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Title: Napoleon Rule of Iron
Post by: Pete Dero on August 07, 2025, 02:48:23 AM
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3715460/NAPOLEON_RULE_OF_IRON/

NAPOLEON: RULE OF IRON is a tactical real-time strategy game where you can command Napoleon Bonaparte's most epic historical battles in 1:1 scale. At the battle of Borodino you will see 200.000 actual soldier models on screen engaging in vicious ranged and melee combat. At the battle of Leipzig even up to 500.000. Of course this depends on how well you do in the campaign.

The Campaign follows the story of Napoleon Bonaparte and his largest battles from Toulon to Waterloo: Fight in Italy, Egypt, Europe, Spain and Russia. This doesn't mean that the outcome is clear: there are three alternate endings, two of which are fictitious. Between battles you can manage your Grand Armée: buy supplies, recruit and disband infantry, cavalry and artillery and organize them into Corps. Units can gain experience over the course of the campaign and become your Old Guard. One of them can even bear an imperial eagle standard that inspires nearby soldiers - but be careful. Once it is lost to the enemy it is lost forever. Before each battle there is an immersive briefing and Napoleon will hold a speech infront of your army. The real-time battles give you full tactical control over historical formations like infantry and cavalry divisions and artillery batteries (up to 5000 rendered soldiers or 50 guns each). The maps were carefully reconstructed using NASA satellite data and historical records (though sometimes adjusted for gameplay reasons). These are the 33 battles you can fight in NAPOLEON: RULE OF IRON:

    Siege of Toulon, 1793

    Mondovi, 1796

    Lodi, 1796

    Castiglione, 1796

    Arcole, 1796

    Rivoli, 1797

    Pyramids, 1798

    Abukir, 1799

    Montebello, 1800

    Marengo, 1800

    Austerlitz, 1805

    Jena, 1806

    Auerstedt, 1806

    Eylau, 1807

    Friedland, 1807

    Coruna, 1809

    Aspern-Essling, 1809

    Wagram, 1809

    Salamanca, 1812

    Witebsk, 1812

    Smolensk, 1812

    Borodino, 1812

    Beresina, 1812

    Vitoria, 1813

    Lützen, 1813

    Bautzen, 1813

    Leipzig, 1813

    Montmirail, 1814

    Vauchamps, 1814

    Montereau, 1814

    Paris, 1814

    Ligny, 1815

    Waterloo, 1815



Title: Re: Napoleon Rule of Iron
Post by: Destraex on August 07, 2025, 08:14:06 AM
WOW. Amazing.It will be interesing to see if this has all the mechanics needed to do a good job of simulating napoleonic warfare.
Title: Re: Napoleon Rule of Iron
Post by: Destraex on August 07, 2025, 11:41:26 PM
Ok, after seeing the devs state that the formations are so deep so they could fit all the soldiers on the map, I am much less interested. It seems that realism has been compromised to be able to boast a 1:1 soldier ratio even though the game itself does not seem large enough to support those numbers.