Welcome to Black Powder Wars: Battles Of Napoleon

[Alex Fiedler]

Matrix Games and Double Shot Design announced an agreement to publish the first of a series of black powder-era wargames. Black Powder Wars: Battles Of Napoleon will cover Napoleonic-era tactical combat with full multiplayer and scenario editor support.

Black Powder Wars: Battles Of Napoleon may be the first in a new series, but many wargame development veterans have been involved in its creation from the beginning, from programmer Frank Hunter to artists Joe Amoral and Steve Ford. Featuring simultaneous action resolution in a WEGO format and PBEM, solitaire, TCP/IP and hotseat capability, Black Powder Wars: Battles Of Napoleon make intense Napoleonic battles against the AI and human opponents a reality.

The top down map scale is 100 meters per hex at 10 minutes per turn. Both the map and the unit art are editable and a full scenario creator allows each customer to modify maps, units, leaders, game data and AI instructions. Combat is resolved in detail including losses to the man and gun, unit morale, leader effects, positions, formations, command and control and construction and demolition. Weather is fully modeled, with effects on combat, movement and fog of war. Eighteen different terrain types are represented in all four seasons, plus fourteen hexside types and five types of roads.

Black Powder Wars: Battles Of Napoleon includes over 3000 individual unit pictures and will ship with over a dozen scenarios focused on Napoleon’s 1807 Campaign in Poland, with additional professionally designed scenarios available after release. The full editing tool kit will allow owners to re-create any battle of the period, with new orders of battle, maps and graphics. Black Powder Wars: Battles of Napoleon is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2005 and development is currently ongoing.

[steveh11Matrix]

An embarrassment of riches for Napoleonic/Horse & Musket fans at the moment.

I will, of course, be following developments here with acute interest.

Steve.

[Tim Coakley]

Welcome to the Matrix Black Powder Wars: Battles of Napoleon forum.

I am the designer of the game wand will check in frequently.

Tim Coakley
Double Shot Design

[DavidI]

Tim & Company,
This is exactly the game that has been missing in the computer wargame arena. I've read every word on your website and it looks to me like your team has really thought this out. Both the scale and the size are perfect for the smallest battle to Liepzig, Borodino and Dresden. I look forward to seeing your new screenies with the revised artwork. I've got my cash in hand.
Good on you. Now get cracking.
DavidI

[sol_invictus]

I am absolutely ecstatic! As much as I love re-fighting WW2, I must admit that I am getting somewhat tired of it. My other loves are Napoleonics and Ancient Greece/Rome. Lo and behold; Matrix is publishing Empires in Arms, Tin Soldiers: Julius Caesar, Crown of Glory, and now Battles of Napoleon in the next few months. I just can't contain myself![&o]

Almost forgot, Guns of August also. First opportunity to play strategic WW1 on the computer!

[Pippin]

Aye, I can not remember the last time I bought a WWII game now. There is just too much of it. Of course, I have been spending my time lately re-playing my old Panzer General classics.

[sabreman1966mcs]

Tim,

Any idea yet on what the minimum PC specs are likely to be? I'm already planning ahead for this one and working out what I'm going to need to upgrade [:D]