New games announced by Matrixgames at The Home of Wargamers

[MengJiao]

I hope the 30 years war one includes the ECW.

IIRC this is planned DLC. The TYW is coming out first. The other planned DLC is the Renaissance Italian Wars. I will mention more in an upcoming article. It's very exciting stuff. :)

  Well, I'm excited.  TYW sounds fun.  ECW sounds interesting.  Renaissance Italian Wars sounds spectacular.  And (you know) you could get as far as Steinkirk (1692, IIRC) with muskets and Pikes in a Stop the Sun King Before he Plunders the Palatinate again DLC.

Italian wars...starting with the French Invasion in 1495, I guess, and on through the days of Cortez's hero (White hat and white shoes and all) up to Pavia.  Hey that's thirty years right there.

Oh!  and you could do all those Low Countries battles and shoot Sir Philip Sidney and learn the Art of War with Parma and various Princes of Orange.  (another DLC..."Crush the Sea Beggars!")

[JasonPratt]

In case my diffused griping about my indistinct complaints over BA has obscured this, allow me to go back to squeeing over Pike and Shot + planned DLC.

[Boggit]

Pike and Shot's lead designer is Richard Bodley Scott co-designer of the De Bellis Multitudinem (DBM), DBR (Renaissance), and Field of Glory TT rules. Basically what you will be seeing is Renaissance warfare using the new Battle Academy 2 front end, but with its own Field of Glory mechanics under the hood. If it turns out to be anything like I've been led to believe then historical wargamers are going to be very, very happy bunnies indeed! Jump in with this one - the water's lovely! ;D

I saw this game at HOW2014, and for me was one of the most exciting games coming out (actually there were quite a few I really liked :)).

[Boggit]

I hope the 30 years war one includes the ECW.

IIRC this is planned DLC. The TYW is coming out first. The other planned DLC is the Renaissance Italian Wars. I will mention more in an upcoming article. It's very exciting stuff. :)

  Well, I'm excited.  TYW sounds fun.  ECW sounds interesting.  Renaissance Italian Wars sounds spectacular.  And (you know) you could get as far as Steinkirk (1692, IIRC) with muskets and Pikes in a Stop the Sun King Before he Plunders the Palatinate again DLC.

Italian wars...starting with the French Invasion in 1495, I guess, and on through the days of Cortez's hero (White hat and white shoes and all) up to Pavia.  Hey that's thirty years right there.

Oh!  and you could do all those Low Countries battles and shoot Sir Philip Sidney and learn the Art of War with Parma and various Princes of Orange.  (another DLC..."Crush the Sea Beggars!")

IIRC the game is supposed to be very moddable. Whilst stock expansions are planned everything is at a very early stage. I can see no reason - if my memory of the presentation is correct - why you could'nt do these ideas if it wasn't covered by "official" dlc. 

[bayonetbrant]

http://grogheads.com/?p=4616

[MengJiao]

Pike and Shot's lead designer is Richard Bodley Scott co-designer of the De Bellis Multitudinem (DBM), DBR (Renaissance), and Field of Glory TT rules. Basically what you will be seeing is Renaissance warfare using the new Battle Academy 2 front end, but with its own Field of Glory mechanics under the hood. If it turns out to be anything like I've been led to believe then historical wargamers are going to be very, very happy bunnies indeed! Jump in with this one - the water's lovely! ;D

I saw this game at HOW2014, and for me was one of the most exciting games coming out (actually there were quite a few I really liked :)).

  Is this going to work on PCs?  I only played battle academy on an ipad.

[JasonPratt]

BA was originally released for PC, so... sure?

Wait, the Field of Glory designer is working on P&S?!? 

[PipFromSlitherine]

Pike and Shot is slated for both PC and iPad.  The engine does indeed work on both platforms.  It will also support the extensive modding and custom campaigns that BA/BA2 supports.

Cheers

Pip

[panzerde]

I am throwing money at the screen. Why is Pike and Shot not appearing on my computer?!

[JasonPratt]

^^ Strangely, promising my screen dinner and flowers and licking it produces no more reaction.  ???

[MengJiao]

I hope the 30 years war one includes the ECW.

