Fantasy General and Pacific General now available from GOG.com

[BanzaiCat]

Moar time sinks, please, GOG! :)

[Nefaro]

I wonder if they will eventually have Star General, based on David Drake's the Fleet, and the rest of the SSI stuff such as Luftwaffe Commander and Age of Rifles, or even clean-up versions of the Great Naval Battles series.

And Soldiers at War. You forgot to mention Soldiers at War!  :o

I would rather have the newer version of Soldiers at War: Squad Leader.  It had far more stuff, controllable vehicle weapons, optional randomized missions to interspersed in the multiple campaigns featuring multiple nationalities.  Better graphics.  Better everything.  SL got criticized because it wasn't a port of the tabletop game, but it's a heavily improved SaW that turned out pretty well.

I also requested WH40K: Chaos Gate in the GOG request list, which was an earlier iteration of the engine IIRC.  Was a bit buggy here & there but great stuff.  The kind of 40K PC game they NEED to make these days.

[bbmike]

I would rather have the newer version of Soldiers at War: Squad Leader.  It had far more stuff, controllable vehicle weapons, optional randomized missions to interspersed in the multiple campaigns featuring multiple nationalities.  Better graphics.  Better everything.  SL got criticized because it wasn't a port of the tabletop game, but it's a heavily improved SaW that turned out pretty well.

I also requested WH40K: Chaos Gate in the GOG request list, which was an earlier iteration of the engine IIRC.  Was a bit buggy here & there but great stuff.  The kind of 40K PC game they NEED to make these days.

I've never played Soldiers at War: Squad Leader.  :o

[Nefaro]

I would rather have the newer version of Soldiers at War: Squad Leader.  It had far more stuff, controllable vehicle weapons, optional randomized missions to interspersed in the multiple campaigns featuring multiple nationalities.  Better graphics.  Better everything.  SL got criticized because it wasn't a port of the tabletop game, but it's a heavily improved SaW that turned out pretty well.

I also requested WH40K: Chaos Gate in the GOG request list, which was an earlier iteration of the engine IIRC.  Was a bit buggy here & there but great stuff.  The kind of 40K PC game they NEED to make these days.

I've never played Soldiers at War: Squad Leader.  :o

It's just named Squad Leader.  ;D

The sequel to Soldiers At War.

[JasonPratt]

Well, THIS is interesting :

Pacific General and Fantasy General are being published by GOG.com. We are happy to release these titles not on behalf of another party, but by acting as the sole publisher for the very first time!

:o :o :o :o :o :o

Huh. That would explain the pretty high-end original art commissioned for their release.

[bbmike]

It's just named Squad Leader.  ;D

The sequel to Soldiers At War.

I never knew there was a sequel to SaW. I MUST play it!  :D

[Nefaro]

I never knew there was a sequel to SaW. I MUST play it!  :D

Many people didn't know it was that.  I was surprised SaW got such great reviews but this one didn't, despite being an upgraded version of same with more replayability & features.

I actually loaded SL up a number of years ago.  But it needed some processor capping because when I tried to scroll the map view, it moved at super speeds and I couldn't put the view where I wanted.  My processor was so much faster than the game originally required, and it was running the game at ludicrous speed.  Was rather frustrating.  Needs some GOG emulation treatment for such things.

[airboy]

I've played Fantasy General for the last 2 days.  It works very well and is still quite fun.  The only issue has been a fast mouse scroll on large maps - but if you click on the mini-map where you want to go the problem is controlled.  So it is still a lot of fun - for $5.99.

The pdf of the manual printed very well.  I cannot read my original manual (which I still have) due to paper deterioration over 19 years which triggers my allergies.

So one more "big box" computer game is getting donated or sold for more shelf space.

[Sir Slash]

Fantasy General gave me one hell of a beating back in the day. A game I'm not ashamed to say I lost to. I remember it being surprisingly deep.