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Title: Strategic Command.
Estimated Retail: $15.00.
Developer: Fury Software (Hubert Cater).
Release Year: 2002.
Platform: Windows.
Gameplay: Turn-Based, Strategic.
Description: Simulates World War II at a strategic level covering Europe, Western Russia, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. Hex-based, turn-based, entertaining.
Review: Tom Chick (Gamespot).
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Title: Hearts of Iron Anthology.
Estimated Retail: $12.00.
Developer: Paradox Entertainment.
Release Year: 2005.
Platform: Windows.
Gameplay: Strategic.
Description: Part of a successful series of games by Paradox which share a similar gaming engine. Hearts of Iron Anthology is a bundle pack including the original Hearts of Iron, Hearts of Iron II, Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday and Armageddon. Its main focus is on World War II, but the expansions take it beyond into the cold war and fictional alternative histories. Grand strategic in scale it offers significant depth and complexity, not a beer & pretzels game.
Review: Aaron McKenna (Wargamer).
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Title: Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms Expansion Pack.
Estimated Retail: $14.00.
Developer: Creative Assembly.
Release Year: 2007.
Platform: Windows.
Gameplay: Strategic, Tactical, Turn-Based, Real Time.
Description: Part of the massively successful and addictive Total War franchise from SEGA and Creative Assembly. Simulates on a grand strategic scale Medieval Warfare as well as real-time/pausable battles on a tactical level. This is an expansion for MTWII and includes four additional campaigns and a multitude of new units and other features.
Review: Jason Ocampo (Gamespot).
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Title: Pacific Storm Allies.
Estimated Retail: $28.00.
Developer: Lesta Studios.
Release Year: 2008.
Platform: Windows.
Gameplay: Strategic, Tactical, Real-Time.
Description: Simulates World War II in the Pacific. Offers high-level tactical, as well as the ability to take first-person control of individuals aircraft/ships.
Review: Bill Trotter (Wargamer).
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Title: American Civil War.
Estimated Retail: $28.99
Developer: AGEOD.
Release Year: 2007.
Platform: Windows.
Gameplay: Strategical, Turn-Based.
Description: From the same designers who brought us Birth of America comes this grand strategy simulating the American Civil War.
Review: William R. Trotter (Wargamer).
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Title: Blitzkrieg 2.
Estimated Retail: $9.99.
Developer: Nival Interactive.
Release Year: 2005.
Platform: Windows.
Gameplay: Tactical, Strategic Elements, Real-Time.
Description: Fight a wide variety of World War II battles. When in campaign mode elements of a strategic nature are available.
Review: Jim Cobb (Wargamer).
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Title: Birth of America.
Estimated Retail: $9.99
Developer: AGEOD.
Release Year: 2005.
Platform: Windows.
Gameplay: Turn-based Strategic Level.
Description: Simulate the French & Indian War as well as the American Revolution on this massive strategic map.
Reviews: Leo Farrell (Wargamer.com).
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Title: Chariots of War.
Estimated Retail: $9.99.
Developer: Slitherine.
Release Year: 2003.
Platform: Windows.
Gameplay: Strategic and Tactical, Turn-Based.
Description: A strategical and tactical simulation of the Middle East. Allows one to take control of nearly sixty different nations and lead them to glory. Covers a wide swathe of history beginning around 2,000 B.C.
Reviews: Christopher Budd (Wargamer.com).
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