field commander rommel PC

[jomni]

also available for Mac and Mobile.
I think I'll get the iOS version. Graphics are quite cartoony.

http://www.dvg.com/.sc/ms/dd/Computer%20Games/83/Field%20Commander%20Rommel%20-%20PC

[FlickJax]

Any screenies anywhere?

[Nefaro]

Any screenies anywhere?

This.


I enjoyed their PC version of Phantom Leader.  It has the same art as the tabletop and conveyed the feel fairly well.  If this one is similarly filled-out then the price is right for me.

[jomni]

Here's the iOS version for your reference. Doesn't look tabletop at all.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id944758994

[jomni]

Tabletop


Computer
???

[jomni]

I'd rather play vassal?

[Nefaro]

Tabletop


Computer
???

Noooooooooooo!!! :'(

[jomni]

Shame. It's  a good serious wargame.  It does not deserve too look like a kiddie mobile game.

Reminds me of how Hornet Leader PC looks so weird compared to Hornet Leader Vassal.

[PanzersEast]

 ::)  NUTS!... what is that(!)... Fischer Price Commander?  Vassal by far.


PE

[Ian C]

::)  NUTS!... what is that(!)... Fischer Price Commander? 

Exactly.

It's the current notion companies have, that 'dumbing-down' niche strategy games will make them attractive to non-niche strategy game-playing customers and open up new demograpic sources of revenue, ignorant that these gamers don't play that kind of game no matter what wrapper you dress it up in, and at the same time, alienating their existing customer base who might have bought it if the company hadn't dumbed-it-down.

[GJK]

And it doesn't use dice...you get to spin the spinner!



Ok, I made that up...  :)

[TacticalWargames]

Yep shame about the look. I'd have preferred a grittier aesthetic.

[tgb]

I don't mind the look that much but I will not buy or play a game that forces me to play as the Axis.  I didn't get Panzer Corps for the same reason.

[MengJiao]

I don't mind the look that much but I will not buy or play a game that forces me to play as the Axis.  I didn't get Panzer Corps for the same reason.

  40 years ago I would have loved everything about this game -- but, having been forced to trounce endless inexperienced players who just had to be Rommel AND then spending the last 15 years in online and PBEM games beating endless inexperienced players who just had to be Rommel (or Rommel3476 since there were already 3475 Rommels).  I can't see the name Rommel without thinking of piles of dead Rommels in every online game and MMORPG from Ultima to Battlefield42 to WWII Online.  I think almost any game about anything would interest me a lot more than something about Rommel.

[panzerde]

It's the current notion companies have, that 'dumbing-down' niche strategy games will make them attractive to non-niche strategy game-playing customers and open up new demograpic sources of revenue, ignorant that these gamers don't play that kind of game no matter what wrapper you dress it up in, and at the same time, alienating their existing customer base who might have bought it if the company hadn't dumbed-it-down.

This, in spades. I'm getting close to swearing off ever buying anything from certain game publishers for this reason. I'm getting tired of what sound like interesting games that have actually been slapped into submission with an iPad.


Not that there isn't a deluge of great, complex and groggy games to play. There are, nor do I begrudge anyone liking a system or engine that doesn't interest me. I do think trying to make a game about France '40 look like Angry Birds in the hopes of attracting Angry Birds players is a bad strategy.