Comments on: Napoleonic Irrigation: HistWar Demo Out

By: P7uen

P7uen — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:59:09 +0000

Arnie punched a reindeer in the face in Jingle All The Way, that must count for something.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:11:43 +0000

Give him a few drinks he’ll tell you all about it.

By: Railick

Railick — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:16:50 +0000

Yes and there is no need to bring up the army of trained cobras from India that the British deployed ;)

By: Zardoz

Zardoz — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:42:19 +0000

Um… is the demo a bit buggy or is it just not liking me?

By: Chaz

Chaz — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:32:07 +0000

Yes but thanks to a well trained British squadron of hawks, the French lines of communication were decimated, and was one of the deciding factors at the battle of Waterloo. Fact!

By: Railick

Railick — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:17:49 +0000

Muwahaha, my ability to rewrite history knows no limits!

Where you aware that the French Revolutionary army used trained ferrets to deliver messages back and forth from generals to the front lines? O.o True! :P

By: mutait

mutait — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:56:12 +0000

A point well taken, Railick.

By: Railick

Railick — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:48:18 +0000

He rides a horse in true lies? geeze I need to go back and watch that movie I remember loving it when it came out.

By: Richard J

Richard J — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:45:23 +0000

He may ride one in Conan I’m not sure but I’ve never even seen him near a horse in any other movie.

Dude, True Lies!

So, anyway, I’m fairly disappointed in the feedback to the demo (downloading now). Not that I was expecting anything great, but it’s always nice to have some attempting a grognard take on the Napoleonic period.

Yrs.

A man who knows his licornes from his howitzers (much to the despair of his wife).

By: Railick

Railick — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:35:53 +0000

Ask yourself Mutait, have you EVER seen a movie where Arnold fights a horse? No, of course not because he refuses. He may ride one in Conan I’m not sure but I’ve never even seen him near a horse in any other movie.

HistOrical Fact : Austrians are so afraid of horses they will surrender on sight even if it’s just a scouting unit. Heck they’ll surrender to a 10 year old girl on a pony.

By: mutait

mutait — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:24:57 +0000

My first impressions of the demo are a little dire, I’m afraid. I’m hoping this is just a shoddy rush job to appease long-suffering fans before xmas, because if it’s in any way representative of the finished product, I’m going to have to pass. The graphics look even worse than I’d expected — sub-Combat Mission circa 2000. The camera and controls are so counterintuitive that I had to resort to stabbing at the mini-map until I got approximately near where I wanted to be. The English text is indifferently translated and often baffling. The game provides six or seven annoying or faulty ways of viewing the battlefield without offering one satisfactory one.

The tutorial is particularly yucky. Though it was fun trotting my little soldiers along, the battle in the second tutorial was ridiculous. I did the prescribed manuouvers and ended up with my main force parked just out of shooting range and completely unable to move for some reason, while the two crazed cav regiments I’d sent scouting suddenly decided — against orders — to try and take on the entire enemy army alone. And they won — managed to route or capture 80% of the enemy regiments, which was about the same time I turned the demo off. I understand the necessity for easy walkover victories in tutorial battles while the player is learning the game mechanics, but I wasn’t actually learning anything other than that Austrians in the game seem really, really frightened of horses.

I’d been feeling sorry for Battlefront over the split with Histwar, imagining them jilted at the altar, but I’m just starting to suspect they were the lucky one to get out when they could. I’ll give it another go, just to make sure it wasn’t just me being cranky — but I’m decidedly underwhelmed right now.

By: Hmm-Hmm.

Hmm-Hmm. — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:53:05 +0000

The above being a response to Railick’s comment