Anyone know of a good Napoleonic style war game?

[druski85]

Yea I would always have them charge a location as well treize, but they still stopped when they took a casualty.  However, sending them to a point would ensure they attack at the angle you wanted, so it was a good idea. 

Also, Angus in the new Total War they are making Naval combat a large part of the game.  (rightfully so, considering the premise)  It won't be a full ship simulator, but should have pretty strong ship-ship fighting mechanics. 

[Simaril]

Rise of nations covers the era, it's much like Age of Empires really.
Some of those look great!
Since we are at this...Napoleon era Naval sim???????

Angus --

This has been on the wish list for a while. Way back there was a board game converted into a computer game, both called "wooden ships and iron men." Supposed to be really good on gameplay, though the graphics were weak even for the time. Since then haven't read of anything good enough to make me want to give it a try.

Only one I've found recently was on a website for Shrapnel Games. There's a game called "Salvo" that has a playable demo available for download. I've fiddled around with it and seems pretty good, though I haven't played it enough to give a review/recommendation. However, at that price....


And incidentally, shrapnel games also hosts both STEEL PANTHERS games, free for download. These were great fun, tank oriented tactical simulations with very nice implementation. They've been transferred to Windows mode, which the original company didnt want to do. These two (Steel Panthers and Steel Panthers: Modern Battles) get my five star thumbs up -- great games.

[Selino631]

I think the Age of Empires games are great.


Get this game right here   http://www.amazon.com/WWI-Great-War-Pc/dp/B0001DLMIU it is an amazing game. It is set up almost exactly like the AOE engine exept for better! You can have over 80,000 troops and you can build pillboxes, airplanes, warships. even gas!!!! And the AI is good cause they'll swarm your city with thousands of troops! Once i played a game on there that took me 180 hours to beat. you can play it online too.

[DREDIOCK]

Thing about some of these games Im not looking for is as in the case of AOE the gameplay is almost identical to the original Warcraft series.
And while are fun fantasy type games in their own right. They dont really capture the art of warfare, maneuver , formations, etc

Here is an old one but still pretty good. cept that i've played it out

Feilds of glory


Abandonware
Can be downloaded for free here
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/106/Fields+of+Glory.html

[Simaril]

Dred:

Thanks for that link! I've spent almost an hour cruising through the games list, bringing back tons of memories. May have to break out the old dosBox after all...

[DREDIOCK]

Dred:

Thanks for that link! I've spent almost an hour cruising through the games list, bringing back tons of memories. May have to break out the old dosBox after all...

Your welcome,

If you dont feel like going through all the DOS commands. Or "mounting" the drives etc
I very highly recommend also downing a program to go with DOSbox called "DosBlaster"
Then you just go to the executable file for the game and in the menu you will see options to "run game" which you can click and just run the game.as well as "config game"
Right handy little utility.
You dont even have to run DOSBOX as it does it all for you
Makes setting up your system to run the game and running the game itself as simple as a click of the mouse.


LOL I didnt want to relearn Dos commands. I just wanted to play the old games

[splitatom]

you could wait untill  march when empire total war come out but that is about the time of the napolinac wars

[Simaril]

Remember that game "Carriers at War"? Was a DOS era game that did a very nice job of recreating the intensity and "fog" of WW2 carrier warfare. Anybody know of a similar game available now?

And just to be clear, this was more of a tactical sim, and NOT a RTS.


EDIT: Oops. Just did the google, and it turns out the game was recently redone -- and is available on Matrix Games.

[Blooz]

Carriers at War

http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_Main.Entry17C?SID=45905&SP=10023&CID=0&PID=925009&PN=1&V1=925009&CUR=840&DSP=&PGRP=0&ABCODE=&CACHE_ID=0

[Treize69]

This just came to my attention. Alert Alert Alert!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7RHiyWHuV0

[DREDIOCK]

Looks good. thanks for the heads up.

[john9001]

did you notice right at the end it says "runs great on core i7"

[Vudak]

There is absolutely no way in the most fiery depths of you-know-where that I will even consider buying that until at least 6 months have passed since its release.

I am fairly convinced the Creative Assembly has the worst quality control, play testing, and customer service divisions known to man.  I'm not paying full price for their rushed, crap products again.

[Fulmar]

Wow, that CGI Napoleon was some of the best I've seen, especially the mouth movements.

[Motherland]

WTF, Empire: Total War just came out a few months ago! (Great game though...)
Oh Winter 2010 nvm