Remember that? Having to get off you seat so someone else could sit down and make their move… crazy right? It was this game that got me interested in WW1 in the first place and for some reason, even though I wouldn’t count it as the best of these 5 hex based games, was the one I have the most fond memories of playing with my dad hot seating. Playing through different battles in the ‘Great War’ you are given different historical facts and pictures of different events as the campaign proceeds learn while you play. Simple, Effective and with great replay-ability, especially against other players.Ī lesser known game by Blue Byte software, depicting, as the title suggests, WW1. You had to suppress them with artillery or bombers first then send specific units in to counter the threat. The added depth to this game was also in the fact that you couldn’t just pile in with a frontal assault on a town or city, as units would have been entrenched. It was this upgrading that was critical (especially as units were carried over to the next mission) as elite units had a better chance of overwhelming the enemy or defending crucial towns and cities. In doing so you earned ‘prestige’ which could be spent, as the game went on, to buy and upgrade units. You worked your way through different campaigns and aimed to get certain strategic points. Panzer General was at the forefront of PC wargaming and still holds its own today, with companies like Slitherine making reboots like Panzer Corp. With numerous spin offs and sequels : Allied general, Pacific General, Star General, Panzer General II, Panzer General 3D and Panzer General III. Possibly the best Hex based Wargame on the PC, ever made bar none. Panzer General – Strategic Simulations Inc. Here are my top 5 Hex based, PC, Wargames :ġ. In a lot of ways it was like playing chess and, if you were anything like me and my father, would spend entire evenings (until the small hours of the morning) doing battle some have football, others cars, for me and my dad it was Wargames. It wasn’t about spamming units and attacking as soon as possible to win, it was about set piece battles, where you had to out think, out smart and out general someone, not just tank rush them and call them a ‘noob’ on the in game Chat. Hex based wargames… on the PC, turn based, bitmap graphics?! Are you having a bloody Giraffe?! That’s right ladies and gents, these are the games of my childhood and games I will still happily play now. A lot of younger PC wargamers will look at the following with a mixture of confusion and amusement.

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