Deal of the Week: Commander: the Great War, 50% off!

Lord Zimoa · March 03, 2014, 06:12:18 AM

Deal of the Week: Commander: the Great War

This week we have for you on sale the grand strategy title Commander: The Great War. This game will be sold at the reduced price of $ 19,99. That is a discount of 50%! For the duration of the sale, the price for physical copies has been brought down from $ 49,99 to $ 29,99. Last week we released patch 1.4.2 for Commander, so this is a great opportunity to get into the game.

Commander: the Great War is the third game in the critically acclaimed Commander series and allows you to recreate one of the greatest conflicts in human history.

Get the game here:
http://bit.ly/1cwwPIQ

jomni · March 03, 2014, 06:25:40 AM

Thanks for the heads up. I still don't have this game but I actually signed up for the iPad Beta.

Shelldrake · March 03, 2014, 07:40:14 AM

Great deal! I hope that there will be some Grogheads who take advantage of price reduction. I have certainly got my money's worth out of this game.

Anguille · March 03, 2014, 07:52:46 AM

A really cool deal...i really enjoy the game and just started a new campaign with the brand new patch. Go for it.

bbmike · March 03, 2014, 08:17:39 AM

Wow, that came out of nowhere. Sold! Downloading now... 8)

Gusington · March 03, 2014, 08:49:42 AM

Great game, you can't go wrong.

Rayfer · March 03, 2014, 09:46:55 AM

Was just on the Matrix site checking it out....are the sprites the only option or is there an option for nato-like counters? And as an aside....I really wish Matrix would change their display of screenshots, they are way too small, at least in my opinion they are.

bbmike · March 03, 2014, 09:51:41 AM

I fired it up and saw an option for counters. What I didn't see was an option for Hotseat play! ???

Asid · March 03, 2014, 12:47:09 PM

There is an option for counters

No option for Hotseat (last time i played)

There is still active development of this title with 1.42 just released and V1.5 mentioned

Regards

Greybriar · March 03, 2014, 01:27:08 PM

I was surprised to see that the physical version of Commander: the Great War that is on sale is the Collector's Edition. What with all the digital downloads these days with their .pdf manuals, it has become rather uncommon to see a game that comes with a printed paper manual. Spending $10 more for a printed manual (if it's any length at all) would be a lot cheaper than having one printed or even printing it on a home printer.

sandman2575 · March 03, 2014, 03:55:28 PM

Intrigued, but trying to get a read on how beer-&-pretzels (or not) this game is. Is it on par with, say, Panzer Corps? I don't need super hard-core ww1 (I have Ageod's WW1 game for that -- it's a tough nut to crack), but I need something deeper than Panzer Corps / Panzer General. Does Commander: Great War fit the bill?

Asid · March 03, 2014, 04:34:43 PM

Hi sandman2575

Panzer Corps is definitely beer and pretzels

The map of CTGW looks and feels similar to PC. CTGW though relies on Research and economy and they have a big effect on the game. There is also an element of diplomacy as well as logistics.

The new patch 1.42 changes a lot and i haven't tried that yet but it is meant to introduce big improvements.

Regards

Shelldrake · March 04, 2014, 08:08:51 AM

Quote from: sandman2575 on March 03, 2014, 03:55:28 PM
Intrigued, but trying to get a read on how beer-&-pretzels (or not) this game is. Is it on par with, say, Panzer Corps? I don't need super hard-core ww1 (I have Ageod's WW1 game for that -- it's a tough nut to crack), but I need something deeper than Panzer Corps / Panzer General. Does Commander: Great War fit the bill?

I have both Panzer Corps and Commander:The Great War. From my experience with the two games I can say that CTGW is quite a bit deeper than PC, but is far easier to get into than Ageod's WW1 game which still manages to defeat me whenever I try to get my head around it.

Gusington · March 04, 2014, 09:42:02 AM

I have Panzer Corps and Commander: The Great War and can confidently say that Panzer Corps is much less complex.

sandman2575 · March 04, 2014, 09:50:21 AM

Thanks for the feedback, guys. I'm gonna have to pick this up then. Always on the look out for those Goldilocks games, not too shallow, not overwhelmingly deep. I personally think Ageod's WW1 is a masterpiece, but it is still the most complex game I've ever tackled, and as much as I want to go back to it, it's still pretty forbidding -- and i've spent lots of time with the manual trying to figure it out!