Anyone here play this series of RTTs? If not an introduction might be in order.
The Wargame series consist of 3 games, Wargame: European Escalation, Wargame: Airlandbattle and Wargame: Red dragon. Some might consider it a strategy game series but in all fairness it should be called a tactical game series as it's focus is on pure manouver as opposed to any economy management.
It's emphasis is on scale, sheer variety and number of units and their use. you start out with a set number of points, use these points to purchase units and set out to capture mapzones, objective depends on gametype. The two most popular ones emphazises either control of zones or destruction of enemy units. Maps are LARGE with plenty of room to roam around in.
That may sound simple, but consider this, the latest instalment, WG; Red dragon has over 1500 seperate units, split into Logistics, infantry, tanks, Support, Recon, Vehicles, Helicopters, Planes and Naval that you use to build into a deck of units with a limited amount of points. Each unit consists of a large number of stats and characteristics. Such as guidance system, type of warhead, stabilizer etc. It is however not a sim, but try to find that sweet spot where it manages to abstract enough real life concepts to bring a certain amount of autheticity to the game.
What does it try to make authentic though? The cold war! The games straddles the period of 1975-85 (75-91 in the case of red dragon) and brings to life the sheer amount of military tech this period developed.
The game portrays several hypothetical conflict scenarios between NATO and the Warzaw pact within this period and have these two major blocks clash in several theaters.
The first game in the series: European escalation, takes place in central europe and focuses mostly on the battlefields of Germany, Franceand poland. Nations included as factions in this game are France, West-Germany, The United Kingdom and the US making up the NATO faction while the Warzaw Pact consist The Soviet union, Poland, East germany and czechoslovakia, the total amount of units for all nations are 361.
The sequel: WG: AirlandBattle (Named after the US doctrine used at the time) moves the theatre to scandinavia, and adds Canada, Norway, Sweden and Denmark to the NATO roster as well as adding a large amount of units to the existing nations from European escalation adding up to a total of some 850 units. This game also introduces fixed wing aircrafts as well as a new deckbuildingsystem allowing you to make pure national decks but also era-specific decks and theme restricted decks. Most notably it also adds MASSIVE 10vs10 barrles where thousands of individual units clash over enourmous maps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFSPfq2SlUk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRMH887q3Bo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjvn3m_sn6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZZ6beWbMpw
The latest instalment takes place in southeast asia and adds China and North korea to PACT (Now named REDFOR) and Japan, south korea and ANZAC to NATO (Now called BLUFOR) the number of units now number more than 1500 and introduces Naval as well (with mixed reactions, consensus among the fanbase is that it doesn't add anything to the game and most play without naval, though it does look nice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgHbCPKets4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVc77pOkJgQ
If you are a fan of RTS games (or the cold war in general) I would highly recommend this series of games to you. In my opinion there is no better tactical wargame series out there ATM. Warnings should include that the learning curve is steep and tutorials are lacking. So check out this guide and watch some videos before you venture out into MP.
http://steamcommunit...2&insideModal=1
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