Commander - Napoleon at War Game Info(PC)
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Commander - Napoleon at War is the newest game in the Commander series, taking the acclaimed design introduced in Commander - Europe at War to the next level. Building on the international success of its predecessor, Commander - Napoleon at War brings the same simple and intuitive gameplay mechanics to the Napoleonic era, creating a different and even more compelling gaming experience. Use the combined arms of infantry, cavalry and artillery combined with the innovations and strategies of the Napoleonic wars to secure victory.
Play on a beautifully rendered map of Napoleonic Europe, where terrain and weather play a large role and mud and snow may bog down your army at a crucial time. Logistics are also modelled, with supply lines, resources and sieges and the use of privateers and naval superiority to stifle trade routes. Players have twelve unit types to choose from as well as fifteen research paths, and eight immersive historical campaigns from 1805 through 1815!
Can Napoleon’s ambition be denied or will the flag of the Empire of France fly throughout the continent? It is up to you to write the story of the Napoleonic Wars in Commander - Napoleon at War!
Features
- 8 immersive campaigns (including a full 1805-1815 campaign) starting from Napoleons war with Austria, Russia and Britan in 1805 up to the 100 days campaign ending at Waterloo in 1815.
- Take control of Napoleon's forces or the Allied Coalition who opposed him, including Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia.
- Huge map covering all of Europe and stretching from Canada and the United States all the way to the Urals and the Middle East in beautiful historical detail
- Choose from up to 15 different historical research paths for each country in five general areas (Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Navy, Warfare)
- Spend Money, Manpower and Horses to build new units and recruit historical leaders, choosing from twelve different unit types ranging from Light Infantry to Frigates.
- Dynamic weather system includes mud, snow and storms
- Trade routes, frigates and privateers
- Bombardment and siege of fortresses and resources
- 12 different units types including Militia, Line & Guard Infantry, Light & Heavy Cavalry, Foot & Horse Artillery, Frigates, Ships of the Line and Privateers
- Recruit historic commanders such as Ney, Blucher, Wellington & many more.
- Multiplayer via LAN, hot seat, PBEM and Internet
Commander - Europe at War Gold Game Info(PC)
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Take Command and Battle Through Europe with Commander: Europe at War Gold!
Commander – Europe at War Gold thrusts the player into the command of either the Axis or the Allies during World War II. With only two goals at hand, survive and conquer, the player is charged with building and commanding the combined air, land and sea forces of his side. Advance your research to the cutting edge of technology in order to best your opponents and either conquer or liberate Europe!
Commander – Europe at War Gold includes a new Fast Play mode with six additional campaigns as well as a slew of other improvements and fixes since the original release. This brings the PC version of the game to the same level as the recent releases for the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP.
Commander - Europe at War Gold is easy to learn and elegant, but deep in strategy and hard to master. Players will find themselves glued to their chairs from the beginning when all mayhem breaks loose across the continent with the invasion of Poland in 1939. Research new technologies, manage your manpower reserves, improve your industry, husband your oil supply and manufacture armies, fleets, and bombers to use all available strategic and tactical might to bring about victory. Commander - Europe at War Gold includes realistic combat resolution that models supply morale, terrain, leadership, equipment, training, strategic weapons and fog of war. To capture the immense scope and distance of WWII, Commander - Europe at War Gold includes a Fast Play mode with 6 campaigns as well as 6 more epic campaigns with different starting points, including the famous Barbarossa campaign, D-Day, the battle for France, and finally the Grand Campaign that will let the player refight the entirety of the Second World War the way they see fit!
Features
- Huge hex based campaign map covering the USA to the west, Africa to the south, Scandinavia to the north and the Urals to the east.
- 6 epic scenarios including the operation Barbarossa, DDay and the Grand Campaign
- Research over 50 inventions from 5 different technology areas
- 12 different unit types including Light Tanks, Heavy Tanks, Destroyers and Motorised Corps, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
- Recruit and attach Historical Commanders to your units.
- Detailed and realistic combat that models supply, morale, terrain, leadership, equipment, training, strategic weapons and fog of war.
- Easy to learn, hard to master game play that is the cornerstone of Slitherine game design.
- Multiplayer via e-mail, hotseat, Internet and including optional timed turns and 7 difficulty settings.
