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Posted June 25, 2012
Round 7: The winner never needed any divine intervention
Both Sacred Gold and Divine Divinity are amazing games and they equally deserve a place on your shelf. However, there can be only one victor, and Divine Divinity ascends to a 60% discount. Buy it for only $2.39 for the next 24 hours. Sacred Gold can be collected for $5.99.

Round 8: B-17 Flying Fortress vs Red Baron
In B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th you can test your skills as any of the ten crew members of the bomber: pilot, navigator, gunner, bombardier or even radio operator. Twenty-five WWII scenarios will put your aviation, shooting, and leadership skills to the test in this impressively detailed and historically accurate simulation.
In Red Baron Pack you play as either British, German, or French airpilot carryiong out various missions in the early years of the 20th Century. Red Baron, one of the best WWI plane simulators ever created, comes bundled with a mission builder and its fantastic sequel Red Baron 3D.

Bomber vs bi-plane--B-17 vs Red Baron--Vote now!

For each day between June 19 and July 5, two games will battle one on one and you will decide which title wins. VOTE NOW! Each Round of the Battle begins at 1 PM GMT (9 AM EST) and ends after 24 hours. After each round, the winner of the popular vote will be discounted 60% and the runner-up 40%, for the following 24 hours. Bookmark the Battle of the Games page, check back every day, vote, and buy amazing games 60% off during our summer Battle of the Games!
Posted June 25, 2012
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ne_zavarj: Can you play these games with mouse + keyboard combo ?
The original Red Baron can be played quite nicely using a KB. RB2/3D too, probably.
B-17 requires a joystick or an analogue stick gamepad. Some commands (ironically, gun aiming) can't be mapped to other forms of input.
Posted June 25, 2012
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grviper: The original Red Baron can be played quite nicely using a KB. RB2/3D too, probably.
B-17 requires a joystick or an analogue stick gamepad. Some commands (ironically, gun aiming) can't be mapped to other forms of input.
Thanks .
Posted June 25, 2012
This one is a toss up. Both are fantastic games, but luckily I own both.

Red Baron 3D is really the last worthwhile WWI flight game. It' s a bit more sim than it's predecessor but easy enough to like. Lots of fun with this one. And the original one was like crack, but a bit dated by today's dtandards

B-17 -2: The Mighty 8th is one of the best flight sims made by Microprose. It's a bit heavy (literally these planes are hard to fly) on the sim side, but the crew management aspects are really well done. You can pretty much autopilot the entire mission and just take charge of the gun turrets, bombardier, and navigator roles. This one plays more like a RPG, as you need to put out fires, and help injured crewmen throughout the missions. Work of art.
Posted June 25, 2012
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aspower: B-17 -2: The Mighty 8th is one of the best flight sims made by Microprose.
And a successor to a long a heck line of B-17 crew sims, starting with B-17 Bomber on Intellivision (Get Intellipack 3 to try http://www.intellivisionlives.com/download.shtml ) and continuing via 50 Mission Crush and First over Germany on C64.

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aspower: You can pretty much autopilot the entire mission and just take charge of the gun turrets, bombardier, and navigator roles.
Yes, funny shit happens in you autopilot the navigator and bombardier roles. Like AI whining "I don't know where we are!" over home base.
Posted June 25, 2012
I voted for B-17 Flying Fortress.

This genre is definitely not my cup of tea. But if I can get the game for $2.39, I will give it a try.
Posted June 25, 2012
Uuuu - formerly I wanted to vote for Flying Fortress (already played Red Baron looong time ago), but then I saw the Red Baron again...nostalgia...and I couldn´t resist voting for it :)
Posted June 25, 2012
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JMich: Voting for Red Baron because I don't have it yet, and also because I don't recall it being discounted (other than the Xmas sale).
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Zoltan999: How to use quotes?
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JMich: The quote system works with the tag quote for a "generice" quote, or quote_## to quote post number ##.
So, if you want to add a quote to post 15, you'd use (quote_15)text here(/quote), using brackets [ ] instead of parentheses ( ).
Thanks much JMich! Appreciate the lesson :)
Posted June 25, 2012
Today, I throw my lot in with the RB. An awesome game. Time to fly those unfriendly skies. This is the fourth battle in which both combatants are already at home on my shelf. So I've decided to play each game that wins for a day. Crazy, I know.
Posted June 26, 2012
Voted for Red Baron

No particular reason, though :P
Posted June 26, 2012
Can't say I know either of these games :P

I wouldn't mind Might & magic 3 on sale
Posted June 26, 2012
This might be the day that breaks my voting streak and I actually voted for the winner. It also happens to be the pair of games that interest me the least...

Seeing Red Baron made me remember how much I enjoyed Evasive Action's WW1 scenario so I voted for it.
Post edited June 26, 2012 by adambiser
Posted June 26, 2012
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Posted June 26, 2012
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Coelocanth: E9M6-6EX5-ZJ79-BBB4
Saw it was sitting there for 2 minutes and decided to claim it. Thank you.
Posted June 26, 2012
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Gonchi: Saw it was sitting there for 2 minutes and decided to claim it. Thank you.
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