J P Wagner Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I hijacked this link from the General Forum.... FIELD OF STRATEGY is an Operational/Grand Tactical game with Napoleonic and WWII scenarios...when I started up the Barbarossa scenario, the first thing I noticed, when I activated the grid icon on the tool bar, is that the game is tile based! Now we can fool around with a tile based game and see how some of the elements that we have been discussing work... while Field of Strategy will not have the same movement/combat system of SC2, there are some things that can be checked, such as a continuous front, encirclements ect...anyway, it's free, so I hope some of you give it a try and see if some opinions can be formed...oh, and there is an editor which I plan to use for working on my Russian Civil War map, just to get an idea how it will look before SC2 comes along.... Hey, this game also has a timer for players moves!...that will make some people very happy indeed.... http://tpgames.free.fr/FoS/index.html [ December 29, 2004, 08:15 PM: Message edited by: J P Wagner ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hentzau Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Seems really easy to encircle and thus kill a unit in this game so far, probably not so much so against a human though. Don't think that has anything to do with the board being tiles though. Swell little game engine for free!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyJohn Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 JP Thanks for posting this. I've downloaded it and will read the player manual later today. It looks like an enjoyable game system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J P Wagner Posted December 30, 2004 Author Share Posted December 30, 2004 Hentzau, the designer does downplay the AI and states that the game is better served as PBEM so he is basically in agreement with you but it's not bad game to have on your notebook and noddle with it while at work.. ... You are welcome JJ and have a Happy New Year!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyJohn Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Thanks JP and Likewise!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabre7 Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 JP thanks for the link nice little game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZGungHo Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Hey Thanks! AFter about 10 minutes of nearly losing my mind trying to figure out how to move the units I finally got that straight - the rest seems pretty straight forward. Very interesting and different from the hex based games I'm used too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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