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Also Wargame and Board Game, like Commands & Colors: Ancients.
- $9.99 (Price checked Nov 7)
- 2016
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The closest matches to Commands & Colors: Ancients: Drive on Moscow, Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic), Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked, Ogre, and Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
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Also Board Game and Violent, like Commands & Colors: Ancients.
- $14.99 (Price checked Nov 7)
- 2018
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Same tense mood as Commands & Colors: Ancients.
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- Released: 2018
- Developer: HexWar Games
- 42% of 62 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Violent
- Platforms: Windows, macOS
Players highlight
- Ancient warfare tactics matter
- Command cards dictate unit actions
- Dice rolls determine combat outcomes
- Challenging
- Tense
- Command card driven combat
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About Commands & Colors: Ancients
The closest matches to Commands & Colors: Ancients: Drive on Moscow, Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic), Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked, Ogre, and Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Commands & Colors: Ancients is your kind of game, the closest matches are Drive on Moscow, Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic) and Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as challenging and tense, and single out its command card driven combat and dice driven outcomes. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
About Commands & Colors: Ancients: Hexwar Games has partnered with GMT Games to bring you a digital version of Commands & Colors: Ancients the board game. The game allows players to portray important engagements of ancient history. The battles focus on the historical deployment of forces and important terrain features on the scale of the game system.
Is Commands & Colors: Ancients worth buying?
Players are split
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 42% of 62 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- People who recommend it had played a median of 5 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 18 h before their negative review.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Ancient warfare tactics matter
- Command cards dictate unit actions
- Dice rolls determine combat outcomes
- Flank based battlefield division
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“Love the physical game... but this digital version has some significant flaws- like a number of the cards (such as Rally, and I Am Spartacus) simply don't work at all. The last update was in October 2018. Has the developer abandoned the…”
“Abandoned by the devs in an incomplete state - not woth a penny. If you own the boardgame, save yourself the heartbreak of playing this abysmal attempt at a digital edition. Rules are not correctly implemented, and there are several poor…”
People who play it also play: Drive on Moscow, Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic), Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
Frequently asked about Commands & Colors: Ancients
Can I run it?
What games are most similar to Commands & Colors: Ancients?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Commands & Colors: Ancients are Drive on Moscow, Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic), Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked.
Who developed Commands & Colors: Ancients?
Commands & Colors: Ancients was developed by HexWar Games.