A Military Strategy Game

Here's a cool game, from www.Freewebarcade.com, one of my favorite flash game sites.  The game originated on www.Kongregate.com, another great site for free flash games.  The game I'm talking about today is called Battalion: Nemesis.  It's a fun little game, with all of the typical strategy game features: players take alternating turns, there are 'peices' with different ranges, strengths, and abilities, and each round is played on a set board.

In Battalion, you're the Red Team, and you're faced off against the Blue Team.  You command a variety of land, sea, and air units, including infantry, tanks, battlecruisers, and bombers.  The Red and Blue teams alternate turns, and on each turn, you can move every one of your pieces towards several objectives.

The most basic objective is to attack and destroy the enemy units.  You can also use your infantry to capture oil rigs, which provide an income stream, allowing you to repair damage units, or to capture 'warfactories,' where you can build new units.  Capturing properties has two advantages: you can gain resources, and at the same time, take resources away from your opponent.

The game has three levels of difficulty, and the computer opponent gets progressively smarter and more aggressive at the higher levels.  Also, there is a 'boot camp' option, which you can use to learn how the various units move and fight, before starting the full campaign.  There are 10 levels to the game, each tougher than the last, and at the end the story line (which I haven't really mentioned, because I usually just ignore games' storylines) resolves itself.  Sort of.

I give this game two thumbs up.  Try it out.