You folks know any Videogames similar to Tabletop War/Skirmish games?

GiantToenail · May 30, 2023, 04:01:56 PM

I've been enjoying Necromunda: Underhive and Mordheim: City of The Damned a whole lot recently because of the free movement, environmental hazards, and high risk skill checks; I want to know if there are any other Tabletop-adjacent games out there? I see turn-based strategy games on a grid such as X-com, Pheonix Point, Battle-Sector, and Gear Tactics a different genre. Platform doesn't matter.

Mistwell · May 30, 2023, 10:45:38 PM

Gloomhaven, for sure. The digital version is really quite good and addicting.

Greg Bruni · July 19, 2023, 01:31:42 AM

There are several Shadowrun games. Also Freedom Force, which is a superheroes game. You control a few heroes and you get to make up one for your own character. Super Dungeon Tactics, which is very similar to the board game Super Dungeon Explore. For the King is similar to those but when combat happens it's kind of more like Final Fantasy. The Hard West games are very tactical, kind of set in a Deadlands style old west, and there is also a Warmachine video game which came out several years ago. You literally control a band of units and a warcaster just like in the tabletop game.

Scooter · July 19, 2023, 12:21:35 PM

Sure Atomic Games (published by MS) produced a series of video games similar to Squad Leader called Close Combat. You can probably find abandon ware versions of it. Great game you can play across the net with anyone with a static IP.

Baron · July 19, 2023, 12:47:34 PM

How about Warhammer 40000 Chaos Gate? It's been a looong time since I played it, but I remember it as playing very much like a tabletop game.

Reckall · August 10, 2023, 09:55:51 AM

Quote from: Scooter on July 19, 2023, 12:21:35 PM
Sure Atomic Games (published by MS) produced a series of video games similar to Squad Leader called Close Combat. You can probably find abandon ware versions of it. Great game you can play across the net with anyone with a static IP.

New games in the Close Combat line are still produced and sold today by Matrix Games.

X-Com 2 + the "War of the Chosen" DLC is one of the best games of the last 10 years. There is a cult around it. Just remember that "War of the Chosen" is not an option, and no one plays without it: it brings X-Com 2 to a whole new level.

Scooter · August 10, 2023, 10:57:59 AM

Quote from: Reckall on August 10, 2023, 09:55:51 AM
Quote from: Scooter on July 19, 2023, 12:21:35 PM
Sure Atomic Games (published by MS) produced a series of video games similar to Squad Leader called Close Combat. You can probably find abandon ware versions of it. Great game you can play across the net with anyone with a static IP.

New games in the Close Combat line are still produced and sold today by Matrix Games.

Sweet. Might be worth making a Windows machine for it.

Reckall · August 10, 2023, 11:37:11 AM

Quote from: Scooter on August 10, 2023, 10:57:59 AM
Quote from: Reckall on August 10, 2023, 09:55:51 AM
Quote from: Scooter on July 19, 2023, 12:21:35 PM
Sure Atomic Games (published by MS) produced a series of video games similar to Squad Leader called Close Combat. You can probably find abandon ware versions of it. Great game you can play across the net with anyone with a static IP.

New games in the Close Combat line are still produced and sold today by Matrix Games.

Sweet. Might be worth making a Windows machine for it.

Just go here and search "Close Combat". They are also all on Steam:

https://www.matrixgames.com/store

rytrasmi · August 10, 2023, 11:41:33 AM

Battle Brothers. Build a band of mercenaries and seek your fortune. Very challenging and quite fun.

Scooter · August 10, 2023, 01:12:06 PM

Quote from: Reckall on August 10, 2023, 11:37:11 AM

Just go here and search "Close Combat". They are also all on Steam:

https://www.matrixgames.com/store

I'll check it out for Steam. Thanks. So glad this genre didn't die with Atomic Games.

weirdguy564 · October 03, 2023, 09:24:36 AM

My favorite tabletop video game is not high tech. Not at all.

Warhammer 40k Armageddon.

It's as close to Warhammer Epic scale as you're going to get. And the expansion adds my boys, the Mordian Iron Guard.

The cons are pretty self evident. The game is simplistic. It lacks animation, and is essentially a copy of an old Panzer General-1 game.

I like it. I also don't mind retro games. I loved Panzer General (or Panzer Corps as it used to be called) quite a lot. For me it was a no brainer purchase.

https://www.matrixgames.com/game/warhammer-40000-armageddon

You can also get it on iPad. Unfortunately, you can't get it on iPhone.

weirdguy564 · October 03, 2023, 09:31:17 AM

Also, Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is a great turn based ship combat game.

It is one of the few games where battleships and fighters seem somewhat balanced.

It uses a turn based system, but real time combat. Every 10 seconds the game pauses, and then you can issue orders to your units, hit "go", and it goes back to real time combat. While they fight you're just an observer.

When the battle is over the game collects all the turns together into a mini-movie you can watch. You can even save them if you want.

I like that game a lot as well.

It's also available on x-box, but controllers are clunky. However, x-box does allow you to use a usb mouse if you want, negating that problem.

Baron · October 03, 2023, 01:07:44 PM

Quote from: weirdguy564 on October 03, 2023, 09:31:17 AM

I really have to get out less. I own both of those games (W40K Armageddon & Battlestar Galactica Deadlock) but have never played them!

weirdguy564 · October 06, 2023, 05:58:45 PM

Yeah, I love those older play style games.

My personal wish would be for a a Total War style game with combat more like Battlestar Galactica Deadlock. Give me turns even in battle, every 10 seconds, to issue commands, then hit play and watch 10 seconds of carnage, then back to issuing orders.

Cathode Ray · October 27, 2023, 06:29:16 AM

SPI's "Panzer General" and "Allied General" for PS1. Excellent!