot (maybe he needs to load a round or something that takes 1 minute to load and some money as well.

 

[PurplePoot]

I was thinking of including railguns (as to the second part) with some railroad stuff, but we'll see.

As for generals: perhaps a slight effectiveness boost (aura or casted) would be reasonable. I'll consider it.