Would be interested to hear what demos people have been trying out during Steam Next Fest.

Steel Company - Absolutely loving this. As someone who still plays Battle Academy regularly this feels more complex but still easy to access. Lots of scenarios and will be picking up straight away!

Theatre of War: Rearmed - Loved these games when I was young but the gameplay doesn’t really hold up. Think you can scratch the same itch with Gates of Hell. Might pick up during a sale for the Korean missions though.

Veterans: Napoleonic Wars - I’m sure work has gone into this so don’t want to be too harsh. I can get over AI usage in games but what I can’t get over is less unit command options than Empire Total War and unit pathing that doesn’t work. Avoid.

From the Steam Page: "Steel Company is a tactical-scale wargame covering all major theaters and powers of WWII, with hundreds of units and detailed modeling of weapons and equipment. It features advanced tactical AI for single player, online multiplayer (PvP and co-op), a powerful scenario editor, and mod support."

Demo has 19 scenarios + 3 tutorials + mission editor

Game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5036770/Steel_Company/

Mine is:

1- John Tiller Campaign Series (East Front 2, West Front 2, Rising Sun, Middle East, Vietnam)

2- Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

3- Second Front

4- Steel Panthers (THE DOS VERSION. I WISH SNEG WOULD MAKE A MODERN VERSION OF IT)

5- Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front

6- Close Combat II: A Bridge Too Far

7- Hearts of Iron IV

8- The Operational Art of War IV

9- Unity of Command II

10- Command Ops 2

I've been building free mod tools for R.U.S.E. (R.U.S.E. 2.0), and this is the newest: **Ruse Terraform**.

Pick a real place, get a playable R.U.S.E. map of it. It pulls in the real coastline, fields, hedgerows, woods, roads, streams and villages from open map data and builds it all out of the game's own ground, trees and buildings. Units drive the real roads and go round the real buildings.

This one is Utah Beach, 10 x 10 km. Pictures 1-3: the real place from the air next to our map, today and in the 1950s. 4-6: in game. 7: how big it is next to the game's own D-Day map, inside an 80 km map we got loading and playing.

Still polishing texture edges, houses up close and cover in the woods. Next: the real places behind the game's own maps. Arnhem, Bastogne, Monte Cassino.

Free, needs R.U.S.E. on Steam, and never touches your install.

Download: https://github.com/sneadtristen6/R.U.S.E-2.0-Project/releases

Updates on the Ruse Pro Mods Discord: https://discord.gg/MsxnpmDzE

Basically any game that has a good grasp on commanding a frontline, Hoi3 as a good example of strategic level and Decisive Campaigns as an example of operational. Real time or turn based it doesn't matter.

Hello. I would like to play some turn based strategies where not only do you have to care of combat but also producing supplies, transporting them to fronts, manage logistics etc. Modern wars are won economically.

Please recommend some good titles :)

Hello everyone,

This might be a bit weird to ask, but I want to get into tabletop wargames. It's something I have been thinking for a while, I just see those games by GMT or by DVG and they are so appealing to me, yet I have never played one of them. I figured out I might as well start with a PC game that could resemble the experience, so I can avoid buying stuff I don't even understand how to play...

So far I researched and saw a lot of people recommending a game called "Memoir 44". What I did perhaps is a bit weird, but since I had Tabletop Simulator in my steam library, I found a workshop mod to play it. But damm... what a hassle to lay each individual piece on every part of the map. While also looking at tutorials on the phone...

So I came here to ask you: Is there any game that's like a port of a tabletop wargame but that has a good tutorial to get into it? Regarding eras I'm mostly interested in the stuff happening from the thirty years war up to nowadays pretty much hehe, and would even give a try to something more ancient if you guys say the ultimate experience to learn if tabletop gaming is for me is in a game of those ancient eras, so it's not a problem.

So yeah, is there any pc game that ports or resembles a tabletop wargame that you would recommend to a complete newbie? Thanks in advance

Everfront is real-time territory control. Pick what land to take, and your front line pushes. The side with more strength along a stretch of front pushes the other back, and supply thins out the further you reach.

