
1:1 scale brings Napoleon Bonaparte's most legendary battles to life in this tactical real-time strategy game. Experience a story-driven campaign where you'll command 33 massive engagements like Waterloo with 200.000 or Leipzig with 500.000 soldiers.
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NAPOLEON: RULE OF IRON is a tactical real-time strategy game where you can command Napoleon Bonaparte's most epic historical battles in 1:1 scale. At the battle of Borodino you will see 200.000 actual soldier models on screen engaging in vicious ranged and melee combat. At the battle of Leipzig even up to 500.000. Of course this depends on how well you do in the campaign.
Charge of the french cavalry.
The Campaign follows the story of Napoleon Bonaparte and his largest battles from Toulon to Waterloo: Fight in Italy, Egypt, Europe, Spain and Russia. This doesn't mean that the outcome is clear: there are three alternate endings, two of which are fictitious. Between battles you can manage your Grand Armée: buy supplies, recruit and disband infantry, cavalry and artillery and organize them into Corps. Units can gain experience over the course of the campaign and become your Old Guard. One of them can even bear an imperial eagle standard that inspires nearby soldiers - but be careful. Once it is lost to the enemy it is lost forever. Before each battle there is an immersive briefing and Napoleon will hold a speech infront of your army. The real-time battles give you full tactical control over historical formations like infantry and cavalry divisions and artillery batteries (up to 5000 rendered soldiers or 50 guns each). The maps were carefully reconstructed using NASA satellite data and historical records (though sometimes adjusted for gameplay reasons). These are the 33 battles you can fight in NAPOLEON: RULE OF IRON:
Siege of Toulon, 1793
Mondovi, 1796
Lodi, 1796
Castiglione, 1796
Arcole, 1796
Rivoli, 1797
Pyramids, 1798
Abukir, 1799
Montebello, 1800
Marengo, 1800
Austerlitz, 1805
Jena, 1806
Auerstedt, 1806
Eylau, 1807
Friedland, 1807
Coruna, 1809
Aspern-Essling, 1809
Wagram, 1809
Salamanca, 1812
Witebsk, 1812
Smolensk, 1812
Borodino, 1812
Beresina, 1812
Vitoria, 1813
Lützen, 1813
Bautzen, 1813
Leipzig, 1813
Montmirail, 1814
Vauchamps, 1814
Montereau, 1814
Paris, 1814
Ligny, 1815
Waterloo, 1815
And two secret fictitious battles.
The AI will throughout this present a formidable challenge. Innovative mechanics allow it for example to intelligently evade flanking maneuvers or countercharge when charged. On lower difficulties these behaviours are tuned down or removed. The AI employs a Corps System to utilize or defend against strategies like defeat in detail, distraction attacks, defense in depth etc... The AI has no cheat bonuses or maluses on any difficulty level.
The AI evades a flanking maneuver by the player.
Epic sound effects and visual effects have been implemented to match the soldier numbers. Among these are: super powerful marching drums, huge plumes of smoke, artillery impacts, fires and much more. If your unit has a marching band attachement you can order it to play authentic march music and inspire nearby soldiers. Unlike in other games of this genre fallen soldiers never despawn so the field will soon be strewn with the dead (Blood can be disabled in the settings).
The price of taking a fortified position.
The combat is tactical: Morale, stamina, unit weight, speed and terrain height are just some of the factors that influence combat. Terrain cover like trees or villages play a large role. Ammunition travels at the physically accurate speed. Soldiers will step to the side to make way for friendly units trying to pass through them. In melee brawls realistic clusters form. During rain muskets don’t function. Blizzards make your soldiers tire out faster.
Soldiers step to the side to let a friendly elite unit through to the front.
The fate of France hangs in the balance. Take command of the legendary Grande Armée, shape the destiny of Europe and experience the ultimate Napoleonic simulation.
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If you are interest in the time period, this is a decent strategy game. Its a total war battles lite is the best way to put it, but it feels big in scale battle wise. Ai dose a decent job as well.
Need to have the ability to zoom on the units to see what type of unit they are, just like Total War does.
I bought the game, but it is not possible to play when loading the battlefield, the cursor always crawls up! If I don't solve the problem, I'll have to return the game and demand a refund.
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for what is there so far. It is good. :) though further updates and other items will be required to finish it out but for what's there already for the team size there. it is good enough. :)
Este juego es injugable el enemigo siempre tiene ventaja y si esta atrincherado jamas ganaras una batalla y lo mas grave es lo del reloj un tiempo insuficiente si te das cuenta en las reseñas los jugadores apenas juegan unas horas por algo sera espero que todo esto lo solucione de momento mi reseña es negativa .
