Any tactical games on the 'puter?
Quite a few actually - some of which are actually pretty good.
To name a few:
Conquest of the Aegean - Crete, Balkans and Italian WWII campaigns. More operational than tactical. Highway to the Reich - Operation Market Garden - again more operational than tactical.
www.matrixgames.comPoint of Attack 2: Modern warfare. Control squad/platoon/company sized units.
www.hpssims.comProsimco makes a series of games that cover various modern battlefields with an emphasis on mechanized warfare. I thinkt the link is
www.prosimco.com but if it isn't google The Star and the Crescent. That'll get you there.
Steel Beasts: The best tank simulation on a personal computer ever (and as an ex Tanker I can say that with some authority). published by esim games. link to forum and publisher site at
www.steelbeasts.com. The Army asked me to make some custom scenarios for them which were well received by units at Ft Hood and in Europe.
A game I am really looking forward to is Cross of Iron which is a remake/update/upgrade of Close Combat 3 from 8 or 9 years ago. CC3 was squad/individual vehicle level combat on the Russian Front. Matrixgames will be publishing it and if it lives up to the hype (and Matrix games usually do) it will be on my hard drive for a long while.
There's a lot to offer wargaming wise for the computer even though it has become a niche market. It's rare now a days to find a quality wargame on a retailers shelf - the independents who sell online though are another matter entirely.
AI has improved some over the last 20 years but nothing beats playing a human opponent and with the internet that is getting easier and easier to do these days.