Slitherine

FoG is a turn based hex based strategy game so any similarities with Total War will be extremely hard to find!

JCgoose wrote:

sphallen wrote:I don't think the Total War series has kept people from playing minis. -Steve

True, though the total war series was a very broken game with far too many power units and tactics that broke the poor AI despite the number of patches. I am hoping FoG PC is able to stay away from this

I think you'll find there are different drivers for people to play computer based war games than table top games. I for one would not equate the two and they are very different and believe they will appeal to different people. Model railroad's for example have not been reduced by the introduction of software to model layouts or train simulators. The computer vs tabletop experience have a similar base but quite different in delivery and as a 'hobby'.

If this game is FoG on the computer I likely will play it to get more practice and familiarity etc. and try things out - as well as play others who are geographically separated from me with the FoG rules. However, if it's a turn based game 'sort of' based on the rules with a sucky interaction interface and poor remote play then I'll pass. The AI is another factor of course. One of the common complaints with DBAOL is that is uses a very old version of DBA and thus although good as an introduction it confuses as much as helps players of the table top game. That and the lack of variety of maps turned me off DBAOL.

Turn based computer games are an interesting and likely limited market so I hope and expect Slitherine did their homework on what will sell and why as well as to what market. GW has had some success with their computer games but even those are more 'total war' real time games than turn based. I'm afraid real time games leave me cold most of the time even though they look nice...

iainmcneil wrote:FoG is a turn based hex based strategy game so any similarities with Total War will be extremely hard to find!

At the campaign/strategic level, the Total War games are turn based as well. Only at the battle/tactical level are they real time. And the campaign game strategic level in Total War is interesting enough to be playable with or without playing the real time battles. Will the campaign/strategic level of FoG be similarly involved and interesting or will it really only be interesting for fighting individual battles?

Chris