{"id":682,"date":"2007-06-18T12:36:51","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T16:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/18\/commander-europe-at-war-early-moments\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T15:16:37","slug":"commander-europe-at-war-early-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/18\/commander-europe-at-war-early-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Commander: Europe at War &#8211; Early Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/clash-of-steel-world-war-ii-europe-1939-45\">Clash of Steel<\/a><\/em> (no relation) a few times before. For me, it epitomizes the perfect light wargame. Units arrive, you place them, and then you run across a hex map of Europe killing Nazis.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/matrixgames.com\/games\/game.asp?gid=344\">Commander: Europe at War<\/a><\/em> is better. It&#8217;s not perfect, by any means, but I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised. Matrix Games has had an off year for me, with the decidedly average <em>Forge of Freedom<\/em> and recycling <a href=\"http:\/\/matrixgames.com\/games\/game.asp?gid=332\">old<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/matrixgames.com\/games\/game.asp?gid=337\">wargames<\/a> from SSG &#8211; done very nicely, but still recycled.<\/p>\n<p>Now add the Slitherine factor. A development house that has churned out a number of average or below average ancients games has joined with Firepower Entertainment to create a satisfying WWII experience, complete with research, strategic bombing and submarine warfare that really make a difference. (<a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/11\/developer-interview-slitherinefirepower\/\">I interviewed the developers<\/a> last year.)<\/p>\n<p>A while ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/17\/making-the-pie-bigger\/\">I asked about introductory wargames<\/a>. Though <em>Commander<\/em> (with its production, research and rudimentary diplomacy) has grand strategy elements, this could be the beginner wargame I&#8217;ve been waiting for.<\/p>\n<p>We have a dark horse contender for a half-year honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned Clash of Steel (no relation) a few times before. For me, it epitomizes the perfect light wargame. Units arrive, you place them, and then you run across a hex map of Europe killing Nazis. Commander: Europe at War is better. It&#8217;s not perfect, by any means, but I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised. Matrix Games has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,18,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-b0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}