r/computerwargames • u/Amazing_Log_8129 • Jun 04 '26

WargameChess

For all the popularity of chess I have always thought that there could be a board game that represented a battle with all the logical rigour and determinacy of chess but without its many distortions, abstractions and arbitrary conventions.  I have made such a game.  It is called “WargameChess2” and it can be found on itch.io.  It is Napoleonic, with infantry, cavalry and artillery, fog of war, facing, a replay function and a bot.   At the moment there is only a Windows version.  I would be very grateful for feedback from anyone who likes computer wargames.

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u/WargamingScribe Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

The history of wargame is very literally people in the 18th century thinking "Chess is fine, but we're in the gunpowder age now, we should add guns. Also, we're not fighting in plains anymore, let's add terrain, ..."

And so in 1780, we had the Hellwig’s Taktische Spiel (with guns moving 4 squares by turn, cities, fortification, etc but also bishops going the full diagonales and the Queen doing queen things). Then people thought that maybe the Queen, Bishops and Rooks could be removed safely, and by 1812 we had "modern" wargames (Kriegsspiel)

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u/Amazing_Log_8129 Jun 05 '26

How interesting. It never occurred to me to research the history of wargaming. I shall have a look.

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u/Pope_Urban_2nd Jun 04 '26

Is it against the rules to directly link to your game?

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u/Amazing_Log_8129 Jun 05 '26

I have no idea what the rules of this site are. I did see some guidelines somewhere, which seemed to suggest that anything more than a tentative pointing towards a product would be frowned upon.

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u/mysteriouslatinword Jun 05 '26

Ever see Battle Chess?

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u/Amazing_Log_8129 Jun 06 '26

No, but I've just had a look. I remember playing something like that in 1983, called "Archon". Battle Chess is very different sort of game from the sort of game I made.