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Contents 1 Comments 2 Suggested merge with Tactical turn-based gaming 3 More genre fun 4 Screenshot on page and genre-split 5 Turns redirect? 6 Fairness 7 Real-time hybrids

[edit] Comments

Parachese: Pachisi or Parcheesi? -phma

What? No mention of RPGs? 17:45, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggested merge with Tactical turn-based gaming

I've suggested a merge with the Tactical turn-based gaming article as that article contains many similar elements which could be useful in helping expand this article; the only difference is that that article places additional emphasis in "tactics", and appears to generally cover Japanese titles (while this article generally covers Western titles). ╫ ２５ ^{◀RingADing▶} 19:50, 27 January 2006 (UTC) ╫

This was more or less meant for the video gaming tastes, but Risk to some extent does involve elements from turned based computer strategy games, or rather those games were based on Risk. But this was meant for the RPG Battle system and possibly the computer game variation because the pieces in the game tend to get more freedom in movement and how attacks occur, which use an HP system more or less than an actual "I eat you" system like Chess or Othello does. I was in a rush to write this and I didn't expect anyone to find it this quickly. When I get more time I'll clear it up.

[[User:XenoL-Type|XenoL-Type] 14:27 30 January 2006 (UTC)

My suggestion: rename turn-based game to Turn-based strategy and rename Tactical turn-based gaming to Turn-based tactics to be consistent with Real-time strategy and Real-time tactics, respectively. Also, consider Tactics to be a sub-genre of strategy. The entire genre list is a mess anyway (See: Fighting game), and in this particular instance I think keeping the two genres separate is more beneficial than lumping them together. Nifboy 05:56, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I second the suggestion to rename the pages for consistency with the computer game pages - it is conceptually both logical and aesthetic. Mikademus 22:18, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

It is done. Double redirects have been fixed. Nifboy 03:22, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

After Nifboy's changes -which looks good imho- I submitted a suggestion of how to resolve the situation without merging by adding a section outlining Turn-based tactics and adding a link to the "main article" in typical Wikimedia style. Mikademus 07:39, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Just put it both under turn-based strategy, adding a text "also called turn-based tactics". These games are usually known under turn-based strategy, so this is where they should be found.

[edit] More genre fun

So, I just came across Tactical role-playing game, a much more fleshed out version of Turn-based tactics. Personally, I'd like to move its content to Turn-based tactics on top of the existing article, but the reason I found TRPG in the first place was the fact that most game articles either link there or to one of the "strategy" articles. Nifboy 06:32, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Screenshot on page and genre-split

The Battle for Wesnoth is a tactics game, not a strategy game, if we're to go by the new genre-split. Also, I removed a lot of changes that I had made that overlapped with the tactics page or dealt too much with TBS games in general. Compare with this revision to see what I removed. -SharkD, April 3 2006

[edit] Turns redirect?

I'm pretty surprised when the article "Turns" redirects to this article. It should be a disambig page instead. After all, people don't usually mean turn-based games whenever they say "turns". 203.117.28.221 06:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, there is a disambig page: Turn. You'd think the plural should go to the singular form, not somewhere else entirely. So, I'm headed off to fix that. --Rindis 19:20, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fairness

"However, when a particular player gains access to the game during his/her turn it is not uncommon to value the time taken by the player to make the move to improve the fairness of the game."

I have to disagree with this statement. I think that stop-clocks make a game more playable--not more fair. In fact, I think that the use of stop-clocks is an err on the side of convenience at the expense of fairness. -SharkD 18:36, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Real-time hybrids

I added a description of real-time hybrids, such as the Total War series. -SharkD 19:51, 16 October 2006 (UTC)