Commands & Colors: Ancients Released on Steam for Mac and PC Today!

The Digital Version of Commands & Colors: Ancients
is available today on Steam!

Hi everyone!

Here’s a quick note to let you all know that today is “Steam Launch Day” for the long-awaited Hexwar digital version of our Commands & Colors Ancients game! More details are below. The game is available today on Steam in both Mac and PC formats. Hexwar is also doing final testing on the iOS and Android versions of the game for tablets.We will let you know as soon as those are available for purchase. Get your Steam version today at the link below:

Note that Hexwar is running a 30% off Launch Discount until September 19, so get yours soon! 

I hope this digital version of Richard Borg’s masterpiece will bring you all many hours of gaming enjoyment on your computers and tablets!

Enjoy the games!

Gene

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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.

The scale of the game is flexible and varies from battle to battle. For some scenarios, an infantry unit may represent an entire legion of soldiers, while in other scenarios, a unit may represent just a few brave warriors.

The command card system drives movement, creates “fog of war” and presents players with many interesting challenges and opportunities, while the battle dice resolve combat quickly and efficiently. The battlefield tactics you will need to execute to gain victory conform remarkably well to the strengths and limitations of the various ancient unit types, their weapons, the terrain and history.

  • 15 scenarios from important engagement of ancient history.
  • Over 50 unique combat and command cards to simulate tactical and strategic choices.
  • Make strategic choices faithful to the era with chariots, archers, foot soldiers and mounted units.
  • Play as Syracusan, Carthaginian or Roman.
  • Three levels of AI difficulty.

  • The Battle of Akragas – 406 BC
  • Crimissos River – 341 BC
  • Bagradas – 253 BC
  • Ticinus River – 218 BC
  • Trebbia – 218 BC
  • Lake Trasimenus – 217 BC
  • Cannae – 216 BC
  • Dertosa – 215 BC
  • 2nd Battle of Beneventum – 214 BC
  • Castulo – 211 BC
  • Baecula – 208 BC
  • Metaurus – 207 BC
  • Ilipa – 206 BC
  • Great Plains – 203 BC
  • Zama – 202 BC

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Hexwar Digital Game Support: email support@hexwar.com

Commands & Colors Ancients GMT Support Page
(with Boardgame Description, Rules, Reviews, Online and Online Resources)

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3 thoughts on “Commands & Colors: Ancients Released on Steam for Mac and PC Today!”

    • Yes, both iPad and Android tablet versions are in the works. But the folks at HexWar are holding onto those until they finish a patch (they say it should be ready within two weeks) for the Steam Mac/PC version. Once that’s out and running smoothly, they’ll apply those fixes to the tablet versions and move forward with those releases. At least that’s my understanding of their intentions.

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  2. Gene, can you comment at all about what GMT can do to make sure Hexwar properly supports (i.e. fixes) the current state of the game? What about multiplayer? Does GMT have any leverage at this point with Hexwar?

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