Playing OPR online? Roll20 maybe?

There's an official OPR playroom on roll20, however hardly anyone ever played there and it's been dead for a long time now (though I still use it every now and then to test out some stuff). We tried a lot of different ways to make tings work for people and even had a chat room for a while, but there simply aren't enough players to keep it alive.

That being said if anyone is interested in playing a game on roll20 I'd definitely be happy to do that, though it might be a little hard to arrange. I might be available on the weekends and my time zone is (UTC+00:00) - Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London. Shoot me a PM if you want to try and set up a match!

I tried playing on Tabletop Simulator but honestly I didn't like it that much, everything felt too fiddly and it always somehow looks extremely dark to me. Honestly I wish I had the money to create a video game that simulates miniature wargaming in a fast and fun way.

The thing I like about Roll20 is that it's very simple to use and it allows you to play games extremely quickly. The fact that you can also create your own models super fast definitely helps too. But yeah, it misses that tactile feeling that Tabletop Simulator offers.

Actually I've been working on re-vamping the Roll20 room these days and I'll post a link to it as soon as it's ready.

Haha, well then I guess I don't have the time it takes to learn about programming in unity and actually developing the game without compromising a lot of other things in my life... but hey, maybe one day I will!

BTW for anyone that's interested, here's the official roll20 playroom: app.roll20.net/join/764436/-QBVdw

A lot of turn based strategy games are similar to what I have in mind, but never have all the elements that I think make a wargame feel like a wargame, especially not mass battle video games on a grid.

I mean maybe there's some game out there that's kind of like what I'm envisioning, but the only thing that I ever played that was kind of like that was a game called "combat mission", but instead of alternating player turns it was simultaneous turns. So the game was stopped whilst both players would give all orders, then the units would fight for 1 minute in real time, then both players gave orders, etc.

Actually now that I think of it the mordheim game was actually kinda close to what I'm thinking, but still has a bunch of things that I'm not really into, such as being in 3rd person with manual movement.

I'm aware of Universal Battle but to be honest I think it's pretty ugly so that always turned me off.

Frankly I've also never understood why people play with such dark terrain and units (not just UB but also R20), it makes it really hard to understand what's going on and is just not pleasant to look at... maybe I'm too demanding though.

I logged into the playroom to try and figure out how to play OPR on roll 20, (really to teach myself the rules) but unfortunately the blue "page" button does not show up for me. Is the page still active?