What’s new in Hellwig's Wargame v2.0.0
Hellwig's Wargame 2.0.0 — 2026-10-02
Portable Operations update.
- Added portable save export to a standalone JSON file.
- Added portable save import for moving an action between browsers or machines.
- Portable saves include the battle state, player side, AI calibre, observer state, display preferences, and After-Action Review history.
- Added compact scenario codes for quickly sharing or replaying a battlefield seed and basic setup.
- Added one-click Copy Scenario Code and Load Scenario Code commands.
- Added S as a keyboard shortcut for exporting the current action.
- Import validation rejects unrelated or malformed JSON files instead of attempting to load them.
- Existing local autosave, seeded scenarios, AAR, Combat Staff, overlays, Order of Battle, AI, and combat rules remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.9.0 — 2026-10-01
After-Action Review update.
- Added an After-Action Review panel with a live turn-by-turn field-score chart.
- The review records Blue and Red field scores, losses, and villages held at each recorded turn.
- Added current margin, score swing, and recorded-turn summaries.
- Added Copy AAR for exporting the score timeline as plain text.
- Added Reset Chart for starting a fresh review timeline without changing the battle.
- Review data is stored inside the existing save and restored when an action is resumed.
- Added J as a keyboard shortcut to jump to the After-Action Review panel.
- Existing Combat Staff, overlays, Order of Battle, scenario replay, AI, combat rules, and save compatibility remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.8.0 — 2026-10-01
Combat Staff update.
- Added a Combat Staff browser that lists attacks currently available to ready pieces.
- Close attacks display the calculated attack-versus-defence result before commitment; bombardments display range.
- Engagements are sorted so the most favorable close attacks are easiest to inspect.
- Click an engagement to select its attacking piece and center the map on the target.
- Added Army and Selected-piece modes for narrowing the engagement list.
- Added full keyboard support for engagement rows and A as a shortcut to the attack browser.
- No combat rules or resolution formulas were changed; this update surfaces information the game already calculates.
- Existing overlays, Order of Battle, tactical analysis, scenario replay, AI, saves, and historical rules remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.7.0 — 2026-10-01
Battlefield Overlay update.
- Added an optional enemy threat overlay to visualize hexes that can be threatened by enemy movement, melee, or artillery.
- Added an optional village-objective overlay for faster reading of the battlefield’s scoring locations.
- Added T and O keyboard shortcuts for threat and objective overlays.
- Added a Battlefield Snapshot command that saves the current map view as a PNG named with the active scenario seed.
- Overlay preferences persist with the existing local save.
- Existing Order of Battle, tactical analysis, scenario replay, Commander’s View, AI, combat rules, and save compatibility remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.6.0 — 2026-10-01
Order of Battle update.
- Added a live Order of Battle roster for the active player's army.
- Units are grouped by arm of service and show Ready, Spent, or Lost status.
- Click a living unit in the roster to select it and center the battlefield on it.
- Added All, Ready, and Spent roster filters for faster command during crowded turns.
- Added keyboard support for roster rows.
- Added P as a shortcut for the previous unmoved piece, complementing N for the next unmoved piece.
- Existing tactical analysis, scenario replay, battle reports, casualty roster, Commander’s View, AI, and combat rules remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.5.0 — 2026-10-01
Tactical Analysis update.
- Added a Tactical Analysis panel with live counts of friendly pieces, enemy pieces, and units under pressure.
- When a unit is selected, the panel reports the nearest enemy and nearest village in hexes.
- Added Find Nearest Threat and Find Nearest Village controls.
- Added H and V keyboard shortcuts for rapid navigation to threats and objectives.
- Added rematch controls to replay the same battlefield seed or immediately generate a new battlefield.
- Existing scenario seeds, battle reports, casualty roster, Commander’s View, turn history, AI, and combat rules remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.4.0 — 2026-10-01
Scenario Replay update.
- Added explicit battlefield seeds on the opening sheet.
- A seed now reproduces the same terrain layout and initial deployment for rematches and testing.
- Added a Randomize button for quickly generating a new battlefield seed.
- Added the active seed to the in-game intelligence sidebar with one-click copying.
- Added a live casualty roster showing destroyed pieces for both armies.
- Added a Copy Report command that creates a compact battle report with seed, turn, losses, villages, score, result, and recent action.
- Existing AI, combat rules, saved games, Commander’s View, and Field Command tools remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.3.0 — 2026-10-01
Field Command update.
- Added a local Turn History panel that mirrors recent action notes for easier review.
- Added Copy Log and Clear View controls for the local turn history.
- Added a Quick Reference panel for the most useful keyboard commands.
- Improved keyboard accessibility and visible focus states.
- The battlefield overview can now receive keyboard focus and center the selected unit with Enter or Space.
- Added reduced-motion handling for users who prefer less animation.