IIRC this is planned DLC. The TYW is coming out first. The other planned DLC is the Renaissance Italian Wars. I will mention more in an upcoming article. It's very exciting stuff. :)

  Well, I'm excited.  TYW sounds fun.  ECW sounds interesting.  Renaissance Italian Wars sounds spectacular.  And (you know) you could get as far as Steinkirk (1692, IIRC) with muskets and Pikes in a Stop the Sun King Before he Plunders the Palatinate again DLC.

Italian wars...starting with the French Invasion in 1495, I guess, and on through the days of Cortez's hero (White hat and white shoes and all) up to Pavia.  Hey that's thirty years right there.

Oh!  and you could do all those Low Countries battles and shoot Sir Philip Sidney and learn the Art of War with Parma and various Princes of Orange.  (another DLC..."Crush the Sea Beggars!")

IIRC the game is supposed to be very moddable. Whilst stock expansions are planned everything is at a very early stage. I can see no reason - if my memory of the presentation is correct - why you could'nt do these ideas if it wasn't covered by "official" dlc.

Good Plan.  RPS has some alpha-eqsque pics of Piccoloimni (not yet bleeding to death in his sumptuous carriage) and Co in " a deliciously unfamiliar setting " (the 30-years-war, perhaps not really all that delicious or even unfamilar to its millions of participants) inthe flarepath down below the tanks and castles:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/05/30/the-flare-path-slitherincoming/#more-209993

at least I think this is Piccolomini:

[MengJiao]

I hope the 30 years war one includes the ECW.

IIRC this is planned DLC. The TYW is coming out first. The other planned DLC is the Renaissance Italian Wars. I will mention more in an upcoming article. It's very exciting stuff. :)

  Well, I'm excited.  TYW sounds fun.  ECW sounds interesting.  Renaissance Italian Wars sounds spectacular.  And (you know) you could get as far as Steinkirk (1692, IIRC) with muskets and Pikes in a Stop the Sun King Before he Plunders the Palatinate again DLC.

Italian wars...starting with the French Invasion in 1495, I guess, and on through the days of Cortez's hero (White hat and white shoes and all) up to Pavia.  Hey that's thirty years right there.

Oh!  and you could do all those Low Countries battles and shoot Sir Philip Sidney and learn the Art of War with Parma and various Princes of Orange.  (another DLC..."Crush the Sea Beggars!")

IIRC the game is supposed to be very moddable. Whilst stock expansions are planned everything is at a very early stage. I can see no reason - if my memory of the presentation is correct - why you could'nt do these ideas if it wasn't covered by "official" dlc.

Good Plan.  RPS has some alpha-eqsque pics of Piccoloimni (not yet bleeding to death in his sumptuous carriage) and Co in " a deliciously unfamiliar setting " (the 30-years-war, perhaps not really all that delicious or even unfamilar to its millions of participants) inthe flarepath down below the tanks and castles:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/05/30/the-flare-path-slitherincoming/#more-209993

at least I think this is Piccolomini:

More delicious unfamiliarity: 

http://www.slitherine.com/games/pike_shot_pc

Suggests a total of 30 pre-set battles (10 from the 30 years war, 10 from the ECW which would be what: Edgehill, Naseby, Marston Moor..eh? And 10 from the Italian wars which would be Fornovo, Pavia, Marignano, Bocuccio, Cordova's win in 1503, Gaston Foix last battle in 1512?..eh?)

Anyway, plenty of battles.

[Nefaro]

Those blocks of troops look terrible.   Especially with the extra block of 'pikes' sitting on top.  :-\

[MengJiao]

Those blocks of troops look terrible.   Especially with the extra block of 'pikes' sitting on top.  :-\

  I know what you mean.  On the other hand, that's how battalions were portrayed in engravings from the period.  And  -- of course -- if you
want nice-looking graphics, for some reason they rarely are used in games featuring events from say 1515.  An exception would be the mods to Medieval total War II -- which had a nice ECW mod and a TYW mod that I have not seen.

[PipFromSlitherine]

Some of the images include some visual artifacts that are caused when textures change based on morale or other states, causing the odd black blocks and chunks.  This is fixed now but didn't manage to make it in to the version for the event.

Cheers

Pip