Operation Market Garden has always been one of my favorite battles of WWII both for the amazing acts of heroism and for the incredible stupidity of those in charge. The soldiers’ desperate attempts to hold on to the bridges across Europe in a hope to shorten the war led to a variety of heroic deeds and stands as an operation that unfortunately tried to go a bridge too far (amazing book too, by the way). HexWar has decided to take this WWII moment and turn it into its most ambitious wargame to date, and I really like what I’ve seen so far. Assault on Arnhem will be an operational level wargame for 1-4 players where each player manages units in either the Allied or Axis forces fighting over the bridges leading to the Dutch town of Arnhem. The aim of the game is simple (as simple as the original operation’s goals): either capture or defend the many bridge objectives by a certain time.
The game features up to four player hotseat multiplayer, cross-platform two player online multiplayer, four scenarios (Grave, Nijmegen, Arnhem, Operation Market Garden), fog of war mechanics that take terrain into account, night time turns with reduced visibility, logistics rules, and much more. As you can tell, this is a pretty ambitious game, but HexWar has been doing fine turn-based strategy games for some time now, so it should be able to handle it fine. The game should come out before the end of the month (barring unforeseen bugs), so keep an eye out if you’ve been looking for a good WWII turn-based strategy game.
Any room for a Patreon backer to tag along? :)
Everyone is welcome at our party!
Is it just for iOS games or are PC games welcome too to get looked at?
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No. Your kind will be hurled from the balcony onto the fetid masses below. Unless... Are you looking to convert to our cause, brother/sister/robro/sisdroid/rockman/rollbot/rushdog/maverick/other? Or is your game really really dope? Or does it involve catladies? I'm afraid regular won't work for me-- it just won't--I've tried so many times. They must have cat ears and a tail (we're talking legit nekomimi here) and they must laugh at all of my jokes or at least feign amusement.
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.Also when you show up tell Shaun Musgrave said you could come. In fact it's probably best if you tell that to Musgrave directly (he's the one that'll probably won't be attending due to Japan being pretty far away from us, oh, and he lives there). Maybe just try random names. Anything but Tallgeese! They can't know I sent you, or that we even had this conversation!!! I don't even work for them!!! DO WHAT YOU WANT MAN!!! Gene Roddenberry got his break by dressing in full police gear (he was a cop at the time), heading down to a famous hollywood bar, shouting the name of the agent he wanted and serving him an envelope with his script in it. YOU DO WHAT IT TAKES!!! Probably don't do that though, or anything crazy. Probably maybe just hope someone else responds to your question.
Tallgeese, are you the new mascot of TA after Maglor left? You should be.
I'm flattered but no one could ever replace our Lord and Savior of Mobile. I eagerly await His second coming as do all of the chosen, brother! Until then we must keep the Dark Lord's armies at bay and keep a candle forever lit for Him. Ooooh Dat Instabuy be with you! Always...
Oh, I know no one can replace him, but are the closest we can come.
I can't follow those comments by Tallgeese, made me smile though.
Is it sad that I'm mostly looking forward to finding more out about Pokemon go? Even though chances are it'll be greedy or bad, but here's hoping it's not due to Nintendo
Well if it sucks there's always sun and moon. But ya, I hope it doesn't either. No one wants a franchise they like to have a crappy thing made of it.
I'll be at the party! [Brian]