I'm hoping that Vic takes his game concept forward after Shadow Empire.

Could it be modded into a WW II game?

I want Advanced Tactics Gold to have sexual relations with Combat Mission and probably Close Combat. No contraception.

Computer games score in that they usually include an opponent, the AI. Board and miniature games score in that their designs are open to manipulation, adjustment and bending. It's a great pity we can't have both.

What's your opinion of XConq?

Is Advanced Tactics Gold the most modern, de-facto, wargame constuction kit?

I have never come across it in somebody else' game but have wondered about mechanisms by which this might be simulated. One might be to give spies, agents and intelligence officers the chance of spotting enemy units. In the case of intelligence officers that might be at sporadic and at ridiculously ...

"a drive to rework a new system to do something else entirely"

Correct

The good thing about tabletop and board games is their flexibility. The computer-AI opponent is bought at the price of reduced flexibility, hence the need to rework.

He's dead, Talorgan.

Damn

And I just gave them the excuse they needed for a whole other review.

Do we know yet whether there's a map editor in this game?