Two great freebies:
Steel Panthers: World at War
http://www.steelpanthersonline.com/main.asp
Battle for Wesnoth
http://www.wesnoth.org/
But the greatest of all time is the Combat Mission series - start with Barbarossa to Berlin:
http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=51&Itemid=90
It is not hex-based per se, but still the best turn-based WWII game ever. Battlefront.com also have TacOps, which is a hardcore modern hex-based game, based on US army training software and developed by an ex-officer in the US army. For the serious grognards.
― ears are wounds, Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:00 (fourteen years ago) link
battle for westnoth pwns
― Michael tapeworm much talent for the future (s1ocki), Thursday, 9 July 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Cry Havoc ftw
― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Thursday, 9 July 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
someone explain armageddon empires to me
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, 11 September 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
u cumdads
― am0n, Thursday, 11 September 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
its like playing civ ii and mtg simultaneously??
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, 11 September 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link