Petit jeu sympa, si vous êtes amateur de jeux comme ceux de la franchise ultimate general foncez, si on prend en compte le fait que le jeu a été dev en quelques mois par un dev solo et qu'il reçoit régulièrement des updates le jeu prévoit d'être dans quelques temps une petite pépite indies
Good game but not for me. I wont say I don't recommend it but the game lacks many functions to make it a realistic war sim. No formations for your units. Even a basic column and line would suffice. No camera angle control like in Scourge of War and Total War. Supply carts would make it more realistic too. I guess its trying to be like Ultimate Generals Civil War but with Total War Shogun 1 graphics which is fine for me. But with a much larger scale. Does sound awesome but its just giant formations blobbing on each other for now. Sucks cause I love everything else about this game. Im reading Simon Scarrow's Young Bloods book and I started the game where I was in the chapter of the book. I was so excited to be playing it with its story line and everything. Excited like in real life it was raining so the muskets don't work. But lack of basic tactical features was not for me at the end. I ended up refunding it for now. But if the game ever updates with more immersive features im buying again.
Un juego que desde que lo vi lo esperé por su capacidad de representar números a una escala tan grande. Es un juego difícil, la mayoría de las veces estás en inferioridad numérica excepto en cañones, la clave de la batalla. Hay un modo campaña y un modo batallas que te llevan por una veintena de batallas históricas para conquistar Europa.
This was one of if not the best Napoleonic games I've ever played. I don't know the deep details of the era, but I can say that it is very fun to have the ability to create your own armies. For downsides I really only have 4. The camera in this game is honestly really bad but once you get used to it, it's not as horrible. The another reason is simply the inability to have your troops run, outside of them charging. The third reason is that there is 0 friendly fire. The last reason would be not being able to visibly see the grapeshot range. The positives outweigh the negatives by a long shot. The simplicity of the mechanics once you understand them makes the game fairly easy to play. The sounds of the gunfire and charges are very cool and immersive. Also the animations for the dead/wounded are very cool along with the uniforms and marching. Its not common you see a game that really emphasizes wounded soldiers over the dead. Alternate history is another great aspect of the game I wont spoil how it is implemented, but it is done very well. I have to do another run of the game so I can go down a historical or semi historical route. Nonetheless if you are looking for a Napoleonic era game that is easy to learn and fairly fun, this is the game for you.
战斗不算多么还原,纵然有1:1规模的壮观,细节却乏善可陈(除了军乐,在界面、单位操作上甚至可说是简陋),但只要把它当做比较独特的排枪小品,还是值得一玩。不建议原价购入。 建议&槽点: 1.战役在营地界面存档 1.5.这个游戏敌我单位标识很粗糙,基本靠信息量少得可怜的面板角落微小图标分辨,有时需要避免在林地乱作一团的情况 2.只能招募初始步骑炮单位,它们积累50%经验会晋升为上级单位:6磅炮→12磅炮,骠骑兵→胸甲骑兵,步兵则有更多分支,部分会晋升为掷弹兵,部分则是辅助向的“行进乐队”,在数值上前者强于后者,但到80%二次晋升为近卫/带光环的鹰旗团后数值等同(补充新兵会带来经验衰减,似乎上级单位只有“行进乐队”不会掉级) 3.本游戏各单位共享弹药库,所以不注意的话很容易全军弹尽粮绝,需要在扩军、维持火力持续上平衡预算 4.因为一些战役限制进场人数,所以优先扩充不算人数的炮兵可以在小规模战斗中扩大优势,但要注意每个军隶属团数量是有限的,超编会导致无法进场;也许注意不要随意把团人数补满 5.与终极将军类似,本作单位有体积碰撞(敌军还会出现两队线列叠在一起只能被炮击的bug),所以排兵布阵需注意拉开距离。另一方面,AI相对机敏会提防步兵过于明显的包抄,有时候反而需要适当放慢步调麻痹敌军 6.接上条,目前本游戏最有效的打法是步炮向侧翼敌军集火、等削弱一定程度后骑兵近战限制士气回复,同时友军继续射击。即便这个游戏没有传统意义上的冲锋动作,步兵带弹近战操作多靠主动走位,但如此协调依然是相对最优解,至少能避免前期空耗弹药最后被没有此等顾虑的AI拖死。等拥有多队12磅炮获得炮兵决斗优势之后,一切都变得简单,除非你又忘了买足够的火枪弹药。
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