Editing All Quiet on the Martian Front (section)

==Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds RTS==

A special mention of relevance goes to the game in the title as it is the closest thing the tabletop has to a video game version, which is quite surprising in and on itself given the fairly niche setting.

The game came out in 1998 but has a relatively sophisticated gameplay split between a risk-style map and individual sectors where the rts battles and base-building takes place. There are no turns but instead you pause or accelerate the flow of time. A somewhat unique feature is that you can enter a sector where you have units and/or buildings at any time and plan base construction or even unit placement which will stick. The map is restricted to the British Isles (plus Isle of Man for some reason) with around 30 sectors.

There are two factions - British and the Martians, both of which have unit rosters (vehicles only) that slightly exceed the tabletop in number and variety and that's before we get to the buildings and defense emplacements. There is also a sophisticated (for the time) tech tree and upgrades like stronger armor or more powerful heat rays that boost units across the board. Resources are also a bit unique since you can never technically run out of them, your unit production in a given sector just slows down to months instead of days or weeks and you can boost a sector's resources with economy buildings to a degree. Construction is also done by dedicated builder units that need to be brought on-site and given orders what to build but the construction proceeds automatically.

Ps. RIGHT-CLICK AND HOLD on units and sectors, this is how you get ''drop down'' menus for building or entering sectors and other useful things, you are welcome.

The game also has the neat faction balance where the Humans are numerically superior and start with more sectors, but rely on huge numbers since even at max upgrade their tech plays second-fiddle to the Martians, nevertheless they can quickly snowball and crush the Martians.
This ironically makes the Martians a more challenging faction to play since they are elitist-specialists who's smaller unit size need to be managed carefully in order to not be overwhelmed.

The game is a bit of an abandonware so you may need to scour online markets like ebay or amazon or find your local freebooterz and see if they can help.