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[sigard]

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[ERYFKRAD]

reserved for silent storm sentinels

reserved for hammer & sickle

Sentinels is much better than the older game. Hammer and Sickle, though. Boy I hope you love hard games.

reserved for night watch

reserved for day watch

Likely shit, do not bother.

 

[Parsimonious cook]

The only really bad thing about the first Silent Storm game was the final boss fight - fuck that shit. Sentinels is fine, Hammer & Sickle has a great premise and a lot of great stuff, but can be pretty confusing at times (as in what to do to progress). In any case all three are worth playing even in this day and age. I got no experience with the day/night watch games, though I read that they suck. Tin is supposed to be p.good, but also very rough around the edges.

 

[Alter Sack]

The panzer kleins ruined the game for me.

At the beginning before their introduction the game was pretty great.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

The panzer kleins ruined the game for me.

At the beginning before their introduction the game was pretty great.

Sentinels is much better about them and Hammer and Sickle avoids them altogether.

 

[Fargus]

Nothing really worth playing other than OG Silent Storm and Sentinels. Finished both of them twice. Finished Hammer and Sickle but can't say i enjoyed it. The devs were amateurs and the game itself was too short and not well made. Difficulty aside.

The rest seem like shitty games based off of shitty russian movies.

BTW i love how you named your char 1488.

 

[Gahbreeil]

I agree with the mention of the engine in itself. It is such fun to see destructible environs. Unfortunately it's the only good part of the game for me. And Hammer and Sickle was very short.

 

[udm]

Yeah Silent Storm is what I'd call a classic, though still not up there with the greatest. Very good mechanics and amazing physics engine, but it lacks the charm that JA2 and even X-COM had.

 

[Gumsmith]

These games were great fun for younger me. Back then I thought the Panzerkleins were damn cool and was perfectly happy to use them though nowadays I can see them for how obnoxious they are (Make my units slower, with half-assed crouching, no prone, no climbing and less weapon variety? This sounds great!) Definitely would've been better games if there were only one or two 'kleins for boss fights and none given to the player.

I recently-ish got my hands on Hammer & Sickle and was expecting to enjoy it as there's an ache in my heart for new Silent Storm content. The others in here aren't kidding when they say it's hard, the game kicked my ass with two parts of it in particular, the first being the limited amount of soldiers (which you can miss entirely) and the second being the jacked up interrupt stats that all the enemies are sporting. A pretty deadly combination I'd say. Trying to play the game without save scumming requires more fortitude than I had and I never finished it.

Anyways, Silent Storm was the game that first introduced me to turn based tactics and I've a soft spot for it thanks to that, though nowadays I can't muster enthusiasm to play it as I know how it all goes.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Hammer & Sickle doesn't work on my pc
Win 10. I used :
http://www.strategycore.co.uk/files/unofficial-english-patch-1.15-h-and-s/
and no-cd patch from gamecopy****
And nothing happens when i try to start a game

Sentinels impressions soon

maybe laclongquan can help me?

I don't think I ever got the no-cd patch to work. Just play without it?

 

[Gumsmith]

I only have hazy memories of what I needed to do to get H&S to work on my PC, and that was on Windows 7. Aside from the no-cd patch I think one of the things I did was download and install some DirectX stuff? This is what I have in my Downloads folder https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=8109

Might be worth a shot.

 

[Gumsmith]

downloaded from different source and reinstalled :
1. tried "clean" start meaning no no-cd patch -> only starforce will start
2. tried only no-cd patch -> game don't start
3. tried only no-cd patch + unofficial patch -> game don't start
4. tried no-cd patch form gamecopy***** and another one that was added to cd3, both seems to be identical?. Both don't work.

Looks like i be skipping this game. What a shame.
Thankfully i completed this game 10+ years ago ( game on windows xp worked perfectly ) so i remember some of it.

Dang, I don't have ideas then.

 

[jebsmoker]

https://www.gamepressure.com/download.asp?ID=11141

try this

 

[Raghar]

Hammer & Sickle doesn't work on my pc
Win 10. I used :
http://www.strategycore.co.uk/files/unofficial-english-patch-1.15-h-and-s/
and no-cd patch from gamecopy****
And nothing happens when i try to start a game

Sentinels impressions soon

maybe laclongquan can help me?

1. Complain how idiots developers even 10+ years after release didn't remove that shit.
2. Complain how idiots developers were greedy.
3. Be happy theirs greed destroyed theirs fame, and stayed as obscure company.
4. PIRATE XP.
5. Install XP into some virtual box.
6. Play the game.

 

[Strange Fellow]

sigard did you try this? http://www.strategycore.co.uk/forums/topic/9242-unsupported-videocard-new-fix/
I tried reinstalling it just now from the image files I've kept around, and it worked fine after applying the crack and the above file.

 

[codex account]

silent storm engine patch different filesize than what strange fellow posted newer
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lzmrnWwJPFhbqjdw_SfAytT1BMBuj0hQ/view
these games won't work if ram more than 2gb or vram more than 128mb not windows 10 problem or similar

 

[laclongquan]

I did my last run of S2/S3/HS Last year or even before that. Not remember too much about it now because too much time spending with Fallouts

And I never run windows 10, so no chance at all I ever run the game on it. Either XP or Windows 7~

I remember there's used to be problem with D3D 9x and graphic drivers.

If you cant remove starforce on that bugger, there's going to be problem between Starforce and W10, ie not supported, not run.

Remove its cd protection program is the best way, because it prevent starforce fucking with your windows. Either try GCW or this link
http://www.mediafire.com/file/67arbq2xr93b1lf/rld-has.rar/file

Have you tried right click on exe, run it on winxp, and run as admin yet?
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I might have been nocd the v1.0, then apply the unofficial patch 1.15 from strategycore http://www.strategycore.co.uk/files/unofficial-english-patch-1.15-h-and-s/
Just drive around the official patch since you cant nocd it~

 

[codex account]

techsupportcodex.net
grabbed this from rutracker
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1O8kyNxlATPU3FDusrnaQPjgoQr5GjIxJ?usp=sharing
don't know what it does readme russian used google translate but guess is crack isn't just an single exe file

 

[laclongquan]

Where else to ask? While Strategycore is the go-to place, the thing is pretty emptied nowaday. S2/S3/HS is a pretty niche game anyway~

 

[Raghar]

Thanks, but nothing works. Tried no-cd exe from your link, compatibility mode with win xp and unofficial patch 1.15.
For some reason game refuses to start no matter what i do.
What a shame.

Have you tried to run it without unofficial patch?

 

[Ladonna]

I really enjoyed all three of the WW2/Cold War games. HnS was really good once I worked out how to avoid WW3. I also found the original game more enjoyable by avoiding the use of Panzerkleins. It was really fun trying to outflank them and take out the driver, while the damn things slowly try and waste my men, taking out buildings and blowing shit up left and right. Snipers are especially good at taking out PK drivers, while the other guys provide cover and distraction (while trying to avoid getting blown to hell).

It is a shame that the SS engine wasn't tightened up (especially around some of the skill usage training. While I didn't need to take out buildings to get gun skills up, I understand where you are coming from with other skills) and bigger WW2/around that period scenario's weren't developed. There was virtually no advertising or mention of these games here, and it was only that I spied the box at the PC games store that I found out about it. I haven't played the later SS engine games so it will be interesting to see what people here think of them.

Good luck getting HnS to work. I might have to see how wine goes with it.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Though those laser weapons really make short work of the Panzies.