This is a long shot, but does anyone know of a free game like this?
Most to least important:
(When I say units I mean individual soldiers/ships/tanks etc.)
-Strategy should be the most important feature, followed by tactics.
-The potential for advanced strategies and tactics must be present. I’m not talking just pincer movement, I mean splitting into squads, setting up decoys, transfering individual soldiers between platoons, and (if each soldier/squad has seperate evolving AI, which would be AMAZING, or even just a randomly selected skill level scale) the ability to figure out who the best soldiers are and form elite groups, or promote them to commanders etc.
-AI
-Many units.
-Squads/Platoons/Brigade/Army
-No base building, or if there is then it should be seperate. The battles should have armies facing off against each other with, at most, a few reinforcements.
-Very basic graphics (I’m talking dots on a black screen basic. Obviously better graphics are OK, but more basic makes the potential individual units in a single battle much greater.)
-The ability to command the army at various levels {full army-one bridage-one platoon-one squad} (so you can either swap between levels of the army as you wish throughout the game or choose a level at the start of each battle/war/skirmish to command, while all other levels are operated by AI.)
-Different types of units (even just 3-4, as long as it isn’t a clear paper-scissors-rock situation. Every type of unit should be effective against every other type of unit if used well.)
-Simulation instead of a game with a plot and end-point. I want it to be more similar to a game of chess than most RTS games these days are.
Open source downloads are what I would prefer, but anything from a cheap purchase on steam, through online flash games, to a small scale project you know someone is working on would be great.
Also, obviously a game exactly as I described is incredilby unlikely, so anything close would be greatly appreciated.
I thought StarCraft would be mentioned 
. Awesome game, but I’m looking for something with actual AI, instead of being forced to control individual units. Also, SC is a 4X game, which I’m trying to avoid. I get the feeling though that I might have to make the game myself if I want something like it…
SPOILER ALERT FOR ENDERS GAME
However, after reading Enders Game a couple of years back, I loved the idea of the wargames he played while training, especially the one that turned out to be actually giving orders to ships on the far side of the galaxy.
//END SPOILER ALERT
And yeah, I thought a game similar to that may have been made sometime. Without the sending people to certain death, of course.
Incoming search terms:
- chess skirmish
- savage xr
