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Hi, ehm well, i am sort of like a freelance journalist in my country and now i need to write a Special about wargames. So games like Steel Panthers but also East or West Front or The operational art of war series.

Now i am still a bit of a rookie on area's like this one, and i do not know any other well known games that are also popular in the gaming world and are also well sold. Also i dont know all the names for this genre like perhaps Tactical warfare simulation? Can somebody help me on this? Like giving suggestions about other games or any other things? Like games that not only are about WW2 but like the era of Napoleon or even Julias Ceaser. Plz help me on this!!

Hi Bart :

The following is my 2-cents:
Hope it will help.

Steve

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> i need to write a Special about wargames

[ The topic will be very important for the gamers when they give you information so that you might save a lot of time to focus on only one track. ]

> any other well known games that are also
> popular in the gaming world and are also
> well sold.

[ First, "well known" != "well sold".
For well sold information, the news on the gamers net here will announce the most well sold games' name periodically. But for the well known information, it depends on people's taste. For example, people in the Real Time Based (RTB) game world could be never knowing anything important in the Turn Based (TB) game world, even they are playing war games too. ]

> i dont know all the names for this genre
> like perhaps Tactical warfare simulation?
> Can somebody help me on this?

[ Basically, there are 3 levels when the computer game industry classify the warfare sim. games: strategic, operational, tactics. But the military definition about these 3 terms is kind of different from country to country basing upon what military doctrince the country adopt. Generally, the action/decision taken/made by groups beyond corp/division is classified as strategy. From division to batallion is classified as operational. Under batallion is classified as tactics. But there are lots of debates out there for these "simple" classification as I just mentioned. When taking war games as example to fit into a particular military level, it doesn't matter how many units you control/command in the game, but the action/decision needed to be taken/made by you when you play the game. ]

> but like the era of Napoleon or even
> Julias Ceaser.

[ This era is not my favorite, so I don't have too much informaion. ]

Ok i understand a bit i think.

But how about any names of games? So i can write about em? I dont know that many...

Hi Bart :

(1) The Games Domain Site : On this page you got 400+ war game names.
http://www.gamesdomain.com/gdreview/index.html

(2) The War Gamer Site : also another hundreds. http://www.wargamer.com/reviews/

Steve

For the names of other games played by people in this forum, there was a topic a week or so ago about that very thing. So try going back through the topics and you'll find it.

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MJ
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Thanx alot guys especially you stevew nice links! dank je as we say thank you in dutch