Anyone? Game where you RP/Sim a Military "Career"?

[Lord von Games]

I've got an itch in gaming, where I want to play a game where you RP a character who has a "military career" and advances through the ranks. As they do, their duties, command options, etc increase, maybe win a few medals, get their own command. The closest thing to such a game that I have found is "A Legionary's Life", largely spreadsheet based... its one style, but certainly not the only style I'd be interested in. Anyone have any ideas? Army, Navy, and Airforce (perhaps, though most of those its hardly about the career and just a flying simulator).

[mandiitoe]

Actually that sounds like it would be pretty good. Surprised no one has come up with it yet.

[Pheex]

Originally posted by mandiitoe:

Actually that sounds like it would be pretty good. Surprised no one has come up with it yet.

In any modern game it'd mean you would level up after every mission, or you'd have to program in hundreds of missions or RNG missions. Then you'd have gameplay elements changing on your rank and inevitably some players would like certain elements more than others creating dead points for most players where they don't like their 'rank'. It would also encompass a ton of gameplay elements instead of focusing one just one playstyle.

The closest thing I can think of is something like

https://store.steampowered.com/app/773951/Freeman_Guerrilla_Warfare/

Where you grow your army, can tactically move squads and get more and more and better soldiers, equipment and eventually vehicles (if they ever added those, it was in early access and I havn't checked up on it in a long time)

edit: supposedly there are tanks and other vehicles in game but they're currently reworking a huge part of the game or something which will take a long time

[Chef]

Perhaps some of the community servers on Arma 3 do this?

[Tiwsman]

I really enjoy this kind of game. Gunship 2000 by MicroProse was like this.

[Lord von Games]

Have actually played Freeman, devs said they are re-working it... though that was a year ago. Its a good game, its basically Mount & Blade with guns... its a good game, but its not a "Military Career with ranks, promotion, medals, etc of the like" its a great merc game. There are lots of merc games (this one is one of the better open-world ones in a contemporary setting.).

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There's one in Roblox called marine academy. U do Standard training to rank up for USMC rank and then u could join division and gets higher position base on ur performance

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.