two turn-based strategy games

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I played Crimson Fields long enough to remind myself that I don't
enjoy turn-based strategy games at all. I can't give any review
other than to say that it runs fine under WinXP. I didn't even
download Battle For Wesnoth. Anyway, here are links and
discriptions; screenshots are available at the sites.

<http://crimson.seul.org/about.php>

Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle
Isle.

The outcome of the war lies in your hands. You decide which units
are sent to the front lines, and when to unleash the reserves.
Your mission objectives range from defending strategically vital
locations to simply destroying all enemy forces in the area.
Protect supply convoys or raid enemy facilities to uncover
technological secrets or fill your storage bays so you can repair
damaged units or build new ones in your own factories. Lead your
troops to victory!

Tools are available to create custom maps and campaigns. You
can also play the original Battle Isle maps if you have a copy
of the game.

You can pit yourself against another human player either in
hot-seat mode in front of the same machine or via e-mail, or
against the computer.

So far, Crimson Fields has been reported to work on Linux, *BSD,
MacOS X, Solaris, BeOS, and Microsoft Windows.

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<http://www.wesnoth.org/>

Battle for Wesnoth is a fantasy turn-based strategy game.
Battle for control of villages, using variety of units which
have advantages and disadvantages in different types of terrains
and against different types of attacks. Units gain experience
and advance levels, and are carried over from one scenario to
the next.

Features

* Build a Hero, and lead your army.
* Different races, with distinctive abilities, weapons and
spells.
* GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOSX, BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD and
OpenBSD compatible.

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