How does Battlefield Academy compare with Steel Panthers?

miki · Post by **miki** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:18 am

Hi gents

I would like to know how BA compares - scale, graphics, gameplay, etc -with SP. TIA

soldier · Post by **soldier** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:35 pm

Hard to answer but I'll try (I've only played SP WAW)
BA is much smaller in scale in nearly all ways and the actual range appears to be more abstracted. You wont get destroyed by an 88 20 hexes away on the other side of the map in BA. There's also less nations, less units, less scenarios and less sophistication (but also less tedium).
BA is a much more modern game and as such the graphics are far better. There 3d for starters, and more easily distinguishable and colorful but sort of cartoony in a way.
In terms of gameplay both games are similar. BA is fun, faster and more streamlined in many ways over SP but lacks some of the nitty gritty complex tactics of SP, where everything can shoot at everything else. In BA MG's wont fire on tanks and AT wont fire on troops, each unit has a more defined role but is less adaptable. The tactics are still there just simpler. I'd have to say that the AI in BA is far better.

miki · Post by **miki** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:18 am

Soldier, thanks a lot for your response

And what about scenarios and campaigns? Are campaings made of linked scenarios? is there a campaing or random scenario generator?

Is the game really worth for a "solo" gamer. I supose that multiplayer is where the game shines, but i'm burned of multiplayer after years of playing Spww2 and HPS pbem to death...