War and Peace: PC Game based on Avalon Hill Classic Board Game

[ArizonaTank]

Mark McLaughlin's classic board game "War and Peace," first published by Avalon Hill, is being ported to the PC.

The game is a grand strategy game covering the Napoleonic Wars. It has seen somewhat of a rebirth in the past several years, after a popular upgrade / reprint by One Small Step publishing.

I am somewhat ambivalent about war board game conversions to the PC, and can't think of one I really like.

Still I am going to be following this one:

[Sir Slash]

Me too Tank. But if they even come close, I'm all in. More detailed than NTW and more playable than the AGEOD game would be right in the Sweet Spot for me. And this time, my cat can't destroy the Grand Armee outside of Moscow.  O0

[JasonPratt]

I recall a fan project a few years ago for updating Matrix's Empires In Arms boardgame adaptation, that I never got around to testing. Or playing.  :hide: But I could tell the attempt at patching and upgrading was truly noble!

[CJReich46]

I once owned War and Peace- I learned so much about the Napoleonic era from that, I too will be keep my eyes on this one.

[em2nought]

Sillysoft dot net has a good "Risk" clone called Lux Delux

[Phantom]

Mark McLaughlin's classic board game "War and Peace," first published by Avalon Hill, is being ported to the PC.

The game is a grand strategy game covering the Napoleonic Wars. It has seen somewhat of a rebirth in the past several years, after a popular upgrade / reprint by One Small Step publishing.

I am somewhat ambivalent about war board game conversions to the PC, and can't think of one I really like.

Still I am going to be following this one:

There have indeed been some poor ones, but some more professionally done examples include Pavlov's House, Twilight Struggle & Labyrinth. OK, you can argue the latter two aren't traditional wargames, but they are still good conversions of board games. I think its a growing trend - IMO many board games are better than modern PC games for gameplay & immersion, and I welcome their being converted to the PC format to enable true solitaire play & of course being able to play without a large table!

[Senex]

First day buy.  I'm going to go down to the game room (My wife let's me have one.  Thanks, honey!) and get the War and Peace rules out to prepare.

[Boggit]

Sillysoft dot net has a good "Risk" clone called Lux Delux

They have quite a few Napoleonic scenarios available to download. Quite fun when you don't want to get involved in something but still have the urge to play. O0

[Grim.Reaper]

Kickstarter live plus a demo available on that page...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/787937257/war-and-peace-the-digital-version?ref=profile_saved_projects_live

[Bardolph]

Backed. Was one of my favorites from the old Avalon Hill catalog though I only got to play it PvP a few times.
Fingers crossed they do it justice. Good to know Mr. McLaughlin is involved.

[Sir Slash]

Anybody trying-out the demo?

[Grim.Reaper]

Anybody trying-out the demo?

Turns out the demo doesn't have an AI so not going to invest much time in it....already backed it so they don't need to convince me any further:)

[Senex]

Unlike the board game, the digital version has no Grand Campaign 1805-1815.  At least not yet.  Big disappointment if it doesn't show up in the released version.

[ArizonaTank]

Unlike the board game, the digital version has no Grand Campaign 1805-1815.  At least not yet.  Big disappointment if it doesn't show up in the released version.

Agree, the real meat is the GC.

[Bardolph]

Grand Campaign is there. Not in the demo but included in the actual game.