Battle Isle Pt1

Awesome turn based strategy game made by Blue Byte in 1991. The game-play is excellent. I'd prefer mouse to joystick though. This video is speeded up 4X As u can see I make a few mistakes but manage to win in the end. Phew

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Amiga
• retro
• games
• Battle
• Isle
• Strategy

[CPhillips92]

Loved this game.

Can't remember if I ever beat it.

Used to love using those hovercraft from 2 hexes away. Get them up to elite level...dangerous.

[HardWarUK]

I have ALL the Battle Isle games boxed, great manuals (game and weapons!)- they are ALL brilliant!!!!!

[neglesaks]

The game is 20 years old this year... *sigh*

[MacAr2r]

@HardWarUK

Battle Isle series up to 3rd part i.e. Shadow of the Emperor is the real masterpiece. If you still enjoy playing it then perhaps we could have a play-by-mail duel in BI3, yhm? :o)

[lurkerrekrul]

Well, the first game of this type that I played was Military Madness (AKA Nectaris) on the Turbografx-16, so I got used to each side moving and then attacking. It made more sense to me. With Battle Isle, you were often making plans for units that would never get to carry them out because they'd be destroyed during the switch between rounds.

[KaitainCPS]

I actually loved this system. Wasn't immediately intuitive, but it made a lot of sense when you got used to it.

[lurkerrekrul]

The only thing I didn't like about this game was the simultaneous move/attack, attack/move method to the gameplay. I would have preferred to move, then attack, then the other side moves and attacks.

[42317]

Where's the intro???

[kasi7777]

The Amiga don't play midi-files, he plays mod-files or similar. The samples are contained in there. In this case I had run the sound speed at 100%, not 4x, so we can enjoy the sound much more.

[neglesaks]

yeah i thought so too