Battle For Wesnoth

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AlexHarman

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I don't know if any of you have ever played Battle for Wesnoth [http://wesnoth.org], but it's a freeware turn based strategy game I found out about a while back, but didn't ever take it up as it was a fairly big file {approx. 140mb} to download.

Now I'm using Linux as opposed to Windows, I found that Wesnoth actually comes prebundled with it, so I installed it earlier and gave it a try.

It's pretty good fun to play and although it's a little tricky to pick up to begin with the tutorials help a lot in explaining it. It includes the tutorials, as well as a single player campaign and the option to play scenarios against AI opponents, against other players {hotseat,LAN, and internet}... I was wondering if anyone else here plays it - if so we should arrange a game.
 

H0ncho

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It was fun, but - too much RPing in the campaigns. The "recall" mechanic removes cost as a factor (since you *have* to recall in order to win the campaign) and since this also makes losing units very very much worse than it should be in a strategy game it ain't enough strategy for my taste.

The music rocks though.
 

Churchman

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I wasn't bad, but I disliked the economic and city managemnt side was basicly just "Move troops to a unguarded city" But then im one of those mutants who likes economic management over war (to paraphrase yahtzee)