Web based classic strategy game

Inspired from classic table top strategy games, an idea of a computer supported variant was formed.

A number of high level ideas for this game

Imitate the experience from old school turn based table top strategy games
Keep the simple hexagonal maps with units that are moved around and rule based
Don't use the nowadays common card based mechanics for the game
Avoid the complexity with huge rule books of old games which made them very slow to play
Try to define simple rules while not sacrificing game complexity

After some thought this idea is most reasonably built by going to a computer based game

Some more concrete ideas on how to build this

Each player control their turn from their own laptop or tablet
Possibly a common board can be used to show the current status/dashboard of the game
- This could either be physical/printed and manually updated or possibly a common computer/tablet
Game map is hexagonal based with fixed size
- Each player may pan, zoom over the map
Game rules are completely controlled by a common game server
Player turn movement/actions may be done in parallel
- Only valid actions are possible from each player
Game turn update is controlled by computer after all user movement/actions are complete
- It is possible to zoom in on different battles for detailed updates on progress during update
  - This could be shown on common or all tablets
Game end criteria is controlled by computer
- Checked after each turn
Outside event could be used to make game more dynamic
- E.g. weather affecting conditions
- Updated after each turn
Different game mechanics that can be supported
- Different advantage in battles can be supported as e.g.
  - Advantage in number of troops
  - Advantage from terrain (e.g. attack from high ground)
    - Movement may also be affected by terrain
  - Advantage from fortification
  - Advantage from number of attack flanks and flanking maneuver
  - Advantage from troop fatigue
  - Advantage from effective combination of troop kinds (e.g. archer, spear, infantry and cavalry)
  - Advantage from speed an surprise ???
- Troop visibility may be dynamic and require scouting
- Troop supplies may be dynamic
  - Supply chains from fortification sites could be used
    - A working supply chain can be shown on the map
  - Supply chains could be cut off by enemies which requires them to rebuild
  - Alternatively supply could be supported as units that has to be moved to different troops
- New troops may be created based on strategic situation
  - Important to make sure advantage is not magnified too much (compare with e.g. monopoly and RISK) to make the game uninteresting

On the technical side

Web based UI to make it platform independent
Map hexagonal based which support pan and zoom
All possible player actions are restricted by UI
All graphical items on map is SVG based to support nice scaling
Maps, unit types, game variants supplied as JSON
- This may also support different themes, unit types by different SVG icon sets
Database (like SQLite) to support runtime game data

A very promising similar concept is in development apparently KingdomHex.