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[diamok]

Did a quick search and didn't see this so...

I came across this today, do not know anything about it, spent about 10 mins on the site looking around and decided someone here might be interested.

http://wargameproject.com/#

Take care,

[Akura]

This looks like it might be worth a try. Downloading now.

[megas]

Hi, I'm one of two developers that are writing this game (occasionally as this is not commercial). Found this thread by noticing traffic coming from this page

There is currently only 3 mission long campaign and a lot of room for improvement (especially in user interface). But we do have a huge universe with numerous units/races/weapons/skills/effects etc. Now we have finally found some time and are preparing our second release which will introduce the dwarf campaign (should be interesting around here ). It will also feature player profile, major improvements in user interface (there is a new popup engine), improved AI and high scores that can be submitted to the web.

Thats it for now. I guess I will post an update when we release the new version... Any feedback welcome of course!

Aleksei

[Bluerobin]

Looks pretty neat. Turn based strategy with tactical battles, by the looks of it. They even have some example games (AARs) up on the site to get a better feel for it!

Spoiler: About the game (click to show/hide)

WargameProject is a Turn Based Strategy with its own fantasy universe. It can be played Single player or Hot Seat or PBeM (by email). There are 3 playing sides in the game - Men, Dwarves and Dark. Each has unique gameplay feel and mechanics. The key features are rich unit model and sophisticated weapon system. There is also a comprehensive set of skills and effects (not to mention magic). Units have body parts and can deliver different types of damage. Below is a list of some of the things that happen in our game to give you the idea:

    Units get tired and hungry, become poisoned and deceased, heal and cure themselves.
    Victorious armies pillage their defeated opponents.
    The winners not only become stronger, but also can evolve their weapon specific skills depending on the type of experience they get in battle (each hit or parry counts!).
    Some units can hide (there are 3 levels of invisibility and also terrain considerations), swim, fly, hunt, forage, marauder, steel, feel danger, train and summon other units, scout, make and disarm traps and do many other things.
    Units run out of arrows and switch weapons if they can not use their primary one anymore. Armour, shields and even some weapons may be broken and repaired. Units can be equipped with better armour in castles (if they can wear it).
    Light infantry can become heavy (if lives long enough).
    Mounted units will dismount when fighting on certain type of terrain or attacking structures.
    Necromancers can raise zombies from battlefields, build portals to summon demons and defile graveyards in order for the ghosts to come.
    Catapults can damage castle garrisons as well as population and wealth.
    Some structures like villages can be razed and rebuilt.
    Some actions affect player's reputation which influences the way the world interacts with the player.

Such a detailed world provides an exciting and unpredictable gameplay.

[Empty]

Looks pretty neat. Turn based strategy with tactical battles, by the looks of it. They even have some example games (AARs) up on the site to get a better feel for it!

Spoiler: About the game (click to show/hide)

WargameProject is a Turn Based Strategy with its own fantasy universe. It can be played Single player or Hot Seat or PBeM (by email). There are 3 playing sides in the game - Men, Dwarves and Dark. Each has unique gameplay feel and mechanics. The key features are rich unit model and sophisticated weapon system. There is also a comprehensive set of skills and effects (not to mention magic). Units have body parts and can deliver different types of damage. Below is a list of some of the things that happen in our game to give you the idea:

    Units get tired and hungry, become poisoned and deceased, heal and cure themselves.
    Victorious armies pillage their defeated opponents.
    The winners not only become stronger, but also can evolve their weapon specific skills depending on the type of experience they get in battle (each hit or parry counts!).
    Some units can hide (there are 3 levels of invisibility and also terrain considerations), swim, fly, hunt, forage, marauder, steel, feel danger, train and summon other units, scout, make and disarm traps and do many other things.
    Units run out of arrows and switch weapons if they can not use their primary one anymore. Armour, shields and even some weapons may be broken and repaired. Units can be equipped with better armour in castles (if they can wear it).
    Light infantry can become heavy (if lives long enough).
    Mounted units will dismount when fighting on certain type of terrain or attacking structures.
    Necromancers can raise zombies from battlefields, build portals to summon demons and defile graveyards in order for the ghosts to come.
    Catapults can damage castle garrisons as well as population and wealth.
    Some structures like villages can be razed and rebuilt.
    Some actions affect player's reputation which influences the way the world interacts with the player.

Such a detailed world provides an exciting and unpredictable gameplay.

So what must a unit do to be able to turn to steel?

[megas]

  Eat some mushrooms I guess  Will correct this typo with the next site redeployment..

[Rakonas]

Eat some mushrooms I guess  Will correct this typo with the next site redeployment..

Also

    Units get tired and hungry, become poisoned and deceased, heal and cure themselves.

