Advanced Strategic Command

🗃️ Specifications

📰 Title:	Advanced Strategic Command	🕹️ / 🛠️ Type:	Game
🗃️ Genre:	Strategy	🚦 Status:	05. Tested & Working (status)
🏷️ Category:	Strategy ➤ Wargame (on map) ➤ Sci-fi ➤ Battle Isle	🌍️ Browser version:
🔖 Tags:	Strategy; Turn-Based Strategy; Tactical; Military; War; Sci-fi; Battle Isle; Hex Grid; Flagship; Mouse	📦️ Package Name:	asc
🐣️ Approx. start:	1999-11-15	📦️ Arch package:
🐓️ Latest:	2021-03-06	📦️ RPM package:
📍️ Version:	Latest: 2.8 / Dev: b9b793e	📦️ Deb package:
🏛️ License type:	🕊️ Libre	📦️ Flatpak package:
🏛️ License:	GPL-2+	📦️ AppImage package:
🏝️ Perspective:	Third person	📦️ Snap package:
👁️ Visual:	2D Top-Down	⚙️ Generic binary:
⏱️ Pacing:	Turn-Based	📄️ Source:
👫️ Played:	Single & Multi	📱️ PDA support:
🎖️ This record:		🕳️ Not used:
🎀️ Game design:		👫️ Contrib.:	goupildb & Louis
🎰️ ID:	6888	🐛️ Created:	2010-08-20
🐜️ Updated:	2022-05-06

📖️ Summary

[en]:	A libre, SP (AI, with multiple campaigns) / MP (in hotseat or email), turn-based, strategy game, in the tradition of the Battle Isle series from Bluebyte. Units move on hexagonal hexes. The game offers a hundred or so of campaigns with maps, a soundtrack, support for windowed (with different resolutions) / full screen, game save, UNDO/REDO, image zoom, and online help.	[fr]:	Un jeu de stratégie libre, solo (IA, avec plusieurs campagnes) / multi (en hotseat ou par email) au tour par tour, dans la tradition de la série Battle Isle de Bluebyte. Les unités se déplacent sur des cases hexagonales. Le jeu offre une centaine de campagnes avec cartes, une bande son, le support du fenêtré (avec différentes résolutions) / plein écran, la sauvegarde de parties, l'UNDO/REDO, le Zoom sur image, et l'aide en ligne.

🎥️ Videos

🎲️ Gameplay: (20191115), (202008),

🕸️ Links

🏡️ Website & videos
[Homepage] [Dev site 1 2] [Features/About] [Screenshots] [Videos t(202xxx) ts(202xxx) gd(202xxx) gu(202xxx) id(202xxx) r(202xxx) lp(202xxx) g(20191115) g(202008) g[fr](202xxx) g[de](202xxx) g[ru](202xxx) g[pl](202xxx) g[cz](202xxx) g[sp](202xxx) g[pt](202xxx) g[it](202xxx) g[tr](202xxx)] [WIKI] [FAQ] [RSS] [Changelog 1 2 3]

💰 Commercial: (empty)

🍩️ Resources
• Maps: [Project:BattlePlanet [de]]

🛠️ Technical informations
[Open Hub] [PCGamingWiki] [MobyGames]

🐘 Social
Devs (ASC Team 1 2 [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2 3] [mastodon] [twitter] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2(202xxx)]
The Project: [Blog] [Forums] [mastodon] [twitter] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [reddit] [Discord]

🐝️ Related
[Wikipedia (Battle Isle) [fr] [en] [de]]
[Wiki ubuntu-fr [fr]] [The Linux Game Tome] [Debian/Ubuntu] [Snap] [Flatpak]

📦️ Misc. repositories
[Repology] [pkgs.org] [Arch Linux / AUR] [openSUSE] [Debian/Ubuntu] [Flatpak] [AppImage] [Snap] [PortableLinuxGames]

🕵️ Reviews
[HowLongToBeat] [metacritic] [OpenCritic] [iGDB]

📰 News / Source of this Entry (SotE) / News (SotN)
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📕 Description [en]

📕🐧"A libre, turn-based, strategy game, in the tradition of the Battle Isle series from Bluebyte"🐧📕.

