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HistWar 2..to be known as HistWar Napoleon had released a couple of in game screenies of soldiers after a video and screenies of the environment was released...looking very good indeed..

Wow! very nice!

They have a Toy solider quality about them..which I like. The graphics were poor in the first game but the gameplay was superb and it really captured the era. So I see this as a must buy.

These are nice indeed.

I'm going to wait on this one after my experiences with HW1, though- very buggy with lots of very strange things happening as far as unit behavior. The game play and AI (friendly and enemy) are the critical thing for me, rather than the graphics. I also need to feel that I'm able to do something more than giving very basic initial orders and watching them play out- which was very much the case with the current game.

I find there is an identification of "hands-off" after initial orders with "realism" baked into the philosophy of the game itself that I disagree with for the period. Napoleon's dispatches throughout battles display a level of detail that isn't possible with the three basic commands currently in HW (see any of James R. Arnold's books for instances of how commanders reacted throughout battles). These are basically, "move", "defend" and "probe" with time triggers. There is no "attack", the player draws the "move" line past the enemy. I respect their use of fog of war as being a guiding philosophy, but this goes so far as to reduce the player's choices to very simple choices that don't fully work with the mechanics of the game.

HistWar is a nice stuff, with a hard working past.
The final product is now really good and the Ai is correct, challenging enough for rookies.

HistWar has come on a long way. I have every confidence HW 2 will be excellent.

Looks really good, I have just started to get into these sorts of games from the posts on here. Must admit though when the page first loaded I thought I was looking at Trumpton with Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub with the two figures to the left (yes I know those were firemen but I always thought those were the soldiers) [:D]

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nice ! will buy when Histwar|Napoleon is out ..! [;)]

I must say I totally agree with Benparks opinion.That was my experience to.

Screen do look good. I'm hoping we can finally get a decent 3D battlefield engine for Napoleonic warfare. The existing efforts by others have left a lot to be desired.

HW:Napoleon waiting for a patch now. When it is released hope we will see some PBeM action in The Wargaming Club (TWC) ^^

ORIGINAL: TWC
HW:Napoleon waiting for a patch now. When it is released...

Hasn't it been "waiting for a patch" for several years? I check out the forum a couple times a year to check on "progress", and it is D.E.A.D.

Those soldiers with their backs to us reminds me of Babes in Toyland war of the tin soldiers

Toyland March