Hi,
The original Kriegspiel games were all tabletop games and it took until
the fifties for AH to start the boardgame revolution which provided a
cheaper (in money, space and time) alternative. As the computer era
dawned hardware limitations made wargames for the pc look like the
electronic equivalent of the boardgame, but every "looking in the
crystal ball" article I ever read was dreaming about something else :
making pc wargames the electronic equivalent of the tabletop game, not
the boardgame. Full colour 3D models, battlefield sounds, a truly
intelligent opponent - that's what the futuristic tactical level pc
wargames would look like.
And now that the future has arrived we're indeed seeing this shift
towards 3D in tactical games like Combat Mission, Tin Soldiers and the
newly announced Panzer Command, but also in borderline tactical /
operational level games as Take Command and Histwar : Les Grognards.
There's still room for solid 2D tactical games - witness Lock 'n
Load - but that room is shrinking as more and more wargamers are
lured into the 3D zone.
Which leaves me wondering what Paradox is doing with the Squad Leader
licence ...
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
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