T-72: Balkans on Fire

[Blake 0]

Has anybody played this game yet? Full version is released in Russia already (in russian of course). There's demo available here from 3D Gamers: http://www.3dgamers.com/news/more/1095861662/ 630 MB and in Russian language.

Developer page: http://t72.iddk.ru/en/news.html

Sure looks very good judging from the screenshots, hopefully it's also realistic  

Somebody should definately publish it in the 'West' too!

Quote[/b] ]The game models the military career of a Russian volunteer tanker during the 1991-1995 civil war in Yougoslavia. On the Serbian side there were not only separate volunteer participants of the war, but whole subdivisions made up of the ex-USSR citizens, such as the Russian Volunteer Detachment (RDO-1, RDO-2, RDO-3), the 1st, the 2nd and the 3rd Cossack sotnias. Reasoning from the specificities of the conflict we did not model large-scale tank battles. The game missions are based on the real application of tanks to local conflicts.

[Bikecop 0]

That looks fricken amazing but.....will there be combined arms?

Not just tanks cuz thats lameeee

[Tovarish 0]

That looks fricken amazing but.....will there be combined arms?

Not just tanks cuz thats lameeee

Speak for yourself, I've been waiting for a good tank sim.

[Gadger 0]

looks very interesting to say the least.

[Blake 0]

OFP is great for combined arms, but still, simulators are a different ballgame. OFP is quite bad in vehicular simulation and damage modelling, which of course what I'd like to see improved in OFP 2.

[Bademeister 0]

Did anyone try the game and have an AAR on it? I assume this is not a simulation like SB?

[stgn 39]

too bad its in russian cause its the first time I have seen a Danish Leo1A5 in a computer game(atleast it looks like one).

oh and has enyone tryed it yet, is it as hard(realistic) as steel beasts.

STGN

[king homer 1]

yep its realisitic, you need a fast pc, and it's hard to understand...yes its only in russian

you can play T34/T55/T72 in that beta in 4 missions

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

Well the screenshots are not toooo promising I must say.

[king homer 1]

Well the screenshots are not toooo promising I must say.

you are a "miesepeter"

the graphics are really good on high detail, with vie distance 8 km +

and thats just a "very" early beta

gameplay is really good and realistic, you need to start engine, shift, turn the tracks with two keys ....

here you can download the english translation of the user manual for the beta, i've found on the internet last week

[GoOB 0]

That looks fricken amazing but.....will there be combined arms?

Not just tanks cuz thats lameeee

YOU will only be controlling tanks, but judging from the soldiers sittin on top of that T-55 (?) it looks like you'll have little soldiers running about too!

[Balschoiw 0]

Last tank sim I´ve played and still play is Steel Beasts.

I take anything that has an up to date gfx outfit like this one seems to have. I´m also pleased with the viewdistance. Looks pretty nice. Can you tell us something about urban areas ? Are there any ? How do they look ?

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

Well the screenshots are not toooo promising I must say.

you are a "miesepeter"

lol, yes, maybe!

[Radnik 17]

... for mother Russia

downloading (50kb/s)

[Blake 0]

The Demo is only beta, but definately going to download it soon. Post your demo comments please...

[Radnik 17]

...as soon as i get it

i'm not shure were is this conflict?, is it Bosnia or croatia?...i think is Bosnia since ther are tank battles...he is on Serbian side for shure ... and is it based on actual terrain of those two countries or whatever place is?

[shadow 6]

T-72: Balkans in fire?

Balkans: T-72 on fire is more like it.

If the game gets fully translated to English I might give it a go. Don't feel like learning Russian right now. Pic looks nice though

[Goeth 0]

Tried the demo, i must say that i couldn´t understand much about it since everything was in russian language, it looked ok but that grass which disappears after 50 m really pisses me. Also it´s seems to require very powerful machine to run smoothly, althought it´s just a demo so let´s wait for full version. Still waiting for replacement to panzer elite.

[Radnik 17]

...very early stage of development    

though models are fine, but i'm not to optimistic about those terrains ?#$#$$%

look forward full game release  

[CrackerJack 0]

Russians in balkans, that´s new to me. Anyone got any other download site?

Tank battles i Bosnia? probably not.. might have accured some in Croatia, Vukovar etc.

[Radnik 17]

Russians in balkans, that´s new to me. Anyone got any other download site?

Tank battles i Bosnia? probably not.. might have accured some in Croatia, Vukovar etc.

...hmm according to hills and mountains i doubt its Croatia...more like Bosnia to me

its far known in Serbia that during 90's Russian volunteers were fighting for Serbs and those was mostly comunists

[crassus 0]

@ Sep. 25 2004,17:52)]Tried the demo....

I don't know, mayabe I lost some things in the download, but how did you get the demo to launch? I open up the directory, and there are three DOS thingys along subdirectories....

Any help would be appreciated.

[Radnik 17]

...start game with start.bat

and you will see many ???

[Blake 0]

Btw, there's two-part preview of the now-available Russian language version of T-72: BoF at SimHQ

Sounds very tempting indeed...T-72B, T-34/85 and T-55 are playable.

[Tovarish 0]

Those are nice two great previews....and the author makes a good point - notice how virtually all the realistic militay vehicle simulators are coming from Russia these days? Usually with fractions of the budget western companies put into their games?