Commands & Colors: The Great War

I thought this game was abandoned. Update 2.0 seems pretty good. i just played a game with no crashes. I still need to play more to make sure the rules enforcement is good. Still great job by the devs to put out an update that seems solid in limited play.

Before today, I have not played this game for six years. I remember being frustrated with battling the interface before and stopped playing because of it. The major update which seemed to drop out of nowhere a couple of days ago prompted me to try it again. The improvements made to the tutorials and the interface have made the game much more playable and I now think this is the best digital implementation of the Commands and Colours system since the Battlelore game. I am looking forward to trying the planned multi player mode when it drops. In the meantime, if you enjoy Commands and Colours games, this is thoroughly recommended!

Thought the game had been abandoned, but the latest devs and patches have overhauled the game UI and fixed dozens of bug... Great game now, worth buying...

Commands & Colors: The Great War, developed by HexWar Games and published by Hunted Cow Games, is a faithful digital adaptation of the well-known Commands & Colors tabletop system, reimagined to portray the brutal, methodical nature of First World War combat. Rather than attempting to simulate the war at a grand strategic level, the game focuses tightly on tactical engagements, emphasizing command limitations, terrain control, and the grinding reality of trench warfare. From the outset, it positions itself as a deliberate and cerebral experience, one that values planning and restraint over spectacle or rapid-fire decision-making. The core structure revolves around a series of historically inspired scenarios drawn primarily from the Western Front, including battles that evoke the stalemate, desperation, and incremental gains characteristic of the era. Each scenario places players in command of infantry, machine gun units, mortars, and artillery, arranged across a hex-based battlefield that models trenches, wire, shell craters, woods, and open ground. Victory conditions vary, but most hinge on careful territorial control and attrition rather than sweeping maneuvers. This design rein…

It is completely unplayable on my computer that runs everything in my library perfectly on various settings. While I have 7 hrs of playtime, most of that has been staring at a frozen game hoping to get past a turn in the tutorial that I have restarted several times. I just now reinstalled it completely due to the patch, couldn´t even get the first mission to load and had to altf4 out of the frozen screen to come here and type this. This is the the first game I have requested a refund on because it´s completely unplayable. While the gameplay fine (when it works) and mimics the C&C boardgame-style very well, be prepared that it simply might not work for you.

The game freezes after several turns on the AI turn: the AI doesn't make any decision, doesn't move, doesn't attack etc. Reloads of auto-saves or own saves don't help, re-installations of the game don't help, file auto-check via Steam doesn't help. On the same mission on my first try the game froze on AI's turn 12, on my second try on AI's turn 8. I can not understand why. I asked for a refund but got rejection as I played more than 2 hours (completed 1 mission for both sides and read manual). DO NOT BUY any game from HexWar Games (Hunted Cow Games) as this problem with the game freezing had not been solved for almost 10 years and developers simply have abandoned the Community long ago. These developers are money scammers: they sell beautiful design with completely bugged AI.