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Confrontation announced
Posted: 16.04.2011 16:15 by JonahFalcon Comments: 13
Cyanide Studio is working on another adaptation of a miniatures wargame, after having developed Blood Bowl. This time, they're adapting the wargame Confrontation into a real-time strategy game with roleplaying elements.

Confrontation challenges players to lead a squad of elite soldiers, helping them evolve into a unit that is equal parts brain and brawn. The player must recruit, develop and equip their squadron as well as recruit powerful allies to fight by your side. The game stresses careful unit management, monitoring their powers and equipment. The game also rewards clever use of the environment.

The official Confrontation website is live, though at the moment it just has a few images.
Related games: Confrontation (PC)

Comments

By djole381 (SI Elite) on Apr 16, 2011
djole381
Hmmm, looks nice...
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Apr 16, 2011
SirRoderick
Interesting, must keep a feeler on this one.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Apr 16, 2011
herodotus
I liked the idea of "Blood Bowl", but not being a Grid Iron fan (Rugby alll the way, and a bit of League) it left me cold. The dice roll was also an issue for some. I look forward to what they do with this, as I quirte enjoyed the boardgame in the day.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Apr 16, 2011
SirRoderick
I loved Blood Bowl, still play from time to time. The dice rolls...well it's a dice-based boardgame! What on earth did you expect?
By PowerJack (SI Elite) on Apr 16, 2011
PowerJack
This one seems nice.
By Knave (SI Core) on Apr 16, 2011
Knave
I find this release interesting because the miniature manufacturer that releases the figures for Confrontation went into solvency at the start of the year, this game and the AT-43 future equivalent are no longer sold in mini format.

Suppose it will be a way for fans of the game to continue their hobby.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Apr 17, 2011
herodotus
@SirRoderick
It wasn't the fact it was a dice-based game (have no problem with that - Love 'em), but some found the results of the rolls were often a bit gltchy. I never experienced it, but there a quite a few posts by those who did.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Apr 17, 2011
SirRoderick
It's called "perceptual bias" I'm afraid. those rolls were perfectly random. I even went through the trouble of logging all the rolls by both players over 10 games. The dispersion pattern was exactly what you'd expect for a random pattern.

Some people just seem to think that "random" means "always succes when I need it".
By festalx (SI Member) on Apr 17, 2011
festalx
:D
By Zvezdalina (SI Veteran Member) on Apr 17, 2011
Zvezdalina
Yeah, it sure looks nice. :-)
By FoolWolf (SI Elite) on Apr 17, 2011
FoolWolf
I think transforming old proven board games into computer games is a great idea. Not only does the board games that survive the really tough competition have thousands of hours play testing - and that is concept alone - they get to appeal to the ones that love the games or can't find time or enough friends to play with in certain circumstances as well.
By Knave (SI Core) on Apr 18, 2011
Knave
Yeah, I bet a lot of fans of the wargame will be happy with the announcement. It always sucks when a product line you're buying into goes under. This way they'll be able to find some friends online and have a game together maybe!
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Apr 18, 2011
herodotus
I'd like to see "RISK" done properly (the two released just didn't play well at all for me), and in 3D.
John Tiller did a great job with his "Battleground" PC game series for WWII, the Civil War and Napoleonic boardgames. Alas these games are very expensive now as they are distributed soley through Matrix Games (very expensive). Try and pick up the bundles at Christmas (only time they discount), you won't be disappointed.