Wars Across The World
Strategiae · 2017 · Strategy, Indie, Board Game, Turn-Based, Turn-Based Strategy
PC
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About Wars Across The World
The WAW base pack, contains the game engine, the tutorial and 10 different scenarios (and can make use of all future DLCs and packs):
- HAMILKAR 264, the long First Punic War, the first Rome vs. Carthage war.
- HASTINGS 1066, opposing Normans, Vikings ands Saxons to claim the crown of England.
- SARATOGA 1777, the battle that changed the course of the War of Independence.
- WATERLOO 1815, the last epic campaign of Napoleon.
- BULL RUN 1861, the first grand battle of the American Civil War.
- MISSOURI 1861, depicting the fight to get control of this decisive western state.
- NORMANDIE 1944, the most famous landing operation on the beaches of France.
- BULGE 1944, the last German WW2 offensive in the west.
- SIX DAYS 1967, the six days war between Israel and its Arab neighbours.
- and BERLIN 1945, the fall of the Nazis against the Soviets.
Note that if you already own on Steam some of the scenarios in the base pack, they will not be charged again.
WAW is a unique strategy turn-based game concept, on a boardgame spirit, which aims at simulating in one single system ALL conflicts throughout the world (and beyond) from Prehistoric times to nowadays, from grand massive wars to asymmetrical conflicts. And it will work also on non-historical, alternate history, fantastic or SF titles. The key is the use of a single system of rules and situations which works in all cases.
Why? Because we want players to learn rules only once, get confident and at ease with them, and then spend all their time with the titles in the collection in a speedy and effortless manner ... for example, the battle screen will be similar throughout the games, and thus will require almost no adaptation for enjoying it in a new game!
Practically, a few minutes are required to read about the specific properties and content of a new scenario and you can jump right in!
The Main Game Features includes:
- Game is turn-based, using the I GO U GO system, each player taking one side (sides involve sometimes more than one nation).
- The map is divided into numerous regions, with various terrains and sometimes structures (ports, fortresses, airports ...), and potentially sources of income when necessary.
- When maintenance and purchase of forces is needed, or to acquire new event cards, a simple income system is activated.
- Combat units may be from the land, naval or air domains. You will find different types, such as infantry, cavalry, artillery, guerrillas, submarines, flat tops, fighters, elephants, anti-aircraft batteries, etc ... All of which can be combined into different stacks for easy handling.
- Leaders are crucial in the game, as they have three main usages: first they give bonus to the base combat values of their stacks, second their morale values are use to check victory or defeat levels, and lastly they are necessary to launch attacks on the enemy.
- Two opposing stacks in the same region generate a battle, which is resolved in a semi-tactical way in two successive rounds. The game automatically calculates the various bonus and penalties of sides, their respective morale levels, allows for event cards play, and they each combat unit of each side shoots simultaneously (in most cases) at the enemy. Losses are taken in terms of hits and panics. The moral level of the initial army affected by the losses and panics suffered, which in turn may lead to rout, pursuit and breakthroughs.
- Multiple Events Cards packs are granted to each side, that they will use to influence all aspects of the game, such as alliances, income, movement, weather, leadership, number and quality of troops and finally many tactical aspects for the battles. This ensures both a real uncertainty in the game and a great replayability potential.
The scale changes according to scenarios. A ground combat unit could be only a simple battalion or a whole army. A region may represent a few square miles or a whole country. And similarly, a game turn could be just a few hours or up to many years!
Game allows for coverage of different ‘spaces’ of play, such as land, sea, air or outer space…!
PLANNING
Each month, a new scenario will be released!
The WAW base pack, contains the game engine, the tutorial and 10 different scenarios (and can make use of all future DLCs and packs):
- HAMILKAR 264, the long First Punic War, the first Rome vs. Carthage war.
- HASTINGS 1066, opposing Normans, Vikings ands Saxons to claim the crown of England.
- SARATOGA 1777, the battle that changed the course of the War of Independence.
