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Bundle Stars - Battleground Bundle - 8 Games - $3.99US (~$4.40AU)

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Bundle Stars - Battleground Bundle - 8 Games - $3.99US (~$4.40AU)
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pointblank on 29/04/2014 - 09:13 bundlestars.com (171 clicks)
Last edited 29/04/2014 - 10:15

Battleground Bundle including the following games:

Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
American Conquest: Fight Back
Cossacks: Art of War
Cossacks: Back to War
Cossacks II: Battle for Europe

I highly recommend this bundle, I'm a big fan of Cossacks and have recently got into American Conquest which is very similar.

If you don't already have the base games then I suggest you look at the bundle previously posted - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/141475

Apparently both the Art of War and Back to War are stand alone expansions meaning that you don't need the Cossacks European Wars base game to play. The Art of War just has additional campaigns/missions over the original European Wars as far as I'm aware. If you want to play multiplayer then you will need the Back to War expansion as it's not included in the others. Feel free to comment if you know more.

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  • a22andrew on 29/04/2014 - 09:16
    +1

    "Beyond the Call of Duty" - so, it's like, actually a good game?

    • pointblank on 29/04/2014 - 09:33

      I've been trying to think of something witty to say for the past 10mins but I'm dry.

      I only ever played one Commando game (either 2 or 3) on playstation years ago and I really liked it. I don't know what I'd think of it now. I'm mainly getting the bundle for the Cossacks/American Conquest games but the Commando games are a very nice bonus.

      • a22andrew on 29/04/2014 - 09:47
        -2

        Yeah they look second rate to me, typified by the "call of duty" tag and rip off imagery. Can't see myself ever getting to this through the rest of my steam list.

        • darpy01 on 29/04/2014 - 09:54
          +2

          You have never heard of these games? They came out years before COD was even imagined

          I used to play a ton back in 1998, very good problem solving mission game. I would imagine the graphics are extremely dated now

        • pointblank on 29/04/2014 - 10:12

          darpy01 is correct. Commandos was a top down style game where you command half a dozen troops or so. You'd make them climb power poles, knock out enemies, steal their uniforms and loot bodies etc. It was really fun and quite tactical.

        • peter05 on 29/04/2014 - 10:18
          +1

          i don't remember half a dozen, at most i remember it was like 3 troops

        • a22andrew on 29/04/2014 - 10:18
          +1

          oh yeah, I recognise the cover for commandos 2: I think I played that. You're right, I remember a sense of puzzle solving. A bit like a mix of Jagged Alliance and … shit, what's the name of that game that was just on sale on Steam? Goddamit, I know what I mean :)

        • a22andrew on 29/04/2014 - 10:23
          +1

          Company of Heroes!

    • esq on 30/04/2014 - 10:38

      The game environment was hand-drawn and is quite beautiful. You can switch views meaning they drew the entire environment from at least 2 angles, including the cutaways of all buildings.

      Gameplay is quite fun and you rarely have more than 3 or 4 commandos per mission. They die extremely easily so to get past/kill bad guys you have to either distract, then knock out/drug with another commando, good-old fashioned knife them from behind, or my favourite: the throwing knife.

      I personally think the in-game art is comparable to Baldur's Gate 2 which is still very very replayable.

      Commandos 2 (2001):
      http://commandoshq.net/Images/Screenshots/commandos2_120.jpg

  • CyberGenesys on 29/04/2014 - 18:50
    +1

    I <3 Cossacks. One of the best RTS games made. The upgrade paths and resources make sense and if you ever wanted to be a general of an army moving little formations of marching soldiers then this is the game for you. For a game from the 17th century its light years ahead of it's time. Don't forget to grab the other half of the series in the last bundle

    • Thaal Sinestro on 29/04/2014 - 20:12
      +1

      It would have been better if they had just bundled all the Cossacks games together for $5 (75% off the Steam Bundle price), rather than split them across 2 bundles. Still Bundlestars are the only ones this month with good bundles.

  • pointblank on 30/04/2014 - 07:07

    I'm having massive issues trying to get multiplayer working on the net. It's so difficult. I've heard that you need a static ip and need to open a number of ports. I don't think they've brought it across to steam very well. Has anyone else tried multiplayer?

    • CyberGenesys on 30/04/2014 - 10:22

      I've only tried LAN, and out of the 15-20 attempts at setting up a match only once have we managed it. Port forwarding for DirectPlay & the firewall seem to cause the issues.

      http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1690392…

      • pointblank on 30/04/2014 - 11:40

        From what I gather it's ports 2300-2400 and 47624 that have to be open from the site I was looking at:
        http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Techn…

        According to your link gamespy also requires 34000-34005. I'll test it out again tonight. Such a bummer because I have played LAN games as well in the past. I might set up Hamachi or Tunngle if that fails and see if it works over VPN.

        I'll keep everyone posted.

        • pointblank on 30/04/2014 - 20:04
          +1

          No dice - I threw away a couple hours on that. Time to give tunngle a shot!

        • pointblank on 02/05/2014 - 22:43

          I was playing around with cossacks BTW again and something really freaky happened. I launched the game in ad hoc mode. I got a message that said "LERR_Network" and I alt tabbed to see what was happening and instead of being connected to my wireless network/internet I was connected to gsc_cossacks_btw_adhoc.

          Super random! I'm guessing that it's its own network but I don't see how I can connect to that and the internet at the same time.

          Edit: I'm guessing that I'd have to plug the lappy directly into the internet. Guess the house-mates wouldn't be too happy if I did it now.

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