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The best wargame games

Wargames, much like their tabletop counterparts, are tactical, strategy games in which the players must win battles between two warring factions by moving and attacking with single units, usually played on top-down hex maps. Wargames are often historically accurate, but they can also be based on fantasy or sci-fi settings. Some of the most popular wargames are Panzer General and the Close Combat series.
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Star General

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected Catware, Inc.
Star General is a turn-based strategy game developed by Catware and published by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.). It was released in 1996 for MS-DOS and later for Windows. The game is set in a science fiction universe where players take command of one of five different factions, each vying for control of the galaxy.In Star General, players comman...
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Mech War

DOS1992
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Gulf Strike

DOS1986 Microcomputer Games Inc.
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Panzer General 2

Windows XP/98/951997protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Steel Panthers 3: Brigade Command - 1939-1999

DOS1997protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Gary Grigsby's Pacific War

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Patton vs. Rommel

DOS1987 Electronic Arts
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Command HQ

DOSMac OS1990 Ozark Softscape
Command HQ was developed by Microplay Software. It was one of the early real-time strategy (RTS) games and focused on global warfare, allowing players to control armies, fleets, and economies in various historical and futuristic scenarios.
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1

DOS1988 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2

DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Empire Deluxe

DOSWindows 3.x1993 White Wolf Productions
Empire Deluxe is a classic turn-based strategy game that was originally released in the early 1990s. Developed by Mark Baldwin and Bob Rakowsky of White Wolf Productions and published by New World Computing, it is a successor to the game Empire, which was created by Walter Bright in the late 1970s. The game is set on a world map, where pl...
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Front Lines

DOS1994 Impressions Games
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MacArthur's War

DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Clash of Steel

DOS1993protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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5th Fleet

DOS1994
This 1994 naval strategy game for DOS is based on the board game of the same name, which means you’ll spend more time squinting at menus than blowing up ships. It’s cerebral, methodical, and incredibly satisfying - if you’re the kind of person who organizes their spice rack alphabetically. You command modern naval forces in the In...
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Austerlitz 1805

DOS1989 Cornerstone Software
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Midway Campaign

DOS1983 Microcomputer Games Inc.
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V for victory: Velikiye Luki

DOS1992protected Atomic Games
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Desert Rats

DOS1986 Cases Computer Simulations
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Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Over the Reich

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1996 Big Time Software
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V for Victory: D-day Utah Beach

DOS1991protected Atomic Games
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Empire: Wargame of the Century

DOS1987 Northwest Software
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La Grande Armee

DOS1991 SDJ Enterprises
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A Line in the Sand

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
A Line in the Sand (1992) is what happens when a board game about modern Middle Eastern warfare gets turned into a DOS strategy title with all the subtlety of a cold war memo. You command military forces in a region that is perpetually on fire, and your job is to somehow make that worse - or better, depending on your alignment and ability to read p...
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Crusade in Europe

DOS1985 MicroProse Software
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Empire II: The Art of War

DOSWindows XP/98/951995 White Wolf Productions
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Decision at Gettysburg

DOS1990 TigLon Software
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Iron Cross

DOS1994 New World Computing
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Knights of the Desert

DOS1983protected Tactical Design Group