It's hard walking in the footsteps of Napoleon Bonaparte with the difficulty turned all the way up. Borodino might have just been the last straw. It took me quite a few tries to complete that battle and I needed to actually cool off between tries with the R.U.S.E. beta. It's telling that I actually lost alm... |
17 March 2010
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After Austerlitz, it was time to head to the endless expanses of the Russian Empire and face the campaign, which undid much of the conquests of Napoleon Bonaparte. More than half a million men were involved in the battle and more than a quarter of them were casualties. The trouble was that deep in Russia, Napoleon co... |
16 March 2010
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The Napoleon's Battles section of the new game from The Creative Assembly and SEGA includes two naval battles. I confess to never really exploring this side of Empire, mainly because the Artificial Intelligence was rarely interested in posing a significant threat by way of the sea. I usually just built the bigge... |
15 March 2010
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Austerlitz is seen as the biggest tactical success of Napoleon, the battle where he faced strong opposition and triumphed in style, managing to lose just over a thousand men killed while taking out of the fight more than one quarter of the Austrian and Russian armies that faced off against the French Emperor. There w... |
12 March 2010
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In the sulfurous heat of the desert, the best laid strategies can quickly melt and be replaced by all out chaos. Especially when the initial disposition of the troops is bad, when artillery threatens to take out one of my flanks and when the Mamluk cavalry is quick enough to run circles around my water-deprived Frenc... |
11 March 2010
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After the initiation at Lodi, a pretty simple setup where the only big danger is heading into the town directly, the Napoleon wannabe is tasked with winning another battle crucial to the North Italian campaign, the Battle of Arcole, which is much more of a problem. I lost this one on the first try mainly because of b... |
10 March 2010
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The most interesting aspect of Napoleon: Total War, which has now been out for a few days, is not the chance to take control of Napoleon's French side from both a tactical and a strategic aspect as they drudge through Northern Italy, as they face the British and the Ottomans in Egypt or as they face the might of... |
9 March 2010
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