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[Haspen]

http://www.wesnoth.org/ <- download for yer enterntaiment :v

Okay because various Wesnoth threads surface suddenly and then drown in the sea of inactivity after few weeks, I'm gonna make this thread and put it into my signature because... well, Wesnoth is a fancy TBS, type of games you can rarely find nowadays.

It's free, it's pretty, and it's very interesting and can absorb you for hours.

I'm a leetle beet map maker and actively looking for people to test my melee maps with (didn't touch scripting yet... it's always black magic for me). If you fancy a duel or maybe play World Conquest together or some other scenario or just help me test my map(s) online:

Ironcladkitty (in rare cases, Haskitty) is my name on current official server for 1.10.7/x version. I do not, however, play development versions just so you know!

[RedWarrior0]

We had an official thread some time ago. And there's still a Steam group with, like, three people.

[Haspen]

We had an official thread some time ago. And there's still a Steam group with, like, three people.

NOT OFFICIAL ENOUGH and besides who would launch Steam for Wesnoth, tis just waste of ram

[TheDarkStar]

I've played this before. It's probably the best TBS of its type that I have seen, free or not.

[Facekillz058]

I'm really crappy at strategy games but this one looks pretty cool. If I don't forget about it within a few days I might start playing.

[Tsuchigumo550]

It's pretty amazing and I love the fuck out of Ageless era. I don't think that one's getting so many updates anymore, though...

Still. I like making maps myself, but no coding here either. Shit's like moonrunes from what I could gather, and I didn't even look at it.

[EuchreJack]

I love the character advancement.  Especially the campaigns where you start with peasants and have to turn them into soldiers.

[Iceblaster]

I loved this when I was younger.

Now if only I could try to play it again later hehe.

[Tiruin]

We had an official thread some time ago. And there's still a Steam group with, like, three people.

It's...a lot of pages buried within. :S I'd prefer if you actually linked it, though. For posterity and all, to forward your point. Because 2011 doesn't mean 'some time ago' here.

So let's transfer the chat..

Edit:

I love the character advancement.  Especially the campaigns where you start with peasants and have to turn them into soldiers.

Either you command them well and get minimal training losses (ie Replicate how levy-soldiers are trained :3) or...see a massive pile of dead peasants. :<
'Tis awesome.

[ductape]

I like Wesnoth but at the same time, I kinda don't like it. Though it has depth, it's kinda shallow in a way. What I mean to say is, that without unit stacking it plays more like a tactics game, which is the intention I am sure. I guess what I am saying is I would prefer some more strategy to it, something closer to Age of Wonders.

Unit stacking would be a cool mod, but it's probably not easy with the engine or it would have been done.

Or maybe it has...

EDIT: Pretty much this: http://wiki.wesnoth.org/FrequentlyProposedIdeas#Stacking_units

And for all the reasons that the devs say it wont work. Half of these sound like they just didnt want to bother. They said ranged units caused too many bugs so they got rid of it. Thats just a matter of changing the code so it doesnt have bugs. I wont say they were lazy, but "didn't want to bother" sounds about right.

IN short, I think this could have been a much better game, as it is it's rather simple. My 2 bits.

[Darkmere]

Heh. I got really into Wesnoth for a couple of weeks, liked the basic mechanics and zone of control a great deal. I gotta ask though, has anyone played the dwarf campaign lately? I hit the end of it last time with a whoooole bunch of the... whatever they are. Lots of armor, no attack guys, and white mages, with a handful of offense. The mission was an 8-hour slog because I just couldn't do enough damage to kill anything before the AI shuffled around everything it had in the choke point and I was poking fresh units with toothpicks.

I kinda liked that they didn't try to go overboard and make it a wargame sim. It's got an elementary charm to it with (I think) hidden depth and subtlety. There are plenty of other more complicated sims out there, but I can't think of another tactics game on this scale for PC.

[scrdest]

I like Wesnoth but at the same time, I kinda don't like it. Though it has depth, it's kinda shallow in a way. What I mean to say is, that without unit stacking it plays more like a tactics game, which is the intention I am sure. I guess what I am saying is I would prefer some more strategy to it, something closer to Age of Wonders.

Unit stacking would be a cool mod, but it's probably not easy with the engine or it would have been done.

Or maybe it has...

EDIT: Pretty much this: http://wiki.wesnoth.org/FrequentlyProposedIdeas#Stacking_units

And for all the reasons that the devs say it wont work. Half of these sound like they just didnt want to bother. They said ranged units caused too many bugs so they got rid of it. Thats just a matter of changing the code so it doesnt have bugs. I wont say they were lazy, but "didn't want to bother" sounds about right.

IN short, I think this could have been a much better game, as it is it's rather simple. My 2 bits.

There was an era about a year ago IIRC that made basic game ranged units actually have ranged attack. I played it and it wasn't really that good. Also, there's HAPMA (Hexes Are Probably Miles Across).

HAPMA is one thing I like about Wesnoth, it has some nice scalability that allows mapmakers to use the same set of tiles to represent both a skirmish on a footpath in a forest and a continent-spanning war. And with some very minor tweaking, you can fix the problem of health affecting attack for large-scale.

[MonkeyHead]

As a Wesnoth veteran, I am gonna drop a PTF in here for future use.

[GlyphGryph]

HAPMA is one thing I like about Wesnoth, it has some nice scalability that allows mapmakers to use the same set of tiles to represent both a skirmish on a footpath in a forest and a continent-spanning war. And with some very minor tweaking, you can fix the problem of health affecting attack for large-scale.

I really liked out the Bad Moon campaign did this - there was an "overmap" and stuff, it was fun! Running into dudes loaded you into a battle.

[Skyrunner]

Pretty fun, but I always tend to think it's lacking something.