A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

© 2022 Bird's Eye Games & MicroProse    Two Lessons I Have Learned from Playing ‘Regiments’   Oh, look! A current blog post from me! As you know, I purchased my first game from the “new” (Australian-based) version of MicroProse since the 1990s over a month ago. The game in question is called Regiments, and it was developed by a small European studio called Bird’s Eye Games. Regiments is, like Eugen Systems’ Steel Division and Wargame series, a real-time tactics game that depicts 20 th Century warfare – especially land combat – in fast-paced, adrenaline-laced battles ( Steel Division is set in World War II, while Wargames is Cold War-turns-hot and superpower conflict-oriented) on the ground and in the air. It's so good to see this classic logo on brand-new games.  I play all those games, and even though Regiments is its own thing, some of its features do resemble those in Wargame, especially when it comes to Objective Zones and how units are made available if you ha

Regiments has detailed after-action reports that include, among other details, the level of victory you achieve and the stats that show why you earn victories, draws, or defeats. © 2022 Bird's Eye Games and MicroProse   Although I am on a brief hiatus from playing Regiments, the new real-time tactical game developed by Bird's Eye Games and published on August 16 by MicroProse, I can now report that I have gotten the hang of the game's basic concepts and won the Skirmish scenario Grasleben a few times before I decided to take a short rest break from the game.  If you read either of my A Certain Point of View blogs (one here, the other on WordPress), you doubtlessly know that Regiments is a visually stunning, fast-paced wargame depicting a fictional version of 1989 in which the Cold War goes hot and the two great alliances in the Europe of the time — NATO and the Warsaw Pact — trade blows in a deadly battle for West Germany as the Soviet Union strives to maintain its iron gri