- Use of Osprey publishing artwork in game, a leading publisher of military history books.
- Easily moddable script files that allow players to alter many aspects of gameplay including research, unit stats, terrain effects and many more.
Command Ops: Highway to the Reich Game Info(PC)
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As the first official expansion pack for the award winning Command Ops series, Command Ops: Highway to the Reich from acclaimed developer Panther Games brings us to the setting of one of the most epic and controversial battles of World War II: Operation Market-Garden. The Highway to the Reich expansion pack is a set of 13 scenarios covering all of the major actions that took place during the Market Garden Campaign in Holland during September 1944.
The scenarios cover every major engagement along Hell’s Highway, from the surprise capture of Joe’s Bridge by the Irish Guards a week before the offensive to the final battles on “The Island” south of Arnhem. The dramatic parachute and glider landings of the US 82nd and 101st Airborne, The British 1st Airborne and the Polish Brigade are all represented on some of the largest maps ever created for the series and the largest “campaign” scenario in this system to date. More than just a conversion of the old scenarios to play on the new system, the Expansion Pack represents a major update of Panther Games ground breaking classic game Highway to the Reich, incorporating numerous corrections to Maps, Orders of Battle, Unit Compositions, Reinforcement Schedules, and overall game play.
Command Ops: Highway to the Reich is an expansion for Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge and requires the base game to play.
Features
- 13 scenarios covering all of the major actions that took place during the Market Garden Campaign in Holland during September 1944.
- Packed with corrections to Maps, Orders of Battle, Unit Compositions, Reinforcement Schedules, and overall game play to create the most accurate and addicting gameplay seen from Panther Games.
- The same powerful Map and Scenario makers are still available in addition to the acclaimed Unit and Equipment editor allowing for the same unprecedented customization of gameplay.
- A mega scenario which can serve as a continuous mini-campaign just by itself plus fight across some of the largest maps ever created for the Command Ops engine!
- Command Ops: Highway to the Reich is an expansion for Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge and requires the base game to play.
Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge Game Info(PC)
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Assess, Plan, Order and React – The Decisions are Yours!
Acclaimed developer Panther Games brings us to the bitter cold of Western Europe during the Winter of 1944 with Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge. Although the Battle of the Bulge is ground that has been visited by wargamers before, it has never been done with this level of fidelity and historical accuracy. The most advanced and realistic model of command decision-making implemented to date in a commercial wargame, combined with thorough historical research on the battlefields and forces involved in this campaign sets Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge apart from the competition.
Set during the hard fighting of the Battle of the Bulge, Command Ops lets gamers assess, plan, order and react at the operational level just like a real Corps, Division and Brigade commander. Hundreds of hours of gameplay await armchair generals who will be challenged to fight their way across 27 scenarios that stretch from the initial German surprise offensive to the powerful Allied counter-attack.
Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge also sports some of the most advanced and impressive AI ever devised in an operational-level wargame! It is your choice whether to manage every detail of your army, or have the friendly AI manage the war on a lower level while you plan the larger scale maneuvers designed to make short work of your enemy. Just as a historical commander, you can choose where you need to step in and when you need to stand back and let your subordinates do their jobs.
The enemy AI will use its skill to launch well-timed and coordinated strikes as it probes your lines for weakness while realistically reacting to your movements! In addition, for the enthusiastic mod community awaiting Command Ops, powerful tools like MapMaker and ScenMaker allow for the creation of maps and scenarios further adding to already near limitless replayability.
Features
- Realistic command decision making at the operational level. Assess, plan, order and react just like a real Corps, Division and Brigade commander.
- One of the most advanced commercial AI opponents ever developed
- Hundreds of hours of playtime including 27 scenarios, covering initial German offensive and American counter-attack
- Full construction set includes editors to make units ( EstabEditor ), maps ( MapMaker ) and scenarios ( ScenMaker ) for any battle. Mod various aspects of the game, including map patterns and victory messages.
- An Estab Editor to modify or create Forces, Equipment, Ammo, Formations, etc.
