krmiller_usa wrote:
Haven't tried WBTS, bought CWII several years ago, was turned off by all the political junk in the game. Don't currently have any JTS games on my wish list, thinking about trying out WBTS for the Matrix Xmas sale price.
IMHO the Best ACW strategic game ever produced was The Civil War by Victory, a friend and I spent many an all day Black Friday session playing ti while the wives were shopping. I wish someone would produce a pc version of that game system.
Hi, Ken,
I looked this up:
"Avalon Hill released a computer version of Civil War in 1988. In a 1993 survey of pre 20th-century strategy games Computer Gaming World gave the game zero-plus stars out of five, stating that it "shows how one can take a highly playable boardgame and turn it into an unplayable computer 'product' [with] incomplete rules, incomplete graphics and incomplete programming". The magazine noted that Avalon Hill did not ship a promised update."
I actually had this version as well as the board game. It was a real shame Avalon Hill did not do the computer version properly, as it had real promise.