Opplev Napoleonskrigene i nytt strategispill

Wars of Napoleon skal være det mest detaljerte Napoleon-spillet noensinne laget.

På fredag lanserte Slitherine det nyeste spillet fra franske Ageod. Det heter Wars of Napoleon, og som navnet tilsier dekker det Napoleonskrigene på attenhundretallet. Skjermbildene byr ikke på mange overraskelser for de som har sett Ageods strategispill tidligere, men Slitherine mener det er det mest detaljerte og omfattende spillet noensinne laget om Napoleons mange prosjekter.

Her er hva du kan forvente:

• Grand Campaign 1805-1815 with 2 starting dates (January & August)
• Austerlitz Campaign 1805
• Jena Campaign 1806-1807
• Waterloo Scenario June 1815

Spillet skilter også med muligheten til å aktivere historiske «hva om»-situasjoner. Hva om USA for eksempel hadde tatt parti med Frankrike i 1812? Spillkartet har 4000 regioner, og dekker ikke bare Europa, men også deler av andre berørte verdensdeler.

Merkelig nok har Slitherine droppet Steam-lansering for dette spillet, men du kan kjøpe det direkte fra dem (det er også tilgjengelig i boks). Det er selvsagt mulig de sparer Steam-utgivelsen til etter nyttår. Som alle spill med respekt for seg selv, må også dette ha en dramatisk lanseringstrailer:

Her har du noen av mulighetene spillet byr på:

Military

• Create armies and corps and manage how they support each other
• Lead mighty fleets of ships that can intercept, bombard, and disembark troops.
• Check your supply network, create depots, forage the land while you march or pillage the enemy regions if the rest fails.
• Build new units with a brand new system of ‘create and gather’ system.
• Numerous historical options, including reforming your nation and army the way you want.
• Two set of uniforms for most soldiers depending on army reforms. More than 300 different uniforms from accurate sources, and over 400 portraits of generals redone from historical paintings and sources.
• New interface to promote your generals or see the hierarchy of your army more easily.
• You can guide your allies, if they are AI nations, so you get the most out of them.
• New history screen where you can check the evolution of your army and the army of your enemies.
• Form or disband divisions and appoint generals to lead them.
• Promote generals but beware of the political support of some, if they are bypassed in favour of young promising officers.
• Lead expeditionary forces assisted by allies and minor nations.
• Use special orders like forced march, build redoubts, disband units.
• Muster partisans and levy special emergency troops.

Political

• Play one among seven major nations: France, Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, Austria, Spain, and Ottoman Empire.
• Diplomacy with casus-belli, coalitions, defensive treaty, passage rights and more.
• Send monetary help, gain access to special units and dozens of historical options completely customizable for the major nations.
• Draft your population, use smugglers, develop your territories and many more decision cards.
• Large chain of events with multiple possibilities dealing with the insurrections in Spain or special peace treaties.
• Custom faction modifiers that give your nation a specific feel (e.g. as France, reward your talented generals with The Légion d’Honneur)
• Handle your resources carefully, like money, guns and horses. Each country has strengths and weaknesses.
• France and Great Britain can form super alliances against one another.
• Form or disband satellite nations.
• As France or Great Britain, try to get the upper hand in the Continental Blockade.