Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: RedBones

What I’m looking for is more of an open sandbox style strategy game using 20th century technology (so no aliens or futuristic weapons!), where the end objective might be to capture the enemy city / base / territory some way away, but how you go about achieving it is your decision, and there are no scripted mini objectives etc.

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ORIGINAL: Adam Parker

Try the new Battlefield Academy (WW2 Africa and Europe).

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ORIGINAL: Lützow

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ORIGINAL: Adam Parker

Try the new Battlefield Academy (WW2 Africa and Europe).

Regarding the promo video it doesn't look like a serious wargame. A tank accelerating like a car is unrealistic and disturbing. On top of that Battlefield Academy forgot the axis single player campaign.

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ORIGINAL: RedBones

Thanks for all the replies… keep ‘em coming.

I’ll try a few demo’s and go from there.

Where this thread came from is that in the late 80’s (yes, a while ago!) I played a game called Empire. It was a turn based XXX type of game, with a fictional world of land and sea, covered by a fog of war. All you had were basic land, sea and air units, and as you can imagine for a game made in the 80’s, the graphics an AI left a little to be desired!

The gameplay however, when playing a friend rather than the poor AI, was awesome. The first part of the game was exloring and expanding your territory by capturing neutral cities (that made units) and then building up both defensive and offensive naval fleets (which contained troop/tank transports), as well as to have tank units defending cities, and fighter jets (based out of cities or from aircraft carriers) searching for the enemy. Enemy units could only be ‘seen’ if they were in the next grid, while subs were useful because they could only be seen by the enemy if they were on top of you, so they were good for finding out the geography behind enemy lines later on.

Once most of the ‘world’ was found (well, your half of it) and a front line with the opposition formed, you had to use your resources wisely, both to defend your territory as well as to build up and organise the tactics for an invasion of enemy land and cities.

It was simple, yet superb, and I’ve always wanted to find a more modern version of it.

Do any of you recall Empire, or know of a more modern but similar game??

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ORIGINAL: RedBones

Thanks for all the replies… keep ‘em coming.

I’ll try a few demo’s and go from there.

Where this thread came from is that in the late 80’s (yes, a while ago!) I played a game called Empire. It was a turn based XXX type of game, with a fictional world of land and sea, covered by a fog of war. All you had were basic land, sea and air units, and as you can imagine for a game made in the 80’s, the graphics an AI left a little to be desired!

The gameplay however, when playing a friend rather than the poor AI, was awesome. The first part of the game was exloring and expanding your territory by capturing neutral cities (that made units) and then building up both defensive and offensive naval fleets (which contained troop/tank transports), as well as to have tank units defending cities, and fighter jets (based out of cities or from aircraft carriers) searching for the enemy. Enemy units could only be ‘seen’ if they were in the next grid, while subs were useful because they could only be seen by the enemy if they were on top of you, so they were good for finding out the geography behind enemy lines later on.

Once most of the ‘world’ was found (well, your half of it) and a front line with the opposition formed, you had to use your resources wisely, both to defend your territory as well as to build up and organise the tactics for an invasion of enemy land and cities.

It was simple, yet superb, and I’ve always wanted to find a more modern version of it.

Do any of you recall Empire, or know of a more modern but similar game??

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ORIGINAL: RedBones

Thanks for all the replies… keep ‘em coming.

I’ll try a few demo’s and go from there.

Where this thread came from is that in the late 80’s (yes, a while ago!) I played a game called Empire. It was a turn based XXX type of game, with a fictional world of land and sea, covered by a fog of war. All you had were basic land, sea and air units, and as you can imagine for a game made in the 80’s, the graphics an AI left a little to be desired!

The gameplay however, when playing a friend rather than the poor AI, was awesome. The first part of the game was exloring and expanding your territory by capturing neutral cities (that made units) and then building up both defensive and offensive naval fleets (which contained troop/tank transports), as well as to have tank units defending cities, and fighter jets (based out of cities or from aircraft carriers) searching for the enemy. Enemy units could only be ‘seen’ if they were in the next grid, while subs were useful because they could only be seen by the enemy if they were on top of you, so they were good for finding out the geography behind enemy lines later on.

Once most of the ‘world’ was found (well, your half of it) and a front line with the opposition formed, you had to use your resources wisely, both to defend your territory as well as to build up and organise the tactics for an invasion of enemy land and cities.

It was simple, yet superb, and I’ve always wanted to find a more modern version of it.

Do any of you recall Empire, or know of a more modern but similar game??

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ORIGINAL: The Plodder

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ORIGINAL: RedBones

Thanks for all the replies… keep ‘em coming.

I’ll try a few demo’s and go from there.

Where this thread came from is that in the late 80’s (yes, a while ago!) I played a game called Empire. It was a turn based XXX type of game, with a fictional world of land and sea, covered by a fog of war. All you had were basic land, sea and air units, and as you can imagine for a game made in the 80’s, the graphics an AI left a little to be desired!

The gameplay however, when playing a friend rather than the poor AI, was awesome. The first part of the game was exloring and expanding your territory by capturing neutral cities (that made units) and then building up both defensive and offensive naval fleets (which contained troop/tank transports), as well as to have tank units defending cities, and fighter jets (based out of cities or from aircraft carriers) searching for the enemy. Enemy units could only be ‘seen’ if they were in the next grid, while subs were useful because they could only be seen by the enemy if they were on top of you, so they were good for finding out the geography behind enemy lines later on.

Once most of the ‘world’ was found (well, your half of it) and a front line with the opposition formed, you had to use your resources wisely, both to defend your territory as well as to build up and organise the tactics for an invasion of enemy land and cities.

It was simple, yet superb, and I’ve always wanted to find a more modern version of it.

Do any of you recall Empire, or know of a more modern but similar game??

You want Empires of Steel. It's available over at battlefront.com.

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ORIGINAL: Lützow

On top of that Battlefield Academy forgot the axis single player campaign.

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ORIGINAL: RedBones

Thanks for all the replies… keep ‘em coming.

I’ll try a few demo’s and go from there.

Where this thread came from is that in the late 80’s (yes, a while ago!) I played a game called Empire. It was a turn based XXX type of game, with a fictional world of land and sea, covered by a fog of war. All you had were basic land, sea and air units, and as you can imagine for a game made in the 80’s, the graphics an AI left a little to be desired!

The gameplay however, when playing a friend rather than the poor AI, was awesome. The first part of the game was exloring and expanding your territory by capturing neutral cities (that made units) and then building up both defensive and offensive naval fleets (which contained troop/tank transports), as well as to have tank units defending cities, and fighter jets (based out of cities or from aircraft carriers) searching for the enemy. Enemy units could only be ‘seen’ if they were in the next grid, while subs were useful because they could only be seen by the enemy if they were on top of you, so they were good for finding out the geography behind enemy lines later on.

Once most of the ‘world’ was found (well, your half of it) and a front line with the opposition formed, you had to use your resources wisely, both to defend your territory as well as to build up and organise the tactics for an invasion of enemy land and cities.

It was simple, yet superb, and I’ve always wanted to find a more modern version of it.

Do any of you recall Empire, or know of a more modern but similar game??