Would Bob Smith go back to making historical wargames?

Armada 2526 continues the great tradition of space opera games. You guide your race from its first interstellar journeys, until it becomes a mighty galactic empire. Along the way, you'll explore the galaxy, conduct research, diplomacy and trade, found new colonies, maneuver mighty star fleets, and fight epic battles.

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Would Bob Smith go back to making historical wargames?

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I still want a game to give me the same depth/challenge as Desert Rats on the Speccy. Basic supply, deeper combat than PG and nothing too complicated like many wargames.

I read this in the comments section of an RPS Flare Path article (2017/05/12/the-flare-path-wars-across-the-world, can't post full link). After a bit of a rabbit hole search, I realized that Robert T. Smith, the author of Armada 2526 had previously released a bunch of wargames for the ZX spectrum and DOS. Reports seem to indicated that they were a notch above Panzer General in complexity, while remaining lightweight and playable.

It seems to me that there is a void of light wargames that aren't Panzer General clones, so I was wondering if Bob Smith would maybe consider putting his design experience to work making new historical wargames at about the same level of complexity. I never played his old games so I'm not saying this out of nostalgia, but I'd be fine with some nice counters on a 2d map, no need to go full 3d like recent Slitherine offerings. However, since the mechanics would be simple, it would be awesome if the games were playable with a controller from the couch - offering much needed rest to my mouse hand when I'm not at work.

Can't emphasize the Controller part enough... currently if one wants to play a strategy game without a mouse, one has to resort to Japanese strategy RPGs. But there's no reason simple games like Panzer Corps, Order of Battle, WH40K armaggeddon and the like couldn't be played with a controller, concurrencing classics like Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, and so on.
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His current game is Oriental Empires. A 4x in ancient China. I like it very much. He's still working on it (DLC) so wouldn't expect anything else for a while.
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instead of my reply, i asked the master

so will know wait for his reply
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ORIGINAL: zakblood

instead of my reply, i asked the master

so will know wait for his reply
Who's your master?
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he who wrote it
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