An Amazing Free Strategy Game

[LordRahl]

If you like civ, then chances are you'll probably love Battle for Wesnoth. I've never seen a free game to be that well done - it easily beats some of the commercial products out there. I wasted most of my weekend playing it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIt69vznegs

The Battle for Wesnoth is a Free, open-source, turn-based strategy game in a fantasy setting for Windows, Linux, Mac, AmigaOS, BeOS, FreeBSD, OS/2 and several others. Get it at http://www.wesnoth.org.

 

[Phlegmak]

Some of the forum members on this site work on Wesnoth.

 

[LordRahl]

I'm thinking about getting in on the programming development myself.

 

[nihilistic]

I've played Wesnoth (beaten the big campaign chain on normal, then hard) but no longer. It just doesn't feel polished. The game basically has 5 fundamental things you absolutely need to manage: money (in the opening moves on how many units you need and whether you want to save for the next scenario), movement points (count them, against every terrain, of both you and your enemy), unit counters (ranged/meelee, day/night, health, dispensibility), formation (arguably the most difficult thing to predict, especially when units die), and pray to the RNG.

 

[Narz]

Thanks selifishdude, I'll download it when I'm done d/ling this video I'm watching.

 

[Whomp]

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