Top 5 war games on bada

Napoleon Bonaparte once mused that "a soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon." Likewise, gamers will endure the rigours of touchscreen gaming for that elusive third star.

War games are usually confined to the shooter genre, but not always. When perusing the plethora of titles on bada, one tends to stumble across the odd game which fits into no other discernible category than War.

We could argue that they may be puzzle games, strategy games, arcade games, or even boardgames, but the reality is that the games featured on this list are all about one thing and one thing only.

War.

Another of history's great war figures (guess who, answer below*) once said, "when the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin." Team17 went one further, asserting that once the war of the pygmies is over the war of the worms will kick off.

Worms has been around forever (well, since 1995) and despite being a PC original it seems perfectly suited to the touchscreen era.

In the eternal battle between invertebrate teams, you'll be firing off super sheep and banana bombs in no time. If you don't know what those things are, shame on you.

Ah, that most iconic of wartime vehicles. The helichopper.

It'll evoke memories of one or two of the most iconic scenes in any war movie. You'll either hark back to the sweeping orchestral surge of napalm and helicopters in Coppola's Apocalypse Now, or you'll remember Arnie sprawling in the jungle foliage in Predator screaming at that lady to "get to ze chopper!".

Either way, we're on the same page, and FinalStrike 3D knows it.

In this new updated version of the award-winning original, there are two full campaigns to play through, as you take one of four 3D whirly birds through waves of enemies.

Those who snarl at the prospect of a virtual thumbstick will be glad to hear that the game also features an accelerometer control mode. Hoo-rah.

Don't mention Top Gun, don't mention Top Gun.

It might not be as ballsy as taking on the role of a legitimate fighter plane pilot. In fact, we're pretty sure real aerial combat is nowhere near as simple as this title makes it out to be, but Dog Fight lets you give that childhood dream a go.

Taking to the skies in a fighter jet, you'll have to use the game's accelerometer controls to weave around the top-down view, bringing down tangos and defending your base.

Those heady days of doodling grids onto maths paper may be long gone, but portable naval warfare lives on. Not so much in the frankly ridiculous-looking upcoming Hollywood movie re-make but in the pencilled-in visuals of this bada game.

Battleship looks like one of your old maths books, but plays much the same as the board game we remember. With three difficulty levels and some nice little graphite graphics, this little gem should meet your admira(b)l(e) needs.

Okay, so it's not a full-blown war game, but look at the vocabulary used in Pigeon Squadron's Samsung Apps description: Chaos, Bombing, Paramilitary pilot pigeons, and Weapons of mass revulsion. It's definitely war - it just so happens to involve bird crap rather than legitimate gore.

Pigeon Squadron takes you through 45 missions full of high-flying bird pooping antics, as you manoeuvre your feathered friends into optimum blast radii.

Forget the hum-drum beaches of Normandy or the been-there-done-that locales of Vietnam, for you'll be winging through Paris, London, and New York, dropping loads on businessmen, hippies, beach bums, golfers, grandmas, tourists, ducks, and school buses.

Apparently its good luck.

*Everyone who said Winston Churchill wins a virtual high-five.