Advanced Strategic Command is a free, turn based strategy game. It is designed in the tradition of the Battle Isle series from Bluebyte and is currently available for Windows and Linux.

ASC can be played

• as single player game against the computer, offering several campaigns
• sequential multiplayer, either hot-seat of play-by-email
• in the multi-player universe Project Battle Planets (a German language community)

🍥️ Debian:

Turn-based strategy game

Advanced Strategic Command is a free strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle 2/3. The game is turn-based and can be played against human or computer.

🌍️ Wikipedia: (Battle Isle)

Battle Isle is a series of turn-based tactics video games developed in the 1990s by Blue Byte and released for Amiga and MS-DOS platforms and later for Windows. The settings are wars on a fictional planet, Chromos.

Storyline

The Battle Isle storyline is set on a fictional planet called Chromos, whose society is technologically slightly more advanced than that of contemporary Earth, possessing the knowledge of advanced robotics (robots), computers (AIs) and limited spaceflight (enough to set up space colonies on the moon of Chromos). The individual games represent various wars that took place on Chromos.

Gameplay

The first three games are played on a hexagonal grid for a map. Players not only control the combat units (ranging from infantry and tanks to helicopters, fighters and bombers, armored trains, surface warships and submarines, stationary gun turrets), but (especially in the later games) also many support logistics units (ammo and fuel transports, scout and radar units, road and construction vehicles, and others). Units have various weapons and can gain experience (which in later games can be transferred over in a campaign). Fuel and ammo is limited, and logistics require careful attention. Players also control buildings, where units can be repaired, and sometimes, produced. Weather conditions change, affecting unit movements (for example, a sea or river can freeze, immobilizing ships but allowing light units to move through it). Fog of war is prevalent and players have to use scouting units to gain information about the battlefield. Some of those options were added in expansions or sequels.

Players have various tasks, ranging from eliminating all opponent forces to capturing specific buildings or protecting certain units or places. In some missions events from outside the battlefield can suddenly change the situation, giving players new objectives, reinforcements, allies or enemies. In some battles there are more than two sides, each with their own objectives, not all of them directly involved in hostilities - some of them can be even allied. At the same time, those allegiances can change because of some events or actions.

Battle Isle one had the screen divided into two parts, one for each player. The turns were also divided into move and attack phases. While one player moved his units, the other commanded his own troops to carry out his actions. Battle Isle 2 gave the player the entire screen, and merged move and attack phases, and introduced the 3-D display of combat. Battle Isle 3 was very similar to Battle Isle 2, with improved graphics, more units and a new storyline. Battle Isle: The Andosian War was entirely set in the 3-D environment and combined elements of real-time and turn-based strategies.

The AI is relatively weak, relying on mass frontal assaults. After a player survives the first few turns and the AI's overwhelming numbers using protected artillery and terrain advantage, the computer is usually unable to mount a proper defense.

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📕 Description [fr]

Un jeu de stratégie au tour par tour, dans la tradition de la série Battle Isle, par l'ASC Team.
En C++/C.

Advanced Strategic Command (ASC) est un jeu de stratégie libre, solo (IA, avec plusieurs campagnes) / multi (en hotseat ou par email) au tour par tour, dans la tradition de la série Battle Isle de Bluebyte. Les unités se déplacent sur des cases hexagonales. Le jeu offre une centaine de campagnes avec cartes, une bande son, le support du fenêtré (avec différentes résolutions) / plein écran, la sauvegarde de parties, l'UNDO/REDO, le Zoom sur image, et l'aide en ligne.

💡 Nota: le jeu 'Project: Battle Planets' (voir la section "Resources" ci-dessus) est un MMOTBS (Massive Multiplayer Online Turn Based Strategy game) compatible avec Battle Isle et Advanced Strategic Command.

