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Empire: Total War
Strategy
March 3, 2009
The fifth installment in the popular strategy game series created by Creative Assembly in 2000. This new game is set in the 18th century, focusing on key events of the period, such as the American Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, and the rivalry over the Eastern trade routes. Although the core concept of the gameplay remains the same, the mechanics went through some major alterations, mainly due to the introduction of sea warfare. The game lets you command entire fleets as well as individual ships. Moreover, external factors, e.g. weather conditions, can affect sea battles. Additionally, the game offers improved advisers, as well as new options of trade, diplomacy, and espionage. Due to the widespread use of firearms in the period, new combat tactics have to be used. However, the key elements of the series, the turn-based strategic layer and large-scale battles, remained unchanged.
Napoleon: Total War
Strategy
February 23, 2010
Another installment in a renowned series of spectacular strategy games developed by Creative Assembly since 2000. The game focuses on the character of Napoleon Bonaparte and his military conquests at the turn of the 19th century. The player observes his ups and downs during the Italian, the Egyptian, and the European story campaigns. Completing them allows the player to witness both the rise and the fall of his empire. When it comes to the gameplay mechanics, the game introduces only slight modifications. The game combines all the successful mechanics employed in Empire: Total War with a set of new features, such as the system of army provisions, ship repairs, further extension of diplomacy and the increased role of spies. During the battles, the generals (including Bonaparte himself) are of high relevance, as they are capable of punishing the soldiers and bolstering their spirit. Both the visuals and AI of the units were improved.
Imperial Glory
Strategy
May 17, 2005
Inspired by the Total War series, this strategy game takes control of one of the five nineteenth-century empires: In the case of the United Kingdom, France, Russia, Prussia or Austro-Hungary. We manage our country in turn-based mode. However, huge battles are played in real time.
Mount & Blade: Warband - Napoleonic Wars
Action
April 19, 2012
The first DLC expansion to the bestselling action RPG, Mount & Blade: Warband, from TaleWorlds. It is an improved version (supervised by the game's developers themselves) of a popular fan made modification Mount & Musket: Battalion, taking the players to the eventful time of Napoleonic wars. The title doesn’t feature a standard single player campaign, focusing only on multiplayer skirmishes, which have been greatly modified, when compared to the basic version of the game. The expansion introduces more than 220 accurately reconstructed units, which represent five main countries taking part in the conflict started by Napoleon. Among them we will find many types of infantry, cavalry, and artillery. One specific novelty is a special commander mode, in which we lead our own AI-controlled troops. The creators have also implemented new animations of surroundings and weather effects, resulting in much better visuals.
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars
Strategy
April 4, 2005
The sequel of the award-winning real-time strategy game, Cossacks: European Wars by GSC Game World. Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars takes the action a hundred years forward, to the 19th century, when France led by Napoleon assumed dominating position in Europe. The players can lead one of six countries: France, Great Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Egypt, each having their unique buildings and historical units. In total, the game features six grand campaigns that consists of around 60 missions. Moreover, the player can play twelve standalone missions and fight ten historical battles. Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars offers an advanced diplomacy and economy systems that let us influence our relations with neighbors, form pacts and alliances, issue embargoes, and so on. Battles are now even more realistic and spectacular thanks to the use of various formations and as well as making terrain shape and type a meaningful factor. Apart from the single player mode, the production offers several variants of multiplayer modes.
Combat Directive: Napoleonic Wars
Strategy
October 3, 2024
A tactical RTS inspired by the classics of the genre. Combat Directive: Napoleonic Wars focuses on the titular conflict and offers six campaigns. The game tries to be authentic - starting with formations & tactics and ending with how the soldiers look on the battlefield.
Banner of the Maid
RPG
May 28, 2019
A tactical RPG game in which we play as Pauline Bonaparte - Napoleon's sister - who dreams of social advancement, and is dragged into the French Revolution. The main focus of Banner of the Maid is on the turn-based battles, in which we command a team of several heroes.
