Korea '85

[Mini-Me]

Has anybody played much of this one? I have it, but I've only tried the intro scenario against the AI. I'd appreciate any comments/opinions/etc.

[Glenn Saunders]

This title is large - lots of units and all which appeal to some guys and not others as much. But the primarly Scn designer "Ed Williams" did an excellent job of working this into a story and coming up with scenarios in logical places at the correct time.

For me too, What If like this is best if the story is believable and here Ed integrated the story with the one that was created for FG85. Bob Mayer sew the whole thing together using Ed's Scns so this is worth a look to help get your head around it.

I'll look at home later to get the name of Bob's write up file. In the meantime check out the Notes.HLP and the link to:

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/nkor.pdf

...to assist you to getting INTO the story.

Glenn

[Don Maddox]

This is one of the ones I don't currently own. I got NGP instead.

[Arnhem]

I like Korea 85. Could be something to do with playing Norm Koger's Korea 50 way back then and being hooked. TOAW's scenarios didn't help either. :D

I've played the Campaign game from the US/ROK perspective, never to completion though. The AI suffers because I pull everything back from the border and get behinds some rivers and cover and shoot everything that tries to cross them to pieces. A human opponent would probably do much better than butt his head repeatedly against such a stone wall.

Am presently trying things out from the Commies side, the NKA infantry units need to be massed a la ChiCom style otherwise the superior firepower of the southerners will tear any NKA formation to pieces before it has a chance to bring it's numerical superiority to bear. The abundance of NKA arty helps even the odds some but the ROK tubes are nothing to sneer at. The new add-on scenarios featuring ChiCom intervention look very delicious, haven't had much time to look into those yet though. Human wave assaults anyone?

Throw in paradrops behind enemy lines, marine commandos landing in your backyard, Marines at Inchon, hey, what more could you ask for?

[Mini-Me]

Where do you find the add-on scenarios with the Chi-coms? I didn't see them on Saunders' site or on the HPS site.

[Glenn Saunders]

This CHicom add-on is Volcano's work so it is with his Alt Art on the "VOLCANO MAN'S Alternative Art Page"!

http://members.shaw.ca/gcsaunders/downloads4_VM.html

Glenn

[Mini-Me]

Thanks!