Game suggestions?

[oldguy]

Help me spend my money as I look at a few weeks of upcoming vacation.  My wish list:

1.  Turn-based
2.  Operational
3.  Does not involve WW2, ACW, Napoleon
4.  Graphics not important but a friendly UI would be nice.

Any ideas welcome!

[Staggerwing]

Operational Art of War 3 has a bunch of scenarios that are not WW2:  http://www.matrixgames.com/products/317/details/Norm.Kogers.The.Operational.Art.of.War.III


There is a newer version in the works at Matrix Games but no hard info on when it will release.

[Boggit]

Operational Art of War 3 has a bunch of scenarios that are not WW2:  http://www.matrixgames.com/products/317/details/Norm.Kogers.The.Operational.Art.of.War.III


There is a newer version in the works at Matrix Games but no hard info on when it will release.

I have it on good authority that it will be sometime around Thanksgiving.

[Boggit]

Help me spend my money as I look at a few weeks of upcoming vacation.  My wish list:

1.  Turn-based
2.  Operational
3.  Does not involve WW2, ACW, Napoleon
4.  Graphics not important but a friendly UI would be nice.

Any ideas welcome!

Tiller's First World War campaigns? France '14 or East Prussia '14. Just be prepared to see eye watering casualties.

[Slick Wilhelm]

Help me spend my money as I look at a few weeks of upcoming vacation.  My wish list:

1.  Turn-based
2.  Operational
3.  Does not involve WW2, ACW, Napoleon
4.  Graphics not important but a friendly UI would be nice.

Any ideas welcome!

1. Commander:The Great War
2. Ageod's To End All Wars
3. Ageod's Revolution Under Siege Gold

Out of those three, Commander is by far the easiest to jump right in and play. Although to do well, reading the manual is probably required.

[Boggit]

Help me spend my money as I look at a few weeks of upcoming vacation.  My wish list:

1.  Turn-based
2.  Operational
3.  Does not involve WW2, ACW, Napoleon
4.  Graphics not important but a friendly UI would be nice.

Any ideas welcome!

1. Commander:The Great War
2. Ageod's To End All Wars
3. Ageod's Revolution Under Siege Gold

Out of those three, Commander is by far the easiest to jump right in and play. Although to do well, reading the manual is probably required.

Didn't think of those, but those are all good ones.

[Raied]

Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm

Its turn based WEGO, operational, Cold War, good UI

[mirth]

Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm

Its turn based WEGO, operational, Cold War, good UI

+1 I was going to recommend it as well.

[Bison]

Help me spend my money as I look at a few weeks of upcoming vacation.  My wish list:

1.  Turn-based
2.  Operational
3.  Does not involve WW2, ACW, Napoleon
4.  Graphics not important but a friendly UI would be nice.

Any ideas welcome!

Advanced tactics gold.  http://www.matrixgames.com/products/product.asp?gid=405

Great sandbox with no historical setting.  Randomized games with unlimited replayability

[Rayfer]

Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm

Its turn based WEGO, operational, Cold War, good UI

+1 I was going to recommend it as well.

Question....what makes a game operational rather than tactical? Where does tactical transition into operational?  I would have thought Flashpoint Campaigns was tactical, but what do I know?   

[mirth]

Technically it may be tactical, but I think it stretches into the operational level as well.

'Operational level' as a military term is a bit tricky to pin down

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_level_of_war

[JasonPratt]

If you can find a copy of People's General (the finale of the SSI 5-star series), you'll not only get an operational (if beer and pretz) campaign in an unusual setting (the rise of Chinese communism and defense against it), but modders have produced a ton of alternative content for it.

You didn't say if you were looking for historical operational games other than noted, or if you would consider other genres. Fantasy Wars/Elven Legacy (available from Paradox if I recall) features a colorful 3D graphic update to SSI's old 5-star engine (i.e. Panzer General), with nine campaigns between them (including EL expansions) and a very decent UI. On the other end of the fantasy/sci-fi spectrum, but also involving orcs and a variation of the 5-star system, is Matrix/Slitherine's Warhammer40K: Armageddon (with plenty of expansions).

Back to history: the Vietnam '65 and Afghanistan '11 games are a quite different type of turn-based operational game, the latter featuring more options and a proper historical campaign as well as random-gen maps (although be aware that the tutorial, though admirably tied into the historical progression, can easily be lost by accident.)

Pike and Shot Campaigns and Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun, both of which involve a sort of updated modification of the Field of Glory engine (FoG2 coming soon), provide turn based operations around late medieval/renaissance times, on opposite ends of the world. SenJi was made by one of our own Grogs!


Everything in that list after PeepGen is available on Steam, and everything from WH40K:Arma also comes from Matrixlitherine. ;) I could probably come up with more samples.

[mirth]

If you can find a copy of People's General (the finale of the SSI 5-star series), you'll not only get an operational (if beer and pretz) campaign in an unusual setting (the rise of Chinese communism and defense against it), but modders have produced a ton of alternative content for it.

It's all here:

http://www.peoplesgeneral.de/

[Rayfer]

Technically it may be tactical, but I think it stretches into the operational level as well.

'Operational level' as a military term is a bit tricky to pin down

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_level_of_war

Thanks mirth.  The link is a good one, makes more sense.

[DennisS]

Help me spend my money as I look at a few weeks of upcoming vacation.  My wish list:

1.  Turn-based
2.  Operational
3.  Does not involve WW2, ACW, Napoleon
4.  Graphics not important but a friendly UI would be nice.

Any ideas welcome!

Advanced tactics gold.  http://www.matrixgames.com/products/product.asp?gid=405

Great sandbox with no historical setting.  Randomized games with unlimited replayability

An excellent suggestion. If you don't have a strong interest in logistics, and supporting the tip of the spear, don't bother. Very elegant design.