MilitariZm PBeM (R) is now available in English

muxec · September 14, 2003, 07:35

It's civ-like PBeM with lots of cool features.

1. There is unit trading in this game.
2. Troops of your ally can enter your city, and his units can pe located at the same cell with your units.
3.You can refuel or repair other's units in your city. (but you can also disallow repairing or refueling of foreighn units in your city). You can also give your intelegence data to ally.
4. You can lay mines (only naval mines, land mines will be available sfter next patch). Also you can show minefields to ally to reduce his chances of being trapped.
5. Each unit type has special bonuses against each of other types. Example N.1:
Fighter is good against bomber, bomber is good against Riflemen, Riflemen is good against fighter.
N. 2:
Submarine is good against carriers and battleships, carriers are good against fighters, Battleships are good against destroyers. Destroyers and Fighters are useful against submarines.
6. You can play blitz games that last a day, but also you can play huge map games that last about a year.
7. Tech supply unit can repair or refuel and rearm your units far from your cities.
8. Each unit type and factories have 10 tech levels that you discover using your scientists and engeneers."

muxec · September 14, 2003, 07:45

Client part of the program will be available for free download few days later. First PBeM parties will be absolutely free, but English parties may became "pay per week" in case of need in new server. Paid parties are also better because of "commercial" players, who play faster.

Curent english version (absolutely free) is still buggy. English host-server program is not compiled yet, and curent Russian Servers gives names for new units in rare unicode page that will be displayed as "?????? ???????? ???" in english client. This should be patched within a month.

There is no English documentation yet. Documentation will be translated soon using e-Dictionary, but grammar, style and some specific words are being translate wrong by computer. Your help needed for creating normal English documentation.

muxec · September 14, 2003, 14:04

If you have knowledge of Russian language or if you have online dictionary you can visit oficial game site http://militarizm.ru . English version is should be installed over the Russian version that can be downloaded at http://www.militarizm.ru/files/militarizm.exe . If you want to get English client before oficial release and start playing immediately you can contact me to get it via e-mail. Also i ask DanQ (or somebody else) to allow me uploading it to apolyton like a mirror location.)

muxec · September 14, 2003, 15:33

Additional info - thread at offical site (just started) http://www.militarizm.ru/home/thinks/336/
Screenshots (from russian version, english version will be available soon) http://www.militarizm.ru/home/screens/

How the tactical map looks

http://www.militarizm.ru/screenshot.php?id=13 -At the screenshot you see air defences of Bagdad wauting for British airforce. AT the left you see destroyed Iraqi Cruiser.

One of the most famous maps -WW2 http://www.militarizm.ru/home/scenarios/neurope/

If you wanna join the first English Blitz party- write in this thread.
Players who can make not less than five turns per day at 10AM-9PM (Timezone of Odessa and Israel where the servers are located is +2). Future parties will be played at 24h a day host.

muxec · September 15, 2003, 08:37

Temporary URL to English version. 217.132.151.112/Militarizm.zip

This should be installed over full Russian install of v1.29 and higher.
http://www.militarizm.ru/files/militarizm.exe - russian version.

InstallShield version of Militarizm will be available this weekend, but even this brief version is fully functionnal.

Harovan · September 16, 2003, 03:36

Looks like an interesting game, but at the same time not yet quite ready. The graphics are a bit Civ1-ish, but that means nothing in a TBS. The main reason why I don't try it is, that I'm generally reluctant to install executables sucked from "somewhere" in the internet with administrator privileges on my computer.

muxec · September 16, 2003, 14:56

Hmmm... This game is safe... Thousand of men play it and none of them saw this game making their system unstaible or creating security holes.

muxec · September 17, 2003, 05:57

The first page of English militarizm site was created - http://militarizm.ru/eng/unittype.htm

The site with few open aprties will be available... i'm afraid that only next week

Traianvs · September 18, 2003, 19:30

is it a civ2 mod?
or is it just a free standalone game..?

muxec · September 19, 2003, 08:26

It's absolutely new game. The rules (as you can read) are more sophisticated than in civ-2 and even civ-3, but it does not make the game full of boring micromanagement.

P.S: First English speaker from Belgium already joined the game.

muxec · October 2, 2003, 15:59

First english militarizm site/host started to work in test mode. http://militarizm.mailinfo.ru . Client software is not available for download, contact Game Master (me) to get it by e-mail