Playing Capture to Conquer on Linux
Here's a small little game from the past, that I used to play. It's a pleasant diversion I rediscovered when going through old files: Capture to Conquer. This is very, very different from Command & Conquer.
Some web links about the game:
The point of the game is to take over the small board. It feels like stratego combined with checkers: every spot is occupied, and you can take ownership of it by attacking with a superior unit. The single-player campaign has a series of missions with different starting configurations, but the end goal is usually controlling the entire board, or sometimes capturing an enemy flag.
You're subject to the whims of the RNG, and I swear at least one mission depends on checking the box in the settings for, "attacker only loses one rank when capturing."
To run this game in Wine on Linux, you need a very short list of steps. If necessary, to separate it from other prefixes, make a windows 98 one. I didn't try any other target versions, but the game ran back in the '98 days, so why waste time with any other version?
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-win98 WINEARCH=win32 wineboot # to establish the new prefix winetricks win98 winetricks vb6run comdlg32ocx native_oleaut32
That's it. Of course cd to the directory containing the executable before running it, like most (Windows) programs.
cd ~/".wine-win98/drive_c/Capture to Conquer" export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-win98 WINEARCH=win32 wine CTC.exe
Here are some images.
Campaign list at 100% completion
See, it is possible to win the campaign!
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