- Enhanced the selected-piece forecast with its current map coordinates and terrain.
- Existing rules, AI, saves, and v1.2.0 Commander’s View remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.2.0 — 2026-10-01
Commander's View update.
- Added a live battlefield overview with unit positions and a camera window.
- Click the overview to recenter the main battlefield.
- Added selected-piece movement and attack forecasting.
- Added Center Selected and Full Screen controls.
- Added toggles for movement shading, hex grid, terrain names, and terrain-square seams.
- Added Instant, Quick, Normal, and Deliberate action tempo settings.
- Display and tempo preferences persist locally.
- Added C, F, L, and G keyboard shortcuts.
- Gameplay rules, combat resolution, saved games, and AI difficulty remain compatible with v1.1.0.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.1.0 — 2026-10-01
Field-command interface enhancement.
- Added a left-side Field Intelligence panel with mission objectives, active army, initiative, losses, villages held, and field points.
- Added a daylight meter showing progress toward the 24-turn nightfall limit.
- Added quick-command controls for next piece, fit map, rules, and stand fast.
- Added an autosave status indicator and a Menu button that safely pauses the action and returns to the opening sheet.
- Integrated the new illustrated cover art into a redesigned opening sheet.
- Added the package version beside the game title and improved responsive behavior for narrower screens.
- Gameplay rules, combat calculations, AI, saved-position format, and victory conditions remain unchanged.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.0.1 — 2026-10-01
Cover artwork update.
- Replaced the original cover page with new historical illustrated artwork.
- Preserved the existing gameplay, rules, saves, and package structure.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.0.0 — 2026-07-31
First release.
- A war game in the manner of Hellwig's of 1780, on a 24 by 18 hex field
at 150 metres to the hex.
- The board is laid from 9 terrain squares drawn at random from a set of 16,
each of which may be laid either way round, so the country is new every
action.
- 14 pieces a side across 8 arms of service, each moving and fighting
after its own fashion.
- 8 orders a turn, spent alternately by the two armies, with the initiative
changing hands each turn.
- No dice: every attack is settled by calculation and the working is printed
in a ledger beside the board. Hovering an enemy prints the sum before you
commit to the attack.
- Three ways to win: storm the enemy fortress, break his army by taking 5
pieces, or hold the better of the field at nightfall.
- Three calibres of opponent, and an observer mode in which two machines play.
- The action is saved after every order and can be resumed.
Portable Operations update.
- Added portable save export to a standalone JSON file.
- Added portable save import for moving an action between browsers or machines.
- Portable saves include the battle state, player side, AI calibre, observer state, display preferences, and After-Action Review history.
- Added compact scenario codes for quickly sharing or replaying a battlefield seed and basic setup.
- Added one-click Copy Scenario Code and Load Scenario Code commands.
- Added S as a keyboard shortcut for exporting the current action.
- Import validation rejects unrelated or malformed JSON files instead of attempting to load them.
- Existing local autosave, seeded scenarios, AAR, Combat Staff, overlays, Order of Battle, AI, and combat rules remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.9.0 — 2026-10-01
After-Action Review update.
- Added an After-Action Review panel with a live turn-by-turn field-score chart.
- The review records Blue and Red field scores, losses, and villages held at each recorded turn.
- Added current margin, score swing, and recorded-turn summaries.
- Added Copy AAR for exporting the score timeline as plain text.
- Added Reset Chart for starting a fresh review timeline without changing the battle.
- Review data is stored inside the existing save and restored when an action is resumed.
- Added J as a keyboard shortcut to jump to the After-Action Review panel.
- Existing Combat Staff, overlays, Order of Battle, scenario replay, AI, combat rules, and save compatibility remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.8.0 — 2026-10-01
Combat Staff update.
- Added a Combat Staff browser that lists attacks currently available to ready pieces.
- Close attacks display the calculated attack-versus-defence result before commitment; bombardments display range.
- Engagements are sorted so the most favorable close attacks are easiest to inspect.
- Click an engagement to select its attacking piece and center the map on the target.
- Added Army and Selected-piece modes for narrowing the engagement list.
- Added full keyboard support for engagement rows and A as a shortcut to the attack browser.
- No combat rules or resolution formulas were changed; this update surfaces information the game already calculates.
- Existing overlays, Order of Battle, tactical analysis, scenario replay, AI, saves, and historical rules remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.7.0 — 2026-10-01
Battlefield Overlay update.
- Added an optional enemy threat overlay to visualize hexes that can be threatened by enemy movement, melee, or artillery.
- Added an optional village-objective overlay for faster reading of the battlefield’s scoring locations.
- Added T and O keyboard shortcuts for threat and objective overlays.
- Added a Battlefield Snapshot command that saves the current map view as a PNG named with the active scenario seed.
- Overlay preferences persist with the existing local save.
