Looking for custom battle games

[Lord Tim]

Hello


A lot of games these days have custom battles/sandbox mode.
However I am yet to find a single game meeting these criteria.

- a medieval, historical or fantasy setting
- ability to field individual troops
- a detailed report of casualties, kills etc.
- preferably a number of different maps or game modes, or even custom maps

The few Total War games I've played come closest, but lack the possibility to field individual troops. I don't care that all troops in a unit must move together, but the problem is that units always have a fixed amount of men at the start.

Do you guys know of any games that do match this description?

Thanks

 

[Age of Empires ¶ Densetsu]

Mount & Blade: Warband.

 

[Ki-Ok Khan]

Mount & Blade II : Bannerlord
Tho it is not out yet.

Alternatively you could try the game that "Age of Empires II: The Densetsu" suggested.

 

[Age of Empires ¶ Densetsu]

My name is a good game.

 

[The Bowman]

Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy. You need to be aware that it does not run on Windows 10 though.

 

[Grikiard]

like this? http://store.steampowered.com/app/519080

 

[kalarhan]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/601540/Veil_of_Crows/

 

[Lord Tim]

Since when does Warband give you detailed reports on battle outcome. Scratch that, since when does Warband have decent custom battle? Last time I checked it has like 5 sucky maps, a **** system to select troops and no report other than your side killed so many, you lost so many.
As much as I liked Warband, the Fire Arrow Turn Into an Inferno mod for M&B vanilla is 1000 times better.
I will check out kalarhan's suggestion though.

 

[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]

Well that's a blast from the past. Fire Arrow was a pretty great mod back in the day.

 

[kalarhan]

Since when does Warband give you detailed reports on battle outcome. Scratch that, since when does Warband have decent custom battle? Last time I checked it has like 5 sucky maps, a **** system to select troops and no report other than your side killed so many, you lost so many

well if you have specific issues with Warband UI and lack of maps, but you like the combat action, you should look at either: released mods OR modding it yourself.

all those problems above are open for modding.

you can create your own battle report
you can create your own maps/scenes, change the AI, events, etc
you can change the UI to select troops (armies)
and so on (not one of those things are hardcoded)

But I suppose you are not looking to invest all the many hours into creating something yourself (or you would visit the Forge instead). I rarely play custom battles, so no mods come to mind with features like that.

 

[Captured Joe]

Valkyria Chronicles has (more or less) custom battles (skirmishes), individually controlled units and (more or less) detailed post-battle report.

 

[Age of Empires ¶ Densetsu]

Depends if he's ruled out turn-based combat.

 

[Captured Joe]

Well it didn't have to be real-time, right?

Also you might be interested in Expeditions: Viking. It's turn-based combat too, but AFAIK doesn't have custom battles.

 

[Age of Empires ¶ Densetsu]

That depends on turn-based combat being something he has ruled out.

 

[Captured Joe]

But is it?

 

[Age of Empires ¶ Densetsu]

If he ruled it out, yes.

 

[Captured Joe]

But did he?

 

[Age of Empires ¶ Densetsu]

We can't rule out him ruling it out.

 

[Captured Joe]

But we can't rule out him not ruling it out either.

 

[Age of Empires ¶ Densetsu]

Definitely. Still, we can't rule out ruling out him ruling it out.