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ORIGINAL: Agathosdaimon
Wargamer: Napoleon 1813
- PLEASE SOMEBODY, REMAKE THIS!

Check out the Wargamer open source project? Let us know if it's any good.

ORIGINAL: Ranger33

SPWAW

That level of variety, scale, dynamic campaigns, etc all with a nice modern UI and slightly less pixely graphics would be fantastic. The gameplay could be more or less the same, just give me something prettier to look at and throw in a few quality of life features.

I agree completely.

ORIGINAL: pzgndr

ORIGINAL: Agathosdaimon
Wargamer: Napoleon 1813
- PLEASE SOMEBODY, REMAKE THIS!

Check out the Wargamer open source project? Let us know if it's any good.

i have those updates - those were made by Greenius who was behind the wargamer back in 1999 but then when the company or whatever disappeared he continued working on it up to 2003 but then he just disappeared unfortunately. His updates fixed some issues but did resolve all the crash bugs nor some AI issues in the campaign tactical battles. apart from the these the game is surprisingly still installable and playable in windows 7 even which one can do though there will be inevitable crashes and some of the large battle scenarios will crash suddenly too. the most stable part is the operational campaign - one could play that for hours without crashing.

Great Naval Battles more like it, missed the fury in the Pacific. Have to run DOS though to run it.

+1 for Avalon Hill's Rise And Decline of Third Reich from me as well.

Somewhat Off Topic, hope you don't mind:

There's the Third Reich inspired TOAW scenario available, thought I'd mention that. And regarding the Avalon Hill Panzerblitz and Panzer Leader games, all the PB/PL situations have been converted to Matrix Campaign Series of the similar scale. Thought I'd mention that as well. Both not quite the real thing, but not too shabby either. IMHO of course.

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North Atlantic '86

An astonishing achievement given that it was written in Applesoft BASIC. But among other things, it could not keep track of missiles and torpedoes aboard the ships, but had to give a ship a chance of running out of ammo each time it fired. Just think of what could be done today...

speaking of North Atlantic - also 'Action in the North Atlantic' and Action,Stations! - good like the GNB series - GNB series by the way is utterly fantastic and i recommend to all interesting in WW2 and WW1 naval battles to get it still and play it through Dosbox. if you buy the cd complete boxed set it comes with the WW1 version which was the final iteration but never released in its own right

This one is really like to see remade, http://www.tacticularcancer.com/content.php?id=4328

It is a lot better than Sid's Civilization, more realistic resources, etcs. Had to run this on older machine to play it, but the graphics is awful lol.

Leipzig 1813.

Arnhem from the old spectrum classic, updated but not changed and spoilt [:D][;)]

ORIGINAL: v.Manstein

Leipzig 1813.

woot - glad to see matrix staffer even mention this one! - so far as i know only Wargamer 1813 is the game that features this battle - oh and SSI's Battles of Napoleon - one of the many extra scenarios that come bundled with it if you buy it as part of one of those SSI Wargame collections

actually i wish for all the games on the 'Definitive Wargames Collection' vol 1 to be remade - panzer battles is there, decisive battles of the civil war is there, when two worlds war is there, sword of aragon is there and Battles of Napoleon!

Avalon Hill's Bismarck. Fond memories of playing that against my brother, using advanced weather rules where weather was by square (yes, squares, not hexes!!), then getting into the naval battles on the floor of our bedroom! Great, great wargame!

I have a copy - unplayed.
Might try it on vassel one day.

ORIGINAL: AndyG1

Avalon Hill's Bismarck. Fond memories of playing that against my brother, using advanced weather rules where weather was by square (yes, squares, not hexes!!), then getting into the naval battles on the floor of our bedroom! Great, great wargame!

warspite1

+ 1 [:)] Brilliant game!!

ORIGINAL: v.Manstein

Leipzig 1813.

I'm not sure if you're referring to the 1979 OSG board-game or not. If so, note that I converted it to a TOAW III scenario:

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S&T #43, The American Civil War

ORIGINAL: berto


S&T #43, The American Civil War

That really was a great game and fun to play.

ORIGINAL: Yogi the Great

ORIGINAL: berto


S&T #43, The American Civil War

That really was a great game and fun to play.

+1

ORIGINAL: Jagdtiger14

I'd like to add "Aces of the Deep".

This.

ORIGINAL: shunwick

Modern remakes of Steel Panthers and Age of Rifles would be close to heaven for me.

And these.