Mecho Wars

• No fog of war
• Super high quality animation
• First strike advantage
• Terrain provides defence
• Decent unit silhouettes
• High quality attack animations
• Turns take an “hour” and daylight shifts
• No water units?
• No rivers
• Heavy focus on indirect attacks
• Air units common
• Attack screen is never split screen. All attacks similar to Advance War’s indirect attacks.
• City capture rare
• Storyline
• Instant city capture

Famicom Wars

• Minor commander powers only in Super Famicom edition
• No first strike advantage
• City capture common
• Has ammo and fuel
• Units may have two attack modes

Advance Wars

• Commander powers
• First strike advantage
• Self-destructive units
• City capture common
• Units may have two attack modes
• Has ammo and fuel
• Storyline

Front Wars

• End turn has 5 second skip-able countdown
• 2 team unique art
• Attack screen is split screen
• First strike advantage
• Decent attack animations
• Terrain gives defence

Gachinko Wars

• Produce units from HQ like Famicom Wars
• First strike advantage
• Fast animations
• Poor attack animations
• Terrain provides defence
• City capture common
• City capture occurs by leaving a unit on a city
• Upgrade cities for 150% revenue
• Units can be merged
• Far moves per turn
• Cannot attack just built units
• Must surround (as games calls it: siege) factories to occupy
• Cannot win by killing all units
• Victory requires capturing all cities and factories
• No ammo or fuel

Tacikon

• Decent sprite art
• super large maps
• Cities can garrison units
• City capture common
• Instant city capture

Uniwar

• Has fog of war
• No separate attack screen, all attacks over in overworld
• Hexagon tiles
• Decent animations
• Sprites can rotate two directions, not always facing enemy
• Units can repair in field
• End turn has 5 second skip-able countdown
• No first strike advantage
• City capture rare
• Place-able mines
• 2 teams with unique art
• No ammo or fuel

Great Big War Game

• Attack screen is a 3d zoom focus into the two units
• 3d art
• Has fog of war
• Special engineer unit for city capture
• 10 vehicles + 9 infantry types
• Instant city capture
• City capture common
• All attacks long distance
• Elevation increases range
• Elevation affects range of sight
• Units can be promoted
• has ammo and fuel
• Infantry identified by icon on head
• Fresh built units can move first turn
• Artillery has splash damage
• Factories produce multiple units per turn
• Units cannot move onto buildings
• Heavy rock-paper-scissors
• Medics can heal infantry
• Move multiple times per turn until movepoints consumed
• Captured factories can produce units
• Victory requires destroying HQ