HexWar's digital Command & Colors: Ancients adaptation finally resurfaces By Joe Robinson

You may remember way back in January 2017 we spoke about how HexWar were planning on doing more digital adaptations of GMT’s Command & Colors series, namely Command & Colors: Ancients & Command & Colors: Napoleonics.

At the time, they’d just released Command & Colors: The Great War, a fairly decent adaptation of the physical game. Despite being a very middle-of-the-road wargames developer, some of HexWar's best work seems to stem from their adaptation of physical games.

It’s been well over a year since that announcement, and we’ve only just now received word of one of the two games which were due out last year – Command & Colours: Ancients. I say “word” – an official store page is now live on HexWar’s site, and they posted a small news item on July 4th.

According to the original announcement (we’ve lost the link, but it’d have been GMT Game’s January 2017 update), Ancients was due out Summer last year, with Napoleonics dropping at the end of 2017. DLC for the two titles would then release through-out 2018 although considering we're now in July 2018, that timetable clearly left the building long ago.

Current release window for Ancients is “coming soon” which is not amazingly helpful but at least it’s something. The announced feature set includes:

15 Scenarios from important engagements 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

At the moment, your best bet on news regarding the digital games is probably GMT themselves – their June update talks about HexWar’s Ancients project, as well as another mystery announcement on the horizon.