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Cold Comfort: The Supreme Ruler Demo

By Alec Meer on July 22nd, 2011.

'Battlegoat Studios' is the best of all the developer names

When I hear the phrase ‘supreme ruler’, I think of the kid at school who had some sort of outlandish sliderule with extruding pieces festooned with measurement units I’d never heard of and a built-in magnifying glass and probably a hyperdrive or something, while the rest of us stared miserably at our 15cm strips of easily-shattered plastic.

Perhaps, in time, I shall also associate the phrase with Paradox’s brink-of-nuclear-apocalypse strategy game Supreme Ruler: Cold War. You too can now familiarise yourself with this grand strategy title thanks to this here demo.
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Rockin’: Supreme Ruler: Cold War Footage

By Jim Rossignol on April 7th, 2011.

Moscow, yesterday.
Supreme Ruler: Cold War, the latest in the Supreme Ruler series of strategy games, is an extremely large and intricate Cold War-era war title, featuring lots of diplomacy and a global conflict map which can be played as a giant sandbox game of domination. Heavy stuff. So it’s admirable to see its developers, Battlegoat Studios, sexing things up with a trailer full of repurposed newsreel footage and a rock-n-rolling soundtrack. Diplomacy! Menu-sliders! Tiny tanks moving along roads! Sexxxxyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Ahem. It could be good. No release date yet, but “Q2″ this year, for sure.
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Supreme Ruler Gets Testy

By John Walker on June 3rd, 2008.

If only the world were this colourful.

Hardcore strategy wargame, Supreme Ruler 2020 (indeed, the sequel to 2005′s Supreme Ruler 2010, and 1982′s Supreme Ruler), has offered a quiz. Details and footage below.

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