- WATERLOO 1815, the last epic campaign of Napoleon.
- BULL RUN 1861, the first grand battle of the American Civil War.
- MISSOURI 1861, depicting the fight to get control of this decisive western state.
- NORMANDIE 1944, the most famous landing operation on the beaches of France.
- BULGE 1944, the last German WW2 offensive in the west.
- SIX DAYS 1967, the six days war between Israel and its Arab neighbours.
- and BERLIN 1945, the fall of the Nazis against the Soviets.
The Season 1 pack, is a DLC-only bundle with 10 of the first year (2017) releases of the WAW collections (extra to those of the base pack). A new Season pack will be created at the end of each year with that year's releases.
Note that if you already own on Steam some of the scenarios in the Season 1 bundle pack, they will not be charged when you purchase the season pack.
See more here : https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/7843/Wars_Across_The_World_Season_1_Scenario_Pack/
Players are given free access to the Game Editor. Just download it from here: https://waw-games.com/en/team-community
The Game Editor will allow you to customize your scenarios, as well as design new ones
This version is in solo mode and hot seat as well as in PBEM (Play-by-Email).
DLC & expansions
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Base game + 24 of 24 DLC at today's best prices.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate Wars Across The World as a faithful recreation of classic tabletop wargaming with accessible gameplay and clever use of historically-themed cards to differentiate scenarios. However, several players report significant bugs and glitches that undermine enjoyment, particularly with card mechanics not triggering properly and unclear information about unit stacks, which frustrate what would otherwise be an engaging strategic experience.
Very fun for a short game. I bought Bulgaria 1913 and had a lot of fun. Recommended for price - quaility - expirience2 found this helpful
C'est vaillment un jour amusant - mais je ne peux pas parle la francaise, merde . . .2 found this helpful
Wonderful and easy to play game2 found this helpful
Wars Across The World is a deeply traditional, methodical strategy title that deliberately embraces the logic and pacing of classic tabletop wargames rather than the spectacle of modern real-time strategy. Developed by Strategiae and published by Plug In Digital alongside Avalon Digital, it presents itself as a grand historical sandbox where conflicts from vastly different eras are modeled using a single, consistent rule set. From ancient wars to twentieth-century global conflicts, the game’s ambition lies not in cinematic flair but in offering a broad, intellectually demanding overview of warfare across time. The game is built around standalone scenarios rather than a continuous campaign, and this structure defines much of its appeal. Each scenario represents a specific historical conflict, complete with asymmetrical forces, political constraints, and geographically defined objectives. Players are free to jump between eras without needing to relearn the core mechanics, which creates a strong sense of continuity despite the massive historical range. Once the fundamentals of movement, combat resolution, command structure, and event cards are understood, they apply just as readily t…2 found this helpful
Terrible game. Too many game glitches to be an enjoyable experience. While playing the Japanese I could never play the RY operation or Guadalcanal cards, even when i fulfilled the cards requirements and thus lost out on VPs. With the Americans I had an intelligence card to look at the Japanese card deck. Again the game never allowed the opportunity to play the card. The most ridiculous aspect is search planes can not inform what is in a particular TF stack, except the top counter. I found myself constantly guessing which stack had the most important targets, the carriers. When is it possible for land or naval commanders able to effect the moral of attacking aircraft. If that's the case where are the squadron commanders to effect attacking aircraft moral. Finally, the most frustrating aspect is when I placed CAP over a carrier TF the aircraft would not land at the appropriate time. Thus when my naval move phase occurred I could not access the carrier TF to move. Many times I lost out attacking lucrative targets because i was out of range. I would not recommend purchasing this game.2 found this helpful
These are like classic wargames. Specifically, they remind me of SPI's old Strategy & Tactics magazine...which gave you a new game to try every month. The use of cards to bring each individual subject's unique history to the fore is brilliant. Overall...these are quite the find. Good job.1 found this helpful
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