Who would win in a fight out of Zeus and a mammoth? Minotaurs against halflings? Snake archers against potion sellers? They’re the showdowns society yearns for but history denies… no longer! Now we have Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.
It’s not accurate, of course – no one describes anything as “totally” with a straight face. And TABS, as everyone calls it, doesn’t have a straight face. It has a googly-eyes and lollops like a drunken marionette. It is a raspberry in the face of serious army-commanding games and I love it for it.
TABS is so simple to play. You spend points to build an army, place it, then sit back and watch the fight – you don’t control anything in real-time other than the camera. What’s in your army depends on how many points you have to spend. You might spend 2230 points on a mammoth, for instance, or use the same amount to buy four flying Valkyrie – they’re a bloody nuisance. Or you might spend 4000 points on two Zeus-es, or 4200 on three scarecrow, which are better than they sound.
Source: Eurogamer Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is a ray of silly sunshine