WW1 Tactical Game?

[TacticalWargames]

  Must be an era-specific tactic.

Certainly was..a huge amount of casualties on the first day of the Somme was down to this..

[panzerde]

^ I have to agree with that, he also designed the 2 ww1 panzer campaigns engine games, France 14 and Prussia.  He is also part of the dev team at esim for steel beasts and he's pretty active in their mp community.   

I think at this point I would buy just about anything Ed Williams is the designer on, just to get his designer's notes. I learned more about WWI warfare from reading his notes in France '14 and EP '14 than almost anything else I've read.

[TacticalWargames]

SB WW1  suffers due to the engine limitations sadly. It's a problem I see often when developers use one engine for games covering totally different eras and wars. The games are usually best if it closely resembles the first games focus.

Another problem is the shear size of alot of the scenarios.. real monsters they are. I found a fair few battles not covered in the game and some would have been especially suited to a smaller scenario.

Saying all this though no one else has had the balls to do a WW1 tactical wargame and on the whole it just about succeeds.

[jomni]

SB WW1  suffers due to the engine limitations sadly. It's a problem I see often when developers use one engine for games covering totally different eras and wars. The games are usually best if it closely resembles the first games focus.

Another problem is the shear size of alot of the scenarios.. real monsters they are. I found a fair few battles not covered in the game and some would have been especially suited to a smaller scenario.

Saying all this though no one else has had the balls to do a WW1 tactical wargame and on the whole it just about succeeds.

What limitation in particular?

[Boggit]

^ I have to agree with that, he also designed the 2 ww1 panzer campaigns engine games, France 14 and Prussia.  He is also part of the dev team at esim for steel beasts and he's pretty active in their mp community.   

I think at this point I would buy just about anything Ed Williams is the designer on, just to get his designer's notes. I learned more about WWI warfare from reading his notes in France '14 and EP '14 than almost anything else I've read.

Pretty much agree with you. The quality of his research, and his written expression of the same is outstanding.

[Al]

^ I have to agree with that, he also designed the 2 ww1 panzer campaigns engine games, France 14 and Prussia.  He is also part of the dev team at esim for steel beasts and he's pretty active in their mp community.   

I think at this point I would buy just about anything Ed Williams is the designer on, just to get his designer's notes. I learned more about WWI warfare from reading his notes in France '14 and EP '14 than almost anything else I've read.

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