A charming Napoleonic experience.
My first exposure to this gem was from this video. I enjoy a bit of Real Time Strategy games, however, not all RTS games are created equal, literally. Most RTS games are way too zoomed out, with multiple fronts and battalions. These aren't my type of games; I get easily overwhelmed by the amount of resource and army management aspects, resulting in a mostly menu gameplay without the fluff —looking at the animations of the units, soaking in the ambiance of the environments, and so on— So, when I saw how you could arrange your units' formations in this game, along with the firing line mechanics, with no menus to speak of, I got really excited to try it for myself!
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| Aww Shucks! |
Now, I only managed to finish the French campaign and when I tried to start the Prussian one, it dawned on me; after playing the first mission I just couldn't stand how the AI was blatantly cheating with the amount of resources and units it had. It soured my experience a bit so I decided to stop playing this game before my opinion on it would change from positive to a more negative one.
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| Love the flanking unit hiding in the woods. |
The game has some slav jank, but it compensates for it with fun stuff, like: building cannons and attaching them to horse carriages to get them to the frontline faster and having some beautiful art, sprites, architecture, and overall environment.
From my short time playing this game my biggest complaint (other than the cheating AI) is the quick depletion of coal, used in making gunpowder for your army. It runs out way too fast, in my opinion.
The soundtrack is generally nice, with my favorite tracks being: Britain, Egypt, and France.
The game has some charming FMVs that appear on the bottom right of the HUD. I wanted to share them here but, looking for these videos on the internet proved fruitless so, I took matters into my own hands and made this little compilation of the videos I found in the game's files. The videos are muted by default so I added the soundtrack from the game to them. They have poor resolution due to their miniscule size on your HUD in the game. Believe me when I say: It looks better in game.
I have to say, pictures don't do this game justice. The game looks way better in motion than it does in screenshots. Still, I'll leave you with my remaining screenshots:
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| Marching to the Prussian's town! |
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| And thus the siege began.. |
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| Advance! |
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| Reporting to the emperor himself. |
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| Alternate history. |
A bit unrelated (maybe?), I came across this unorthodox video about the history of Napoleon except, it's about his favorite dish!
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