Ageod's Upcoming Napoleonic Game

[W8taminute]

So you give it a thumbs up for gamelplay w8t?

I do give it a thumbs up, but I admit I am biased towards AGEOD games.

[Nefaro]

I still haven't even fired up Thirty Years' War since getting it on the bundle sale quite awhile back.   :-"  Nor the extra AJE expansion I was missing.



Too many games!!!

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[Tuna]

Are you in that picture?

[Nefaro]

Are you in that picture?

If you look closely, you may be able to see a purple-colored finger sticking out.  Because I'm being crushed under the weight of my Steam, GOG, and Gamersgate libraries.  Couldn't fit the rest in the pic.

[Tuna]

Impwessive dispway

[panzerde]

[mikeck]

I have a nagging suspicion that Ageod is jinxed when it comes to Napoleonic games, which is why I didn't buy this one.

My guess is because - as we all know- it wasn't A war....it was SEVERAL wars. That means being able to form alliances and coalitions which are not this engines strong suit. No one wants to play just one campaign but it's hard to say "it's 1803...fight!" Without the ability to ally. It's just too big of a conflict I think.

The Thirty Years War is the same in some respect except there weren't really huge alliances. As Sweden I don't have to worry about allying with France and Russia to kill the HRE or something weird

[panzerde]

I have a nagging suspicion that Ageod is jinxed when it comes to Napoleonic games, which is why I didn't buy this one.

My guess is because - as we all know- it wasn't A war....it was SEVERAL wars. That means being able to form alliances and coalitions which are not this engines strong suit. No one wants to play just one campaign but it's hard to say "it's 1803...fight!" Without the ability to ally. It's just too big of a conflict I think.

I want to play just one campaign. Meaning, I want the various campaigns broken out as scenarios. I'm completely uninterested in the "Grand Campaign" that always seems to show up in games like these. I want to play the Marengo campaign, and I want to play the 1809 campaign against Austria, and I want the 1806 campaign versus Prussia, etc. What I don't want is an unwieldy mess of a so-called Grand Campaign that starts with something the resembles the reality of say, 1800, and then gets progressively less and less like what really happened, and has no hope of presenting anything remotely accurate because the simulation is too coarse and the AI isn't good enough.


If I want to do that, I'll play Civilization. There's nothing wrong with Civilization, but it isn't a Napoleonic strategy game. The idea that somehow you can pull off a Napoleonic grand campaign game is the reason that there has never, ever been a decent Napoleonic strategic war game.