Holdfast: Nations at War
Action
March 5, 2020
A historical action game, in which you participate in multiplayer land and naval battles. The production was developed by Anvil Games, the members of which worked on Mount & Blade: Warband – Napoleonic Wars. Regardless of whether the battle takes place on land or at sea, the key aspect of the game is the cooperation between teammates. Both battle types feature soldiers of various classes with distinct characteristics and roles. The naval battles feature large sailing ships, on which you have various responsibilities. The land battles can take place in open areas or, alternatively, they can also be sieges. Both scale of the battles and location sizes are exceptionally large. The combat mechanics are realistic — it takes time to reload you weapon, but instead you can try fencing, which is easy to master, but also gives the player much freedom.
Wars of Napoleon
Strategy
December 3, 2015
A turn-based strategy game set during the Napoleonic Wars. The game was developed by AGEOD, a developer considered to be an able strategy game maker. The game offers four different scenarios set within different periods of Napoleon's rule. These include the so-called Grand Campaign (1805-1815) and a few smaller ones: Austerlitz (1805), Battle of Jena (1806), and Waterloo (1815). The battles are fought on the strategical level, so the player controls entire armies instead of individual soldiers. Apart form being able to control French forces, the player also has access to the British, Spanish, Russian, Austrian, Prussian, and Ottoman armies. The gameplay requires the player mainly to effectively lead their military forces, but also take manage supply lines, military improvements, and diplomacy. Similar to most of the previous games from AGEOD, this one also focuses on faithful recreation of historical events. However, the creators also allow the players to create alternative versions of history, providing the option to manipulate the outcomes of certain events.
Victory and Glory: Napoleon
Strategy
March 17, 2016
A turn-based strategy game set during the Napoleonic Wars, developed by Glenn Drover, a renowned board games designer. We assume the role of the famous French emperor, who faces a coalition of over a dozen European countries led by the British, in six varied scenarios that take place between 1800 and 1813. The gameplay mechanics of Victory and Glory: Napoleon combine classic strategy, card, and board game elements. It focuses on tactical land and naval battles with the use of actual units and their most famous commanders. The result of each battle is dependent not only on the parameters of the participating units but also on random factors. The special event cards, which are drawn before we start playing and then at every subsequent turn, are an important modifier. The title allows us to compete only against a computer-controlled opponent.
Europa Universalis III: Napoleon's Ambition
Strategy
August 22, 2007
The first major expansion to Europa Universalis III by Paradox Interactive. The DLC called Napoleon’s Ambition is targeted at the players who did not like the fact that the base game presented a distorted version of historical facts. As the names suggests, the game offers an expanded historical time frame – the beginning of 19th century in which you can take part in the French Revolution and react to Napoleon’s territorial claims (or lead his expansion yourself). Along with the new period, the game features advices from counselors corresponding to the historical realities and the new, updated political map of the world, introducing new national ideas and military units. Compared to the base game, the user’s interface is improved and there are new options of influencing the way your country develops, such as more detailed trade management.
Empire: Total War - The Warpath
Strategy
October 5, 2009
An official expansion for the game Empire: Total War, another installment in the well-received strategy game series by Creative Assembly. The Warpath adds a detailed map of North America and introduces five previously unavailable Native American tries: the Iroquois, Plains Nations, Pueblo, Cherokee and Huron. The tribes face their enemies in a brand new story campaign, which you can play on your own or in the multiplayer mode. The introduction of Native Americans also allowed for featuring eighteen new technology types referencing their culture, such as Spirit Medicine, Call of the Wild or Dreamwalking. Every tribe also has its own elite units and special agent units: the Shaman and the Scout.
Empires in Arms
Strategy
December 5, 2007
Empires in Arms is an official computer conversion of a classic 1982 grand strategy board strategy game by Australian Design Group. Thus, we are dealing with a serious, extensive, turn-based strategy, located in the period of the Napoleonic Wars (1805-1815).
