The Best Strategy Gaming and Wargaming News
The best strategy gaming news roundup is back after a month’s absence because you guys would rather read my lists instead of my news. Since I’m a man of the people, and I’m here to please, I’ll keep on giving you lists. After the list of the Best First-Person Shooters To Play In 2024, I’ll be writing one about the best Wargames you can play right now. In the meantime, here’s what’s new!
Manor Lords Out Now
Manor Lords, the most wishlisted game on Steam and “The Best Medieval Game of all time” is finally out, and gamers everywhere have been rejoicing that it didn’t fail to meet their expectations. The game’s currently the top-selling game on Steam, above Hell Divers 2, Fallout 76, and the Steam Deck, as well as having 170.000 concurrent players. It’s impressive how a game whose genre is immediately off-putting to larger companies is beating all of them.
Manor Lords costs $29.99/ 29,99€/ £26.24, due to a generous sale of -25% off. The game’s sporting a very respectable 90% positive rating on Steam.
Wargame Design Studios Game Of The Week
Squad Battles Eagles Strike, one of the best (and most popular) World War 2 tactical games available on the Wargame Design Studio store was relaunched in January of 2024.
The game’s currently Wargame Design Studios Game of the Week and you can buy it until tomorrow! There are 120 scenarios, covering a ton of ground, as the Allies do their best to keep Germany on the back foot after landing in Normandy. Here are some of the operations:
- Normandy: Omaha Beach
- Normandy: Utah Beach
- Normandy: Pointe-du-Hoc landing
- Normandy: Airborne landings in Carentan
- Normandy: St Lo
- Normandy: Operation Cobra
- Normandy: Mortain Offensive
- Market-Garden: Airborne Landings
- Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes
- Alsace-Lorraine
- Aachen
The game will set you back $29.95, and I can absolutely endorse it. I’m currently writing a review on it, and it’s one of the best games I have ever played during the Normandy invasion.
Armored Brigade 2 New Toys
I loved the first Armored Brigade (and never got around to reviewing it, unfortunately), but Armored Brigade 2 looks like it will blow its predecessor out of the water!
One of the defining features of Armored Brigade was its waypoint and order delay system. Armoured Brigade 2 is introducing the “Waypoint Editor”, a new “game-changing tool designed to give you more control over the movement and behaviour of your units”.
This will allow you to meticulously plan the path, formation, and operating procedures of every piece at play on the battlefield, allowing players to execute complex manoeuvres without excessive micromanaging.
Master of Command: Prussian Glory Announced
The Armchair Historian’s adventures into historical Wargaming continue. After launching the decent, but far from impressive Fire & Maneuver, the popular YouTuber is setting his sights on the Seven Years’ War, ditching the turn-based battle system for a real-time one, with the announcement of Master of Command: Prussian Glory.
I’ll keep my eyes peeled for more news on this one, but it needs to be said that I won’t be holding my breath for something special after the disappointment that was Fire & Maneuver. Hopefully, Master of Command will prove me wrong.
Memoriapolis Announced
If there’s one thing I learned to respect is a bearded man, wearing a turtleneck, speaking with a French accent: that’s always a sign they mean business and are silently cooking up something interesting, and Memoriapolis looks like it might be that.
Memoriapolis describes itself as a blend of city-building and 4X genre. You’ll be tasked with constructing, managing and building your city from Antiquity to the Age of Enlightenment.
Amongst Memoriapolis sleuth of “innovations”, the developers highlight the city’s autonomous creation by its population, as they’ll move and construct new homes around important buildings you place; and also the transition between ages, and how each of the city’s districts will evolve to face that age’s specific game mechanics. It’s certainly an interesting concept, and one I don’t know of any other game that attempted to do just that. Here’s hoping this will turn out to be a great success!
KaiserPunk Announced
Yes, another city-builder with other underlying mechanics! KaiserPunk wants to blend city-building, grand strategy and combat, set in an alt-history version of the 20th century. This sounds all very ambitious, with very few details at the moment, but I’m interested to see how it will pan out.
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector Changes Hands
Slitherine has announced that they’ll be the ones leading the development of Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector going forward, taking over Black Lab Games. The reasoning behind the move wasn’t explained, but it’s clear that Slitherine intends to keep Battlesector around as a flagship title for the company:
“Looking to the future, Battlesector will remain a key title within Slitherine’s portfolio, and we’re excited to expand upon the game in new and exciting ways that players have yet to experience. We’d encourage fans to keep an eye out on the Battlesector Steam page and our social media channels for the very latest developments”.
I loved Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector when it came out, describing it as “a great game in its own right. Packing smart tactical decision-making with meaty Marines sporting astronomically (and disproportionately) large weapons splattering tyranid matter to kingdom come. It is not only a very good turn-based tactical game but also the best turn-based strategy game to ever come out for the Warhammer franchise. I’m expecting Battlesector to be used as a platform for other campaigns and factions.” Read the whole review here.
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