🕶️ Its user interface showing an example of a strategy game (The Battle of Gettysburg (2nd Edition)) based on a map (that of the United States, in July 1863, during the American Civil War, with the victory of the Unionists over the Confederates) with its map in the centre of the screen with its different units in 4 colours (blue, grey, brown, green) representing the forces present, and its command buttons at the top of the screen - as if the whole thing were on a real gaming table. 📚️ VASSAL Engine is a libre, multi-platform, virtual table and game engine, for strategy games (including card games). It has a library of thousands of high-quality games (called "modules", free or commercial). It allows designing of games, the multiplayer game (exclusively) in real time (in hotseat / online) or by email and the passage from one to another, the drag & drop, the limitation of informations (hiding of pieces, of maps, ...), automated reports, ...

🕶️ A view of its UI showing a futuristic city with buildings, roads, covered walkways connecting the buildings and huge, dark, sad buildings in some places. At the bottom center, the game's control interface, with several tabs. 📚️ X-COM: Apocalypse is a turn-based strategy game (3rd opus, released in 1997) with real-time combat options, 3rd part of the X-COM series. It takes place in 2084, 40 years after the 2nd, in MegaPrimus, a megalopolis built on the ruins of Toronto. Dimensional portals appearing above MegaPrimus are the access point of a new alien race... OpenApoc is a libre and multi-platform compatible and improved engine (support of modern hardware, modding, removal of limitations, ...).

🕶️ Its user interface showing an example of a strategy game (The Battle of Gettysburg (2nd Edition)) based on a map (that of the United States, in July 1863, during the American Civil War, with the victory of the Unionists over the Confederates) with its map in the centre of the screen with its different units in 4 colours (blue, grey, brown, green) representing the forces present, and its command buttons at the top of the screen - as if the whole thing were on a real gaming table. 📚️ VASSAL Engine is a libre, multi-platform, virtual table and game engine, for strategy games (including card games). It has a library of thousands of high-quality games (called "modules", free or commercial). It allows designing of games, the multiplayer game (exclusively) in real time (in hotseat / online) or by email and the passage from one to another, the drag & drop, the limitation of informations (hiding of pieces, of maps, ...), automated reports, ...

🕶️ Its UI with a strategy game. The central part is occupied by a map divided into hexagons with pixelart units. The period is medieval, several Mongol units & a trebuchet surround a castle in the center. The units have an icon for easy understanding (mongol, sword, trebuchet, ..), slightly transparent when not selected. The Mongol on horseback on the right of the castle is selected. The castle (named Elephantine) seems to be under siege. On the left of the UI several command buttons (Sleep, Pillage Pasture, Explore, Wait, ..), below the characteristics of the selected unit (Keshik, 2 stars, XP 5/20, ..), in the lower middle a box with what seems to be a report on the selected unit (Keshik vs Elephantine). To the right of the UI, a message area ("The resistance in Sydney has ended!", ..), lower right a mini map. At the top of the interface a hamburger menu, and near it the title "Mongolia". At the top middle several indicators, the period (1520 AD) and on the right an "Overview" button. 📚️ UnCiv is a libre, multi-platform, single-player / multi-player (by exchange of "User ID"), turn-based strategy game (4X) & Empire building, inspired by Civilization V: the game starts in 4000 BC Christ, the player directs a nation or an ethnic group, with the aim of supremacy over the other protagonists, leading his group until 2050 AD. It's a neat game that offers in-game help to get started, solo/multiplayer, map editor and game save / load. Very good!

🕶️ A view of its UI, with a top-left banner featuring the main menus, a wider banner on the right with the minimap at the top, the "Next Turn" button at the bottom, and on the main section the map in aerial view with a fog of war (at the start of the game it was almost entirely black). A character can be seen in wooded countryside with deer. 📚️ Master of Magic - IME is a libre and multi-platform, standalone (does not require the original data), solo (vs AI) / multiplayer (client/server) Java implementation, of Master of Magic (1994, by the Simtex studio), a game mixing 4X turn-based strategy and RPG, on a fantasy theme, in which the player plays a wizard in a war against other wizards. To win, he must destroy his competitors or banish them with a powerful spell that is difficult to implement (the Spell of Mastery). He is compared to Civilization in a fantasy atmosphere, with a more complex combat system and a universe with two planes of existence (Arcanus and Myrror).

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