- A contender for the best AI in any wargame
- The AI can manage subordinate commanders and handle micromanagement
- new automated bridge building
- Select attack, move and secure doctrine to custom tune AI-controlled units with your command style without actually commanding them directly
- Advanced force allocation algorithms to keep your army balanced and sharp
- New force group structures to enable cross attachments and different ways of displaying the order of battle
- New reaction and reassessment code for smarter responses from both the enemy and friendly AI
- New scheduling code to better manage the sequencing of tasks
- New route finding algorithms – units can rush to battle but become exposed, take a safe but slow route, or many other options
- New formation movement code, including phase lines
- Enhanced sighting code
- Enhanced basing code
- Intuitive powerful interface
- Clear and concise tutorial movies to get you up to speed
- New order options give you more control including attacks, bypasses, ambushes, stragglers, basing, retaking of position, avoiding friendlies, rest at night etc.
- Automate units and let the cutting edge AI manage smaller units while you concentrate on the “big picture”
- New order timing controls to coordinate tasks
- New order supply level settings so you can set resupply priorities
- New order of battle display to help you organize your forces
- New Estab Data views to access weapon and vehicle performance data
- Map patterns now change with the weather
- Pathing tools provide estimate of duration
- Hundreds of hours of playtime
- 27 scenarios, covering initial German offensive and American counter-attack
- Tons of Replayability - many scenario options, including multiple random reinforcement schedules
- Extensive unit, vehicle and weapon estabs covering German, American and British forces
- 26 maps covering the Ardennes battlefield
- Full construction set includes editors to make units ( EstabEditor ), maps ( MapMaker ) and scenarios ( ScenMaker ) for any battle.
- Mod various aspects of the game, including map patterns and victory messages.
- Utilize a big range of force lists for rapid scenario creation
- The MapMaker now supports copy and paste between different terrain layers
- The ScenMaker now allows the setting of initial orders delay and stock levels
Combined Arms: World War II Game Info(PC)
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"Combined Arms: World War II™ " is a 1km hex-based battalion-level simulation of World War II combat that puts the wargamer in the role of the operational commander. Combined Arms: World War II™ uses actual minutes and hours to track time and coordinate orders. Tell your combat and support units when to jump off and how to coordinate their plans. Units exist within a military organization which Combined Arms: World War II understands. This allows cross-attachment of units and modeling of the strain on the staff of a particular command structure, depending on how much there is to manage and how many operations there are to plan and coordinate. Combat units are detailed with quality ratings, armor and infantry strengths, and movement types. Artillery is beautifully handled in Combined Arms: World War II, as are Air and Naval units. Artillery can be assigned to barrage for a certain amount of time, support a specific battle, be “on call” or assigned to counterbattery fire against enemy artillery in range. Air and Naval units can similarly support battles or attack enemy assets directly. Interdiction fire by these combat arms is fully modeled.
Features
- Combined Arms: World War II sticks with what wargamers know by using hexes and unit counters. However, it uses actual minutes and hours to track time and attack plans may be organized based on arrival times for combat units and their support.
- Replenishment of fuel, ammo and replacements is handled within the engine, as well as unit fatigue.
- The fog of war is fully modeled with various levels of intelligence for enemy movement and troop concentrations, including false or misleading reports (possibly even on your own units).
- Combat units are detailed with quality ratings, armor and infantry strengths, movement types and equipment. Artillery, Air and Naval units can support battles or attack enemy assets directly. Interdiction fire by these combat arms is fully modeled.
- Detailed command structure allows cross-attachment of units and modeling of the strain on the staff depending on how much there is to manage, plan and coordinate.
- Combat is modeled to include the effects of each of the units assigned, including the effects of artillery, airpower, long-range and short-range fire and the interactions between armor and infantry. Combined Arms: World War II avoids the simplicity of the straight CRT odds system while maintaining enough transparency to avoid mystifying players who want a system that is easy to understand.
- Using modern high resolution graphics, Combined Arms: World War II is easy on the eyes and has an interface that is designed to convey the most important information at a glance.
- Combined Arms: World War II includes a full score and sound effects to immerse the player.
- Combined Arms: World War II incorporates a full scenario, unit and map editor, which allows the creation of free compatible scenarios by wargamers who own the game.
- Combined Arms: World War II will support play against a computer opponent, against another human on the same machine or against one or more human opponents by single and multiplayer e-mail. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to have fun by offering many different ways to find an opponent and many different methods of play.