Between battles there's a roguelite campaign: a branching map through WW2 with tech trees and choices that change who fights alongside you.

Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5272240/

Happy to hear your feedback!

I wanna hear it. 🔥💎

I'm going to tell you something about a first person shooter game called FEAR.

Among other things, FEAR was famous in its day for having one of the best enemy AI in videogames. When a firefight was going on, the enemy was constantly doing things - flanking you, flushing you out of cover with grenades, that sort of thing.

But the secret was, FEAR's AI wasn't actually that much better than any other FPS of its era. What it was actually doing was telegraphing its moves. The enemy soldiers never shut up, constantly yelling out the next strategy they were going to attempt. Even if you couldn't see them, you could hear them telling each other to go around, or to provide covering fire.

This had the effect of making everything they did feel intentional. It wasn't random, there was a plan behind it. You knew there was a plan because you'd heard voices talking about it. Even if the actual behavior wasn't that different from other FPS enemies, it felt different.

Now, to the subject of the Wargame.

It's kind of hard to TELL how good an enemy AI is in a wargame, because of the famous Fog of War. You glimpse an unknown, unidentified unit that has scooted into a visible hex for a moment, then disappeared back into the Fog. Was that a completely random and meaningless movement, like air bubbles in boiling water, or part of some deep and intricate plan that you must plan around?

It's hard to tell, really.

And the Fog of War kind of works against the FEAR solution, right? You CAN'T have the enemy player broadcast his intentions in order to give the battle you two are fighting a more coherent narrative. Because the entire premise of most computer wargames, with almost the solitary exception of Unity of Command 1, is that you have no idea where any unit you're not actually rubbing yourself against is or what it's doing.

But that can also make it feel like those units are just spawning into existence when convenient.

I guess my question is, is there a way to square this circle? A way to communicate to the player that there is a grand plan he's playing against?

Hey everyone! I’m new to Wargame Design Studio and I’m really interested in Jutland since I’m a huge WWI naval history fan.

Would you recommend buying it as a beginner, or is the learning curve too steep? I’m looking for something I can learn fairly quickly without spending hours reading manuals.

Is it worth the $40? Thanks!

I'm interested in playing smaller actions, Java Sea, Falklands, Bismarck etc.

A video edit I made of an old game called Wulfram.

The community is bringing it back, and we already have some awesome gameplay from one of our first play-tests.

Would love some input!

I saw it mentioned in the most recent WDS newsletter. I live in New England and I’m surrounded by colonial history, so I’m intrigued.

What are your experiences with the game?

I like the modeling of units although it's very limited in that there are 4 "doctrines": Krauts, Japs, Russkies and Dogfaces.

The game is rife with ridiculous inconsistencies, but at 24x the aesthetic papers over the nonsense.

It's made by the same people who make 1914 and WW3. I'm looking for something like that but am happy for something that doesn't involve the resource management

Anyone else play it?

I recently stumbled upon Unity of Command 2 while looking for a WWII strategy game with more depth, especially when it comes to logistics and supply lines.

I really like how much attention the developers seem to put into historical accuracy, from the maps and terrain to recreating real operations like Barbarossa.

I was wondering how Panzer Corps 2 compares. It seems to be a much more popular game, but does it offer a similar level of depth when it comes to supply management, realistic terrain, and historical units?

Thanks in advance

Hello Generals!

A few months ago I showed you a bare prototype of a WWII game where you command a Group Army on the Eastern Front. Your support is the reason it didn’t stay a pet project. Thank you!

The game is now called Field Orders: Eastern Front, and it has a Steam page.

Join our Discord. We’re recruiting alpha testers there to play early builds and help shape the game. It’s also a place for anyone who’s into the Eastern Front: history buffs, wargamers, or people who just want to follow development and share ideas.

A wishlist on Steam helps a lot too. See you on the front!