When I was a kid, I got SSI's "Wargame Construction Kit" just a bit too young to appreciate it. Now, about 15 years later, I'd love to find a game that does (in a modern fashion) what that game would have let me do if I'd figured out how to use it properly. I'm looking for, essentially, Neverwinter Nights, only turn-based:
- Turn-based, not real-time, on a combat grid
- Multiplayer over the internet
- The ability to create units with specific strengths and weaknesses
- Ideally, limited-use abilities
- Really ideally, configurable combat modes like Power Attack or Defensive Fighting
This isn't a huge "I want to write a sweeping epic game" idea. That's sort of my day job, and anyway, if I wanted to do that on my own time, I'd probably use NWN. This is more "I want to set up difficult fights and then have my friends try to beat them."
Doesn't have to be fantasy, although ideally a strategy game construction kit that's generic enough to let me decide whether I'm making a WW2 scenario with grenades and rifles or a D&D scenario with swords and fireballs would be ideal.
Anybody see anything like that?
Thanks!
- Turn-based, not real-time, on a combat grid
- Multiplayer over the internet
- The ability to create units with specific strengths and weaknesses
- Ideally, limited-use abilities
- Really ideally, configurable combat modes like Power Attack or Defensive Fighting
This isn't a huge "I want to write a sweeping epic game" idea. That's sort of my day job, and anyway, if I wanted to do that on my own time, I'd probably use NWN. This is more "I want to set up difficult fights and then have my friends try to beat them."
Doesn't have to be fantasy, although ideally a strategy game construction kit that's generic enough to let me decide whether I'm making a WW2 scenario with grenades and rifles or a D&D scenario with swords and fireballs would be ideal.
Anybody see anything like that?
Thanks!