Matrix Games has announced a new “turn-based strategy masterpiece”. Their words, not mine.<\/p>\n
Advanced Tactics WW2<\/a><\/em> is a wargame from Dutch gaming outfit VR Designs<\/a>. It is based on their freeware wargame People’s Tactics, available on their website. Judging from the screenshots<\/a>, seems to have both theater and regional combat. Operational Art of War III<\/em> has made me wary of efforts to make one system fit all scales. Advanced Tactic<\/em>s promises even bigger things.<\/p>\n Advanced Tactics<\/em> is a versatile turn-based strategy system that gives gamers the chance to wage almost any battle in any time period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n World War II is just the first module of a series to be released, with Civil War and Napoleonics modules already in discussion. Will players be able to create their own modules? That’s not obvious at this point, but it would seem silly to boast about a system’s flexibility and then keep it all under the hood. Not that I expect any 17th century musket module I made to be any good.<\/p>\n Best news about this game? Random scenario generator. Yeah, I know all the problems with random scenarios from a military history perspective. But random scenarios gave me years of enjoyment from both the Combat Mission<\/em> series and Age of Rifles<\/em>.<\/p>\n The name has that Generic Title Toolkit feeling, but Commander: Europe at War<\/em> isn’t much better namewise. And it’s rekindled my interest in simple wargames. Here’s to hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matrix Games has announced a new “turn-based strategy masterpiece”. Their words, not mine. Advanced Tactics WW2 is a wargame from Dutch gaming outfit VR Designs. It is based on their freeware wargame People’s Tactics, available on their website. Judging from the screenshots, seems to have both theater and regional combat. Operational Art of War III […]<\/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":[3,2,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-b8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}