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Historical campaign

Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 11:51 pm
by Saddletank
Reading all the posts so far I am assuming there isn't a version of the camapign where the two sides start in their historical positions and the French objectives are to capture Brussels and/or Ghent and/or defeat the Anglo-Allied and Prussian armies?

Do NS plan to build one in a patch?

Or would this require too much work on CAI (campaign AI)?

Thanks.

Re: Historical campaign

Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 11:58 pm
by con20or
There is already a capture Brussels campaign.

Re: Historical campaign

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 12:03 am
by mitra76
Yes the plan aims to a historical campaign, Larry did already a very good work of design on it, we need only the time to implement the ideas.

Re: Historical campaign

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 12:04 am
by Saddletank
Thanks, I'll wait impatiently!

Re: Historical campaign

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 2:09 pm
by lecrop
What is the size of the map? is possible a Waterloo complete campaign? Wavre, Ligny, etc...

Re: Historical campaign

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 2:35 pm
by mitra76
The sandbox campaign map cover already the historical areas (the central areal of Belgium from the french border to south, to Antwerp to nord, Liege to east, Ghent to west). So the historical campaign will use nothing less.

Re: Historical campaign

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 2:40 pm
by Saddletank
The Matrix video shows the map. It covers the whole 100 days theatre from the French-Belgian border below Charleroi up past Brussels and across to the coast at Ghent. I didn't notice if Antwerp is included. I didn't see how far east it extended but probably far enough to include the historical Prussian starting positions.

I don't think its a true topographical map a bit like the Total War ones, more like a nodal map with the towns connected by roads down which armies must move. The campaign seems to generate battlefields using a pre-set choice of different maps (the Matrix video briefly shows a pretty huge choice), so the same battlemap could be used in different locations. I'm guessing if two opposing forces meet in the Ligny, QB, Wavre and Waterloo areas, the battle is fought on the historical maps.

Re: Historical campaign

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 4:00 pm
by lecrop
My idea is the possibility of a Kriegsspiel type campaign using the rules Le Vol de L'Aigle II, solving the tactical battles in SoW:Waterloo, hence the need of historic maps covering the entire area.

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Re: Historical campaign

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 8:46 pm
by con20or
Here is a soon to be released screenshot that shows the campaign extents :)

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Re: Historical campaign

Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 9:25 pm
by lecrop
Pretty nice extension, thanks :)