Thanks Gordon and others, I'll have another look at GameStudio.
Here's a picture of my BlitzBasic game, so much work and I'd only done about 1/4 of the tactical battle stuff without looking at the strategic elements. I think I shouldn't have used such a low level language as Basic, even C is low level. I've moved on from game programmer, I want to be a game designer and let a dev tool do most (but not all) of the work. (it's hard being a solo developer

Once again, I'll look at A7.
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