When comparing Freeciv vs Warzone 2100, the Slant community recommends Warzone 2100 for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” Warzone 2100 is ranked 12th while Freeciv is ranked 28th. The most important reason people chose Warzone 2100 is:
Although it can be confusing to get the tech you want at times, Warzone has a complete tech tree that ranges from vertical take-off and landing crafts to laser guns and missile launching cyborgs, and includes four hundred different techs and upgrades.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Excellent depth
In Freeciv you have to take into consideration terrain, resources, cities, economy, units, combat, diplomacy, governments, technology, wonders and many other things both for your and all competing civilizations.
Pro Intelligent AI
Even on lowest difficulty, Artificial Intelligence of Freeciv will give you a run for your money.
Pro Big tech tree
Although it can be confusing to get the tech you want at times, Warzone has a complete tech tree that ranges from vertical take-off and landing crafts to laser guns and missile launching cyborgs, and includes four hundred different techs and upgrades.
Pro Custom unit assembling
The game permits you to research vehicle tech under three main forms, weapons, chassis, and locomotion. The player must then assemble their own design, from the tech they have discovered. This permits a wide range of customizability in units.
Pro Big game scale
Although there is a limit to a number of units, Warzone permits pretty massive armies.
Pro Open source
It's free so you can't lose anything if you don't like it and anyone can help in the development by taking the sources of the game.
Cons
Con Modeled after aging game
Freeciv is designed as an open source version of Civ 2, which is quite an old game at this point. This means that many of the mechanics now found in the more modern Civ releases are not to be found here. It also means the graphics are quite dated looking.
Con Units stay stuck everywhere
It's like there is sticky glue on everything, units just hit things and stay stuck. This creates bottlenecks in armies, and often impedes on army mobility and reliability.
Con Must micromanage, despite the fact commanders should avoid that
On the other hand, they do avoid a lot of micromanagement if the land is easy enough.