This Windows batch ranges from familiar tactical campaigns to political simulations, Flash wargaming, and several decidedly uneasy experiments.

Act of War: Direct Action

Act of War: Direct Action puts Task Force TALON in a near-future energy crisis, following a trail from Texas oil fields to San Francisco and beyond. Its single-currency economy draws money from oil derricks, prisoners, and bank raids, while infantry can occupy buildings before artillery turns the cover into rubble.

Hooligans

Hooligans turns football-fan violence into a mission-based RTS built around rival crews, police pressure, and wrecked stadium property. The source describes roles including Blockers, Brawlers, and Saboteurs; how would you compare that unit setup with a conventional squad-based strategy game?

Jagged Alliance 2

Jagged Alliance 2 sends hired mercenaries into Arulco to overthrow Queen Deidranna and reclaim towns, mines, and supply lines. Its campaign shifts between a laptop management screen and isometric firefights, with militia training, mercenary personalities, and action-point positioning all in play.

Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business follows the Arulco campaign with Ricci Mining threatening the country from a missile base in Tracona. The smaller 20-sector operation drops militia training, emphasizes the hired squad, and allows characters to be imported from Jagged Alliance 2.

Kampf dem Terror

Kampf dem Terror is a Flash-based turn-based wargame with infantry, armor, artillery, aircraft, and naval units on terrain-sensitive maps. Cities and fortifications provide funds when infantry capture them, and attacks do not trigger automatic counterattacks; would that rule make you play more cautiously than in Advance Wars-style battles?

Super Columbine Massacre RPG!

Super Columbine Massacre RPG! uses 16-bit RPG conventions to depict the Columbine school shooting and then shifts into a fictional hell sequence. The source describes direct quotations from the perpetrators’ writings and real photographs in cutscenes, making this an especially disturbing and controversial piece of game history.

Tom Clancy’s Politika

Tom Clancy’s Politika imagines a post-Yeltsin Russian power struggle among eight factions, including the KGB, Church, Mafia, Military, and Separatists. Influence, alliances, covert actions, and control of regions drive the contest, with pauses available to adjust plans on the political map.

Wall $treet Trader 2000

Wall $treet Trader 2000 frames its trading campaign around a collapsing global economy and a mentor named Sir Fleming. Buying and selling shares expands into margin trading, short selling, commodities, corporate raids, and hostile takeovers; which of those systems would you expect to dominate a 2000-era market game?

Which of these Windows strategy games would you revisit first: the long-form liberation of Arulco, the compact Tracona mission, or one of the stranger political and economic simulations?