- Existing Order of Battle, tactical analysis, scenario replay, Commander’s View, AI, combat rules, and save compatibility remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.6.0 — 2026-10-01
Order of Battle update.
- Added a live Order of Battle roster for the active player's army.
- Units are grouped by arm of service and show Ready, Spent, or Lost status.
- Click a living unit in the roster to select it and center the battlefield on it.
- Added All, Ready, and Spent roster filters for faster command during crowded turns.
- Added keyboard support for roster rows.
- Added P as a shortcut for the previous unmoved piece, complementing N for the next unmoved piece.
- Existing tactical analysis, scenario replay, battle reports, casualty roster, Commander’s View, AI, and combat rules remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.5.0 — 2026-10-01
Tactical Analysis update.
- Added a Tactical Analysis panel with live counts of friendly pieces, enemy pieces, and units under pressure.
- When a unit is selected, the panel reports the nearest enemy and nearest village in hexes.
- Added Find Nearest Threat and Find Nearest Village controls.
- Added H and V keyboard shortcuts for rapid navigation to threats and objectives.
- Added rematch controls to replay the same battlefield seed or immediately generate a new battlefield.
- Existing scenario seeds, battle reports, casualty roster, Commander’s View, turn history, AI, and combat rules remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.4.0 — 2026-10-01
Scenario Replay update.
- Added explicit battlefield seeds on the opening sheet.
- A seed now reproduces the same terrain layout and initial deployment for rematches and testing.
- Added a Randomize button for quickly generating a new battlefield seed.
- Added the active seed to the in-game intelligence sidebar with one-click copying.
- Added a live casualty roster showing destroyed pieces for both armies.
- Added a Copy Report command that creates a compact battle report with seed, turn, losses, villages, score, result, and recent action.
- Existing AI, combat rules, saved games, Commander’s View, and Field Command tools remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.3.0 — 2026-10-01
Field Command update.
- Added a local Turn History panel that mirrors recent action notes for easier review.
- Added Copy Log and Clear View controls for the local turn history.
- Added a Quick Reference panel for the most useful keyboard commands.
- Improved keyboard accessibility and visible focus states.
- The battlefield overview can now receive keyboard focus and center the selected unit with Enter or Space.
- Added reduced-motion handling for users who prefer less animation.
- Enhanced the selected-piece forecast with its current map coordinates and terrain.
- Existing rules, AI, saves, and v1.2.0 Commander’s View remain intact.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.2.0 — 2026-10-01
Commander's View update.
- Added a live battlefield overview with unit positions and a camera window.
- Click the overview to recenter the main battlefield.
- Added selected-piece movement and attack forecasting.
- Added Center Selected and Full Screen controls.
- Added toggles for movement shading, hex grid, terrain names, and terrain-square seams.
- Added Instant, Quick, Normal, and Deliberate action tempo settings.
- Display and tempo preferences persist locally.
- Added C, F, L, and G keyboard shortcuts.
- Gameplay rules, combat resolution, saved games, and AI difficulty remain compatible with v1.1.0.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.1.0 — 2026-10-01
Field-command interface enhancement.
- Added a left-side Field Intelligence panel with mission objectives, active army, initiative, losses, villages held, and field points.
- Added a daylight meter showing progress toward the 24-turn nightfall limit.
- Added quick-command controls for next piece, fit map, rules, and stand fast.
- Added an autosave status indicator and a Menu button that safely pauses the action and returns to the opening sheet.
- Integrated the new illustrated cover art into a redesigned opening sheet.
- Added the package version beside the game title and improved responsive behavior for narrower screens.
- Gameplay rules, combat calculations, AI, saved-position format, and victory conditions remain unchanged.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.0.1 — 2026-10-01
Cover artwork update.
- Replaced the original cover page with new historical illustrated artwork.
- Preserved the existing gameplay, rules, saves, and package structure.
Hellwig's Wargame 1.0.0 — 2026-07-31
First release.
- A war game in the manner of Hellwig's of 1780, on a 24 by 18 hex field
at 150 metres to the hex.
- The board is laid from 9 terrain squares drawn at random from a set of 16,
each of which may be laid either way round, so the country is new every
action.
- 14 pieces a side across 8 arms of service, each moving and fighting
after its own fashion.
- 8 orders a turn, spent alternately by the two armies, with the initiative
changing hands each turn.
- No dice: every attack is settled by calculation and the working is printed
in a ledger beside the board. Hovering an enemy prints the sum before you
commit to the attack.
- Three ways to win: storm the enemy fortress, break his army by taking 5
pieces, or hold the better of the field at nightfall.
- Three calibres of opponent, and an observer mode in which two machines play.
- The action is saved after every order and can be resumed.
- Genre
- Strategy
- Developer
- Tronsoft Games
- Engine
- Standard
- Version
- 2.0.0