Voir aussi / See also: Advanced Strategic Command, Crimson Fields,

Advanced Strategic Command est un jeu de stratégie libre, au tour par tour. Il est conçu dans la tradition de la série Battle Isle de Bluebyte et est actuellement disponible pour Windows et Linux.

ASC peut être joué

• comme jeu solo contre l'ordinateur, proposant plusieurs campagnes
• multi-joueurs séquentiels, soit en mode "hot-seat" soit en mode "play-by-email
• dans l'univers multi-joueurs Project Battle Planets (une communauté de langue allemande)

🍥️ Debian:

Jeu de stratégie en tour par tour

Advanced Strategic Command (Commande Stratégique Avancée) est un jeu de stratégie libre dans la tradition de Battle Isle 2/3. Le jeu est en tour par tour et peut se jouer contre l'ordinateur ou un autre joueur humain.

🌍️ Wikipedia: (Battle Isle)

Battle Isle est une série de jeux vidéo de stratégie au tour par tour dont le premier épisode a été développé en 1991 par Blue Byte Software. Le jeu rencontre un certain succès et bénéficie de deux extensions et de trois suites qui sont publiées sur PC (MS-DOS puis Windows) jusqu'en 2000. Un épisode dérivé, Historyline 1914-1918 (1993), se déroulant dans le contexte de la Première Guerre mondiale, est également sorti sur Amiga et PC.

La série a été rééditée par Ubisoft suite au rachat de Blue Byte Software.
Série

• Battle Isle (1991)
⚬ Battle Isle Data Disk I (1992)
⚬ Battle Isle Data Disk II (1993), également connu sous le nom Battle Isle ’93 et Battle Isle: The Moon of Chromos
• Battle Isle 2 (1994), Battle Isle 2200 en Amérique du Nord
⚬ Battle Isle 2 Data Disk I (1994), également connu sous le nom de Battle Isle 2: Titan's Legacy et Battle Isle 2 Scenery CD
• Battle Isle 3: Shadow of the Emperor (1995), Battle Isle 2220: Shadow of the Emperor en Amérique du Nord
• Incubation: Time Is Running Out (1997), Incubation: Battle Isle Phase Vier en Allemagne, Incubation: Battle Isle Phase Four au Royaume-Uni, également connu sous le nom de Battle Isle 4: Incubation, Battle Isle: Incubation ou simplement Incubation
⚬ Incubation: The Wilderness Missions (1998)
• Battle Isle: The Andosia War (2000), Battle Isle: Der Andosia-Konflikt en Allemagne, également connu sous le nom de Battle Isle 4: The Andosia War ou simplement The Andosia War

🚧️ Installation [fr]

🔧️ INSTALLATION:

(✔ v. 2.6.1.0 Debian) ⚙️ Installation à partir du binaire du jeu :

Le jeu est en dépôt, il suffit d'installer le paquet.

📄️ Installation à partir du source du jeu :

Source non testé.

🚀️ LANCEMENT DU JEU:

• Si vous avez installé le jeu à partir d'un paquet : Alt F2 puis saisissez :
- pour un démarrage en plein écran : asc
- pour un démarrage fenêtré en 1280x1024 : asc -w -x 1280 -y 1024

Autres commandes :
pour l'aide sur les paramétrages, en console : $ asc --help

💡 Nota:
Il s'agit d'un jeu au tour par tour ; on sélectionne l'unité souhaitée d'un premier clic gauche, puis son déplacement par un second clic gauche (ou maintien du clic gauche, ce qui fait apparaître un menu, pour choisir de poser une mine par exemple). Lorsque l'on a choisi toutes les actions, il faut cliquer sur l'icône vert en forme d'ellipse avec une petite flèche sur son pourtour pour faire avancer le tour et que l'adversaire (humain ou IA) puisse à son tour sélectionner ses actions.