New games announced by Matrixgames at The Home of Wargamers

[steve58]

Ageod announces Ageod's To End All Wars, the latest game using the popular Age Engine.

As the game title suggests, this new strategy game will take place during the Great War, which started exactly a century ago this year.
In End All Wars, you will be able to take command of one of the major alliances which fought for dominance in this brutal conflict. You will take control of the countries, recruiting troops, taking political and diplomatic decisions and manoeuvring your troops to get into the best possible position to break through the enemy defensive lines.

Ageod's To End All Wars will feature more different units and leaders then ever seen before in an Ageod title, immersing you as much as possible in this highly compelling setting of the Great War. On top of that, To End All Wars will also have a host of interface changes and refinements, making it easier to manage your armies and get the information you need to make those strategically important decisions.

Ageod's To End All War is planned to release this year, stay tuned for more information.

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3610047

Developer Cat Rabbit has announced Heroes of Normandie, a fast-paced tactical scale board-game depicting battles fought among the Normandy hedgerows in the summer of 1944, by the kind of German and American heroes we have seen fighting in the war movies of Hollywood's golden age. It is those movies where the inspiration for Heroes of Normandie lies: offering explosive, fast-paced, yet very tactical battles.

The time is summer 1944. The Sun shines on Normandie hedgerows. Gentle wind, fields of bright flowers, and in the background, the romantic staccato of machine gun fire in the morning. In these typical French countryside landscapes, thousands of men are about to fight. And die. Bravely like heroes, or cowardly like wussies. But only heroes really matters. Those you see in Hollywood Golden Age war movies.

Players are able to participate in the Normandy campaign on either the German or American side, or create their own custom scenarios.

Heroes of Normandie will release on iPad and PC later this year.

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3610073

Here at Home of Wargamers, developer Byzantine Productions has announced Pike and Shot a deep strategy game based on the Battle Academy engine. Set during the bloody conflict of the Thirty Years War, Pike and Shot brings the Battle Academy engine to a whole new level.

In the age of Pike and Shot, mighty struggles erupted across Europe for causes religious, political or dynastic. The Thirty Years War raged across Germany and beyond, leaving devastation in its wake, but saw the rise of great commanders such as Count Tilly, Wallenstein and King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and rapid developments in battlefield tactics. Musketeers "gave fire" in a duel to the death, pikeman held stolidly against enemy assaults, and cavalry charged to glory or defeat.

Pike and Shot will release later this year for PC, Mac and iPad

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3610080

The developers of the great surprise of 2013, Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm, have announced the next chapter in this realistic wargaming series.

This new release covers the southern part of the southern of the West-German front in this 'what if' Nato vs. Warsaw Pact conflict. Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm will have all the great features of its predecessor and introduces a host of new elements. New maps, campaigns, scenarios and countries are included, as well as engine improvements. Players will be able to control forces from the US, UK, Soviet Union, West Germany, France, Canada, Czechoslovakia and East-Germany.

Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm is expect to release early 2015.

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3610104

Today, Hunted Cow presented their upcoming title 'Hell' to the public for the first time. Hell is a turn-based tactical skirmish strategy game developed by award winning developer Hunted Cow in partnership with Slitherine.

Set in a mythical fantasy land you take control of either the 'Order of Light' or the 'Demons of Hell' and battle for supremacy across many different battlefields and environments. The game features stunning visuals and is aimed at both PC and iOS release with cross platform multiplayer functionality. Each unit in 'Hell' has been carefully designed to have a specific role in the battle, with various strengths and weaknesses determined from their unique abilities and traits.

With an epic single player campaign traversing 20 unique levels, do you have what it takes to vanquish the forces of 'Hell'?

Hell is coming to a PC, Mac, or iPad near you later this year.

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3610087

[bbmike]

Hmm, nothing in there that sounds super exciting to me. Hopefully more information will change that.

[RedArgo]

I notice the continued lack of Android titles.

Also, the new Distant Worlds will be on Steam.

[bayonetbrant]

We've got Boggit on the ground there at HotW and are expecting some dispatches from the front over the next week or so as gets them hammered out.

[Anguille]

very nice...

pike and shot could be intersting.

Ageods game will be bought as well

[sandman2575]

Anguille,   Your new avatar is a letdown after the last one.  (Although pretty much anything you chose was going to be a letdown   8))

[tgb]

Did they announce a release date for Sovereignity?

[mikeck]

Wow 30 years war, World War I game where I get to take  the legions of hell and attack people? yeah I'm excited

[bbmike]

Did they announce a release date for Sovereignity?

Excellent question!

[Anguille]

Anguille,   Your new avatar is a letdown after the last one.  (Although pretty much anything you chose was going to be a letdown   8))

Ah ah... don't worry, it will come back. People seemed to be just...too distracted.  ;)

[RooksBailey]

I am very glad to hear about Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm.  One of the things that drives me crazy with WWIII wargames is that for some strange reason after the dev releases the first WWIII title, the follow-up games in the series usually abandons the setting and moves onto another period.  Just looks at Wargame: it started with the WWIII and had since moved into a post-Cold War Asia setting.  There are so many possible fronts in a WWIII setting that it is a real shame to see games only explore the standard West German front, and then move on to a completely different setting.   :(  Truth be told, I was already expecting a WWII expansion for Flashpoint.   :)

Hell sounds...vaguely interesting.  Need more detail.

[bob48]

30YW is definitely good news.

[panzerde]

Definitely up for a 30 Years War game. I'm hesitant about it using the BA engine but I may be judging it too harshly. I've only played BA for about an hour once before deciding it wasn't for me.

FC: Southern Front and a AGEOD game about WWI that is less complicated than their current offering are pretty much definite buys for me.

[Apocalypse 31]

I really hope the developers behind the new Flashpoint game hire an artist. I'm not one for fancy graphics, but it's gotta improve.

[Nefaro]

Pike & Shot sounds very interesting.

And I nearly always buy AGE games.  They're pre-WW2 so it's easy to pull out the card.  I always thought of WWI as being pretty difficult to model on an operational or strategic scale, however, so I'm unsure how the AGE engine will handle it.  I suppose it was passable with RUS but will probably require a fair amount of modification on the engine and on a per-scenario basis.