The most interesting strategy news out of Leipzig is that AGEod is doing a World War I strategy game.
From the press release:
“World War One : La Grande Guerre 14-18†(WW1) is an historical grand strategy game, turn based, using an original engine specially developed for AGEOD by Lucas Cammisa (Calvinus) according to a Philippe Thibaut game design. “WW1†will you allow to play the full conflict, leading the destiny of the seven main fighting nations (France, Great-Britain, Russia, Italy, Imperial Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire).
The Thibaut game design is the board game La Grande Guerre 14-18. I’m not familiar with the game, but it has a lot of parts.
* “WW1†will offer single and multi player gaming (up to 4 simultaneous players) through LAN or TCP/IP through 1 grand campaign, 4 campaigns and several battle based scenarios.
* Players will be able to play wild cards disturbing opponents strategies in order to influence the course of the war.
* Each player will pick different war strategies at the beginning of the conflict allowing strategic surprise and great replay value.
More than two players for AGEod game is new, but a welcome change. Hopefully someone who has played the board game can chime in with info about how the strategy choice works in the board game version.
If you speak French, a brief interview with screenshots can be found at Cyberstratege. One shot shows the off map regions of Africa and the Pacific, as well as a large Eurasian map, so most of the war will be there. I love that so much of the Ottoman Empire is on screen.
World War One looks a lot like AGEod’s other games. A unit box at the bottom, a stylized map with province movement. There isn’t a lot of information about the engine or how the board rules will be translated to the computer version.
November 11 is the release date.
Hi
if you don’t speak french, here’s a direct link to an automatic translation : http://www.cyberstratege.com/magazine/en/2008/08/interview-world-war-one-le-11-novembre/
It’s certainly not perfect but it will probably give you a good idea of what’s said.
(check the footer for other languages if needed)
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Thanks, Bertrand.
I do read French, but this will help my readers.