Is there resurrection in the game, or is that also a typo?

[Khazad_Dron]

It's a typo. Thanks for pointing out. 
Actually, there is resurrection. Dark Side has a special unit, a powerful spell-caster called Dark Ambassador. If he gets killed he can be resurrected for some significant amount of mana (and if there's not enough mana at your disposal, you can always butcher and sacrifice slaves or your own units to get that resource ). There are also Dark Knights which are bound to their demonic portals. They will resurrect again and again. Portals need to be destroyed to stop that.

[lordcooper]

How did I miss this thread?

This looks like it has a hell of a lot of potential, I'll be trying it out tomorrow

[Shadowlord]

WargameProject is a Turn Based Strategy with its own fantasy universe. It can be played Single player or Hot Seat or PBeM (by email).

I don't see PBeM in the game anywhere. I do see Hotseat, but using that would allow any player to view any other player's empire, and seems to force that by not allowing saving in-between turns on a "Player Name, enter password to start your turn" screen (or allowing players to receive the current turn's save file from a 'host' and submit their turns back to the host independently, with the host then loading them in his game to have it execute them).

Which is to say that it sounds cool, and I was going to suggest that certain people try it, but the point would have been so that we could play it in PBeM, assuming that the game wasn't horribly slow to play (I've been completely burned out on that by Civ) or anything.

I'm assuming it was just an accident that the website claims to have PBeM now when it isn't in the game yet (and that it would be impractical to use hotseat for a PBeM game unless you don't mind your enemies seeing and fiddling with your empires), and that it meant to say that it will have PBeM in the future.

[diamok]

How did I miss this thread?

This looks like it has a hell of a lot of potential, I'll be trying it out tomorrow

It got buried pretty quick after I posted it actually...got a lot of looks but no replies so down the list it went.

Take care,

[megas]

I don't see PBeM in the game anywhere. I do see Hotseat, but using that would allow any player to view any other player's empire, and seems to force that by not allowing saving in-between turns on a "Player Name, enter password to start your turn" screen (or allowing players to receive the current turn's save file from a 'host' and submit their turns back to the host independently, with the host then loading them in his game to have it execute them).

Which is to say that it sounds cool, and I was going to suggest that certain people try it, but the point would have been so that we could play it in PBeM, assuming that the game wasn't horribly slow to play (I've been completely burned out on that by Civ) or anything.

I'm assuming it was just an accident that the website claims to have PBeM now when it isn't in the game yet (and that it would be impractical to use hotseat for a PBeM game unless you don't mind your enemies seeing and fiddling with your empires), and that it meant to say that it will have PBeM in the future.

Good point, I believe it deserves a good explanation
You are indeed correct (I will remove this statement). I think this paragraph was written before we made the first release and at that time we were pretty optimistic about our plans. Another reason PBeM is not there is that we didn't quite came to a conclusion yet about how the multiplayer would look like. I was thinking about something like you wrote - keeping the state of the game on server (that would also solve the save/load cheat).  But that would require a whole bunch of new features like creating PBeM games on the server (there should be means for players to start new games and others to join them), syncing game profiles and server accounts, etc. Even if we do that there is still the problem that games are very long (maybe nobody will care to play?). In reality playing 2 versus 2 is almost impossible except by such dedicated fans as we are (1 on 1 is easier of course). One game usually lasts 20 turns where each player turn lasts from 5 minutes in the beginning to an hour or so at the end. But the problem is the delays between turns of course as everybody makes his turn when has time for that. We we elaborating on creating some kind of skirmish maps where players would start with a given set of armies and very simple objectives for example making sure you own a certain castle in 10 turns. However we are still thinking about that and this is not yet in plans for the next release.
There are also couple of blockers before we can seriously start asking people to play the game. One is that user interface is not so good and the other is graphics. All that could be fixed, but requires of course huge time investments (probably some money also). So we decided to first make a small campaign and see if people will like the whole concept of TBS with tactical battles and our world in general. We got some feedback and decided that it is worth to make another release. If the feedback will keep getting better, I think we would probably do the PBeM in the next one

[Puzzlemaker]

This looks like an interesting game.  I may try it out.

[Khazad_Dron]

I don't see PBeM in the game anywhere.

That's right. No in-game support for PBeM. It's just how we play it because it's really hard to gather and play hot seat these days (work, family, etc). But if you have a friend and you trust each other (which is in my opinion a must if you call yourself friends), then there is no such concern as cheating.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of ways to cheat, and cheat prevention is a major topic... But your comment is appreciated and noted and we will definitely be thinking about improving this part of the game.

[adwarf]

I love this game, but I kill myself all the time.