'must have' ipad wargames?

[sandman2575]

as someone who joined the ranks of ipad possessors this xmas, would love to hear thoughts / recommendations for wargames --

(kinda surprised at the relative lack of games in this category -- seems mobile is still the venue for games of the 'angry birds' variety...)

anyway, some obvious ones i've come across

1. Battle Academy -- looks cool, but $20 is steep -- worth it?

2. Combat Mission Touch -- intriguing and cheap, but lots of reports of instability / crashing

3. Battle of the Bulge -- also intriguing, less cheap -- and worry is there's not much replayability here

thoughts? recommendations?

[Bismarck]

Combat Mission is a must as Bulge probably is. BA isn't worth so much if you already have the PC version, otherwise it's a good wishlist item. Levee en Masse is good as is Civil war: 1863. I like Civ Revolutions. For arcade, I like Artillery Battery.

[spelk]

There's also Phantom Leader.

Very old, but there are some ideas here:
http://sugarfreegamer.com/?p=1218

I think theres an updated one from EasyTech called European War 3 also.

http://youtu.be/Jnh6IYmsbNw

http://www.ieasytech.com/

[Bismarck]

That reminds me; there's a great straight port of Risk.

[sandman2575]

Many thanks for these links & suggestions -- :)

[Bismarck]

As much as I love wargames, I find a need to relax from even "lite" ones. iPad Mah Jomg fits the bill for calming play.

[Keunert]

Battle for the Bulge seems to be the greatest and latest

[Bismarck]

Perhaps but, at the price of iPad games, even down-out types can afford not to have to choose because of price - Battle Academy being a possible exception. Had I not been paid for a review, I'd given a miss since I had the PC version.

[sandman2575]

Battle for the Bulge seems to be the greatest and latest

i'm hesitant to pick it up because of complaints about the limited playability -- sounds like one scenario, essentially.  but maybe those complaints are overblown-??

[Bismarck]

Two scenarios; one short and one long.  Many possible strategies playing both sides. Where did you hear negative opinions?

[sandman2575]

negative reviews in a place i should probably know better than to pay attention to -- i.e. the "User Reviews" in the app store.  Still, you start to see a few "this is a cool game but $10 is too much for so little content" comments and you start to wonder...

EDIT -- just saw spelk's link to the Quarter to Three review -- this is the kind of indepth intelligent review i should pay attention to -- and certainly sounds like Battle of the Bulge is worth the investment --

[endfire79]

I've tried battle academy lite so far on ipad, seems good, I missed the pc version.

Also been trying something called Pocket War HD, a real time ww2 game that is sort of a really lite operational game.

Wonder if they wil develop axis and allies for mobile port.


I do enjoy the Rommel game on Android though.

[endfire79]

Just saw this on the App Store


https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/world-conqueror-1945-lite/id435373843?mt=8

Looks simple but will give it a shot

[twitter3]

I am also new to the iPad world of war games.  I saw this while hunting around for titles.  Has anyone played it?

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/european-war-for-ipad/id387848111?mt=8

[BanzaiCat]

I have World Conqueror, which is okay, and pretty similar to the EW games I think. I've only played it through twice in about six months, though.

The folks that made Battle of the Bulge apparently have a game called Drives On Moscow coming out next week:

http://www.pockettactics.com/news/ios-news/battle-bulge-followup-drives-moscow-next-week/

I like BotB, but unless you're really into it specifically, you might not like the game. It's very similar to an old board wargame called Turning Point: Stalingrad. I'm too lazy to see if there's a connection.